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Setting goals is such an important factor in tasks accomplishment and getting work done; yet, is it the sole factor in performing tasks? Or is there another important factor that keeps the performer more engaged and focused on the task?

Brain cells variability may improve brain performance and speed up the learning process in both humans and artificial intelligence (AI), researchers discovered in a recent study.

Finger-tracing has been used in the education process since the 1900s. Recently, this method, which is based on a multi-sensory approach, implementing visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic, has received further validation with two studies from the University of Sydney.

The concept of active learning has been growing recently. It has become much more of a necessity due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its challenges. These have pushed educators to come up with new techniques and activities to engage students and overcome hardships imposed by the novel situation.

Making decisions and defining our goals in life are basic processes of our brains. We do them regularly without too much thought about what really happens inside our brains while we do that. We might think our brains’ activities stop at making these decisions; however, the brain also evaluates its own work in a process called metacognition.

Recognition of other people’s facial expressions that uncover what they want to say or what they feel is essential in communication. Because the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has many symptoms linked to difficulties in interpreting others’ messages correctly, autistic people struggle to read and interpret others’ facial expressions and contact with them effectively.

Learning is not an easy process; it has many entangled ways that have been tested and agreed upon that they could generate the best results. Although learning methods have been depending on certain abilities of the brain that scientists believe guarantee us a better understanding, new research has added another way that could be helpful and support new vocabulary learning.

Since the early development of the gut, brain, and immune system are closely interrelated and is referred to as the gut-immune-brain axis, researchers at the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna have now found possible targets for early treatment and novel intervention strategies for such damage outside the brain; it is the bacteria in the premature infants’ gut.

There are some phenomena and incidents that not only affect the surrounding environment, but their impact reaches even farther. Climate change is considered one of the most serious environmental dilemmas that have affected the shape of our lives as humans, and lately, new research has indicated that this effect has extended to the Animal Kingdom.

In a scientific environment at Mansoura University, a team of passionate Egyptian scientists discovered a fossil of an unknown four-legged whale that lived 43 million years ago in Egypt's western desert in Fayum.