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In the ghost mine town of Sunrise, Wyoming, archaeologists uncover fragments of humanity’s earliest presence in the Americas ...

The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury ...

They have big brains, long childhoods and sociable, curious minds. So why haven’t birds developed complex culture?

Take a tour of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece of organic architecture built atop a waterfall in rural ...

A tender portrait of the bond between a mother and child, captured over the course of a visitation at a rural Virginia prison ...

Join a Romanian family as they prepare for winter in the mountains and reflect on the richness of a slower way of life ...

How does it feel to be ‘highly sensitive’? If I’d heard the question without all I know now, I would have said I wouldn’t know because I wasn’t. But after the term was applied to me in 1991 by a ...