Putting rescue robots to the test, an ancient Scottish village buried in sand, and why costly drugs may have more side effects

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Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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This week we hear stories about putting rescue bots to the test after the Mexico earthquake, why a Scottish village was buried in sand during the Little Ice Age, and efforts by the U.S. military to predict posttraumatic stress disorder with Online News Editor David Grimm. Andrew Wagner interviews Alexandra Tinnermann of the University Medical Center of Hamburg, Germany, about the nocebo effect. Unlike the placebo effect, in which you get positive side effects with no treatment, in the nocebo effect you get negative side effects with no treatment. It turns out both nocebo and placebo effects get stronger with a drug perceived as more expensive. Read the research. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Chris Burns/Science; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
0:04.0	the academic arm of the Mount Sinai health system in New York City,
0:07.5	and one of America's leading research medical schools.
0:10.7	What are scientists and clinicians working on to improve medical care and health for women?
0:15.5	Find out in a special supplement to Science magazine prepared by the Icon School of Medicine
0:20.0	and Mount Sinai in partnership
0:21.6	with science. Visit our website at www.science.org and search for Frontiers of Medical
0:27.5	Research-Wedmen's Health. The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way.
0:42.8	Welcome to the Science Podcast for October 6, 2017.
0:44.4	I'm Sarah Crespi.
0:50.2	In this week's show, Andrew Wagner interviews Alexandra Tinterman about the nocebo effect.
1:00.2	Instead of getting positive side effects with no treatment like the placebo effect, in the nocebo effect, you get negative side effects with no treatment.
1:05.4	What does it mean and how can we use our understanding of this to improve clinical trials?
1:10.3	And David Grimm gives us this week's hits from our online news site.
1:15.9	Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site.
1:18.3	He's here to talk about some recent online stories.
1:24.6	Our first story is on snake-shaped robots, rescuing people or not.
1:30.8	We've made a lot of videos about strangely shaped robots, little cubes that roll around, little sacks that inflate, B-sized flying robots, and yes, snakebots. And when we
1:37.8	wrap up the video after explaining how they work and the materials and the engineering, we often
1:42.0	say, someday, these can be used in search
1:45.7	and rescue missions.
1:47.4	Well, the time has come, Dave.
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