Transmitting Placebo Effects – Luke Chang

Shutdown of coal-fired plants in U.S. saves lives & improves crop yields

Between 2005 and 2016, the shift away from coal saved an estimated 26,610 lives and 570 million bushels of crops.

Did the War on Terror ignite an Opioid Epidemic?

Regardless whether they were exposed to combat, servicemembers deployed post-9/11 to Afghanistan and Iraq have exposed are more likely to abuse opioids, costing at least $1.04 billion annually for prescription painkiller abuse and $470 million per year for heroin use.

New light sail

Laser-driven light sail developed that can stabilize itself by generating a sideways force through diffracting light, preventing it from spiraling out of control as it travels through the solar system and beyond.

Accelerator-on-a-chip

Scientists develop a particle accelerator on a chip that's less than the width of a human hair.

Gray matter volume and cardiorespiratory fitness linked

The amount of oxygen that reaches the brain rises through exercise, and this is speculated to be the reason behind increased gray matter volume of the brain.

More positive results get published

The tendency to publish results that support one's hypotheses found to be present even in meta-analyses.

The brain's prediction of missing visual information

How the brain is able to fill in the gaps and can "guess" what it might be missing, even with one eye covered.