Science of Babies

A short video about the remarkable baby's brain development.

A midday nap markedly boosts the brain's learning capacity

A midday nap markedly boosts the brain's learning capacity ?

Findings suggest that a biphasic sleep schedule not only refreshes the mind, but can make you smarter.

If you see a student dozing in the library or a co-worker catching 40 winks in her cubicle, don't roll your eyes. New research from the University of California, Berkeley, shows that an hour's nap can dramatically boost and restore your brain power. Indeed, the findings suggest that a biphasic sleep schedule not only refreshes the mind, but can make you smarter.

Brain capacity. What's the limit?

Never wandered about what was your brain capacity, how much memory you have, how fast can you process information, and if all of your RAM and CPU speed are cast in a stone or elastic? It seems pretty obvious that brain capacity is pretty much elastic, but think about it; it could mean that the more you remember the more you would be able to remember, the more you learn the more you would be able to learn, and  the faster you learn the faster you would be able to learn. Not so trivial.