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A 2022 study gave participants contact-tracing devices to estimate how many close contacts they had each day while on a cruise—basically, evaluating the likelihood of an infectious disease’s spread.

From Slate • May 16, 2026

Across several studies, participants who listened to specific excerpts from symphonies by Liszt or Mahler imagined similar narratives in the music—storms, pirates and shipwrecks, in one case.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Compared with participants who received only placebos, those taking a multivitamin showed slower biological aging across all five measurements.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

Granholm and Liao were the only participants listed from the Energy Department, according to the document obtained by The Times.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

When the normal participants looked at the chair, however, they used a completely different and less powerful part of the brain—the inferior temporal gyrus—which is normally reserved for objects.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell