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Humiliation, fear and unpredictability all turn up the volume on pain, research shows. And meditation can turn down pain's intensity, according to scientists who are starting figure out why.

San Diego's old, vacant downtown library is sitting fowl while neighbors, politicians and business people wonder what's next.

The study will take place over five years and will test of the safety of a new treatment involving neural stem cells.

"Memory is about the present as much as it is about the past," psychologist Charles Fernyhough writes in Pieces of Light. The book explores the science of memory to figure out what shapes it, how it works and why some things stick with us forever.

Statistical analyst Nate Silver says humility is key to making accurate predictions. Silver, who writes the New York Times' FiveThirtyEight blog, has just written a new book called The Signal and the Noise.

Democratic State Senator Kevin de León was elected Monday and became California’s first Hispanic Senate President pro tem since the nineteenth century.

What seemed like a case of food poisoning has now turned into a police investigation. Synthetic drugs present an evolving problem for the Drug Enforcement Administration.

The University of the District of Columbia is the only land-grant university in the U.S. with an urban focus. It's studying how to grow food in raised beds, hoop houses and even a shipping container.

By granting scientists access to your idle computer or Android device, you can help The Scripps Research Institute build a virtual supercomputer dedicated to identifying drug compounds to treat Ebola.

There are huge gaps in school funding between affluent and property-poor districts. And, with evidence that money matters, especially for disadvantaged kids, something has to change.