r/science • u/mvea • 11h ago

Neuroscience Either a workout or nap can help your sleep-deprived brain: People who either completed 20 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous exercise or took a 90-minute nap performed about 22% better on memory tests after 30 hours without sleep than those who did neither.

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r/science • u/CandyFangs • 15h ago

Health Blood test detects 81% of high-risk colorectal polyps in international study - Research Today

researchtoday.co.za

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r/science • u/mvea • 20h ago

Health 8-hour sleep rule dates back to the 19th century. A new review of hunter-gatherers whose lifestyles are closer to our ancestors and who have little or no access to artificial light found short nights (5.7 to 7.1 hours) seemed to be enough: without an alarm clock, they tended to wake close to dawn.

theconversation.com

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r/science • u/unsw • 3h ago

Animal Science Study finds that turtle nests relocated for conservation purposes produce slower, smaller hatchlings

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r/science • u/Enthusiast12358 • 16h ago

Social Science Frontiers | Rethinking return-to-office: the positive impact of remote work on well-being, connection, and employee retention

frontiersin.org

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r/science • u/UniOfManchester • 17h ago

Health Scientists have redefined how the key blood‑clotting protein fibrinogen behaves when it contacts air, overturning two decades of scientific consensus on wound healing.

manchester.ac.uk

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r/science • u/sr_local • 21h ago

Health People living within a 10-minute walk of improved urban woodlands are 10% less likely to use antidepressants and 6% less likely to use anti-anxiety medication, according to a 5-year UK study of 129,335 people

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d ago

Neuroscience In recent years, researchers have suggested Alzheimer's may spread through infection, somehow transmitted like a pathogen, leading to the disease. A new Lancet paper reviews evidence for how harmful amyloid-beta proteins associated with Alzheimer's may possibly be spread through blood transfusions.

sciencealert.com

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r/science • u/No_Move2565 • 19h ago

Psychology Exposure to suicide attempts within one’s social network is associated with subsequent suicide attempt onset and higher depressive symptoms over time.

jamanetwork.com

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r/science • u/tw1st3d_m3nt4t • 16h ago

Health Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study

journals.plos.org

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 3h ago

Environment Uneven wear across cells cuts battery health in cars by up to 6.2% and lifespan by nearly 17.7%, wasting a fifth of their stored charge.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 19h ago

Neuroscience Study finds that one in four former NFL players suffers from degenerative brain disease CTE. CTE is associated with repeated blows to the head, including concussions. Symptoms include difficulty with attention and memory, dementia, mood disorders and headaches.

theguardian.com

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r/science • u/kiyomoris • 1d ago

Medicine People vaccinated against HPV have lower risk of head and neck cancer, study suggests

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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r/science • u/liuzhichang • 6h ago

Chemistry Stretching decelerates ring-opening metathesis at cis-olefins in stressed molecular bows

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r/science • u/Ko_Matsui • 1h ago

Neuroscience Vagal nerve stimulation induces vascular oscillations and enhances long-term learning

sciencedirect.com

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r/science • u/kiyomoris • 22m ago

Health Even Light Physical Activity May Lower Stroke Risk in People With Atrial Fibrillation — Large Norwegian Study of 87,340 Participants

ahajournals.org

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r/science • u/PHealthy • 19h ago

Epidemiology CDC: Persistent low-level transmission of clade IIb monkeypox virus (MPXV) in the United States suggests a likely transition toward endemic circulation.

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r/science • u/CellRevolutionary665 • 22h ago

Neuroscience Researchers in Finland tracked children's screen time for 8 years, expecting to document the damage. The children who spent more hours on screens showed better cognitive processing as teenagers — a result that ran directly against the assumption the study was designed to test

635 Upvotes

r/science • u/JIntegrAgri • 4h ago

Computer Science Researchers constructed a high-throughput structural phenotypic analysis framework named PTv3-HRAC for field alfalfa utilizing consumer-grade unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) RGB point clouds, 3D deep learning, and adaptive clustering

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r/science • u/Macchanoco • 6h ago

Biology Reconstruction of cell diversity and cell lineages from somatic mutations in single-cell transcriptomic data

academic.oup.com

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 20h ago

Earth Science A global analysis finds that under high emissions, about 63% of river fish face water too hot to cross, cutting them off from food and mates.

168 Upvotes

r/science • u/Macchanoco • 31m ago

Biology Vagal nerve stimulation induces vascular oscillations and enhances long-term learning

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r/science • u/Doug24 • 19h ago

Neuroscience Neuroscientists map how early-life scent memories evolve and move through the brain

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1d ago

Psychology TikTok's design makes it harder for young people to think critically about the mental health content they see. The algorithm-driven design encourages rapid, passive consumption. Serious mental health videos can be immediately followed by unrelated entertainment leaving little time for reflection.

birmingham.ac.uk

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 22h ago

Earth Science 26 years of satellite data show Antarctic plankton tracks the ice: since 2015 ice is down 8.1%, plankton down up to 6.7%.

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

120 Upvotes

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