After the attacks on September 11, 2001, a friend—unable to get home—came by our place so as not to be alone. We sat on the stoop sharing a cigarette and looked up at the billowing smoke in the distance. After a long pause she looked at the smoke, then down to a recently painted mural commemorating a recently deceased singer and then turned to us. "First Aaliyah," she said with all seriousness, "now this." We've been telling that story for just about a decade now...but did it really happen that way? According to research out of NYU, maybe not! Though our memories of that day may feel extraordinarily vivid and true it turns out they are just as flawed as any other memory. more ›

Breaking news, you guys! All that internet cruising is making affecting your memory in not-so-good ways, maybe. more ›

Hey fellas, are you constantly frustrated by your girlfriend's failure to remember any of the tender moments you've shared together, or her vexing habit of immediately forgetting every pigheaded remark you may have made over the years? Well, meet the woman of your dreams: Upper West Sider Louise Owen remembers everything. Every freaking thing. She's one of six people whom neurobiologists have identified as possessing "superior autobiographical memory." She'll be featured on a 60 Minutes segment on Sunday about the six mega-memory savants, so you better move quickly, because once it airs thousands of dudes ISO a woman who never forgets will be beating a path to her door. more ›

Amazing. 34-year-old British artist, Stephen Wiltshire, who was diagnosed with autism at an early age, is currently taking residence at Pratt to do what he does best: draw. But not just draw; the artist is creating a detailed panorama of New York's skyline from memory, after only briefly visiting the city and taking it all in from a helicopter. He has done this around the world, 8 times in total, and says this is his finale. more ›

Researchers at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center say they've prompted rodents to forget painful memories by injecting them with a drug called ZIP, which interferes with a neural substance integral memory functions. So it's only a matter of time before you'll be able to pop a pill and forget all about that photo of the Chinese guy's tumors or Lindsay Lohan's awkward appearance with Lily Allen! The Times has a feature on the Brooklyn lab today, as part of a series on brain research. According to Dr. Todd Sacktor, mice who had previously learned to avoid an electrified area of their cage forgot all about the zap zone after a dose of ZIP, and rats forgot about their disgust for a taste that had made them sick. Sacktor believes the drug could one day be used effectively with humans, and a variant of it could also enhance memory. But Dr. Steven E. Hyman, a neurobiologist at Harvard, is urging caution: "We know that people already use smart drugs and performance enhancers of all kinds, so a substance that actually improved memory could lead to an arms race... This possibility of memory editing has enormous possibilities and raises huge ethical issues." more ›