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Understanding how new neurons affect brain function throughout adulthood can offer new approaches to treating epilepsy and dementia.

Most objects in the universe have been around for way longer than modern astronomy - digging into historical records can help scientists shed light on a cosmic mystery.

Bluesky, the microblogging alternative to X, is having a moment. A social media researcher explains why people are flocking to it - and why it isn't likely to recapture the early days of Twitter.

Improv theater is known for improvisation, audience participation and riffing on memes and stories circulating on social and traditional media - all hallmarks of right-wing media.

Noam Chomsky's notion of the human instinct for freedom ties together his many intellectual pursuits, from educating creative, independent citizens to rejecting social and economic hierarchies.

Republicans are seeking to define 'sex' in federal law. But after centuries of debate, doctors, scientists and judges haven't come to a clear consensus on what the definition of sex should be.

Once the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer couldn't survey widely anymore, NASA scientists switched gears and began using the spacecraft for planetary defense.

The brain science behind the power struggle between parents and their children.

Like it or not, AI is now part and parcel of elections, from helping with mundane campaign functions to enabling politicians to speak to constituents in multiple languages at once.

Ancient fossil footprints are the first evidence of two different hominin species Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei living in the same place at the same time.