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Your memories are less accurate than you think
Science How do police extract eyewitness accounts they can trust? If you question someone the right way, you can extract memories of events that took place years ago. Yet our memories can also be...
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The nautilus’s impressive memory has survived five mass extinctions
Science But one thing's for sure: This creature of the deep has an incredible memory. Math, the origins of memory, and the mysteries of the deep sea can all be understood through the story of the...
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How alcohol does—and doesn't—affect your memory
Health Blacking out isn't always a binary thing. Alcohol messes with every part of the brain, including the ability to create new memories. But you may still be able to remember what happens when...
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How long can an event hold humanity's attention? There's an equation for that.
Science Societies forget, and this physicist wants to know why. A team of social scientists tried to create a qualitative method for analyzing the process by which societies forget. The results were...
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Muscle memory is real, but it’s probably not what you think
Muscle Month The term can refer to two different things. We all know this phenomenon as muscle memory, but when biologists and neuroscientists study it they mean at least two slightly different things.
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The truth about the nut-brain connection
Health Does eating a few almonds really boost your cognitive function? If the claim that nuts boost brain function by 60% is true, we should all be rushing out to buy a bag of nuts. But is this what...
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Traumatic memories pit two neuron groups against each other
Health The research “opens the floodgates” on a new way of looking at the brain. New research from the University of Texas at Austin provides an unprecedented view into how our brains cope with...
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Flickering light seems to help mice with Alzheimer’s-like symptoms
Health The next question is whether the same treatment will work in humans. In a new study out this week that builds on past work, a team of researchers found that light pulses protect against...
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Bill Nye talks killer clowns, mermaids, pigeon poo, and deadly bicycles
Science Welcome to The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week. This week, our hit podcast welcomes a very weird and special guest: Bill Nye the Science Guy.
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How to manipulate your memories to recall vacations more fondly
DIY Don't let that terrible flight home outweigh all the fun stuff you did. A vacation might last only a few days or weeks, but it stays with you as long as you remember it. And memories are funny...
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