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There are several evidence-backed ways of calming an anxious mind – from eating specific foods to adding certain exercises to your routine

A new understanding of how our genes, environment, brain and gut interact is helping to explain differences in our disposition to anxiety

What anxiety actually is has puzzled scientists for decades. Now we are starting to figure out how it may arise from miscommunication between the body and the brain

The Harvard College Observatory's glass plates, which record a century of changes in the sky, has now been converted into digital form.

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You’re going to want to guard your eyes from the sun using legitimate protective gear

A tiny clump of stars orbiting our galaxy should have been ripped apart by the Milky Way, but its continued existence hints it may be held together by a massive amount of dark matter

Giant bubbles erupting across this red supergiant star’s surface could solve a lingering astrophysical mystery

Newly detected stellar aggregations in the Milky Way could be the remnants of protogalaxies from its formation — or just resonances with the galaxy's bar.

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How a total solar eclipse creates connection, unity and caring among the people watching

The COVID pandemic and the police murder of George Floyd polarized views on policing. Rather than abolishing policing or maintaining its status quo, we need to make it better and more focused

Experts explain how moving in reverse can take pressure off your knees and improve flexibility

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Comet Pons-Brooks has quite a tail to tell.

The summer of 2023 was Earth’s hottest since global records began in 1880, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York.

El verano boreal de 2023 fue el más caluroso para la Tierra desde que se establecieron registros mundiales de temperaturas en 1880, según un análisis realizado por científicos del Instituto Goddard de Estudios Espaciales (GISS, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASA en Nueva York.