A thief sneaks into a museum late at night. They pass by a pair of statues—or were they suits of armor? You see them take a necklace. Or wait. Didn’t the news report say it was a watch? Our memories ...

The relationship between language and ethnic identity has long occupied a central place in social, cultural and political ...

Engaging in certain hobbies can significantly enhance brain health as we age, according to experts. Recent studies highlight ...

Quelle dommage, amirite?! But, what if I told you that a study in the journal Neurology of Aging suggests there’s something people can do that makes it less likely any of these kinds of things will ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave talk about the brain benefits of quitting cigarettes, language development in premature babies, and a mysterious imprint in a Chicago sidewalk.

Jinyang Li’s cinema doesn’t unfold — it drifts, like mist over still water, revealing its emotional depths only to those patient enough to sit with silence. Born in Chongqing, educated in Shanghai, ...

Joan Didion’s oft-quoted dictum about how we tell ourselves stories in order to live presupposes that you can and will use the tools to tell yourself that very story. But what happens when language ...