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They say whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and it seems that a good emotional breakdown does actually help us tackle pain. A new study has found that watching emotional films releases painkillers in the human body and gives you a natural...

Sharks have a big reputation for their teeth. The ocean predators use their buzz saw mouths to efficiently dismantle prey, ranging from marine mammals and sea turtles to seabirds and — as Hollywood likes to remind us — an occasional human. There are...

Science has more than its fair share of odd stories leading to conspiracy theories — was Tycho Brahe really poisoned by his apprentice Kepler? Naw. What was Werner Von Braun doing in the arctic? Devil science?! Unfortunately not. But the story of Piltdown...

A new study published in Royal Society Open Science reveals that Western fairy tales, often credited to the brothers Grimm, may actually be up to 6,000 years old. Researchers examined a massive online repository of more than 2,000 distinct tales from...