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Food
Mar 27, 2015 04:07 PM EDT

Comfort Foods May Help With Certain Anxieties, Study Shows

Comfort foods could help with some anxiety issues, a new study suggests.

Fast Food
Mar 27, 2015 03:07 PM EDT

Is That Cheeseburger Making You Depressed? Study Suggests High Fat Foods May Influence Mood

Scientists have blamed fatty foods for contributing to a long list of medical conditions, including heart disease, obesity and many other issues. Yet did you know that our favorite buttery-treats may also be contributing to depression, as well?

Swift Parrot Female
Mar 27, 2015 08:47 AM EDT

Tasmania's Brilliantly-Colored Swift Parrot May Face Extinction in Just 16 Years

The brilliantly-colored and iconic Tasmanian swift parrot may be on the verge of extinction.

Lake Erie
Mar 27, 2015 08:30 AM EDT

Massive Algal Blooms Could be Cleaned Up and Used as Biofuels and Fertilizers

Scientists may have found a way to clean up algal blooms and turn them into useful products.

Wildfire
Mar 27, 2015 08:08 AM EDT

Disturbed Ecosystems are More Sensitive to Climate Change and its Risks

When it comes to climate change, disturbed ecosystems may be at risk. Scientists have found that an ecosystem's resistance to changing climatic conditions is reduced when it's exposed to natural or human-caused disturbances.

Mosquito Malaria
Mar 27, 2015 07:42 AM EDT

Scientists Genetically Edit Mosquitoes That Transmit Deadly Diseases

Scientists may have discovered a way to genetically "edit" a mosquito, which may help keep it from spreading the deadly diseases chikungunya, yellow fever and dengue fever.

Crossed Fingers
Mar 27, 2015 06:59 AM EDT

Crossing Your Fingers May Reduce How Much Pain You Feel

Did you know that crossing your fingers may reduce the pain you feel? How you feel pain is largely affected by where sources of pain are in relation to each other.

Polar bear
Mar 27, 2015 06:23 AM EDT

Keeping Climate Change to Just Two Degrees isn't Enough to Save Species

A lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has announced that a temperature change of two degrees is "utterly inadequate" for protected those most at risk from climate change.

Galaxy Cluster
Mar 27, 2015 06:00 AM EDT

Mysterious Dark Matter Slides Through Colliding Galaxies Unscathed

Scientists have found that dark matter interacts with itself even less than previously thought, which narrows down what the substance might actually be.

G2 Gas Cloud
Mar 27, 2015 05:53 AM EDT

Dusty Gas Cloud Survived a Cloud Encounter with a Supermassive Black Hole

Scientists have gotten the best view yet of a dusty gas cloud, G2, after it made its closest approach to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Antarctica
Mar 27, 2015 05:32 AM EDT

Antarctica Ice Shelves are Melting at an Accelerated and Alarming Rate

It turns out that Antarctica's floating ice shelves may have recently thinned by as much as 18 percent in several areas over just two decades.

Fast Food
Mar 27, 2015 05:14 AM EDT

A High-Fat Diet May Alter Your Behavior and Your Brain with Changed Gut Bacteria

High-fat diets may not just impact your health. It could also alter your behavior and your brain. Scientists have discovered that high-fat diets could increase the risk for depression and other psychiatric disorders.

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