Fear not: manipulating sleep might help you forget

Fear not: manipulating sleep might help you forget.

Memory storage is not static - updating is often needed. When it comes to traumatic memories, forgetting may be desired. Two innovative studies recently demonstrated that fear memories can be weakened during sleep using odors associated with fear-learning episodes. New strategies along these lines should be carefully considered for treating unwanted fears.

Did You Forget Your Password?

A quantitative research surveying 390 people with different levels of expertise in computer usage was conducted to understand user behavior from three perspectives: How users make sure that the sites they are using are safe, How users deal with forgotten passwords, How secure is the “security questions”. The finding shows users’ pattern of behavior in checking security when viewing a web applic...

What you don't know might kill you.

Last November, a month after his 32nd birthday, Rene Gonzalez moved with his wife and two young daughters from Miami to Cape Coral, a wetlands community whose canals have earned it the nickname the Little Venice of Florida. In Miami the competition in his chosen career—nutritional supplement sales—was fierce, and Cape Coral offered a less congested marketplace. He opened a small store, Just Add...

Histones help clones forget their pasts

Histones help clones forget their pasts mid the hype surrounding cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer, the astonishingly low success rate of the process has received relatively little attention. Now, on page 37, Kim et al. show that histone deacetylation is an important feature of the nuclear reprogramming that occurs in oocytes, both during normal meiosis and in nuclear transfer experiment...

Listening to student conversations during clicker questions: What you have not heard might surprise you!