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Study identifies new brain circuit vital for learning new motor skills
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Lisbon [Portugal], February 12 (ANI): Just like learning is an integral part and parcel of growing up, similarly, learning new motor skills is a critical aspect of our lives. A new study has shed light on a newly discovered brain circuit that may endow us with this remarkable ability.
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Researchers discover new brain circuit, crucial for learning new motor ski
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Lisbon [Portugal], February 10 (ANI): Learning is never ending. It is an integral part and parcel of growing up. Similarly, learning new motor skills is a critical aspect of our lives. From playing the piano to riding a bike, it would be difficult to imagine life without it. But how does the
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Words needed to think about numbers? Study suggests so!
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Massachusetts [US], February 10 (ANI): While one does need numbers to function every day, do we need words to think about numbers? A new study from MIT and the University of California at Berkeley discovered a strange relationship between numbers and words.
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New mechanism involved in learning and memory discovered by scientists
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New York [US], February 10 (ANI): FMRP, a protein whose loss caused fragile X syndrome, intellectual disability, and some forms of autism, has been shown to play a key role in brain functions. It includes basic understanding about learning and memory. It helps to regulate synaptic connection
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Exercising for even three seconds a day has great health benefits: Study
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Niigata [Japan], February 8 (ANI): Weight training or resistance training has been known to have many benefits including building muscle, burning body fat, strengthening your bones and joints, reducing injury risk, and improving heart health. A new study from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has
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Aurorae in Saturn sky? It's probably due to high altitude winds, says stud
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Leicester [England], February 8 (ANI): Saturn is the sixth planet in the solar system which has extremely large and bright rings around it. Now, Leicester space scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mechanism fuelling huge planetary aurorae at Saturn.
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Researchers discover how bacteria adapt to new environment
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Wurzburg [Germany], February 7 (ANI): It is a known fact that bacteria are extremely resourceful when it comes to adapting to a given environment. Now, a team of researchers have discovered a new trick that bacteria use: a kind of sponge that absorbs certain messengers.
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CRISPR-Cas9 can generate unexpected, heritable mutations, says study
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Uppsala [Sweden], February 6 (ANI): CRISPR-Cas9 is the "genetic scissors," that creates new potential for curing diseases. But the treatments must be reliable. In a new study, researchers have discovered that the method can give rise to unforeseen changes in DNA that can be inherited by the
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Astronomers suggest that dying stars can give birth to planets
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Washington [US], February 5 (ANI): Planets are usually not much older than the stars in any galaxy, but a recent study by KU Leuven astronomers has discovered that a completely different scenario is also possible.
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Extreme heat is the new normal for oceans: Study
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Washington [US], February 5 (ANI): Researchers have discovered that more than half of the ocean surface has exceeded a historical heat extreme threshold regularly since 2014.
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IIT Roorkee experts identify pollutant degrading enzymes that break down p
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Roorkee (Uttarakhand) [India], February 5 (ANI): Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee discovered a 3D structure of a bacterial enzyme that can aid the faster breakdown of plastic, said a press release.
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Study estimates that close to 9,200 tree species of Earth, yet to be disco
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Michigan [US], February 4 (ANI): A new study involving more than 100 scientists from across the globe and the largest forest database yet has assembled shocking estimates of there being 73,000 tree species on the Earth, including about 9,200 species yet to be discovered.
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