When chancellor Angela Merkel presented Wolfgang Schäuble as her finance minister at a 2009 press conference, some wondered aloud how suited he was for the job. A Dutch journalist reminded the ...

The pathways of memory are beginning to unravel, particularly through a recent study published in Nature Communications. Neuroscientists from the University of Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier and CNRS ...

Some of the important functions of the brain are related to memory. We learn things all the time, storing information and recalling it whenever required. Some of the important functions of the brain ...

Using EEG scans, scientists noted the parts of volunteers' brains which became active when actively trying to forget something A study found that repressing these memories for long enough can lead to ...

French CNRS scientists in collaboration have shown that a memory of a traumatic event can be wiped out, although other, associated recollections remain intact. This is what a scientist in the ...

There's extensive academic literature on the risks faced by investors who are overly confident of their ability to beat the market. They tend to trade more often, even if they're losing money doing so ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Gabriel García Márquez once wrote: “The life of a person is not what happened. But what he remembers and how he ...

Red Bull have dominated F1 since the start of the new technical regulations in 2022. The team have won 19 of the 20 races in F1 2023, with Max Verstappen winning 17 of them. Naturally, their dominant ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

I'm sure this is normal in some people but I have this weird kind of memory where I can remember the dates that certain things happened on. Hell, I'll remember the day I got my dog Sparky when I was 8 ...