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Sugar Pill Nation
Even when we know they’re “fake,” placebos can tame our emotional distress.
Is There Any Place for Race in Medicine?
Medicine uses race to try to provide more equitable care. But that prescription likely does more harm.
To Supercharge Learning, Look to Play
Play and art engage all of our senses and enhance attention.
Exercise Is Great for Our Brains, Too, Right?
One question for Luis Ciria, a neuroscientist at the University of Granada.
The Spiritual Materialist
How transcendent feelings arise from the forces of Darwinian natural selection.
Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way
There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its last surviving remnants.
What Does ChatGPT Know About Science?
AI-powered chatbots get science facts basically right, but their reasoning is still shallow.
Does GPT-4 Really Understand What We’re Saying?
One question for David Krakauer, an evolutionary theorist and president of the Santa Fe Institute for complexity science.
Why Doctors Can’t Name Female Anatomy
A vulva by any other name … causes confusion and unnecessary suffering.
The Dwarf Planet on Our Doorstep
The series of fortunate astrophysical events that gave us Ceres.
