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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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Psychology

Your Phone Isn’t the Problem—But Where It Sits Might Be

Let’s be honest: your phone’s just sitting there, glowing softly, whispering sweet TikToks and unread group chats. You’re deep in a work task—laser-focused—until buzz, you’re checking memes, replying to texts, and wondering how you got here. What if I told you that simply moving your phone a few feet away—not locking it, not turning it […]

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Psychology

How to Stop a Conspiracy Theory Before It Starts

Wait—You Can Inoculate Someone Against a Conspiracy Theory?! Sounds wild, right? Like slapping on a tin-foil helmet before someone even mentions aliens at Area 51. But according to a new scientific review, that’s pretty much the idea—and surprisingly, it works. Researchers just combed through nearly 7,200 people’s data across 25 studies to figure out which […]

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Psychology

Is Religion Dying? Not Everywhere—and Definitely Not for Everyone

You’re sipping your coffee, scrolling headlines. One says religion is on the decline. Another talks about the rise of the “nones.” Maybe you’ve even noticed it in your own life—fewer people at church, less talk of faith at school or work. But hold up. What if the global story of religion isn’t that it’s disappearing—but […]

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