memory

Apropos of absolutely nothing going on in the real world this week, The Amazing World of Gumball just aired a very…

Sci-fi movies are fond of exploring the intersection of technology and memory—think Total Recall, Eternal Sunshine…

While we sleep, our brains are busy organizing fresh memories into long-term storage—or at least, that’s the theory.…

A new study is the latest to show how indistinguishable false memories are from real ones. People who watched…

Activists with The Satanic Temple say a now-former therapist in Canada has been pushing conspiracies about…

Instead of developing an intricate electronic card skimmer, or pulling off an elaborate online scam, a cashier in…

Memory’s ungovernable, a ceaseless shaming pain: you’re either scrambling to retrieve it (rooting around for keys,…

January 2019 is nearly over and—for now—so is the month-plus federal government shutdown that blanketed national…

To live is to forget—account numbers, names, the precise locations of keys and wallets, friends from childhood,…

Earlier this month, tech giant Apple posted quarterly revenue projections of just $84 billion, much lower than its…

It’s September 30th, 2018, and the theme of the last week was memory. Not just at Gizmodo, where we wrapped up…

You might be familiar with Facebook regularly throwing heartwarming (or heartbreaking) memories in your face every…

Let’s say your long-term relationship totally implodes. Browsing for a new apartment, or a therapist that takes your…

First, the bad news: Sunday is the anniversary of the disastrous white supremacist Unite the Right rally in…

Every life-stage has its share of novelty—first kiss, first tax return, first twinge of certain death—but when it…

If life is but a tapestry, then memory is the thread. But some of those threads may simply be imagined: A new study…

New research shows that crows can recreate tools from memory, a capacity previously thought impossible for birds.

The Gateway podcast follows Gizmodo’s investigation into the influence internet spiritual guru Teal Swan has over…

As many a crime documentary has made clear, eyewitness testimony is often much less accurate than you might think.…

If, at its most essential, the brain is a mass of wires and circuits, then when something goes wrong, logic suggests…