The UFO Cover-Up Was Real — Just Not the One Anyone Expected
A buried CIA confession — now surfaced in the PURSUE files — reframes everything we thought we knew about the era that built UFO mythology, and sharpens the question of what's left over.
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NRE Is a Real Neurochemical State. Treating It Like a Feeling Is a Mistake.
A 2025 neuroscience review mapped the full chemical cascade of early romantic love — and the profile looks a lot less like an emotion and a lot more like a temporary disability.
Millions Left Their Faith. Now They're Naming What It Cost.
Millions describe their exit from faith using the language of survival — and researchers and clinicians are slowly realizing that language isn't metaphor.
Why Monogamous and Nonmonogamous Couples Have Sex for Completely Different Reasons
A new study finds that what motivates sex — and whether it satisfies you — shifts depending on whether you have one committed partner or several.
America's Political Violence Early Warning System Is Being Dismantled Before the Midterms
Political violence is measurably rising, the early-warning infrastructure built to catch it is being stripped for parts — and the same administration doing the stripping is generating the flashpoints.
What 67 Posts in Two Hours Actually Reveals About the Human Brain Under Pressure
Trump's escalating Truth Social posting patterns are genuinely unusual — and a neuroscientist's instinct isn't to diagnose, but to ask the harder questions the data raises.
Why Leaving the LDS Church Breaks People in Ways Other Faiths Don't
Research on former LDS members reveals not a clean departure, but a years-long psychological unraveling — one that other Western faiths rarely inflict at the same depth.
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