The ability to learn and to establish new memories is fundamental to our lives; we rely on our memories to do the simplest of things - remember who we are, recognise the words we read and the sounds ...

Scientists at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience discovered a parallel pathway for forming long-term memories that bypasses short-term memory. Using optogenetics, they blocked short-term ...

You might imagine memory is a Santa’s sack of life events and the first half of jokes. You would be wrong. Neuroscientist Dean Burnett explains all in our new series, Use your head We all have ...

It may be hard to imagine when they’re so tiny, but little ones’ brains are busy making memories all the time. In fact, they have been since before birth, according to Dr Jane Gilmour, a consultant ...

A surprisingly potent technique can boost your short and long-term recall – and it appears to help everyone from students to Alzheimer’s patients. This story is featured in BBC Future’s “Best of 2018” ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...