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Mind

Memory special: Is technology making your memory worse?

From search engines to Instagram and a reliance on satnav, our relationship with technology is changing the way the brain makes memories, for better and worse

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Mind

Memory special: Can you choose what to forget?

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Mind

Memory special: What happens to your memories while you sleep?

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Mind

Memory special: Can you trust your memories?

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Mind

Memory special: Can you supercharge your memory?

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Mind

Memory special: Do we even know what memory is for?

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Mind

Why memories are an illusion and forgetting is good for you

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Health

Bone hormone released during exercise may lead to new memory-loss drug

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Subliminal messages can make you forget memories without realising

Mind

Subliminal messages can make you forget memories without realising

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Life

Edge of Memory: Distrusting oral tradition may make us more ignorant

Aboriginal stories about startlingly rapid rises in sea level describe real events at the end of the ice age, says a new book. Are we stupid to distrust oral traditions?

Culture

Humans

How to hack your unconscious… to boost your memory and learn better

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Life

Seals only sleep with half their brain when they're out at sea

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Humans

The dreams you forget are the most important for learning

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Earth

Cute but dim quolls have been taught to stop eating toxic toads

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