Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan.

Each week, "Flying Horse" features dozens of Central Illinois children's thoughts and drawings on various topics. This week: ...

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But what about the rest of nature? Y'know, plants, animals, insects, the environment in general? Well, there's another heatwave-related aspect of climate change that's not only transforming our ...

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick ...

“Without more information, we are blind,” she said.

The continued extraction of fossil fuels poses an immediate, existential threat to modern societies. There is an urgent need ...

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