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A recent study finds an HIV drug can reverse memory loss in aging mice. This type of memory helps humans do things like associate a name with a face and typically starts to decline in middle age.

Author Diane Ackerman writes that Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is an epic journey of self-discovery. He began with a microscopic eye focused on a leaf of grass, and then stretched his mental eye out to the beauty of the farthest nebulae.

Sandy is just the latest in a series of powerful storms to wallop the East Coast in recent years. The toll may cause insurance companies to consider how they will assess future risks.

When Benjamin Percy was a boy, his father handed him a weather-beaten copy of Owen Wister's 1902 Western epic. "Reading this will make a man out of you," he said.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron spent the Thursday being grilled over the nature of his relationship with media magnate Rupert Murdoch. He dismissed as "nonsense" the suggestion that they had made tacit deals to look after one another's interests.

The North Maine Woods stores a lot of carbon. With better forest management, it could store more and help New England reach a climate benchmark. But there's disagreement about how to approach this.

Informal connections are used to create a cushion of plausible deniability for Putin whether he's invading Ukraine, hacking an election or reaching out to a U.S. presidential candidate.

Aline Kominsky-Crumb, an American cartoonist known for her feminist themes and often brutally frank, highly personal and self-critical work, has died at the age of 74.

The law that divides the Colorado River between seven states is turning 100, and it's being strained beyond what its drafters could have imagined.

Morels are a chef's mushroom, opulent, earthy tasting, and delectable in cream. T. Susan Chang muses on her fascination with the wild fungi -- and the devotees who brave countless miles of poison ivy and pests to forage for them.