The latest issue of Eureka, the Times’s monthly science supplement, is out today. I’ve been incredibly supportive of the venture and it’s great to see that a major national newspaper is increasing its science coverage, rather than cutting back on it. For this issue (the fourth, I think), I’ve written a piece on fear and memory, including a lot of research that I’ve previously covered in this blog.

While writing the piece, I interviewed a scientist called Todd Sacktor who’s doing some fascinating work in this field. Sacktor discovered that a protein called PKMzeta is vital for storing memory. Remove it, and memories are deleted, seemingly irreversibly. I’m printing the full transcript of the interview here, as a