Health
- Googles Abigail Posner chimes in on the future of artificial intelligence. What are some of the limits? When do the ethics cross the line?
- This week were talking about sleep. So what does a good night's sleep look like? What does it feel like?
- What counts as cheating? Could a prosthetic be a form of cheating? Does the question of cheating even matter if everyone is cheating in the same way?
- Think sleeping in on the weekend can repair the damage from a week of sleepless nights? New research says it might actually make things worse.
- Could working out five minutes a day, without lifting a single weight or jogging a single step, reduce your heart attack risk, help you think more clearly and boost your sports performance? Preliminary evidence suggests yes.
- We talk to scientists about the chemistry behind monogamy, why it feels good to hold hands and why placebos could be effective in getting over heartbreak.
- On the 50th anniversary of Garrett Hardins influential essay about the freedom to breed,the director of the CU Population Center contends he missed the mark.
- How much do high-tech shoes, special diets and exercises, drafting behind other runners and other strategies actually improve your finish time? A new study spells it out. The takeaway: The faster you are, the harder it is to get faster.
- New international rules would require some elite female athletes to medically lower their testosterone levels in order to be able to compete among women. But a new study contends those rules are based on flawed science.
- The first-of-its-kind study found that when people dont sleep, they feel pain more acutely; but the pain may be keeping them awake, thanks to a neural glitch in sleep-deprived brains.