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With a complex history related to hunting, magic, and madness, wolfsbane offers a glimpse into vernacular plant names and their associations with animals.

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Despite an enduring slice of audience that treats his work as precious and mythic, most Shakespeare fans have rarely met an adaptive concept they didn't like.

After winning 'Celebrity Jeopardy!' last year, Ike Barinholtz on Monday proved his game-show prowess by making it to the semifinals of the original game show.

There's a problem with gravity that no one is comfortable with, and that even physicists rarely talk about. If you take any two particles with a mass to them — like two electrons, two of the quarks…

Despite some frustrating stealth sections and navigation, Chants of Sennaar is full of compelling puzzles based on decoding language.

Emily Witt on the biotech startups seeking to change human reproduction.

Executives from more than 300 biotech and pharmaceutical industry companies, including Pfizer and Biogen, signed an open letter on Monday calling for reversal of a federal judge's decision to suspend sales of the abortion pill mifepristone.

Last week's ruling by Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk undermines the FDA's authority, the letter's authors wrote, adding that it ignores decades of scientific evidence and legal precedent…

How Emily Dickinson, scientists, and other writers theorized plant intelligence in the nineteenth century.

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Romans understood that Cupid had a darker, more dangerous side

The fuel of finishing.

A possible Gladiator 2 has been talked about for more than 20 years, but Nick Cave's unmade script would've made a drastic turn from the original.

Tony winner Mary Zimmerman's performance collage based on the notebooks of the Italian Renaissance polymath arrives at the Old Globe in San Diego.

From Greece to Japan, the following ancient toys hold deep history, entertaining children for thousands of years.

This systematic review and meta-analysis provides the strongest evidence to date that resistance training is associated with reduced risk of all-cause, cardiovascular disease, and cancer-specific mortality. More research is needed to determine whether any potential mortality benefits gained from res …

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The Vanguard Network welcomes professor of Early American History Robert A. Gross on June 30 from 4 - 5:30 PM ET, for an online dialogue, as part of the "A Different Kind of Leadership" series.