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Smartphones are not built to last. Here's why:

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FROM KONSYSE: While our collective culture may have evolved alongside technological advancements, we are still ruled by the same instincts that once drove our ancestors to fight for survival.

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Donald Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims during his first term. Falsehoods marked several of his statements, speeches, and other pronouncements during the first 100 days of his second term.

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Iran and Israel had been locked in a longstanding proxy conflict since the 1970s. However, after Israel bombed an Iranian consulate complex in Damascus on 1 April 2024, the proxy war escalated to a series of direct confrontations.

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Wondering about those nasty, smelly, whitish to yellowish chunks that often come from your throat? They are called tonsil stones.

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FROM KONSYSE: A scientist, facing a third cancer recurrence, achieved remission through a self-administered viral therapy.

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The U.S. government had a healthy alliance with Iran, specifically through its reigning monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, during the 1970s. However, since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the relationship between the two countries has taken many turns. READ HERE: www.profolus.com/topics/cause...

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BREAKING: District Judge Charles Robert Breyer granted a TRO which temporarily blocked Trump from continuing to deploy the National Guard in California. However, late Thursday, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals said it was putting the aforesaid ruling by District Judge Breyer on hold.

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“For decades, people have assumed they can read their dog’s emotions by observing its facial expressions or body language,” said Molinaro, a Ph.D. student in psychology and animal welfare science. “But our research suggests that context plays a far greater role than previously thought.”

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The Y chromosome probably appeared about 200 to 300 million years ago in ancient mammals because of evolutionary pressures. However, it is also undergoing degeneration due to gradual gene loss.

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More adult men in the U.S. are neither working nor looking for work.

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Brown adipose tissue or brown fat plays an important role in metabolism. Brown fat specifically burns excess energy and white fat stores them. Moreover, because it burns calories at rest, researchers are investigating its potential in weight management and preventing or treating obesity.

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The U.S. trade deficit is also an offshoot of economic growth. Moreover, another inevitable macroeconomic and structural factor behind the deficit is the role of the U.S. dollar as the main reserve currency of the world. READ HERE: www.profolus.com/topics/reaso...

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The second Trump administration has unleashed several executive orders and policy changes that are threatening ongoing and future scientific undertakings in the United States and elsewhere.

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We are partly made of viruses. Imprinted deeply in the human genome are traces of ancient retroviruses that infected pre-human ancestors about 2 to 60 million years ago.

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One assumption asserts that bubbles are related to inflation. Another is that there is a basic value to every asset, and the bubbles represent an increase or rise over that value. There are also chaotic theories arguing that it comes from critical states. READ HERE: www.profolus.com/topics/econo...

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In “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945,” Milton Mayer examined and discussed how ordinary Germans came to accept, participate in, and even find satisfaction in a totalitarian system under the Nazi regime. READ HERE: www.profolus.com/topics/we-th...

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FROM KONSYSE: The Gibraltar Agreement or the EU-UK Deal Over Gibraltar is an agreement aimed at solving post-Brexit issues like the movement of people across the Gibraltar–Spain border for either work or tourism, customs and tax coordination, and law enforcement coordination.

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The period between 24 and 72 hours of fasting is often referred to as the deep fasting state. This is when gluconeogenesis becomes the main source of blood sugar while a more heightened ketogenesis transpires after 48 hours to fuel the brain and other organs. Cellular repair also commences.

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FROM KONSYSE: The European Union and the United Kingdom finalized a post‑Brexit agreement on 11 June 2025 which is aimed at resolving the ongoing friction over border arrangements involving Gibraltar. Spain acted as the primary interlocutor of EU.

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The U.S. government had a healthy alliance with Iran, specifically through its reigning monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, during the 1970s. However, after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the relationship between the two countries has taken many turns.

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The U.S. imports more than it exports. The last time the country became a net exporter was in 1975. It has had a trade deficit each year since. However, while there are concerns over the need to balance U.S. trade, several economists believe that U.S. trade deficit is unsolvable.

