Debunked: Is the “Placebo Effect” Just a Myth?
In an opinion article, Australian researchers argue that the ‘placebo effect’ — the idea that we can start to recover from illness after being given…
In an opinion article, Australian researchers argue that the ‘placebo effect’ — the idea that we can start to recover from illness after being given…
Researchers can now hold stellar nurseries in their hands thanks to 3D printing, revealing features often obscured in traditional renderings and animations. Astronomers can’t touch…
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury will make the first of six flybys of its destination planet on October 1, 2021, before entering orbit in…
Thinning of rift-healing slush is identified as a major cause of iceberg calving events. Glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion…
University of Rochester psychologists find that college students who reinterpret their stress response as performance-enhancing are less anxious and generally healthier. Sweaty palms during a…
Warming oceans cause fewer bright clouds to reflect sunlight into space, admitting even more energy into earth’s climate system. Warming ocean waters have caused a…
Scientists have come a long way since Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered teeming colonies of previously invisible bacteria and protozoa while peering through his custom-made microscopes….
SUTD researchers show how a newly discovered family of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are more energy-efficient thanks to the presence of a built-in atomic protection layer….
2,800 RPM Spin a Success, but Flight 14 Delayed to Post Conjunction It’s been an eventful several Martian days, or sols, since our last blog…
Cholera is still an enormous problem. An acute diarrheal disease, there have been seven major pandemics in the last two hundred years. According to the WHO,…
A new study shows oxygenic photosynthesis likely evolved between 3.4 and 2.9 billion years ago. Some time in Earth’s early history, the planet took a…
Tiny lasers acting together as one: Topological vertical cavity laser arrays Israeli and German researchers have developed a way to force an array of vertical-cavity…
The missions will continue collecting data about the Red Planet, though engineers back on Earth will stop sending commands to them until mid-October. NASA will…
It was wartime and food was scarce. Leaders of England’s effort to wage war and help the public survive during World War II needed to…
Researchers will observe more than a dozen protoplanetary systems to gather data about their inner disks – where Earth-like planets may be forming What was…
Researchers tease apart contributions of symbiotic bacteria and algae to corals’ heat tolerance and identify genes involved in stress response. The microbiomes of corals —…
Most emerging infectious diseases of humans (like COVID-19) are zoonotic – caused by viruses originating from other animal species. Identifying high-risk viruses earlier can improve…
On Earth, river erosion is usually a slow-going process. But on Mars, massive floods from overflowing crater lakes had an outsized role in shaping the…