Losing one's mind is a primal fear. After cancer, it's perhaps the greatest concern most of us share as we grow older. Photo shows Future Tense tile. Future Tense explores new ideas and new ...

If files on your computer suddenly vanished after a while, you'd be in line for a new one pretty quickly – and yet, that's basically what our brains do all the time. From misremembering facts in an ...

Forgetting, annoying for some and devastating to others, is an integral part of how normal memory functions. We tend to think of forgetting not as an act or process in itself but simply as what ...

In the quest to fend off forgetfulness, some people build a palace of memory. It’s a method for memorizing invented in ancient times by (legend has it) the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos, more recently ...

Couples often finish each other’s sentences. New research suggests they may also help edit each other’s memories. A study ...

Analysis: What level of forgetting is actually normal? Is it OK to mix up the names of countries, as US president Joe Biden recently did? Let's look at the evidence Forgetting in our day to day lives ...

The FIDO Alliance wants to remove our stupid brains from authentication entirely. With good reason. The world’s most common passwords are still 123456, 123456789, qwerty, and password. The most common ...