New research from the University of Mississippi suggests that telling stories – from ancient campfire tales to modern-day digital communication – may be tied to how human memory evolved.

Helene Schjerfbeck, "Self-Portrait" (1912), oil on canvas (photo Finnish National Gallery / Yehia Eweis, courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art; all other photos Bridget Quinn/Hyperallergic unless ...

LAUREL PARK - As Western North Carolina continues to recover from Tropical Storm Helene, Lake Lure Mayor Carol Pritchett described the region's recovery like a flower. Budding and bright in the ...

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. In the 459 days that Willa Mae James spent living in a Fairfield Inn in Eastern North Carolina, her footsteps wore ...

A small Tennessee hospital that was destroyed by a surging river during Hurricane Helene will soon be rebuilt on low-lying farmland that could face several feet of flooding in a much smaller storm, ...

Micron publicly stated the company is "sold out" of memory for all of 2026. Western Digital recently authorized a $4 billion stock buyback. SanDisk crushed its latest earnings, which sent the stock ...

Qualcomm dropped as the chipmaker issued lackluster guidance due to the ongoing memory chip shortage. The company topped fiscal first-quarter estimates but issued lighter-than-expected guidance.

Part of Interstate 40 after a chunk of asphalt fell away into the Pigeon River Gorge in late December 2024. One of the many post-Helene repairs that the NCDOT has worked on. The Federal Emergency ...

Edith Cowan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. You might say you have a “bad memory” because you don’t remember what cake you had at your last birthday party or the plot ...

Helene Rosenblatt, 72, of East Hampton, CT, passed away on January 25, 2026, after a courageous six-year battle with cancer. Born June 5, 1953, in New York City to Janice (Levine) and Stanley ...

The memory industry is notorious for feasts and famines, but the current shortage is particularly bad. Why is that? The memory industry has faced shortage issues in the past, but some of those were at ...