During an event, details like what you saw, smelled, and felt aren’t stored as a single memory. Rather, they are encoded and stored in your brain separately. To retrieve that memory, those pieces must ...

A study of two dozen common cuttlefish reveals they can recall specific details regardless of age. Richard via Flickr [CC BY-ND 2.0] Common cuttlefish retain sharp memories about recent meals, even in ...

We named him Squirt—not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.

Perhaps the most unsung members of the cephalopods, a group that counts octopuses, squid, and nautiluses among their ranks, the cuttlefish is left with a lot to prove. Recently, a crew of six common ...

This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED’s parent company, Condé Nast. “Cuttlefish can ...

Most people have encountered squid through their local seafood menu or field trip to an aquarium. Unlike octopuses, which are ...