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How We Build (and Destroy) Self-Esteem

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The Unseen Power of Group Psychology

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Why Change Feels So Hard — and How to Make It Easier

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The Secret Psychology of Your Inner Voice

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What Happens to Your Brain When You Fall in Love?

Blue and yellow staining represents the DNA inside nuclei. Orange and purple staining represent the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes that control DNA accessibility. Credit: Simon Braun

Scientists Discover Hidden Gene Regulators That Could Revolutionize Cancer and Autism Treatment

Credit: Brain Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcaf221

The Same Protein That Signals Alzheimer’s Helps Build the Brains of Newborns

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Breast Cancer Survivors May Face Lower Alzheimer’s Risk Than Other Women

Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology

New Oxidation State Found in Lanthanide After 130 Years of Mystery

Credit: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025). DOI: 10.1002/anie.202503003

Turning Air Into Plastic May Soon Be Possible Thanks to This New Chemistry

Observation of the magnetic bulk photovoltaic effect in the heterostructure device. Credit: KyotoU / Matsuda lab

Scientists Unlock Hidden Solar Power Using Quantum Magnetism

It’s not so easy for the rest of us to see, but this prototype could give us much better lasers. Credit: Simone Bianconi, EPFL

New Laser Technology Could Transform Self-Driving Cars and Air Quality Sensors

The newly discovered temple complex is located roughly 130 miles south of Tiwanaku’s established historical site, on top of a hill that was never explored in depth by researchers due to its unassuming location. Credit: José Capriles / Penn State.

Ancient Temple Discovered in Bolivia Reveals Secrets of a Lost Andean Civilization

TESS light curves of V455 Car. The upper panel: all light curves after detrending processing from TESS, 120 s-cadence and 1800 s-cadence light curves are shown as black and red points, respectively. The lower panel: light curve segments for photometric analysis. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.newast.2025.102412

A Mysterious Third Star May Be Hiding in This Unstable Binary System

Fluid environments allow for exponential growth of the snowflake yeast clusters. A) Scanning electron microscope image of a snowflake yeast cluster. B) Cluster outline visualized as a function of time in nondeformable [yeast extract peptone dextrose (YEPD) agar] medium and fluid (YEPD liquid) environment for a single measurement over 60 min with a 10-min interval. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr6399

Yeast Clusters Stir Up Their Own Currents to Defy Evolutionary Limits

De-evolved tomato species from the Galápagos. Credit: Adam Jozwiak/UCR

Galápagos Tomatoes Are Rewinding Evolution in Real Time

$Histogram showing the best-fit normalized distribution of the nulling fractions based on simulation of 5000 sample pulsars. Credit: XAO$

Astronomers Uncover Hidden Pattern in Mysterious Pulsar Silences

ACh-regulated current modulates activation of neuron populations during ACh– and ACh+ network states. Credit: PLOS Computational Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013097

Your Brain Is Gardening While You Sleep and Pruning Your Memories

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Lab-Grown Antibodies Show Surprising Power Against Malaria

Fixing problems with cholesterol metabolism might help slow or prevent a common cause of age-related vision loss, a new WashU Medicine study in mice has shown. Pictured are color-stained retinal epithelial cells from a mouse eye, the first cells to die as age-related macular degeneration progresses. Credit: Tim Lee

Scientists Find Key Molecule That Could Prevent Vision Loss and Heart Disease

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Ancient Humans Were Using Fire to Shape the Earth 50,000 Years Ago

The El Gigante Rockshelter is among a handful of archaeological sites in the Americas that contain well-preserved botanical remains spanning the last 11,000 years. Credit: Shelly Leachman, UC Santa Barbara

Ancient Avocados Unearthed in Honduras Reveal 11000 Years of Farming

The Newgrange prehistoric monument in Ireland is a large circular mound containing a chamber. Credit: TJP Finn CC BY-SA 4.0

Newgrange’s Ancient Dead Speak Again—And They Challenge the Myth of a Royal Elite

New high-resolution images of protoplanetary disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, created with improved analysis. The resolution is shown by the white ellipse in the lower left of each panel, with a smaller ellipse indicating higher resolution. The white line in the lower right of each panel indicates a scale of 30 au. The evolution stage of the central stars progresses from left to right, and from top to bottom in the same row. Credit: ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), A. Shoshi et al.

Planets Begin Forming Much Earlier Than Scientists Thought

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Why We Love a Good Mystery — Even in Life

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The Hidden Psychology of Procrastination: Why We Delay What Matters Most

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How Your Brain Reacts to Praise vs. Criticism

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Why You Can’t Just “Think Positive” — And What Actually Works

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How the Brain Processes Guilt and Shame

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The Psychology of Motivation: What Really Drives Us