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...fascinating study published in the current issue of Science helps fill in a bit of the picture, drawing evidence from that research-friendly fellow mammal, the mouse. The authors, a team from State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, wanted to look at whether the ability to learn is affected by changes in brain chemistry that occur at puberty. They devised a task that was relatively complex (at least for a mouse) and required learning how to avoid a moving platform that delivered a very mild shock. (See the top 10 animal stories...
...first NCAA men's basketball tournament, held back in 1939, had only eight teams. What a boring bracket. America's obsession with college basketball has helped the tournament, more colloquially known as March Madness, grow into a 65-team sports celebration. Every year die-hard fans and clueless cubicle dwellers alike navigate the maze of March Madness seeding brackets trying to predict the winner in their office pools. Last March, President Obama's bracket received as much scrutiny as his economic policies. The tournament season has grown so mad, in fact, that a cottage industry has sprouted around...
...Crimson co-ed squad traveled to the nation’s capital to begin its spring break and posted its first team victory of 2010. The host Georgetown Hoyas provided the stiffest competition for Harvard, as the two schools emerged to face each other in the final round of competition. While both teams sported identical overall records of 13-4 on the weekend, the Crimson claimed the victory thanks to the results of individual races among the eight schools that competed...
While the co-ed squad had one regatta under its belt coming into this weekend, the Harvard women’s team competed in its first event of the spring season, earning a fifth-place finish at the 27th Women’s Intersectional held at Navy. The Crimson was able to capture five total race wins on the weekend, along with 14 top-four finishes...
Holding off Cal was a challenge from the get-go for Harvard, as the home team boasted some of the nation’s top-ranking players. Holding the No. 16 rank in the second singles spot with a 10-2 record, the Golden Bears’ Marina Cossou was no easy opponent for Tachibana, who dropped the match...