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When ‘oh, fudge’ won’t do: Researchers find benefits to swearing

Language

Researchers at the Swear Lab at Keele University in the UK have found that swearing can actually increase a person’s pain tolerance.

Darek Fidyka

For the first time ever, a surgery regrows spinal cord nerves — and lets this man walk again

Medicine

Research shows sounds can influence how people taste food

Environment

Financial worries on the brain

Business, Economics and Jobs
The World

Music Heals

Arts, Culture & Media

Earth Ear

Chorus frogs sing during a winter rain on Santa Cruz Island, off the coast of California.

Earth Ear

Listen to a Mayan song from the San Antonio Tuk ?a community of Mayan farmers on the Yucatan Peninsula.

The World

Emerging Science Note/Schooled Sleep

A study from Taiwan shows women with higher education may get a better night’s sleep.

The World

Health Update

Living On Earth’s Diane Toomey tells us that honey not only delights the taste buds, but it also might have potential as a medicine.

The World

Music Heals

Arts, Culture & Media

After piano music helped him recover from brain surgery, Dr. Richard Fratianne became a true believer in music therapy. In the burn unit at the Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center, Fratianne is measuring patients’ stress hormones during procedures to try to prove that music therapy reduces pain and anxiety. Produced by Kerrie Hillman.