--- title: Science Lab 3 Memory Air: The Best Inventions of 2025 description: Find out why Science Lab 3 Memory Air is on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions. canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318368/science-lab-3-memory-air/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-10-09T11:00:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T11:54:52.541Z article:section: Business og:title: Science Lab 3 Memory Air: The Best Inventions of 2025 og:description: Find out why Science Lab 3 Memory Air is on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions. og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318368/science-lab-3-memory-air/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt386dff6571e28e60/6998ca6f07a30d03fc77d657/memory-air-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Science Lab 3 Memory Air: The Best Inventions of 2025 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Science Lab 3 Memory Air: The Best Inventions of 2025 twitter:description: Find out why Science Lab 3 Memory Air is on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt386dff6571e28e60/6998ca6f07a30d03fc77d657/memory-air-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 09, 2025 # Science Lab 3 Memory Air Scents to boost cognition by [Jessica Klein](https://time.com/author/jessica-klein/) ## Jessica Klein  Courtesy Science Lab 3 “If you took a deep breath now, you probably wouldn’t smell anything,” says Michael Leon, a [neurobiology professor](https://cnlm.uci.edu/leon/) and developer of Memory Air. Leon calls our current environment an “odor desert,” and claims it’s hurting our brains. Leon and colleagues have [published studies](https://innovation.uci.edu/news/memoryair/) showing older adults' brain activity and memory improved significantly when exposed to different odors at night—a result of the “direct superhighway” from our olfactory systems to our brains’ memory centers, he says. Memory Air, which cycles through 40 different scents nightly, like orange and eucalyptus, even showed improvements in dementia patients. These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318368/science-lab-3-memory-air/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318368/science-lab-3-memory-air/"},"headline":"Science Lab 3 Memory Air","datePublished":"2025-10-09T11:00:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:52.541Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318368/science-lab-3-memory-air/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades","Best Inventions 2025"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt386dff6571e28e60/6998ca6f07a30d03fc77d657/memory-air-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessica Klein","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jessica-klein/"}],"creator":"Jessica Klein","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt386dff6571e28e60/6998ca6f07a30d03fc77d657/memory-air-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318368/science-lab-3-memory-air/","name":"Science Lab 3 Memory Air"}}]}] ```