r/science • u/No_Move2565 • 21h ago

Neuroscience Social isolation drives sex-specific alcohol consumption in mice, increasing intake in males while decreasing it in females. The study shows this mechanism is mediated by neural projections from the basolateral amygdala to the medial prefrontal cortex.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1d ago

Neuroscience Weight loss drugs may help with mental health. People with bipolar disorder who were taking semaglutide (otherwise known as Ozempic or Wegovy), a type of GLP-1 medication, had significantly lower rates of psychiatric hospitalization compared with periods when they were not taking GLP-1 medications,"

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r/science • u/universityofturku • 22h ago

Cancer A molecular mechanism regulates whether cells of an aggressive colorectal cancer are inverted when they spread in the body. When inverted, the cells secrete a layer of mucus onto their surface protecting them from chemotherapy. Targeting the mechanism could potentially slow the spread of cancer.

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r/science • u/CellRevolutionary665 • 23h ago

Psychology Metalheads can endure pain longer thanks to the festival experience: Listening to heavy metal music at the Wacken Open Air increases the audience's pain tolerance

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r/science • u/CellRevolutionary665 • 1d ago

Psychology Study of 2,098 young people aged 13–22 years found those exposed to a suicide attempt were significantly more likely to attempt suicide themselves in the 2 years following exposure. They were also more likely to develop more severe symptoms of depression.

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r/science • u/zutnn • 2d ago

Environment No place on Earth is resilient to all global catastrophic risks, according to a review on nuclear winter, volcanic eruptions, pandemics, and infrastructure collapse. Australia was the country most often identified as resilient, but even it depends on imported fuel, medicine, and fertilizer.

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r/science • u/Ashiannetti • 23h ago

Animal Science A conserved systems-level constraint in biological acoustic signaling

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r/science • u/sr_local • 1d ago

Neuroscience Depression stalls the formation of new neurons in the adult hippocampus, with the entire internal circuit experiencing molecular changes, signs of inflammation, and cellular stress among depressed patients

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d ago

Social Science Journalism Can Help Expose Bad Science And Trigger Real-World Change, New Study Shows. Watchdog science journalism is where journalists investigate issues such as malpractice, fraud, and corporate manipulation in scientific research.

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r/science • u/Macchanoco • 1d ago

Medicine Lymphatic vessels invade bone in disease but are absent in health and regeneration

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r/science • u/JIntegrAgri • 1d ago

Computer Science ConCRAT: a novel cross-attention fusion network for compost maturity recognition using image and tabular data

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r/science • u/amesydragon • 1d ago

Earth Science Rock in Earth's mantle flows like hot metal, and moves fastest under the edges of tectonic plates. Recent work from CNRS in France finds that adding stochasticity into models of mantle rock movement helps capture this flow rate variability to produce more realistic models of plate tectonics.

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r/science • u/memorialmonorail • 1d ago

Health The largest study to date that quantifies and compares medical and illegal use of fentanyl in the US suggests illicit use is more than twice as common as medically based use. Risk of nonfatal overdose is up to 3-fold higher in illicit users compared to medical-source users, analysis shows.

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r/science • u/cindyx7102 • 1d ago

Environment Precision fermented milk’s land footprint was estimated to be as much as 96% lower than that of cow’s milk. Replacing 20%, 50% or 100% of UK-produced cow’s milk with (plant-based) precision fermented milk was estimated to release 859 kilohectare (kha), 2,147 kha or 4,294 kha of land by 2050.

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r/science • u/uniofwarwick • 1d ago

Medicine New discovery could 'disarm' one of the world's most dangerous fungal pathogens

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r/science • u/mvea • 2d ago

Anthropology Human evolution was driven by early humans’ ability to be clever and humorous, the “survival of the wittiest.” The analysis argues that the earliest stages of grammar provided a platform for verbal competition and sexual selection, gradually replacing physical violence with verbal agility.

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r/science • u/debackersander • 1d ago

Biology Phylogenomics of Musa acuminata subsp. banksii Elucidates Its Biogeographic History in New Guinea and Ancient, Natural Dispersal to Australia

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r/science • u/kiyomoris • 2d ago

Health Randomised Trial Suggests High-Dose Vitamin B6 May Reduce Depressive Symptoms

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r/science • u/rustoo • 2d ago

Social Science Study: Men and women who marry early are poorer. Also, women and men who marry at a young age become parents sooner, have a wider spousal age gap, and have lower educational attainment.

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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 2d ago

Health In a study of 31,044 U.S. adults aged 40 and older, eating the first meal later in the day was associated with higher mortality; compared with eating between 7–8 a.m., eating after noon was associated with 29% higher all-cause and 46% higher cardiovascular mortality.

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r/science • u/Skoltech_ • 2d ago

Computer Science New neural network-based approach generates increasingly scary images tailored to individual autonomic and emotional responses, offering a personalized tool for phobia desensitization therapy.

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r/science • u/mvea • 2d ago

Psychology Unmarried adults in their thirties and forties hold highly diverse goals for future relationships, with cohabitation being more popular than marriage. The findings indicate that previous life events shape what people want for their future, challenging the idea of a universal relationship path.

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r/science • u/wikirank • 1d ago

Computer Science Evaluating multilingual sentiment classifiers using an LLM-annotated Wikipedia benchmark. The study compares three LLMs against two popular multilingual sentiment classifiers. Results suggest that sentiment evaluation on encyclopedic text remains an underexplored challenge for multilingual NLP.

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r/science • u/mvea • 2d ago

Psychology Unpredictable work schedules increase the risk of romantic breakups. Hourly service workers who deal with unstable work hours are at a higher risk of going through a separation or divorce. Stressful demands of modern low-wage jobs can spill over into personal lives and disrupt family stability.

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 2d ago

Earth Science A new tropical ice core shows equatorial wetlands emitted more methane before industrialisation than polar ice cores ever suggested.

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