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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forgetting things can be annoying. It can even be worrying. What was that colleague’s name? What time is the appointment tomorrow? Was that vendor offering us 25 percent off 200 products, or 20 ...

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 ...

We’ve all been guilty of forgetting someone’s name from time to time, but a new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology shows how forgetting people’s names has more impact ...