Placebo Power: Patient Belief in Treatment Impacts Depression Therapy Effectiveness

Summary: A new study sheds light on the significant role of patients’ beliefs in the effectiveness of neurostimulation treatments for conditions like depression and ADHD. Analyzing five studies, the research…

NASA orbiter snaps stunning views of Mars horizon

This unusual view of the horizon of Mars was captured by NASA’s Odyssey orbiter using its THEMIS camera, in an operation that took engineers three months to plan. It’s taken…

Archaeologists find burial bundles with carved masks

A team of archaeologists from the PUCP Archaeology Program “Valley of Pachacámac” have uncovered over 70 intact burial bundles with carved masks. The discovery was made at Pachacámac, an archaeological…

Developing a positive outcome from negative emotions

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain December can be an especially stressful time of the year. The holiday to-do list may feel overwhelming. Disappointment can swell if the “magic” of the season…

What happened when we trained a deep learning model to identify poverty

Satellite image (left) of ‘poor’ village, then moves from left to right adding signs of wealth, like roads, progressing towards what the AI ‘sees’ as wealth. Credit: Authors/Google, CC BY…

Correlations show nuances of the particle birth process

Visualization of secondary particle streams recorded by the LHCb detector in a few proton-proton collisions. Credit: LHCb Collaboration / IFJ PAN High-energy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider are…

A dose of humility for doctors, nurses and clinicians

Better health care for patients begins with humility – a term not often associated with medicine. I witnessed displays of humility firsthand eight years ago, the night my son was…

The Cop28 climate summit must set us free from fossil fuels

My homeland of Denmark played its part in causing the climate crisis but is now phasing out fossil fuels. In Dubai, the world must follow Cop28, marking a key stress…

A Brazilian mountain is home to a surprising number of parasitic wasps

The tropics are teeming with life, tending to hold far more species than milder environments closer to the poles. But one group of insects, the Darwin wasps, were thought to…

Soccer heading linked to measurable decline in brain function

Diffusion tensor imaging, an MRI technique, of the brain. Credit: RSNA/Michael L. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D. New research being presented this week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of…