The method of loci is a strategy for memorizing new information that originated in ancient Greece. It involves imagining yourself placing pieces of information around a room and then visualizing ...

Imagine a fire hydrant being lifted high into the air by a large helium balloon. It goes higher and higher, but suddenly gas starts to leak out of the nozzle, which makes it sound like it’s ...

The majority of highly polymorphic genes are related to immune functions and with over 100 alleles within a population, genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are the most polymorphic ...

Walk into any home and you’ll most definitely get a feeling that architects call genius loci – the spirit of a place. High ceilings and large windows give the interiors a sense of light and space.

In a groundbreaking study published Nov. 21 in the journal Nature Human Behaviour , researchers have uncovered significant genetic connections ...

Today, the results were published in the journal Nature. Reliable crop yields fueled the rise of human civilizations. As ...

Achieving the aggregation of different mutation types at multiple genomic loci and generating transgene-free plants in the T0 ...

The memory palace, also called the loci method, has roots in ancient Greece, where it was introduced by Simonides of Ceos.

2 Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are an approach whereby genetic variants from across the genome are tested for their association with a disease. Genetic loci identified by GWAS can implicate ...

The last chapter of our book Fester is called “The Next Plague.” We wrote it to warn everyone in prison administration, prison litigation, and politics, ...