"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The other day, I had a very important package to mail (not to brag, but my daughter sold another one of ...

Join us on Wednesday, November 3 at noon Pacific for the Retro Memory Hack Chat with Andy Geppert! With how cheap and easy-to-integrate modern memory chips have become, it’s easy to lose track of the ...

Students who test themselves on new material remember about 50% more than students who just re-read their notes. That's the core finding from decades of retrieval practice research - and it runs ...

Half-forgotten memories can be resurrected using "mental time travel," a new study suggests. The research, published Monday (July 28) in the journal PNAS, showed that a person can rejuvenate their ...

This is a column about a helpful trick that will radically improve your memory with minimal effort so you can learn faster. But before I get to the science behind the technique and how it can help ...

Want better memory? Just tell a story! Stories aren’t just entertaining—they boost memory, sometimes even better than top memory tricks. Storytelling, from campfire tales to modern-day digital ...

You know how a random whiff of something can instantly drop you back into a specific time and place from your past, like your grandma’s kitchen or high-school hallway? That isn’t just a neat trick of ...

A new study suggests that recalling the context in which a memory was made can help to restore the memory after it has started to erode. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...