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EurekAlert!

News website of the American Association for the Advancement of Science aka AAAS

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Dec 21, 2025
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What proportion of women who report submissive fantasies want to enact them with a consenting partner versus not wanting to act them out?

Roughly half of women who report fantasies of sexual submission say they do not want those fantasies to be enacted in real life, while the other half — varying by study and definition — are open to ac...

Dec 16, 2025

3:06 / 18:47 The whole point of evolution

Evolutionary science explains that life changes over time through processes like natural selection, genetic drift, mutation and gene flow; modern research sharpens those mechanisms and sometimes chall...

Nov 28, 2025

Effects of meditation over different time frames

Short-term meditation—single sessions to a few weeks—can produce measurable changes in brain activity, attention, stress markers and even blood biology within days to weeks (examples: 1-week retreat f...