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Researchers find similarities in brain activity for both habits and goals
— 28 Mar 2011 15:57 | HealthA team of researchers has found that pursuing carefully planned goals and engaging in more automatic habits shows overlapping neurological mechanisms. Because the findings, which appear…
Biological anthropologists question claims for human ancestry
— 17 Feb 2011 18:57 | Biology'Too simple' and 'not so fast' suggest biological anthropologists from the George Washington University and New York University about the origins of human ancestry. In the upcoming…
NYU neuroscientists find memory storage, reactivation process more complex than previously thought
— 1 Feb 2011 21:42 | HealthThe process we use to store memories is more complex than previously thought, New York University neuroscientists have found. Their research, which appears in the journal the Proceedings…
Researchers uncover behavioural process anticipating the results of rapid eye movements
— 10 Jan 2011 19:10 | HealthA team of researchers has demonstrated that the brain predicts consequences of our eye movements on what we see next. The findings, which appear in the journal Nature Neuroscience,…
Stress can enhance ordinary, unrelated memories
— 4 Jan 2011 21:32 | HealthStress can enhance ordinary, unrelated memories, a team of neuroscientists has found in a study of laboratory rats. Their results, which appear in the journal PLoS Biology, may bolster…
Darwin's theory of gradual evolution not supported by geological history
— 10 Nov 2010 15:10 | Geology and palaeontologyCharles Darwin's theory of gradual evolution is not supported by geological history, New York University Geologist Michael Rampino concludes in an essay in the journal Historical Biology.…
NYU researchers find corn starch solution can help shape solid materials
— 5 Nov 2010 14:00 | TechnologyNew York University researchers have developed a method to shape solid materials using a corn starch solution. The process, devised by researchers in NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical…
NYU Courant researchers develop algebraic model to monitor cellular change
— 2 Nov 2010 14:12 | HealthResearchers at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences have developed a novel algebraic model of DNA 'hybridisation,' a process central to most biotechnology…
Scientists develop method for curbing growth of crystals that form kidney stones
— 15 Oct 2010 13:48 | HealthScientists have developed a method for curbing the growth of crystals that form cystine kidney stones. Their findings, which appear in the latest issue of the journal Science, may offer…
Biologists find genetic explanation for evolutionary change: Location
— 15 Oct 2010 13:45 | BiologyA gene's location on a chromosome plays a significant role in shaping how an organism's traits vary and evolve, according to findings by genome biologists at New York University's Centre…