Silicon valley wants to cure death Imagine your memory as a beautifully complex neural tapestry. Over time, the physical pathways soften, the vibrant emotional colours subtly fade, and the sharp, visceral pain of loss mellows into a gentle, enduring ache. This fading is not a failure of love, but the brain’s neuroplasticity at work; a necessary rewiring of the mind to help us survive in a world without someone important. But what if artificial intelligence could stimulate those exact neural...

Have you ever found yourself trapped in a relentless, internal concert where the performer refuses to leave the stage? One minute you are minding your own business, and the next, a three-second snippet of a pop song is playing on loop behind your eyes. This phenomenon is known scientifically as Involuntary Musical Imagery, but most of us know it by its much more descriptive name: the earworm. To understand why your brain decides to host these uninvited musical guests, it helps to think of...

Why cannabis makes you confidently wrong When we consider the classic ‘stoner’ stereotype, we typically imagine a person lost in a thick, grey fog, struggling to find their way back to a simple fact. We tend to think of memory as a library where the lights have gone out, or a diary with the most recent pages ripped out. However, according to new research, the reality of how cannabis affects our minds is far more peculiar and, in some ways, more unsettling. THC, the plant's main psychoactive...