It has become an annual tradition - Good Riddance Day in Times Square. It is a chance to put all the bad memories of the current year to paper and release it in hopes of better luck in the new year.

Memories of past trauma could soon be ‘dialed down’ in the brain so they no longer haunt us, a leading neuroscientist has suggested. The same techniques could offer tools so that addicts don't crave ...

You might say you have a "bad memory" because you don't remember what cake you had at your last birthday party or the plot of a movie you watched last month. On the other hand, you might precisely ...