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Can Placebos Work—Even When Patients Know They’re Fake?
Researchers showed that a saline spray “treatment” reduced people’s emotional distress, even though the study subjects knew the spray wouldn’t ... -
It’s Time to Talk About Covid-19 and Surfaces Again
In the early days, we furiously scrubbed, afraid we could get sick from the virus lingering on objects and surfaces. ... -
Babies May Be Drinking Millions of Microplastic Particles a Day
Scientists discover that baby bottles shed up to 16 million bits of plastic per liter of fluid. What that means ... -
The New Science of Wildfire Prediction
On this week’s Get WIRED podcast, writer Dan Duane dives into the inevitability of fires in the west and how ... -
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is About to Touch an Asteroid
After years of studying Bennu, the spacecraft will make its first attempt at a sample collection on Tuesday. http://www.wired.com/ -
Computer Scientists Break the 'Traveling Salesperson' Record
Finally, there’s a better way to find approximate solutions to the notorious optimization problem, often used to test the limits ... -
Want Some Eco-Friendly Tips? A New Study Says No, You Don’t
Nagging, giving unsolicited advice, and “ecopiety” are out. But there are better ways to get people to adopt green habits. ... -
Treatment and Vaccine Trials are Halted, US Cases Rise, and More Coronavirus News
Catch up on the most important updates from this week. http://www.wired.com/ -
The Preexisting Conditions of the Coronavirus Pandemic
An enormous new data set peers into the health of the world’s population before 2020—and how the coronavirus turned that ... -
In the US, 50 States Could Mean 50 Vaccine Rollout Strategies
The CDC put out a central playbook for how to distribute the shots. But how states will address these guidelines ...
