We tend to think romantic love fades into something quieter with age, but when…
Acevedo, Aron, Fisher, and Brown's fMRI study suggests that, for some long-term couples, romantic reward can persist alongside attachment and lower obsession.
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Acevedo, Aron, Fisher, and Brown's fMRI study suggests that, for some long-term couples, romantic reward can persist alongside attachment and lower obsession.
Jun 25, 2026
A 50-year personality study by Damian, Spengler, Sutu, and Roberts suggests that many people show measurable maturation from adolescence into later adulthood.
Jun 25, 2026
Consider two people at the end of a difficult meeting.
Jun 25, 2026
Blue-space research suggests that water settings may support mood and attention, but the evidence is best read carefully rather than as a universal cure.
Jun 24, 2026
There is a version of the "Artificial" story that is an ordinary Hollywood development story.
Jun 24, 2026
For many adults, the radio playing softly in an empty kitchen isn't about company at all. It's a quiet act of nervous system maintenance, rooted in a childhood where background sound meant the house was still safe.
Jun 24, 2026
MIT researchers kept injected liver cells viable in mice for at least two months. Human treatment remains a research goal, with no established clinical timetable.
Jun 24, 2026
Indian customer engagement software firm MoEngage has acquired San Francisco-based AI startup Aampe in an all-cash deal worth tens of millions of dollars, according to TechCrunch . The acquisition is a structural bet that enterprise marketing is migrating away from segment-based campaigns toward a model where every individual customer is shadowed by a dedicated, autonomous AI agent.
Jun 24, 2026
In November 1957, a Moscow street dog became the first living creature to orbit Earth — and the first to die there, killed by a thermal control failure her engineers had no time to fix.
Jun 24, 2026
The real ache of long marriage isn't dullness but the quiet mourning for a partner you can now predict completely — and the version of them you'll never get to meet as a stranger again.
Jun 24, 2026
The full-name phone greeting looks like stiffness to anyone under forty. It's actually a fossil from the era of the shared household phone, when announcing yourself was a small courtesy to whoever else might be listening in the kitchen.
Jun 24, 2026
The compulsive offer to drive often has less to do with generosity than with an old, quiet conviction that being useful is the safest way to be welcome. A look at the attachment patterns behind chronic helping.
Jun 24, 2026