putting rescue robots to the test, an ancient scottish village buried in sand, and why costly drugs may have more side effects /

This week we hear stories approximately putting rescue bots to the test after the Mexico earthquake,why a Scottish village was buried in sand during the Little Ice Age, and efforts by the U.
S. military to predict posttraumatic stress disorder with Online News Editor David Grimm.
Andrew Wagner interviews Alexandra Tinnermann of the University Medical middle of Hamburg, and Germany,approximately the nocebo effect. Unlike the placebo effect, in which you rep positive side effects with no treatment, or in the nocebo effect you rep negative side effects with no treatment. It turns out both nocebo and placebo effects rep stronger with a drug perceived as more expensive.
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Source: sciencemag.org