A particular executive order  of the second Trump administration outlines a federal strategy to prevent states from enforcing independent artificial intelligence regulations.

2025 HIGHLIGHT: Hate crime in the United States is not only a product of its demographical makeup but also of its leadership direction.

KONSYSE: The executive order directs the DOJ to fast-track the reclassification of marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III and formally recognes its medical value for the first time in federal history.

2025 HIGHLIGHT: The Humanitarian Research Lab, based at the Yale School of Public Health, conducted the investigation to document and verify allegations of child deportations during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

KONSYSE: The European Commission has proposed a major revision to its 2035 climate mandate. It is now proposing to replace the absolute ban on new internal combustion engines with a flexible 90 percent emissions reduction target.

Scientists found that hair dryers, air fryers, and toasters can emit metal-containing ultrafine particles directly into indoor air. These invisible particles do not only persist in the air for long period but can be breathe in and travel deep into the lungs.

KONSYSE: A federal lawsuit argues that the renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to the "Trump-Kennedy Center" is a violation of a 1964 statute.

The era of cheap memory and storage has come to a screeching halt. What started as a market correction in early 2024 has spiraled into a full-blown crisis that exposes the structural issues and limitations of manufacturers.

2025 HIGHLIGHT: The experience of hearing voices may not come from outside the mind at all. New research identifies a breakdown in corollary discharge, the predictive system of the brain, that prevents inner speech from being recognized as self-generated.

Susie Wiles, the woman tasked with bringing order to the Trump White House, just blew the doors off the West Wing. She dishes on Trump’s "alcoholic personality," Elon Musk’s drug use, and why the administration "whiffed" the Epstein files.

2025 HIGHLIGHT: Response to the supposed Trump Phone or the T1 Phone has been skeptical. Analyst Max Weinbach explains that the digital render and published specifications resemble the 250-dollar China-made T-Mobile REVVL 7 Pro 5G.

The word “gerrymandering” originates from Elbridge Gerry, a former governor of Massachusetts and signer of the Declaration of Independence. In 1812, he approved a political district shaped so oddly that critics likened it to a salamander.

The United States has been interested in purchasing Greenland from Denmark since 1867. This first attempt failed due to the opposition in the U.S. Congress. It once again offered to purchase the island in 1946 for USD 100 million. Denmark declined the offer.

2025 HIGHLIGHT: Comprehensive state bans on flavored e-cigarettes or vaporized nicotine and vaping products may be unintentionally driving young adults toward greater use of traditional cigarettes.

KONSYSE: Scientists at Ohio State University are working on an innovative approach to cancer treatment by targeting the mitochondria—the energy-producing organelles in cells—to induce cancer cell death using light-induced gene therapy.

Chinese scientists found that certain chemotherapies, instead of directly stimulating dormant cancer cells, age cells. This creates conditions that encourage immune cells to release neutrophil extracellular traps, a process that remodels the tissue environment.

KONSYSE: Lucid dreamers tend to have a larger anterior prefrontal cortex—an area in the brain that enables self-reflection or metacognition. Hence, these individuals are more likely to self-reflect and have a considerable degree of personal awareness.

No human society exists where equalities of power, wealth, and rank are genuinely realized. Relative equality is not a natural resting state, but rather a tenuous or fragile condition achieved through constant social resistance and negotiation among group members.

KONSYSE: Population aging, long considered to be a demographic time bomb, might not be the economic threat most people fear. The supposed economic burden of population aging may also be overstated.

2025 HIGHLIGHT: It took Ukraine 1 year, 6 months, and 9 days to plan and execute Operation Spiderweb. Launched on 1 June 2025, it has since become one of the most sophisticated and largest drone attacks in history.

KONSYSE: Tanning bed users in their 30s and 40s have skin that appeared older at a genetic level. They often showed more mutations than people in their 70s and 80s.

Several right-wingers have used the term “woke right” to describe other right-wingers and conservatives who have extreme and needless far-right sentiments.

KONSYSE: Hydrogen is celebrated as a fuel for energy because it only emits water vapor when burned. But according to a study by the Global Carbon Project, it is not entirely climate-neutral.

A novel statistical model developed by scientists revealed at least 78,318 deaths in Gaza from October 2023 to December 2024 due to the Israel-Hamas war. Life expectancy at birth also fell by more than 40 percent.

The state of the U.S. labor market this year has been characterized by a surge of layoffs across the country. Workforce reductions surpassed 1 million in October 2025 and November data showed a historic high. READ MORE: www.profolus.com/topics/2025-...

