Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The brain, with its 100 billion neurons, ...

Inside the folds of your cerebrum some 86 billion nerve cells communicate through trillions of synapses to accomplish perhaps the smartest thing a creature can do: forget. The human brain is the ...