Psychology researchers used virtual reality and MRI technology to better understand how locations help us encode memories.

We often think of memories like the contents of a museum: static exhibits that we view to understand the present and prepare ...

Emotions and scents can create unforgettable moments. Neuroscience shows that both personal experiences and social memories ...

Discover the leaked details of Apple's M5 MacBook Air, featuring 3nm silicon, enhanced performance, and a 2026 release date.

Artists map not just physical terrains but emotional and temporal dimensions, encoding memory and longing into imagined ...

Boston University professor and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez promoted his new book, which dives into his experiences with grief after the death of his research partner and explores the science of ...

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Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s tests your memory of books you may have read during your school days — specifically, the ...

Memory isn’t just a mechanism for storing all of the information you encounter. Instead, it helps you to hold onto information that is likely to be useful for reducing effort in the future. That is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Grab a Coca-Cola, your favorite Pop-Tart, and settle in for a guided tour of an astonishing family journey as told by the daughter in the Long family. Amanda ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Todd Sacktor was about to turn 3, his 4-year-old sister died of leukemia. “An empty bedroom next to mine. A swing set with two ...

Museums are strange things, Jack Ashby, assistant director of the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge, UK, points out in his new book, Nature’s Memory: Behind the scenes at the world’s natural ...