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Duolingo was developed based on a vision of breaking down language barriers. It is now the most popular language-learning app in the world with over 100 million users. However, is it merely a hyped-up app or does it really help users learn foreign language?

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Behind every dictator or fascist is a sizeable population of enablers.

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The Tulip Mania of the 1600s in The Netherlands is one of the most popular examples of an economic bubble. What exactly is an economic bubble? What are its causes?

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Traditional transport endangers individual and overall public health. Current modes and systems of transportation also have health-related economic costs that strain both the public health system and the overall economy.

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Researchers engineered white fat cells using CRISPR to trigger certain genes and turn them into beige fat cells. These engineered fat cells, specifically when transplanted, could provided a targeted metabolic approach to killing cancer cells. READ HERE: www.profolus.com/topics/engin...

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The Cybertruck has a “Car Wash Mode” that needs to be activated before taking it for a wash. Failure to activate this mode can lead to damage not covered under warranty. READ HERE: www.profolus.com/topics/tesla...

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There is a strong evidence that the American welfare system is work-biased in structure and principle. However, while the surface-level intention is to incentivize labor participation, critics have argued that it is actually designed to benefit the rich. READ MORE: www.profolus.com/topics/the-p...

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Economic corridors are considered a novel form of soft powers. These projects foster interdependencies between participating countries. This can lead to greater cooperation, understanding, and a shared interest in maintaining stable relations, thereby increasing the soft power of the initiator.

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IN HISTORY: The 1921 Black Wall Street Massacre, considered as one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history, involved white mobs attacking the well-off Black American community in Greenwood District in Tulsa.

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FROM KONSYSE: The Y chromosome is a feature of many mammals. It did not appear in one single species since its existence is a product of long-term evolution in the entire mammalian lineage. Nevertheless, there is an ongoing scientific debate about the long-term fate of the Y chromosome.

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A new research from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology challenges the assumption that diversity alone leads to division.

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ICYMI: A car wash might just brick your Cybertruck.

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A proposed cancer treatment called Adipose Manipulation Transplantation involves engineering fat cells to fight cancer cells.

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The arcuate fasciculus is a bundle of nerve fibers and a main white matter pathway. In human brains, it connects the middle temporal gyrus, and this connection is critical for understanding and producing language. READ: www.profolus.com/topics/human...

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Trump often speaks and writes in a manner seemingly devoid of coherence and actual thinking. Meanwhile, for some of his staunchest supporters and defenders, this is a deliberate strategy. READ: www.profolus.com/topics/madne...

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A vast tropical weather system in the Indian Ocean known as the Madden-Julian Oscillation or MJO can trigger dangerous fire conditions from California to Korea.

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A 2011 report prepared by a committee of the U.S. National Research Council suggested using the term "precision medicine" instead of "personalized medicine."

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Welfare programs help American workers augment their standard of living, often because their incomes are insufficient to cover basic necessities. The underlying issue, however, is that Americans should ideally earn livable wages.

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His harshest critics describe him as someone who has a thought process of a five-year-old. However, for some of his staunchest supporters and defenders, his communication style is a deliberate strategy.

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SEO out. GEO in. The rise of LLM-based generative and conversational chatbots like ChatGPT and AI-powered search engines like the Gemini-integrated Google Search have also given birth the a new digital marketing practice called generative engine optimization or GEO.

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POOLED FUND BASICS: There are a lot of pooled funds to choose from. The most popular ones among individual or retail investors are exchange-traded funds or ETFs, mutual funds or MFs, and unit investment trusts or UITs.

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FROM KONSYSE: This is your sign to take a break from your smartphone.

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It was once believed that the arcuate fasciculus in the human brain was unique, and that this was the main reason for human language abilities. However, detailed post-mortem brain scans of chimpanzees have shown that they also possess arcuate fasciculus connections similar to those in humans.

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PRIDE MONTH FEATURE: Members of the LGBT community rallied in the American capital and gathered in front of the White House in 1965 to stage the first LGBT rights demonstration in the United States.

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