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The Lost Cities Still Hiding Beneath Our Feet

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The Psychology of Trust: Why It’s Hard to Earn and Easy to Break

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How Memories Lie to You

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Why Your Brain Loves Habits — Even the Bad Ones

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The Mind’s Secret Language: How We Communicate Without Words

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Why We Want to Be Liked — Even by People We Don’t Like

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The Invisible Rules That Control Human Behavior

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How Your Brain Invents Reality

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What Makes You ‘You’? The Psychology of Identity

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The Neuroscience of Regret: Why It Haunts Us

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Why We Repeat Patterns in Relationships — Even the Painful Ones

Turkey vultures rely on scavenging carcass waste for food. Credit: Maya Xu

One Third of Nature’s Scavengers Are Disappearing and It Could Threaten Us All

"The fact that these bots become biologically younger than the adult cells they're made from suggests that the process of organizing into a new shape alone can reset the cellular aging clock—without any genetic reprogramming," says Gizem Gumuskaya. Here, an Anthrobot, depth colored, with a corona of cilia that provides its locomotion. Credit: Gizem Gumuskaya

Human Cells Form Living Bots That Heal and Reverse Their Age

"Focused" magnet system consisting of two stacked rings, each with 16 FeNdB magnet cuboids (side length 20 mm).The inner diameter is 160 mm,and the magnetic field of 20 mT exhibits a homogeneity of approx. 5 ‰ over a spherical volume with a diameter of 50 mm. Credit: Peter Blümler

Physicists Break Magnetic Field Barrier with Smarter Magnet Design

Illustration of the experimental setup. Credit: Optica (2025). DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.565224

Scientists Discover Game Changing Optical Microresonators at Fiber Crossroads

Microscopy techniques for visualizing phonon transport. a. Schematic diagram of the experimental design. b. Isotherm distribution (colored lines) and temperature gradient direction (black arrows) near the AlN/SiC interface. Scale bar: 200 nm. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09108-6

Scientists Visualize Heat Flow at Atomic Scale Unlocking Secrets of Next Generation Electronics

Sample and experimental set-up. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.12947

Scientists Break 165-Year-Old Law of Physics

Comparison of zero-level distillation (right) and logical-level distillation (left). Credit: PRX Quantum (2025). DOI: 10.1103/thxx-njr6

Quantum Breakthrough Brings Superfast Computers Closer to Reality

Researchers used fossils, such as this one of an ancient leaf, from an early Miocene site in Kenya to learn more about the environments in which early apes evolved. Credit: Venanzio Munyaka

Fossils Buried in Volcanic Ash Uncover the Origins of Great Apes

Humans learned to thrive in a variety of African environments before their successful expansion into Eurasia roughly 50,000 years ago. Credit: Ondrej Pelanek and Martin Pelanek

How Early Humans Learned to Survive Anywhere Before Leaving Africa

A cyanobacterial mat fragment sampled from the periphery of a meltwater pond. Credit: Roger Summons

Tiny Ice Pools May Have Saved Complex Life During Earth’s Deep Freeze

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The Hidden Force Behind Every Emotion

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What Loneliness Does to the Human Brain

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The Psychological Power of Eye Contact: The Silent Language That Connects Us All

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Why You Crave What You Can’t Have

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The Strange Way Your Mind Handles Rejection

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How Your Brain Tricks You Every Day — and You Don’t Even Notice

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Why We Remember Some Moments Forever

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The Psychology of Silence: Why Saying Nothing Says Everything

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Your Brain on Stress: What’s Really Happening Inside