Seep deprivation impairs social memory by disrupting oxytocin signaling in the hippocampus and prelimbic cortex.

Background Social memory-the ability to recognize familiar individuals and distinguish them from strangers-is fundamental to ...

This is where memory is essential to identity formation. The self is assembled not from everything that has happened to us, but from what the brain has chosen to preserve and retrieve.

With a scarf dangling from your coat pocket and those gloves left behind at the coffee shop, there are simply more things to lose in winter. That’s not counting your misplaced keys at home or those ...

A revived Swiss fountain pen brand and new brain science converge on the same thesis: handwriting activates neural networks ...

Boost your brainpower with five Japanese meditation techniques for better memory retention. From the focused stillness of Zazen to the sensory restoration of Shinrin-Yoku, learn time-honoured ...

Boffins at the software king of the world, Microsoft, have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a piece of glass which they say can store data for more than 10,000 years. In Nature on 18 February ...

Borosilicate glass, the same material used in lab equipment and kitchen cookware, can encode data using femtosecond lasers at densities and lifespans no existing archival medium can match, according ...