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 ...

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 ...

The FIDO Alliance wants to remove our stupid brains from authentication entirely. With good reason. The world’s most common passwords are still 123456, 123456789, qwerty, and password. The most common ...

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A team of computer scientists has created a nimbler, more flexible type of machine learning model. The trick: It must periodically ...