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My job provides financial stability but my passion has gone. What do I do? | Leading questions
Source — Jul 02, 2026
You don’t have to force passion about a role you find boring, writes Eleanor Gordon-Smith. And it could help by asking if work has to be meaningful at all Read more Leading questions After six months of unemployment fol…
It kills two-thirds of lifetime users – so why is smoking cool again?
Source — Jul 02, 2026
Australian nicotine consumption is on the rise, the illegal tobacco trade is booming and cigarettes have returned to pop culture – and experts are worried Have you heard? Smoking is back. Or rather, have you seen? Kylie…
Regular Users Can Tolerate Previously ‘Unsurvivable’ Amounts of Fentanyl
Source — Jul 02, 2026
New research shows that tolerance has become so strong that common treatments for opioid addiction are no longer effective for many patients.
Nine Arrested in Federal Crackdown on L.A.’s Sex-Trafficking Corridor
Source — Jul 01, 2026
Federal officials in Los Angeles described gang members’ yearslong scheme that relied on social media and physical violence to recruit and maintain control of the girls.
Trump Administration Delivers Lucrative Win for Its Kratom Allies
Source — Jul 01, 2026
In moving to ban a potent synthetic version of kratom, the president’s team paved the way for more sales for makers of rival botanic supplements, who had aggressively lobbied for the change.
Nearly half of kidney transplant patients never even get started
Source — Jul 01, 2026
A massive national study found that nearly half of Americans with kidney failure who are referred for a transplant never even begin the evaluation process, and only 19% make it onto the transplant waitlist. Researchers …
A surprising brain discovery is forcing scientists to rethink movement disorders
Source — Jul 01, 2026
A surprising discovery is overturning a long-held assumption about how the brain’s movement center works. Researchers found that two key cerebellar cell types—thought to be tightly linked—often don’t behave in predictab…
Modern neuroscience is rediscovering an idea Freud had 130 years ago
Source — Jul 01, 2026
What if Sigmund Freud was onto something that modern neuroscience is only now beginning to explain? A new paper argues that today's leading theory of the brain—as a prediction machine constantly anticipating the world—c…