Â鶹´«Ã½

Features

Explore the most exciting new ideas and emerging concepts in science, health, technology and the environment with Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s exclusive in-depth articles, interviews and long reads.

LIGO's detectors

Physics

Exclusive: Grave doubts over LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves

The news we had finally found ripples in space-time reverberated around the world in 2015. Now it seems they might have been an illusion

Features
sea otter

Life

Why alligators, wolves and mountain lions are turning up in odd places

Features
Michelle Simmons

Technology

Forget quantum laptops, our quantum computing future is in the cloud

Features
collection of objects

Mind

Why memories are an illusion and forgetting is good for you

Features
I Was Here sign

Mind

Memory special: Do we even know what memory is for?

Features
face

Mind

Memory special: Can you supercharge your memory?

Features
Elizabeth Loftus

Mind

Memory special: Can you trust your memories?

Features
child asleep

Mind

Memory special: What happens to your memories while you sleep?

Features
blocked out face

Mind

Memory special: Can you choose what to forget?

Features
people staring at phones

Mind

Memory special: Is technology making your memory worse?

From search engines to Instagram and a reliance on satnav, our relationship with technology is changing the way the brain makes memories, for better and worse

Features

Mind

Memory special: Is your memory normal?

Features

Mind

Memory special: What happens to memories over time?

Features

Mind

Memory special: How can two people recall an event so differently?

Features

Mind

Memory FAQ: Answers to the common questions that baffle us all

Features