Intense stress can alter kids’ memory?
Children who experience chronic stress are more likely to have a smaller brain region linked to memory than their less-strained counterparts, a new study has found. The brain differences also bore out in cognitive ability, with the children having highly stressful lives performing poorer than other kids on spatial memory tests, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US.
The highly stressed children also had more trouble with tests of short-term memory, including tasks such as finding a token in a series of boxes, the researchers said.
“All families experience some stress, so it is important to note that effects were found for high levels of stress,” study researcher Jamie Hanson told LiveScience.
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‘Air pollution higher indoor than in streets’
London: Scientists have developed a new type of flexible ultra-thin glass that can be wrapped around your electronic devices such as the mobile phone.
Called the “Willow Glass”, the product is as thin as a sheet of paper, and its manufacturer said that it can be made to be just 0.05 mm thick — thinner than the current 0.2 mm or 0.5 mm displays.
Developed by the New York-based firm Corning, known for its Gorilla Glass that is currently used to make screens of many mobile devices, the prototype glass was showcased at an industry trade show in Boston.
Besides smartphones, it could also be used for displays that are not flat, the company said. But till such conformable screens appear on the market, the glass could be used for mobile devices that are constantly becoming slimmer, it said. — PTI
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