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The Asian couple argued with each other leading to a breakup

Why We Can’t Resist Toxic People: The Science Behind Our Self-Destructive Attractions

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The Science of First Impressions: What People Really See

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Why Smart People Make Dumb Choices

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How Love Rewires Your Brain: The Neuroscience of the Heart’s Greatest Mystery

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Inside the Mind of a Liar: The Psychology of Deception

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What Dreams Really Say About Your Mind

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The Truth About Happiness: Why It’s Not What You Think

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How Your Childhood Still Shapes You — Without You Realizing

FGF18 robustly induces OPN production in culture-activated aSMA+ HSCs. Credit: iScience (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112932

Scientists Discover How Liver Cells Whisper Signals That Spread Deadly Scarring

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Why the Brain’s Natural Pain Brake Fails in Chronic Pain

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Scientists Find Clear Biological Fingerprints of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Atlantic sea surface temperature trend between 1900-2005 (color shading in °C) for the average of six observation datasets. Credit: Kai-Yuan Li/UCR

The Mysterious Cold Patch in the Atlantic Is a Warning from the Deep

A bipartite quantum system obtained by dividing fermion chain into left and right half-chains. The squares indicate potential locations for Fermionic particles in a discrete lattice. Credit: van Luijk, Stottmeister & Wilming

Strange Quantum Phenomenon Found in Systems Long Thought Ordinary

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The Hidden Psychology Behind Everyday Decisions

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Why We Sabotage Ourselves — and How to Stop

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What Your Brain Does When No One’s Watching

Interior shot of a quantum computer with an IBM Eagle processor. Credit: IBM

Quantum Computers Just Pulled Off the Ultimate Speed Test

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New Theory Suggests Time Not Space Is the True Fabric of the Universe

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Heatwaves Linked to Rising Depression and Anxiety in Teenagers

Schematic of the infiltration process affected by the proposed contributor. Specifically, the thick lines represent relatively larger preferential flow channels that exist under low soil moisture conditions, allowing for faster infiltration. In contrast, the thin lines correspond to finer channels formed due to soil swelling under higher moisture conditions, resulting in slower infiltration. Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02407-w

Green Roofs Quietly Trap Microplastics in Cities

The dynamic Direct Transfer Function (dDTF) EEG analysis of Alpha Band for groups: LLM, Search Engine, Brain-only, including p-values to show significance from moderately significant (*) to highly significant (***). Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.08872

Your Brain on ChatGPT May Be Less Active Than You Think

The team's experimental setup. Credit: Provided by the experimental team at USTC

China Breaks Quantum Barrier with Single Photon Encryption System

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Scientists Discover Nearly 500 Genes That Flip On or Off Like a Switch

Human DNA in its natural state inside cells (left) compared to eight hours after being infected with HSV-1 (right). The virus compacts the human genome's size significantly and moves it towards the edge of the nucleus, freeing up space for the virus to set up a factory for its own purposes. Credit: Esther Gonzalez Almela and Álvaro Castells García

Scientists Discover How HSV-1 Reprograms the Human Genome in Hours

Model of HIV-1 microtubule trafficking by the dynein machinery. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adn6796

HIV Found to Hijack Cells with More Flexibility Than Ever Imagined

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Life After Thyroid Cancer Just Got Easier as Trial Finds Radiation Often Unnecessary

This image shows the formation of pyroptotic vesicles, which look like small bubbles, in cancer cells as they undergo programmed cell death. A team of researchers led by UW–Madison pharmacy professor Quanyin Hu have developed a method for harnessing these vesicles to deliver vaccines against tumors with a high rate of recurrence. Credit: Quanyin Hu

Dying Cancer Cells Hold the Secret to a Powerful New Vaccine

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New Study Reveals Northern Africa’s Rainfall Stayed Steady During Early Human Evolution

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Glass Bottles Shed More Microplastics Than Plastic Ones, Surprising French Study Finds

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 Capture Heat Flow at the Atomic Level for the First Time