Science!

You’re late for class and speed walk across campus to reach your destination. You’re fully prepared to slink to the back of the room while your professor glares exacerbated daggers at you, but, to your surprise, you discover that your entire class is outside the room.Everyone is mulling around and someone informs you that the door is locked; they’re waiting for the professor.

What is the placebo effect exactly and what does that mean for our trust in our own mental healing powers? The placebo effect spans a wide variety of medical interventions for an ailment in which the placebo itself does not contain any “active ingredient” to cure anything but causes the person to show improved symptoms because of the person’s expectations to improve.

Rumors abound about these funny little things called neutrinos. Einstein’s theory of relativity suggests that no object with mass can exceed the speed of light, and since the theory was first published, it has been confirmed by most research. Recently, though, scientists at CERN laboratory in Switzerland discovered that neutrinos might challenge the theory.