Sep 30, 2015 10:25AM
After major surgery, children that listened to their favorite music or an audio book felt significantly less pain.
Who doesn’t love hearing a good story, especially when it’s told by some of the country’s premier yarn-spinners?
After a rigorous seven-year review, the Empire State officially banned fracking because of its adverse effects on public health.
Thanks to legal action by consumer activists, nanotechnology, which manipulates materials at the atomic and molecular levels, now falls under EPA scrutiny.
A Canadian firm has developed a safe scent-based product that confuses the mating pattern of specifically targeted destructive insects while leaving helpful insects alone.
The latest government forecasts predict an encouraging slowdown in American energy consumption due to conservation measures and energy-efficient technologies.
Swiss biotech giant Syngenta AG may have destroyed much of the corn export business that U.S. farmers count on. China has rejected huge ship...
On July 29, Congressman Bill Posey, a Republican representing Florida’s eighth district, took to the U.S. House floor to discuss possible ch...
Everything from chickadees to squirrels to millipedes happily feed on or nestle into a fallen or decomposing tree, while its moss and lichen refresh forest soil.
More than 400 mayors are supporting Extra Mile Day, which celebrates the power of people to create positive change in families, organizations and communities.
Aug 31, 2015 10:55AM
Compared to chronic-pain patients, yoga practitioners have more desirable grey matter in key brain regions, Duke researchers report.
In a seven-year study, Mexican-American women that often sipped chamomile tea dramatically reduced their rate of an earlier demise.
Particulates in the air can triple the stroke incidence among people that breathe it long-term.
Just 30 minutes of moderate to intense exercise six days a week reduced risk of early mortality by 40 percent for men during a four-decade Norwegian study.
Plants absorb nicotine when they are mulched with tobacco leaves or subjected to cigarette smoke.
Taking muscle-building supplements, especially when young, dramatically increases the danger of testicular cancer, Yale and Harvard researchers have found.
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