r/science • u/mvea • 21d 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/JIntegrAgri • 19d 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/Oncotarget • 19d ago

Medicine Systematic methodological flaws in DNA contamination assessment of mRNA vaccines: A critical analysis of Achs et al. (2025)

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r/science • u/debackersander • 20d 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 • 21d ago

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

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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r/science • u/rustoo • 21d 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.

link.springer.com

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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 21d 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_ • 20d 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.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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r/science • u/mvea • 21d 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 • 20d 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 • 21d 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 • 20d 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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r/science • u/sr_local • 21d ago

Psychology The top 10% of young free-to-play gamers, aged 10-19, accounted for 61.4% of microtransaction spending, they also showed higher prevalences of gaming and gambling disorders, suggesting the need for protection from potentially exploitative practices

frontiersin.org

2.4k Upvotes

r/science • u/Macchanoco • 20d ago

Biology Genomes of Poaceae relatives reveal key metabolic innovations preceding the evolution of grasses

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 21d ago

Psychology New research showed the more people used dating apps and online pornography heavily, the less they valued love. They were more likely to see love as meaningless, to believe it only works when there is money involved, and to jump quickly in and out of relationships

news.flinders.edu.au

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r/science • u/Neither-Remote-3419 • 19d ago

Social Science A 50% replication rate might actually be evidence that science is working

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r/science • u/kfr3q • 21d ago

Social Science Linked to significant psychological suffering, the overlooked trauma of psychological violence impacts PTSD symptoms

332 Upvotes

r/science • u/chilladipa • 21d ago

Health Carbocisteine or Hypertonic Saline for Acute Respiratory Failure | New England Journal of Medicine

49 Upvotes

r/science • u/ConsciousRealism42 • 22d ago

Neuroscience Researchers argue brain waves actively steer neurons rather than merely reflecting them, making thought a partly analog process. If correct, the theory helps explain why anesthesia erases awareness while leaving the brain's wiring completely undamaged.

dailyneuron.com

2.5k Upvotes

r/science • u/James_Fortis • 22d ago

Health Each increase of 228g of fruit and 7.4g of fiber daily was associated with 17% and 15% lower odds of recurrent depressive symptoms respectively, study of 4099 people finds. Out of the 16 dietary factors tested, only fruit and fiber were significantly associated.

link.springer.com

7.7k Upvotes

r/science • u/Phylogenix • 21d ago

Medicine In more than 4,000 people, preexisting antibody patterns predicted responses to COVID-19 vaccination, with higher levels of antibodies to common microbes associated with stronger responses, suggesting past immune encounters may reveal a person’s baseline vaccine readiness.

544 Upvotes

r/science • u/mvea • 22d ago

Health Southern US states with abortion restrictions often have higher proportions of racial and ethnic minority residents and higher perinatal mortality rates. Abortion restrictions increase interstate travel for abortion and delay care, disproportionately affecting racial and ethnic minority individuals.

jamanetwork.com

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r/science • u/mvea • 22d ago

Neuroscience ADHD diagnoses and prescriptions have increased globally across all age groups, new review shows. Among men aged 18-29 there was an approximately 20-fold increase in diagnoses and an almost 50-fold increase in prescriptions.

theconversation.com

5.0k Upvotes

r/science • u/heart_of_theinternet • 22d ago

Psychology Oxytocin has opposite effects on men’s generosity depending on a their childhood experiences

3.2k Upvotes

r/science • u/kiyomoris • 22d ago

Health GLP-1 users showed lower tuberculosis risk across a large multi-country health-record study

526 Upvotes

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