When an empathetic partner holds a lover's hand, their heart rates and breathing rates sync and their pain subsides, new research shows. Authors say such 'interpersonal synchronization' could play a role in the analgesic impacts of touch.
The mathematicians who want to save democracy - With algorithms in hand, scientists are looking to make elections in the United States more representative.
Beekeepers Sweetens Solar Sites With the 'Tesla of Honey' - 'the first U.S. solar facility to host commercial beekeeping. The apiary is part of an effort to rethink how land for clean energy can be used to supply more than just kilowatts.
Ketamine, believed to reduce postoperative pain and delirium, does neither, in a study that shows that ketamine may spur hallucinations, nightmares in older patients published in The Lancet.
TIL Elon Musk wrote and sold a video game, Blastar, in 1984. Musk, then 12, received $500 when it's source code was published in the South African magazine PC and Office Technology.