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How Tiny Worms Could Improve Decision Science

Picture a worm crawling across a plate dotted with food. You’d expect it to stop at the first bite, right? Yet in a surprising twist, Caenorhabditis elegans—a millimeter-long nematode with just 302 neurons—often walks right past its dinner. Why? Because even worms run complex “accept–reject” strategies when making decisions. Everyday Choices, Worm-Sized Lessons In Nigeria, […]

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Psychology

When Cooperation Gets Complicated

Why do we help others when it costs us something? For decades, scientists answered this with a simple formula: altruism evolves when the benefit to others, weighted by relatedness, is greater than the cost to the helper. This neat rule, called Hamilton’s rule, became one of biology’s most famous equations. But new work shows the […]

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Psychology

The Strange Power of Saying “I’m Not Sure”

Think about the last time you had to make a big decision. Perhaps it was buying a house, switching jobs, or deciding between two retirement plans. Chances are, you didn’t feel 100% confident in either option. You probably leaned one way, hesitated, then went back and forth before settling. Now, imagine teaching a computer not […]

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Psychology

Why Hundreds Gather Each Year to Celebrate a Flat Earth

Picture this: You walk into a hotel ballroom. Strobe lights flash. Music blasts. A crowd cheers as a man in a cowboy hat strums a guitar, belting out an anthem with the chorus: “Space is fake.” This isn’t parody. It’s the opening act of the Flat Earth International Conference, where hundreds of people have gathered […]

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Psychology

What Your Face Reveals in 1/25 of a Second Behind the Wheel

You’re cruising down the highway, playlist pumping, when someone cuts you off. Your jaw tightens. Your brow furrows—barely. A fraction-of-a-second twitch. You probably didn’t even notice. But science did. A new study has found that these tiny facial flinches—called micro-expressions—can reveal powerful clues about how we’re feeling behind the wheel. And those feelings? They could […]

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Psychology

Project MKUltra: The CIA’s Mind Control Experiments

During the height of the Cold War, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operated a top-secret program known as MKUltra, which focused on illicit mind control research. Launched in 1953 and kept under wraps for two decades, MKUltra aimed to find ways to manipulate the human psyche for intelligence purposes. From 1953 to 1973, CIA scientists and […]

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Psychology

What Happens When Science Is Too Honest?

Let’s start with something strange but true: being too honest about science might actually make people trust it less. Wait—what? That’s the mind-bending finding behind a new philosophical and empirical deep dive into the “transparency paradox.” It turns out that while we often demand transparency from scientists and government officials, the very act of pulling […]

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Biology

What Happens When a Prosthesis Doesn’t Fit Right?

Let’s say you lose your lower leg due to diabetes or vascular disease, like thousands of people each year. You recover, you get a prosthetic limb, and life starts to move forward again. But here’s the twist: despite your shiny new leg, something still feels… off. You’re adjusting, healing, trying your best—but the prosthetic doesn’t […]

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Psychology

Reddit’s Most Active Users Are the Most Toxic :-(

Picture this: You join a new online community—Reddit, Wikipedia, wherever—and at first, you tread lightly. You post politely. You read the room. You’re civil. Fast forward a few years… and suddenly, you’re throwing shade in comment threads like it’s your day job. Turns out, this isn’t just a personal spiral—it might be a social media […]

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Psychology

How to Catch a Social Media Manipulator in 27 Seconds

You scroll Facebook. Your aunt shares a political story. Then your high school friend. Then a news page you vaguely remember liking in 2014. Weird coincidence? Maybe. Or maybe you’re watching a digital puppet show—scripted, rehearsed, and performed by pages secretly working together. Here’s the kicker: researchers have now figured out how to spot these […]

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