A place to wander through research
Explore 180M+ real publications with a map of the research and a companion that helps you understand what you read.
Made for people who want to learn more
Many AI tools now search, read and summarise for you, and hand back a finished answer. That saves time and skips the part where you learn. Keenious is built for curious people who want to understand the subject themselves.
Real papers you can open
Every result is a publication from an index of 180M+ works, with a link to the paper itself. Chatbots often make up references that look real.
Walters & Wilder, Scientific Reports, 2023Help that leaves you knowing more
The companion explains terms, methods and ideas from neighbouring fields, then sends you back to the paper. When a chatbot hands students the answers, they do better in practice and worse on the exam.
Bastani et al., PNAS, 2025The whole field in view
Results are laid out as a map of research areas, so you see the debates, the neighbouring fields and the paper you did not know to look for. Following the sources yourself leaves you knowing a topic better than reading one generated answer.
Melumad & Yun, PNAS Nexus, 2025A research companion that guides your reading
Ask in your own words. The companion searches the literature, shows you where the papers sit on a map of the field, and points you to the ones worth reading first.
Start with the review articles in the list, since they lay out the field before the individual studies do. The papers I found fall into a few groups:
- Sleep stages: Slow Wave Spindle Coupling and REM Awakenings Impact look at which parts of the night do the work.
- Cellular mechanisms: Synaptic Plasticity And Hippocampus and Contextual Fear Conditioning cover how missed sleep disrupts consolidation in the hippocampus.
- Everyday cognition: Working Memory And Deprivation covers attention and working memory after a short night.
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Ask about any passage
Select a term or a sentence in any paper and ask about it. The companion explains the background you are missing and sends you back to the paper to read the rest.
- What does 'effect size' mean in this paragraph?
- What should I understand before this paper makes sense?
- Which paper first introduced this idea, so I can read the original?
- Where do researchers disagree on this, and which papers represent each side?
Sleep Deprivation Selectively Impairs Memory Consolidation for Contextual Fear Conditioning
Laurel A. Graves et al. · Learning & Memory · 2003
...whether sleep is important for the consolidation of a single-trial, hippocampus-dependent task...
A task is hippocampus-dependent when an animal needs a working hippocampus to learn it. The paper sets one such task, contextual fear, beside one that does not need it, cued fear.
Look at how sleep loss affected each task in the results. What does the difference suggest about when sleep matters?
Every paper is an open door
A publication leads to its authors. An author leads to their university department and collaborators. A journal leads to the key research shaping a field. You just keep clicking wherever your curiosity takes you.
Sleep Deprivation Selectively Impairs Memory Consolidation for Contextual Fear Conditioning
Laurel A. Graves, Elizabeth A. Heller, Allan I Pack, +1 more
Learning & Memory · Leading & peer-reviewed journal
Many behavioral and electrophysiological studies in animals and humans have suggested that sleep and circadian rhythms influence memory consolidation.
Learning & Memory
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
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Published research from OpenAlex, curated by us.
Why we built Keenious
We are a small team from academia in Norway, supported by the Research Council of Norway and the European Union. We made Keenious for people who look something up and an hour later realize they are five topics deep into something they did not know existed, and we build it alongside research librarians and universities.
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