causes

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For decades, successfully targeting the central mechanism that causes the vast majority of pancreatic cancers was considered impossible.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

Among them is the disposition effect, a behavioral investing phenomenon that causes people to sell their winners too early and hold onto losers for too long.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

Los Angeles’ music industry, in recent years, has generally supported progressive causes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

The causes of endometriosis have left our best doctors and scientists totally flummoxed: no-one in the world knows definitively how and when it begins in a woman's body.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

But when he reads the last name on the list it causes a big ruckus.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone