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Pink placebo: Fake energy drink makes people run faster, further
Who needs steroids when you have the placebo effect?
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Study: ADHD is overdiagnosed and overtreated
Like autism, ADHD lies on a spectrum, and some children should not be treated.
How space debris created the world’s largest garbage dump
Since 1957, the world’s space agencies have been polluting the space above us with countless pieces of junk, threatening our technological infrastructure and ability to venture deeper into space.
Looking for something? A team at MIT develop a robot that sees through walls
“Researchers have been giving robots human-like perception,” says MIT Associate Professor Fadel Adib. In a new paper, Adib’s team is pushing the technology a step further. “We’re trying to give robots...
The Great Resignation: COVID revealed how abnormal the modern workplace is
Is working from home the ultimate liberation or the first step toward an even unhappier “new normal”?
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30 grunts and sounds that may have been the first language
Linguists discover 30 sounds that may have allowed communication before words existed.
7 most notorious and excessive Roman Emperors
These Roman Emperors were infamous for their debauchery and cruelty.
Physicists push limits of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
New studies stretch the boundaries of physics, achieving quantum entanglement in larger systems.
Mixing human + animal DNA and the future of gene editing
“The question is which are okay, which are not okay.”
Modern society is as unequal as 14th century Europe
As bad as this sounds, a new essay suggests that we live in a surprisingly egalitarian age.