Summary: Researchers have discovered that pupil size during non-REM sleep correlates with memory consolidation. When pupils contract, the brain focuses on consolidating new memories; when dilated, it ...

Scientists have discovered a link between pupil size during non-REM sleep and the processing of new and old memories. Understanding how pupil size relates to memory could have significant ...

Pupils size during the sleep can tell the memories you are experiencing. A new study has investigated the link between pupil dilation/contraction and memory processing during sleep. The study ...

The team found two substages happening during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, that restorative period crucial to forming memories. One replayed new memories, coinciding with a constriction of the ...

Cornell University researchers have found the pupil is key to understanding how, and when, the brain forms strong, long-lasting memories. By studying mice equipped with brain electrodes and tiny ...

Pupils' handwriting is so poor that it can be ‘impossible to award a fair mark’ to their work, chief examiners warn. Reports by exam boards on how teens performed in their GCSEs this summer ...

New research suggests Scotland has a “mountain to climb” to improve the performance of school pupils in key subjects, with just 40 per cent of S4 students passing mathematics at National 5 level.

While three-quarters of S4 pupils passed their National 5 English this year, only 40.1% gained an A-C qualification at this level for maths. Most of Scotland’s fourth-year students didn’t gain a key ...

Most countries want their children to be as far away from weapons as possible. Not Poland. Faced with the proximity of Russia’s ongoing all-out invasion of neighbouring Ukraine and increasing ...

A headteacher who tried to block Ofsted inspectors has finally had her school reviewed – and it was found to be failing pupils. Flora Cooper angered parents last March when she urged supporters ...

ZAGREB, Dec 20 (Reuters) - A seven-year-old child was killed by a knife-wielding assailant who attacked a teacher and pupils at a Zagreb primary school on Friday, government ministers said.