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It's Wednesday the 4th of June and you are with Newsround. Good | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
morning. Why am Ricky with some of this on the way. We take a look at | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
the brain training exercises helping children to improve their memories, | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
and why do call bears hug trees? You can find out right here. -- Coelho | :00:21. | :00:31. | |
bears. First, the Queen will set out what the government wants to | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
bears. First, the Queen will set out year in a speech at Parliament. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
Plants to introduce charges for plastic bands in England. -- posted | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
backs. The government also wants to increase the amount of money that | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
older people get when they finish work. It is a big moment for the | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
government and the grand occasion. The Queen's Speech is always a big | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
deal at Westminster. Bye-bye traffic, hollow pomp and ceremony. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Effectively it adds up to the government setting out big ideas. | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
Next up, and you have a revised for a test only to forget everything in | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
the exam room? Well, researchers say that brain training could be the | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
answer to help you improve your memory and even do better with | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
schoolwork. I have been finding out how it works and seeing what is | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
inside my head. Our brains are incredible but complex organs, | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
controlling the function of our bodies, storing our learning and | :01:30. | :01:42. | |
experiences as memories. Nice to meet you. I've got scans of | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
my brain here. Can you tell us more about the brain and how it works? | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
This is the front of your brain, where short-term memory is | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
processed. Short-term memory is the kind of memory used when you are | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
sitting in the classroom and the teacher is telling you something new | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
that you have not heard before and you have to learn it. Long-term | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
memory is protest in the hippocampus, a structure here | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
responsible for storing all the memories that we keep for all our | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
lives. We all have different memory abilities. Short-term memory | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
improves up until the age of 14 and after 30, our abilities begin to | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
decrease. Scientists say that ring trimming can improve short-term | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
memory at any age. That brain training. These kids are trying to | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
improve the brainpower, logged on to a series of laptops with a special | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
brain training exercise on it. The higher the score, the better their | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
memory. The programme works by asking you to remember different | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
types of information, getting harder and harder the longer you train. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Researchers say they have been impressed by the results. We are | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
seeing that the children work hard on these exercises, we are able to | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
improve their short-term memories. I can recall instructions easier, and | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
they know what the teacher has told me and I'll remember it better. | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
Although there are still lots of things we do not know about the | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
brain and how memory works, in future, kids across the country | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
could be taking part in Braintree in classes like this. -- brain training | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
classes. And for more on this story, go to the newsround website. New | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
technology that tells bus drivers when a cyclist is nearby is being | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
tried out on roads in Bristol. There is a radar camera on the left side | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
of the bus which picks up the cyclists will stop then a computer | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
recognises that it is definitely a bike and sends a warning to the | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
driver. It is hoped the technology will reduce the number of cycling | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
accidents. This is the first test of its kind | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
on the UK, testing the technology on the streets, in anger, where it is | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
hoped it will really make a difference. | :04:02. | :04:14. | |
Researchers found the trunks of large trees are significantly cooler | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
than the air around them. By hugging them, more tightly on hot days, | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
koalas can lose heat without panting and losing precious water. At | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
weddings, everyone puts on their best clothes to look good in the | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
photos. But the photos went wrong for this couple in Minnesota who had | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
a nasty surprise when they this happened when they were posing for a | :04:41. | :04:50. | |
photograph. The bride and groom were soaked. That is it. Tune in at | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
8:30am to have a look at | :04:59. | :04:59. |