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To celebrate International Women’s Day 2017, Google has pulled 13 of its past doodles honoring women. The collection highlights females through history who pushed the boundaries and contributed to the advancement of women — and men — in extraordinary ways. “Our slideshow Doodle features a little girl whose grandmother tells …

A Northwestern University-led team of researchers has identified a region in the brain responsible for the ‘placebo effect’ in pain relief, when a fake treatment actually results in substantial reduction of pain. In the study, whole-brain degree count maps, collected before the start of treatment, were used to identify potential …