A team of researchers from the Netherlands, Austria and Germany has found that a well-known mnemonic device used to improve short-term memory also improves longer-term memory. In their paper published ...

As the silly phrase “kings play chess on funny green squares” (or whichever variant you may have learned in biology class for the biological classification of organisms) illustrates, mnemonics are ...

Every Good Boy Does Fine? Not in this economy, bub. As xkcd properly points out, we’re overdue for some new science mnemonics. Preferably ones involving sharks and orgasms. Like these: Click to biggie ...