From the moment we are born, our brains are bombarded by an immense amount of information about ourselves and the world around us. So, how do we hold on to everything we've learned and experienced?

John Scofield and Dave Holland have about a century of combined experience making jazz. They have played with everybody and created deep bodies of work that span bebop to today. "Memories of Home" ...

Astrocytes have a more active role in stabilizing memories than once thought. Astrocytes were thought to simply support neurons in creating the physical traces of memories in the brain, but the study ...

Some Snapchatters will have to pay up to keep their thousands of Snaps stored on the app. On Friday, Sept. 26, Snapchat announced plans to start charging users who have more than 5 gigabytes (GB) of ...

Chenyang (Leo) Lin grew up in a coastal city in southern China, far from any woods. So, when he went on a hike in New Hampshire last year, he was awed by the large trees and darting squirrels. “That ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Think back to some of your core memories–meeting a spouse, getting ...

Stefania Brunetti remembers the day her younger sister was born like it was yesterday. "I was at my aunty's house, and she had answered the phone that was on the wall," the 45-year-old from Melbourne ...

When you die, your memories die with you, never to be experienced again. Or at least, that’s always been how the case. Now, though, in an exercise to assess shifting scientific consensus, a cohort of ...

Even memories that we have forgotten seem to guide our actions, which could tell us more about how they are stored in the brain. “People intuitively think of memory as something we can recall and wax ...

Picture the Monopoly Man. Is he wearing a top hat? How about a monocle? The first is true, but if you imagined the board game mascot with fancy eyewear, you have experienced a false memory. False ...

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 seats instead of one,” he said, recalling the lingering traces of ...

Babies as young as one year old can form memories, according to the results of a brain-scanning study published today in Science. The findings suggest that infantile amnesia — the inability to ...