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Altering brain chemistry makes us more sensitive to inequality
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- Written by Thomas Levy
Berkeley, California - What if there were a pill that made you more compassionate and more likely to give spare change to someone less fortunate? UC Berkeley scientists have taken a big step in that direction.
Conifers’ helicoptering seeds are result of long evolutionary experiment
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- Written by Robert Sanders
Berkeley, California - The whirling, winged seeds of today’s conifers are an engineering wonder and, as UC Berkeley, scientists show, a result of about 270 million years of evolution by trees experimenting with the best way to disperse their seeds.
Cyborg beetle research allows free-flight study of insects
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- Written by Sarah Yang
Berkeley, California - Hard-wiring beetles for radio-controlled flight turns out to be a fitting way to learn more about their biology. Cyborg insect research led by engineers at UC Berkeley and Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is enabling new revelations about a muscle used by beetles for finely graded turns.
Philosopher Robert Stalnaker solves problems
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- Written by MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts - While working in a famously esoteric field, MIT philosopher Robert Stalnaker has focused his career on thinking about real-world concerns - including the fundamental nature of speech, thought, and decision-making. In so doing, he has catalyzed and provided the underpinnings for new research in many other areas, such as game theory, linguistics, decision theory, and economics.
Temple Grandin: Look at what people can do, not what they can’t
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- Written by David L. Chandler
Cambridge, Massachusetts - When she was just two, doctors advised Temple Grandin’s mother that her child would probably need to be institutionalized for life due to her autism. But her mother would have none of that, and instead focused on teaching her daughter basic social and life skills, even though she didn’t begin to speak until age four.
Prices of cancer drugs have soared since 1995
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- Written by Peter Dizikes
Cambridge, Massachusetts - The prices of leading cancer drugs have risen at rates far outstripping inflation over the last two decades, according to a new study co-authored by an MIT economist - but the exact reasons for the cost increases are unclear.
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