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EL HIGUERON, Peru – Carlos Cruz Chanta lives just off a rutted dirt road, almost lost in the mist, outside this village on a steep ridge of jungle-covered mountains. Like his neighbors, he makes his living raising livestock and growing corn, fruit, beans, and coffee.

To the ancient Mayans, it was the food of the gods. Nineteenth-century Cubans used it as an aphrodisiac. In the 20th century American culinary authority Fannie Farmer recommended its “stimulating effect” for “cases of enfeebled digestion.” Throughout history people have prized cocoa--the defining ingredient of chocolate--a tradition that endures in our modern era.

A preventive treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is one of medicine’s holy grails. [More]

In the eyes of many planetary scientists, the surface of Mars's northern hemisphere has long looked like it once contained an ocean. Now it is "sounding" that way, too.

GIGLIO, Italy, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Salvagers started topump fuel away from the half-submerged wreck of the Costa [More]

It's been a long day at work.

“Kyoto divided the world…between rich and poor, developed and developing…our task now is to unite the world behind the shared vision of low carbon growth. The Maldives is trying to lead the way.” [More]

If you think summer is too hot or winter unbearably cold, take solace that in the distant past seasons on our planet might have been much harsher.

In an autobiographic note Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 – 1882) remembered a childhood wish: “ It was soon after I began collecting stones, i.e., when 9 or 10, that I distinctly recollect the desire I had of being able to know something about every pebble in front of the hall door–it was my earliest and only geological aspiration at that time. “ [More]

By Tim Hepher and Harry Suhartono SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Global airlines called on Sunday for a U.N.-brokered deal to prevent a row over aviation emissions between China and the European Union spilling into a damaging trade war. [More]

“Time is money” sounds like an efficient strategy. But such a perspective could undermine your overall happiness, according to a study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (PDF.) [More]

How do our thoughts influence our physical sensations? [More]

[Whistle-like sound.] That’s not a bird whistling. This sound was recorded 2000 feet below the ocean’s surface. [More]

It’s a heavy metal. It’s linked to learning problems in school children. And every child is exposed