Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens became an international bestseller by presenting a view of history driven by the fictions created by mankind. His later work Homo ...

Vietnam War Army veteran Harry Metzler pays respects to men he served with in the 1st Infantry Division at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day, November 11, 2024. Fifty years ago, communist ...

When Lavania Oluban looks at photos from her childhood, the memories feel incomplete. “It’s hazy around the edges—I’m filling in missing pieces of the puzzle with a memory that’s not quite real,” she ...

Any speaker who has received feedback of any kind from an audience has likely been humbled by how little that audience remembers. Studies of retention (of what we’ve heard) over the years range from ...

I was 1 year old on September 11, 2001. I was 11 when former President Barack Obama announced that Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin-Laden. And I was 25 when I spent a week at Guantánamo Bay attending ...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is ...

Fifty years ago, communist forces took over Saigon in a chaotic and tragic ending to what had become a lengthy and controversial conflict to determine the fate of Vietnam. Scholars, activists, and the ...