Subconscious learning shapes pain responses In a new study led from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet, researchers report that people can be conditioned to associate images with particular pain responses – such as improved tolerance to pain – even when they are … Continue reading →

IBM’s Watson supercomputer strives to be jack of all trades Watson already has won a major TV game show, is looking for a cure for cancer and has ambitious gastronomy ambitions including devising a recipe for chocolate-beef burritos. “The applicability … Continue reading →

VP9: Faster, better, buffer-free YouTube videos As more people watch more high-quality videos across more screens, we need video formats that provide better resolution without increasing bandwidth usage. That’s why we started encoding YouTube videos in VP9, the open-source codec … Continue reading →

Huge ocean confirmed underneath solar system’s largest moon Ganymede The solar system’s largest moon, Ganymede, in orbit around Jupiter, harbors an underground ocean containing more water than all the oceans on Earth. Scientists were already fairly confident in the ocean’s existence, … Continue reading →

Physicists reach new milestone measuring half-life of iron-60 A team of physicists affiliated with institutions in Australia, Switzerland and Austria has made the most accurate measurement to date of the half life of iron-60. In their paper published in the … Continue reading →