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Controlling your emotions could also relieve your pain. An experiment where chronic pain patients learned to turn down negative emotions through a combination of sessions with an online therapist with homework showed significant success easing…

Scientists have discovered a simple yet powerful way to make stem cells stronger, healthier, and more capable than ever—by changing their diet. The result is a new class of super stem cells that outperform their standard counterparts…

If a global catastrophe disrupted international trade and fuel supplies, our survival might hinge on a stark but practical diet of peas, potatoes, sugar beet and spinach.

At least that’s according to a new study published in the journal PLOS…

Earth’s surface is mostly deep ocean, but a new study reveals just how little we have glimpsed of the floor of our planet’s largest ecosystem.

Researchers at the non-profit Ocean Discovery League, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and…

The outer space around the Earth is already pretty crowded. Now, tech firms are racing to…

The ability to cooperate and work together is not unique to humans; indeed, it’s one of the most successful strategies for collective survival in the whole tree of life, from the give-and-take between symbionts, to the kindness of strangers…

Any chemical that’s called a flavonoid has to taste good. That’s what you’d think, anyway. But some flavonoids are actually famous for their bitter taste, and can cause astringency — the dry, sometimes numbing sensation that’s created…

A fine mist accompanies the clan as the sun rises and they begin their journey. There are 12…

Archaeologists have uncovered a pair of Danish slave ships that sank off the Central American…

The likelihood of an imminent eruption at Bolivia’s “zombie” volcano remains low…