There’s reason to be skeptical that the placebo effect is, in fact, “real”. It does seem to function to a limited degree in very narrow cases of subjectively-reported outcomes (like pain), though even that isn’t quite as solid as people assume. But when it comes to material outcomes, such as lowering cholesterol in…

Not really. JWST is intended to be a successor to Hubble, designed to look more in the infrared range, which lets it see through some of the gas and dust that often blocks or reduces visible light. This is great for studying things like star, galaxy and even planet formation, and it’ll help understand the history of…

Oh , I AM. It’s not breakfast if it isn’t 2000 calories. ;)

The article never mentions the estimated energy density of the experimental battery. It should have, as it’s implicit this is why the technology is being researched, but instead it only mentions the energy efficiency, which is a completely different thing (basically, how much energy is wasted during charging and/or…