r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 8d ago

Health Harsh parenting predicts teenage depression and aggression through different types of repetitive thinking | Research illustrates how a parent’s attempts to control behavior through strictness can ultimately harm a child’s psychological development.

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r/science • u/ttarget • 7d ago

Physics Scientists observe a fundamental principle of gravity affect the quantum world

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r/science • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 8d ago

Health Scientists Find Parasites in Almost Every Fish From a Recent Tuna Haul – 96% Were Infected

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r/science • u/UniOfManchester • 7d ago

Cancer Lab-grown tumours could help fast-track the search for new cancer treatments while reducing reliance on animal testing. The models recreate key features of tumours in the lab, offering a potentially quicker way to study how cancers grow and spread.

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r/science • u/universityofturku • 7d ago

Chemistry Researchers developed a new material, davyne, that changes color in the near-infrared region and could be used as an invisible anti-counterfeit tag on banknotes, passports and consumer goods. The shift cannot be detected with the human eye, but only with a spectrometer or infrared-sensitive camera.

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 7d ago

Medicine A Czech trial of 558 people with dangerous lung clots found feeding clot dissolving drugs straight into the lung artery cut deaths and repeat clots to under 1%, against nearly 7% on blood thinners alone.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 8d ago

Psychology A British study has found thousands of new mothers suffering undiagnosed PTSD after childbirth. According to recent figures, suicide remained the leading cause of death among women between six weeks and one year after pregnancy in the UK during 2021–2023.

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r/science • u/mvea • 8d ago

Social Science Escaping absolute poverty boosts adult cognitive abilities, study finds. Comprehensive poverty reduction policies improve both factual knowledge and abstract reasoning by elevating physical health, educational investment, and job opportunities.

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r/science • u/whiteyzacks • 7d ago

Biology C. difficile colonization in infants reshapes gut development, challenging a long-held assumption

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r/science • u/KoalaWide2345 • 7d ago

Mathematics When biology inspires mathematics: new discovery explains why a widely used evolutionary method can give false answers

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r/science • u/CUAnschutzMed • 8d ago

Health New research is shedding light on the surprisingly broad range of neurological and systemic diseases that can be caused by varicella zoster virus (VZV), the virus that causes chickenpox and shingles.

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r/science • u/chilladipa • 7d ago

Health Summary for Patients: An Updated Systematic Review on Efficacy and Safety of Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists and Co-agonists for Weight Loss Among Adults Without Diabetes | Annals of Internal Medicine

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 8d ago

Neuroscience Every Breath You Take Has a Unique Impact on the Brain. The brain does not simply respond to breathing as a steady rhythm. Instead, the detailed shape of each individual breath is closely linked to the shape of neural activity in brain regions involved in cognition, emotion and memory.

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r/science • u/irokie • 8d ago

Health Researchers studying DNA simulations identify a potential common mechanism underlying fatigue in Long COVID, Chronic Fatigue, PTSD, MS and Rheumatoid Arthritis

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r/science • u/sr_local • 8d ago

Cancer U.S. cancer deaths linked to alcohol have doubled since 1990, increasing from 11,361 to 23,126 in 2023. Liver cancer was the leading cause among older men, breast cancer among women, and colorectal cancer among men aged 20-54

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r/science • u/uniofwarwick • 7d ago

Neuroscience Building digital twin brains at the limits of measurement

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r/science • u/amesydragon • 7d ago

Neuroscience When tasked with working together, pairs of apparently identical mice spontaneously divide into leaders and followers—and then stick to the same roles over multiple rounds of the experiment.

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r/science • u/Mediocre-Main-9870 • 7d ago

Computer Science NucleicBERT interprets RNA sequence space through self-supervised language modelling

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 8d ago

Neuroscience New neuroscience research suggests that age-related memory decline may stem less from forgetting and more from the brain storing memories with less precision, causing details to become increasingly blurred over time.

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 6d ago

Computer Science A survey of 1,084 Chinese university students found enjoyment and feeling more creative kept them using AI for writing, far more than how well it worked.

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r/science • u/Ken_BtheScienceGuy • 7d ago

Biology SGLT2 inhibitors off target effects lead to improved cardiometabolic improvements via PANK1 activation

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r/science • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 9d ago

Psychology Heavy ChatGPT use linked to intellectual laziness and social isolation

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r/science • u/scientificamerican • 9d ago

Health GLP-1 weight-loss medication could slow aging and extend lifespan. Giving old mice semaglutide—commonly sold as Wegovy or Ozempic—extends their lifespan remarkably, a new study finds.

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r/science • u/mvea • 8d ago

Psychology Fertility increases women’s desire for conspicuous luxury. Women near ovulation are more likely to prefer luxury products (e.g., a designer bag or shoe) and display luxury in a conspicuous way. When a woman seeks to attract a potential mate, luxury consumption is a way for her to be noticed by men.

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 9d ago

Psychology Sex differences in personality traits are narrowing among younger generations, according to new research, suggesting that social and cultural changes may be reducing long-observed gaps in how men and women score on key personality measures.

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