Build Back Better

How to build a better learner.

Thinking cap records electrical signals from the brain of one-year-old Elise Hardwick, who is helping scientists figure out how the youngest children process sounds that make up the building blocks of language.

Build better seniors' care: new CMA head.

How to build better memory training games

Can we create engaging training programs that improve working memory (WM) skills? While there are numerous procedures that attempt to do so, there is a great deal of controversy regarding their efficacy. Nonetheless, recent meta-analytic evidence shows consistent improvements across studies on lab-based tasks generalizing beyond the specific training effects (Au et al., 2014; Karbach and Verhae...

Build Better Business Models for Machine Translation

Switching metabolic genes to build a better heart.

The heart makes its living by liberating energy from a variety of oxidizable substrates, either simultaneously or vicariously.1 Because of built-in mechanisms that choose the most efficient substrate for a given physiological environment, the heart is a true metabolic omnivore.2 The link between metabolism and function of the heart was discovered by Langendorff3 when he demonstrated that the ma...