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 ...

We are obsessed with remembering. We keep to-do lists, make photo albums, and furiously record the details of our lives on Facebook and Instagram, all with the purpose of savoring every little memory ...

There are a few well-known things that can make air travel significantly worse than it has to be. Forgetting to bring snacks, for example (these days, airlines can be pretty stingy with their ...

Couples often finish each other’s sentences. New research suggests they may also help edit each other’s memories. A study ...

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 ...

Forgetting, annoying for some and devastating to others, is an integral part of how normal memory functions. We tend to think of forgetting not as an act or process in itself but simply as what ...

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 ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. The comedy genre was forever changed in the ...

Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida discusses her new book, 'Three Stories of Forgetting,' about Portugal’s nearly 600-year history of colonialism.