- Sleep improves ability to recall complex events. Researchers were able to show that the improvement in memory performance is connected with so-called sleep spindles – bursts of neural oscillatory activity during sleep, which are associated with the active consolidation of memory contents https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-overview/news/sleep-improves-ability-to-recall-complex-events.html 9 comments science
- Study has found that our breathing influences how memories are consolidated during sleep, particularly the precision of the coupling of so-called slow oscillations and sleep spindles that "increase from childhood to adolescence and then decline again during aging" https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-overview/news/memory-research-breathing-in-sleep-impacts-memory-processes.html 8 comments science
- Researchers have shown that certain plant proteins resemble human signaling proteins of the immune system and can bind to their receptors https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-overview/news/plant-proteins-influence-by-imitation.html 29 comments science
- A new study shows that babies learn to imitate others because they are imitated. The more a mother is sensitive to and imitated her 6-month-old child, the greater the child’s ability at age 18 months to imitate others. Imitation is the start of the cultural process toward becoming human. https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-overview/news/origin-of-cultural-learning-babies-imitate-because-they-are-imitated.html 274 comments science
- New version of the Epic of Gilgamesh — the first to contain all known transcriptions of about 22,000 text fragments, circa 130 BC to date — will be made publicly accessible https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-overview/news/playing-with-the-source-of-world-literature.html 223 comments history
- Quantum physics: record entanglement of quantum memories https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-overview/news/quantum-physics-record-entanglement-of-quantum-memories.html 9 comments technology
- Quantum physics: record entanglement of quantum memories. Researchers have entangled two quantum memories over a 33-kilometer-long fiber optic connection – a record and an important step toward the quantum internet. https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-overview/news/quantum-physics-record-entanglement-of-quantum-memories.html 14 comments science
- Researchers, using fMRI, show what happens in the human brain when we try to influence other people or when we ourselves are influenced by others: “A specific region of the brain takes two factors into account: how confident we are in our opinion and how polite we are obliged to be toward others.” https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-overview/news/neurobiology-our-minds-distinguish-between-various-social-influences.html 5 comments science
- Young people and their consumption of pornography: A new study shows that websites dedicated to pornography are popular among 16- and 17-year-olds. Overall, 78% of users between the ages of 16 and 17 reported that they had encountered pornography on the Internet. https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-and-events/news/explicit-content-young-people-and-their-consumption-of-pornography.html 10 comments science
- 78% of users between the ages of 16 and 17 reported that they had encountered pornography on the Internet. They spent an average of 2 hours per month on commercial porn websites, almost always accessed on their smartphones or tablets. They are more likely to be male. https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-and-events/news/explicit-content-young-people-and-their-consumption-of-pornography.html 22 comments science