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Electronic configuration of seaborgium (Sg). Credit: Ahazard.sciencewriter/Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:106_seaborgium_(Sg)_enhanced_Bohr_model.png.

Scientists Discover Fleeting Atom That Defies Nuclear Expectations

New study finds no lasting impact of pandemic pet ownership on human well-being. Credit: Vanda Molnár

New Study Reveals Pets Might Not Be the Cure for Loneliness

Schematic of pretargeted imaging. A) the ASO-Tz conjugate is dosed IT and distributes in the brain, B) 18F-TCO PET tracer is injected IV, crosses the BBB, and binds to ASO-Tz in the brain, C) unbound 18F-TCO tracer clears the brain, allowing for PET imaging. The IEDDA reaction between Tz and TCO is also shown below. Credit: Science Translational Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adl1732

Scientists Make Brain Drugs Visible with Molecular Clicks That Could Change Neurology

Graphical abstract Credit: Current Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.05.061

Animals in the Mountains Are Losing Their Sense of Smell

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Astronomers Discover Ghostly Stars Tracing Dark Matter in Violent Cosmic Collision

The seven ochre retouchers from the MSA layers of BBC. Artifact numbers are listed in the top left of each separate image. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads2797

Early Humans Used Ochre as Precision Tools 70,000 Years Ago

Trelai Park. Credit: Vivian Thomas

Archaeologists Uncover 3,000-Year-Old Burials Beneath Trelai Park

Illustration of the interior of Saturn's moon Enceladus showing a global liquid water ocean between its rocky core and icy crust. Credit: JPL

Enceladus’s Hidden Ocean May Be Even Stranger—And More Life-Friendly—Than We Thought

Skeleton that yielded a 4,000-year-old M. lepromatosis genome. Credit: Oscar Eduardo Fontana-Silva & Anna Brizuela

Ancient DNA Reveals Leprosy Struck the Americas 4,000 Years Ago

Herschel 250 𝜇m maps of the Cha II/III regions (left) and the Cha I sub-regions (right) with the observed ATCA fields overlaid as circles (with a diameter of 9 arcmin corresponding to the field of view of ATCA at 5.5 GHz). Squares indicate the positions of known young stars in each field. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.15927

Astronomers Detect Baby Stars Hidden in a Distant Cosmic Cloud

Image of the Earth taken by Himawari 8 at 18:00 (UTC) on August 11, 2018. The zoom-in images show Venus captured in the background. Credit: Nishiyama et al. (2025)

Venus Accidentally Photobombs Earth Satellite and Reveals a Decade of Weather Data

Researchers applied multiple techniques to determine the brain connections associated with new onset criminal behavior. Credit: Isaiah Kletenik, MD / Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Scientists Discover a Brain Connection That Could Explain Criminal Behavior

Dr. David Jones reviews brain scans on a computer at Mayo Clinic. Credit: Mayo Clinic

AI Tool from Mayo Clinic Helps Detect Nine Types of Dementia with a Single Brain Scan

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Study Finds Sugar Relationships Are Driven by Mating Preference Not Childhood Trauma

Localization of SCEP3 at the CR of the SC. Credit: Nature Plants (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-02030-9

Scientists Discover a Hidden Protein That Powers Plant Reproduction

A developing mouse embryo expresses different genes (green, magenta, cyan) from head to tail, to generate different parts of the body. Credit: Irene Amblard, Development & Transcriptional Control Group, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences

Scientists Discover Genetic Dimmer Switch That Fine-Tunes Life Itself

C. elegans (epidermis labelled with a red fluorescent protein) with protective Pseudomonas fluorescens bacteria (labelled with a green fluorescent protein) in the pharynx and anterior part of the intestine. Credit: Jan Michels

Bacteria in Worm Guts Reveal a Hidden Weapon Against Infection

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What Happens in the Brain During Meditation

Sad young woman crying in her bedroom at home. Mental health concept.

Why Anxiety Feels So Physical

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The Silent Rules of Social Behavior You Follow Without Knowing

Woman’s hand showing gesture.

How Rejection Shapes Personality

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Why We Love the Sound of Our Own Voice

A couple embracing on the beach

The Psychology of Touch: How It Calms the Brain

How Your Brain Interprets Love and Fear the Same Way

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What Your Favorite Color Says About Your Subconscious

Rear view image of a woman sitting alone on a bed in bedroom

How Childhood Trauma Echoes into Adulthood

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Why We Fantasize — And What It Reveals About Us

Comparison between gregarious locusts (right) and solitary locusts. Credit: Xiaojiao Guo et al

Scientists Discover the Chemical Switch That Triggers Locust Swarms

Artistic representation of the magnetic sawtooth structure of atacamite: The magnetic moments (green) of the Cu ions (white and blue) cannot be completely aligned antiparallel to each other due to the triangular arrangement. Credit: Schröder/HZDR

Ancient Crystal Reveals a Powerful New Way to Cool Without Electricity

The critical current oscillations are sinusoidal when twisted trilayer graphene is a normal metal (an S-N-S junction). But the oscillations become sawtooth like when twisted trilayer becomes an intrinsic superconductor (an S-S'-S junction). Credit: Jha et al

Scientists Unlock the Secrets of Superconductivity in Magic-Angle Graphene