American multinational pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company has been testing its daily oral glucagon-like peptide-1 or GLP-1 pill called Orforglipron. More recent results, including […]
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COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines May Help the Immune System Fight Cancer
The mRNA vaccines that protected billions from COVID-19 may also hold an unexpected benefit against cancer. A study published on 22 October 2025 in Nature […]
Taiwanese Scientists Discovered How Monounsaturated Fats Activate Hair Growth
Scientists have long known that the skin can sometimes grow new hair after an injury. But they did not fully understand how skin cells “know” […]
Hedonic Adaptation Prevention Model: A Theory of Lasting Happiness
Everyone wants to be happy. But understanding what happiness really means can be tough. Common definitions describe happiness as a state of well-being determined by […]
Explainer: The Purpose of Central Banks
A central bank is a government institution responsible for managing the currency, monetary base or money supply, and interest rates within a country or state. […]
Examples of Supply Shifters
A supply curve is a graphical representation of the relationship between the price of a product and the quantity of such product that a producer […]
Council of Europe: Teaching Economic Crises Can Help Students Resist Populism
The Observatory on History Teaching in Europe, an initiative of the Council of Europe, assessed the impacts of teaching economic crises by evaluating 17 member […]
Moloch’s Bargain: Why AI Models are Learning to Lie for Human Attention
Stanford researchers Batu El and James Zou wondered what happens when artificial intelligence systems begin competing for human attention. Their findings, which were discussed in […]
Hearing Voices in Schizophrenia: The Brain Mishearing Its Own Thoughts
Neuroscientists have long theorized that the “voices” or auditory hallucinations experienced by those with schizophrenia stem from the brain mistaking its own inner dialogue for […]
AI Based on LLMs Can Get Brain Rot From Social Media
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, and Purdue University examined whether continual exposure to low-quality internet text could impair large […]