memories

This Week’s Interview With the Vampire Revealed Some Uncomfortable Truths

Episode five of the AMC and AMC+ series, “Don’t Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape,” went back to the very first interview.

Scavengers Reign’s Writers on Creating a Beautifully Hostile Sci-Fi Show

Joseph Bennett and Sean Buckelew dish on creating Max's upcoming animated sci-fi series.

New Google Pixel Feature Lets You Lock Away Your Private Photos

The new Locked Folder in Google Photos, which the company debuted at its developer conference last month, is officially rolling out today. It’s part of the latest feature drop for Pixel users, which includes a new way to take a video of the night sky, plus better copy and paste in Gboard and a Digital…

Too Many of You Still Believe in 5G Conspiracy Theories

5G conspiracies are nothing new. They’ve been tirelessly debunked several times and yet a 2021 survey found that roughly 24% of people believe that at least one 5G conspiracy is true. C’mon, really? The data comes via a new research survey by InMyArea.com (IMA), a website that specializes in ISP comparison shopping based on zip…

Scientists Transplant Memories Between Sea Slugs… Sort of

If you were wondering, “Hey, scientists have done a lot recently, but when are they going to transplant memories like in Westworld?”—we’ve got good news. A team reports that they’ve now transplanted memories between slugs. Well, sorta, kinda. The University of California, Los Angeles researchers gave slight electric shocks bunch of donor slugs, which made…

When Humans and Aliens Make First Contact, I Hope Kool & the Gang Is Playing

It’s been godawful hot in central Texas of late and, when it gets so blistering that I wonder if I’m on another planet, my mind always calls up Kool & The Gang’s classic 1974 funk track “Summer Madness,” one of my earliest science fiction experiences. Kool & The Gang’s classic 1974 funk track opens up…

The Earliest Digital Cameras Used Floppy Disks

It’s 1997 and digital cameras were just coming on the market. Native support didn’t exist on Mac or PC, USB ports weren’t standard, and the miniSD card wouldn’t exist for another 6 years. The best storage option for the time was the humble floppy disk. As The 8-Bit Guy shows in a walk down tech’s…

This old man’s memories are so vivid they feel completely real

Sometimes all it takes is a smell or an image or a flavor to bring back memories so realistic that you almost feel like you’ve traveled back in time. It’s the easiest way to revisit your past without having to worry about unraveling the fabric of the space-time continuum. However, some memories can be a…

Google Scored a Patent for Memory-Storing Cameras, Sound Familiar?

A searchable database of all your memories—creepy? Or a blessing for your shrinking attention span? Either way, Google has scored a patent for just such a device. To be clear, this doesn’t have anything to do with your brain. We’re not talking about an embedded chip literally storing your memories, as depicted in the fantastic…

Why Are Smells so Good at Triggering Memories?

Smells are really good at stirring up memories, especially ones from adolescence. Which is curious, because these memories are often the hardest to access. In the latest episode of SciShow, Hank Green reviews some of the research on why smells are such potent triggers of early memories. “Smells tend to evoke early, perceptive memories of…

Short film: A late night phone call between exes brings back memories

Dan Woodliff’s Still is a powerful short film that shows the emotional roller coaster ride that can happen when you look back at your memories with someone you love. It’s a mix of tense feelings, a whole lot of regret, a dash of hopefulness and a bit of happiness. Anyone who’s been on the phone…

Why We Remember Learning About Dramatic Events So Vividly

It isn’t surprising that many Bostonians have vivid memories of the 2013 Marathon bombing, or that many New Yorkers have very clear memories about where they were and what they were doing on 9/11. But many individuals who were not onsite for these attacks, or not even in Boston on April 15 2013 or in…

Neuroscientists have implanted false memories into the brains of sleeping mice, creating artificial associative memories that persisted while the animals slept and influenced their behavior upon waking. The results, the latest to spring from this burgeoning field of neuroscience, appear this week inNature Neuroscience.

What’s Your Earliest Memory of the Internet? 

Mine is specific: Laying in my bunkbed at night and hearing the crackling fuzz of the dial-up as my parents connected our brand-new internet in their office across the hall. At least, that’s what I think I remember—memory is nebulous, and it’s entirely possible that we’d had internet long before. Either way, it’s a very…

What From Your Youth Are You Most Nostalgic For?

Sometimes we miss things because they were better, and sometimes we miss things simply because they’re gone. Today we want to know what things gone by you’re most nostalgic for. Maybe you miss the car you used to drive, a candy that’s no longer made, or the clothes you wore. Or maybe you miss the…

A New Technique Could Erase Painful Memories — Or Bring Them Back

By using pulses of light, researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine have produced, erased, and restored fearful memories in rats. It’s a finding that could have profound implications for people struggling with neurodegenerative and anxiety disorders. The study, though not the first to implant a memory in a rodent, is the first…

How Does Your Memory Work?

Badly, perhaps. But even if you struggle to recall information on a daily basis, all our brains are wired in much the same way—and it requires quite a few steps to remember anything at all. Each and every memory is registered in the brain, but they’re not all encoded—that’s why you forget names as soon…

Scientists film how the brain makes memories for the first time ever

For the first time in history, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have captured how our brain makes memories in video, watching how molecules morph into the structures that, at the end of the day, make who we are. If there’s a soul, this how it gets made. Before this, Japanese…

Scientists watch glowing molecules form memories in real time

For the first time ever, neuroscientists have observed memory-forming molecules travel around the brain of a living animal. The unprecedented breakthrough is shedding light on how nerve cells make memories. Prior to being able to recall — or more accurately, reconstruct — a memory, it has to be encoded and stored in the brain. It’s…

A Love Letter to My First Four Phones

Last month was spent in a state of upheaval. After seven years in New York I was heading back to the opposite coast, which had led me to go though the hundreds of pounds of accumulated junk one accidentally collects in boxes over the years. Shifting my focus to a plastic tower that has sat…