News

  1. Placebo reins in pain in brain

    Pain relief provided by inert medications may reflect increased transmission of a brain chemical involved in regulating stress and suppressing pain.

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  2. Astronomy

    Hidden black holes

    A new study has added to existing evidence that most of the monster black holes at the cores of galaxies are shrouded by dust.

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  3. Rice, revealed

    Researchers have finished a 6-year-long effort to sequence the genome of rice.

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  4. Animals

    What’s That Knocking? Sound evidence offered for long-lost woodpecker

    Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology has released recordings from the woods of eastern Arkansas that researchers say could be the distinctive drumming and calls of the ivory-billed woodpecker.