She’s alive! Finally. When Maggie Gyllenhaal sat down to rewatch “The Bride of Frankenstein,” the 1935 James Whale classic, ...

One of the most widely accepted models for how cells remember their identity may be incorrect. This is shown in a new study ...

Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system ...

Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. An international group of researchers that includes Virginia ...

The kick-off signal for puberty begins in the brain. Specifically, in the hypothalamus, where specific neurons release a ...

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With so many artificial intelligence (AI) products on offer now, it’s increasingly tempting to offload difficult thinking tasks to chatbots, agents and other tools. As we chart this new technological ...

It’s true that the brain slows down as we age, but that’s normal—and all of us can practice some simple strategies to ...

Smell can evoke powerful memories, subtly influence attraction, and even regulate stress. But research suggests that what we sense depends as much on experience as on biology.

Mycologists cultivated fungi they found in post-wildfire landscapes to understand the evolutionary traits behind their ...

The destruction of cultural heritage in the war-torn nation threatens to distort the past and present beyond recognition, fracturing Sudan’s future.