Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the ...

The next time forgetting inconveniences us, we should stop and consider its virtues. Forgetting allows us to manage our complicated lives – encouraging us to remember what’s important, inspiring us to ...

For decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have propagated a dismal picture of the human mind. We are told that far from being rational, most of what we think and do is propelled by irrational ...

On The Vergecast: how AI might help us remember everything and how a perfect memory might change our lives forever. On The Vergecast: how AI might help us remember everything and how a perfect memory ...

When Lavania Oluban looks at photos from her childhood, the memories feel incomplete. “It’s hazy around the edges—I’m filling in missing pieces of the puzzle with a memory that’s not quite real,” she ...