Science
Scientists Found the Protein That Ages Your Brain, and They Can Switch It Off
A UCSF team identified FTL1, the single protein most tied to cognitive decline in aging mice, then reversed memory loss by dialing it down.
Casey Cooper·
Memory
Ideas
Active Forgetting: Why Your Brain Deletes Memories on Purpose
Forgetting isn't a failure of memory. It's a deliberate neural process, powered by dopamine and fine-tuned by evolution, that keeps your brain functional.
Casey Cooper·
Science
How Deep Sleep Physically Moves Your Memories
New research reveals that slow-wave sleep doesn't just consolidate memories. It shifts where your brain processes them entirely.
Casey Cooper·
Ideas
Why You Think You Knew It All Along
Hindsight bias convinces us we predicted events we never saw coming. Understanding this cognitive illusion reveals how memory rewrites itself to maintain our sense of competence.
Casey Cooper·