Why do our young brains, which are so adept at learning about the world, fail to retain the memories we make during this essential period of development? Infantile amnesia or childhood amnesia?

So why do we sometimes take them for granted? And what can we do to make them stronger? I'm Dacher Keltner, and this is The Science of Happiness. We're going to hear about what it really takes to ...

Understanding why we forget first requires an understanding of how our memory works — and dispelling some myths about memory. "Memory is not just one thing," Susanne Jaeggi, a professor of ...

The idea is as follows. Let’s assume that we send missions to Saturn and we find that there is no life in the ocean of Enceladus. There is a scientific case for bringing life there to study and ...

Nearly a decade before Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, two humble little mummichogs became the first fish in space. In 1973, these little fish rocketed to space aboard one of ...

“We can’t do that in humans, but that’s the best evidence that the memories are there.” This article is reproduced with permission and was first published on March 20, 2025 .