The word “gerrymandering” originates from Elbridge Gerry, a former governor of Massachusetts and signer of the Declaration of Independence. In 1812, he approved a political district shaped so oddly that critics likened it to a salamander.

KONSYSE: Antarctica, often regarded as one of the most pristine environments on Earth, is now facing evidence of microplastic contamination within its terrestrial ecosystems.

Chinese researchers discovered that certain drugs used in chemotherapy, particularly doxorubicin and cisplatin, stimulate processes that allow breast cancer cells to reemerge from dormancy and form metastases in the lungs.

KONSYSE: Scientists at Ohio State University are working on an innovative approach to cancer treatment by targeting the mitochondria—the energy-producing organelles in cells—to induce cancer cell death using light-induced gene therapy.

Individuals with extreme political views demonstrated more similar brain activity to each other, regardless of being left-leaning or right-leaning, compared to moderates. This indicates that extremity, not ideology, is the primary driver of neural synchrony in processing political content.

KONSYSE: Lucid dreamers tend to have a larger anterior prefrontal cortex—an area in the brain that enables self-reflection or metacognition. Hence, these individuals are more likely to self-reflect and have a considerable degree of personal awareness when they are awake.

2025 HIGHLIGHT: The movement, predominantly organized by Generation Z students and other young members of the Nepalese population, began following a nationwide ban on many popular social media platforms, but had expanded to encompass broader issues.

KONSYSE: For these Goldman Sachs analysts, population aging, long considered to be a demographic time bomb, might not be the economic threat most people fear. The supposed economic burden of population aging may also be overstated.

In what seemed to be a schism within the overall right-wing and conservative movement, several right-wingers have used the term “woke right” to describe other right-wingers and conservatives who have extreme and needless far-right sentiments.

KONSYSE: The sky is not blue because it reflects the ocean. It does not work that way. If that is the case, then it does not explain why it remains blue when seen from a landlocked area within a vast landmass. Nonetheless, there is a simple scientific reason behind the color of the sky.

2025 HIGHLIGHT: Ukraine carried out what could be considered as one of the most sophisticated and largest drone attacks in history on 1 June 2025.

Did you know? Moments of political crisis can dramatically shift online engagement patterns. This is the main conclusion of a study from the University of Cambridge.

KONSYSE: The Federal Bureau of Investigation or FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency or CIA, and the National Security Agency or NSA are federal agencies of the United States that carry out intelligence activities and provide related services.

The United States and Venezuela once shared robust economic ties and steady diplomacy. But ideological rifts, sanctions, and contested leadership claims have transformed cooperation into confrontation.

A study suggest that pigment loss results from damaged stem cells entering a protective shutdown, highlighting a trade-off between hair color and cancer defense, and offering new insights into the biology of aging and tissue maintenance.

The new National Security Strategy downshifts the Middle East from a primary theater of U.S. military engagement to a secondary arena managed through partnerships, deterrence, and selective counterterrorism.

The simple act of humming initiates a powerful physiological response. It does not only maximizes nitric oxide delivery to the respiratory tract but also regulates the parasympathetic nervous system.

A cross-cultural review of 7 subsistence groups, which are commonly held up as model of fairness, found that inequality is universal to the human condition. The relative fairness observed in small-scale societies is not due to a benign social structure.

The LLMs consistently met or exceeded human clinical cut-offs for multiple disorders. Gemini had the most extreme profile. It showed multi-morbid state with its maximum trauma-shame score, severe obsessive-compulsion, and extreme autism.

Russia has turned to a digital escape hatch as the West tightens its financial grip on Russian trade. The Putin government has redesigned its trade infrastructure by integrating digital currencies directly into its international transactions.

EUV lithography machines are at the heart of modern and future chipmaking. The Dutch-owned ASML holds a monopoly on commercial EUV lithography. China is challenging this established order in semiconductor manufacturing.

Susie Wiles, the woman tasked with bringing order to the Trump White House, just blew the doors off the West Wing. She dishes on Trump’s "alcoholic personality," Elon Musk’s drug use, and why the administration "whiffed" the Epstein files.

Explosive growth in artificial intelligence and data centers is colliding with rigid manufacturing limits. This has reshaped global supply chains and driven sustained shortages and price increases for consumer RAM and SSD.

By funneling yuan and rupees through offshore middlemen into decentralized digital assets, the Kremlin has built a financial pipeline that is invisible to Western banks and impervious to traditional asset freezes.

Rarely seen candor from a sitting White House chief of staff exposes internal debates, strategic missteps, and personality clashes shaping the secondTrump administration.