Researchers at Leipzig University and TU Dresden have succeeded in developing biological switches that can selectively turn ion channels on and off using light pulses. Initial applications show that ...

Economics often borrows ideas from the sciences, yet unlike physics or chemistry, no country has ever run a controlled, pure economic experiment on a national scale. A pure experiment requires ...

The U.S. is giving $1.6 million to researchers to study how the hepatitis B vaccine affects newborns in Guinea-Bissau. Local officials say the trial is suspended. U.S. officials say that's inaccurate.

Walter “Wally” Gilbert is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Chair of the Society of Fellows at ...

THANKS TO A CACHE OF DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS, the public is now well aware of the Central Intelligent Agency’s misadventures in mind control throughout the 1950s and 1960s. MKUltra—the agency’s ...

In Stranger Things, there are many references to things from other fictional worlds, specifically the land of Dungeons & Dragons. But, when the series began to expand the backstory of Eleven (aka Jane ...

With the right approach, even small firms can get a competitive advantage from the right kinds of tests. Harvard Business School’s Stefan Thomke says running experiments can give companies tremendous ...

1 Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, Institute of Digital Ecosystems, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria 2 Department of Economics, Vienna ...

A controlled test compared three nearly identical pages: one with strong schema, one with poor schema, and one with none. Only the page with well-implemented schema appeared in an AI Overview and ...