Have you ever had a partner or friend insist that something happened on a holiday you shared, and you have absolutely no recollection of it? Michelle Spear, a professor of anatomy, has and it sent her down a rabbit hole into how memory works. Turns out, these sorts of failures to remember have nothing to do with your brain being full.

Spear explains that the brain doesn’t record experiences like a camera – it filters, selects and reconstructs. What feels like a lost memory was often never properly formed in the first place, and even the memories we do hold shift every time we revisit them. Her article is a fascinating and slightly unsettling read.

Also this week, fossil evidence suggests great white sharks could return to North Sea waters as climate change recreates the conditions they once thrived in.

Finally, we have a fascinating piece on the exiled Russians who, far from going quiet, are building transnational networks to resist the Kremlin from abroad.

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