For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?

After Ceausescu’s secret police, the Securitate, fired on crowds demonstrating there against the regime, a nationwide revolution flared ... dishes of blood pudding, brains, and “fright-jellied ...

Fishing docks are known for bait and bobbers—but what’s lurking below the surface might surprise you. With a 1500lbs magnet, I hit the dock expecting a chill session and ended up pulling up some of ...

Scientists have found evidence that our brains can undergo dramatic changes while we’re running an extreme long distance race. Researchers in Spain conducted the study, published Monday in the ...

The way neurons inside the human brain function and communicate is being used as a roadmap for creating new artificial systems. But more strikingly, scientists now are trying to merge human ...

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature is one of the earliest ancestors of a group known as arthropods ...

Boozers beware: a new study has found links between heavy alcohol consumption, brain damage, and earlier death. As the American Academy of Neurology notes, Brazilian researchers established in a ...

The beguiling mystique of Keanu Reeves can neither be overstated nor underestimated. One of the most popular and influential ...

Two works—a new film, The Shrouds, and a career-spanning monograph by the film critic Violet Lucca—present a more sanguine ...