
Science Daily - 1 day 22 hours ago
Watching television very often in midlife may be linked to troubling brain changes decades later. In a study of about 1,700 adults, frequent TV viewers later showed smaller brain regions involved in memory, decision-making, and visual processing, along with more signs of damage in the brain's white matter. Surprisingly, sitting itself did not appear to be the main issue, since people who spent long hours seated at mentally engaging jobs often showed healthier brain patterns.

Newser - 2 days 1 hour ago
Monkeys apparently don't need a math class to get the gist of geometry. A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that olive baboons and rhesus macaques not only recognize basic geometric relationships, they seem to process them in similar ways as humans do, reports...