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What Your Fears Say About You

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Why Your Brain Hates Uncertainty

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a highly efficient amplifier that activates only when reading information from qubits. Credit: Chalmers University of Technology | Yin Zeng | Maurizio Toselli

Scientists Build Whispering Amplifier That Could Supercharge Quantum Computers

Richard Crane, Arthur Ruhlig’s thesis advisor, with the University of Michigan accelerator used for experiments. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory

The Forgotten Fusion Discovery That Changed Everything

Cryogenic quantum control platform developed at the University of Sydney. Presented in research in Nature, led by Professor David Reilly. Credit: University of Sydney

Quantum Computers Get a Chilling Upgrade That Could Change Everything

Schematic of the experimental protocol. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02930-9

Quantum Physics Just Proved That Erasing Information Always Costs Energy

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How Childhood Attachment Shapes Adult Love

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The Psychology Behind Your Need to Be Right

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Why We Can’t Forget Embarrassing Moments

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The Science of Gratitude: How It Changes Your Mind

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How Your Brain Responds to Being Ignored

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The Psychology of Jealousy: What It Reveals About You

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Glaciers Are Melting Twice as Fast as Predicted and We’re Not Ready

Photographs of the Site 23 midden with some of the faunal assemblage and the whistling arrow. Credit: Tal Rogovski

Bones in the Steppe Reveal Forgotten Lives at the Edge of an Empire

The Carnac stones are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites near the south coast of Brittany in northwestern France. Credit: Bettina Schulz Paulsson

Scientists Finally Date Mysterious Stone Rows in Carnac and the Results Are Stunning

The disk around the star TWA 7 recorded using ESO's Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument. The image captured with JWST's MIRI instrument is overlayed. We can clearly see the empty area around TWA 7 B in the R2 ring (CC #1). Credit: A.-M. Lagrange and al. - Evidence for a sub-jovian planet in the young TWA7 disk, 2025

Astronomers Spot a Saturn-Sized Planet Hidden in Cosmic Dust

The normalized spectra of the ESO 280-SC06 stars. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.15664

Astronomers Discover Ancient Star Cluster That Lost 98 Percent of Its Mass

Illustration of wave-wave coupling near a black hole and the generation of secondary waves. Credit: Huan Yang

Black Hole Mergers Reveal Hidden Layers in Gravitational Wave Signals

Henry Sun collecting lichen from the Mojave Desert. Credit: Henry Sun/DRI

Desert Lichen Survives Deadly Space Radiation and Hints at Alien Life

The planet, TOI-4465 b, is a gas giant located approximately 400 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA

Astronomers Discover Massive Exoplanet Thanks to Worldwide Backyard Telescopes

Composite optical/X-ray image of the Crab Nebula, showing synchrotron emission in the surrounding pulsar wind nebula, powered by injection of magnetic fields and particles from the central pulsar. Credit: NASA/HST/ASU/J

The Tiny Mountains That Might Be Bringing Dead Stars Back to Life

Credit: Science of The Total Environment (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179881

Heat Waves and Aging Bodies Are Creating a Perfect Storm for Deadly Infections

Under cryogenic conditions, a team from SLAC and LLNL used X-rays to trigger decomposition and measure the structure of high explosive molecules. Credit: Dan Herchek

Scientists Capture Hidden Chemistry Behind Explosions Using X-Ray Vision

Schematic of a single photon with zero angular momentum (green) splitting into two photons (red) with either zero or opposite angular momenta (sketched through the spatially varying color), which adds up to zero confirming the fundamental angular momentum conservation law. Credit: Robert Fickler / Tampere University

Scientists Split a Photon and Discovered Quantum Perfection Still Reigns

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Scientists Discover Unexpectedly Vast Pool of Materials for Next-Gen Optical Tech

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Why We Struggle to Let Go — Even When We Know We Should

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The Mind’s Struggle Between Fear and Curiosity

Brain activity illustrated as a young woman portrait merging with the universe and digitally generated waves.

What Empathy Looks Like in the Brain

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Why We’re Hardwired for Storytelling

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The Emotional Science of Forgiveness