The colorful packages lining supermarket shelves hide more than convenience—they contain ingredients potentially damaging your brain’s ability to form and retain memories. While food technology has ...

A small transparent worm, barely the size of a grain of salt, is helping scientists unlock one of the brain’s biggest ...

Erasing a memory like throwing away an old receipt? Forgetting a difficult breakup like deleting an old voicemail? It's an idea that makes you dream, or even shudder. This "science fiction fantasy" is ...

Dynamic mechanisms of engram maturation. During the allocation, engram allocation is primarily governed by enhancements in intrinsic neuronal excitability, driven primarily by increased ...

Tying “fragile” memories to emotional events could help people remember them better in the future, researchers at Boston University believe. Leo Chenyang Lin was on a trip to New Hampshire two years ...

The human brain shrinks as it ages, affecting the ability to remember — it’s part of life. Yet there are a lucky few, called “SuperAgers,” who possess a brain that fights back. For these people, ...

Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61649-6 Researchers at The University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute have developed a new class of programmable nanofluidic ...

Imagine that you knew how much memory you had left in your brain. Maybe there’s a progress bar in the corner of your eye. Or maybe you can visualize the percentage at will. In any case, anytime you ...