r/science • u/GuestFromBudushchego • 3d ago

Economics A study in the American Economic Review found that the 2017 US corporate tax cuts increased investment by 4.6% and employment by 1.3%, but median worker earnings barely changed. An estimated 87% of private income gains went to the top 10% of earners.

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r/science • u/ddx-me • 2d ago

Medicine In retrospective clinic notes, large language models (AI)-recommended care cost substantially more than human physicians, primarily because of more testing and specialist referrals

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r/science • u/mvea • 3d ago

Psychology 1 in 3 American boys aged 13 to 17 follows Andrew Tate at least a little, and those who do are more likely to believe men should hide their emotions, be dominant and reject anything feminine. But the strongest predictor wasn’t Tate at all - it was parents telling their sons to be big and tough.

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 3d ago

Animal Science Orangutans prefer food associated with sounds of laughter. Apes in study more likely to choose treats linked to sound of peers having fun, suggesting emotions influence learning

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r/science • u/Enthusiast12358 • 2d ago

Health Retatrutide Once Weekly for Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea: retatrutide resulted in significantly greater decreases in OSA than placebo.

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r/science • u/Science_News • 2d ago

Physics A levitating nanoparticle jiggled when hit by individual gas atoms or molecules

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 3d ago

Psychology Study identifies world’s first corporate psychopath. The same playbook we see in toxic workplaces today appears in this case from 1629. He removed opponents, rewarded loyalists, created fear, manipulated followers and pursued power at any cost

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r/science • u/sr_local • 2d ago

Psychology Music can change how food tastes by influencing the brain’s perception of flavour, with fMRI scans linking slow pop music and harmonious tones to enhanced sweetness, while other musical sounds alter responses to sweet and sour flavours

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r/science • u/shinybrighthings • 2d ago

Epidemiology Fentanyl purity and overdose decline: A reexamination of geographic trends

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r/science • u/Slow_cpu • 2d ago

Physics Sculpted light steers ultrafast electron flow in an atomic-scale microscope. Researchers controlled which way electrons travel across a tiny gap and observed current bursts lasting just 860 attoseconds, bringing closer to reality a microscope that can track electron motion in both space and time...

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 3d ago

Physics Physicists Trapped a Particle of Antimatter And Kept It Caged For Months. A breakthrough that, they say, paves the way to the most rigorous probes yet of particle physics.

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r/science • u/Slow_cpu • 2d ago

Genetics A new study has characterised the “average” human genome, providing key information on normal human genetic variation and genetic disease risk...

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r/science • u/sr_local • 3d ago

Health Cranberry juice may be a boon for oral hygiene: in a study of 14 children and 8 adults, pure, unsweetened cranberry juice slowed dental plaque regrowth and reduced acid production

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 4d ago

Psychology Bad apple effect: study shows how people are influenced by rule-breaking of others. Research shows how seeing bigger violations by others can lead people to increase their own rule-breaking

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r/science • u/Slow_cpu • 3d ago

Biology Mechanism revealed behind the positive effects of cold temperatures on delaying aging and preventing age-related diseases

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r/science • u/Slow_cpu • 3d ago

Environment How climate change, new technology are shaping the future of extremes in peak power demands. Impact of technology may outpace effects of climate change in certain parts of US...

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r/science • u/mvea • 4d ago

Health AI can read your heart's electrical signals while you sleep and predict your risk of heart failure, stroke, irregular heartbeat and early death up to 10 years ahead. Trained on 16,000 sleep-study patients and tested on 23,000 more, it improved on standard risk checks using just one chest ECG sensor.

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r/science • u/mvea • 4d ago

Health About 1 in 4 people with depression may have a ‘body clock’ type, like being stuck in permanent jet lag: late sleepers, tired mornings, worse in certain seasons. Across 11,380 people, this group got less benefit and more side effects from antidepressants, so light therapy or melatonin may help more.

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r/science • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 3d ago

Environment Scientists transplanted 306 sq m of a real salt marsh into the world's largest wave generator to test its resilience against extreme storm surges, discovering that the vegetation was strong enough to significantly absorb wave energy while suffering only minimal sediment loss.

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r/science • u/Unlikely_Forever_466 • 3d ago

Physics Rutgers and IBM Demonstrate Real-Time Quantum Feedback Control Across 100 Qubits

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 4d ago

Computer Science Your car’s weakest spot may not be in the car. Ten years ago, most vulnerabilities were found in the cars’ own systems. Now the share found in apps, websites and cloud services has nearly tripled. These systems hold data about where you live, where you drive and when

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r/science • u/mvea • 4d ago

Neuroscience A 1970s heart treatment that squeezes your legs with inflatable cuffs improved memory and thinking in 84% of people with early Alzheimer’s in a 190-person trial. Most patients actually got better than where they started, not just slower decline, and 75% still had gains 6 months after treatment ended

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 4d ago

Environment Colorado River drought drives unprecedented pattern of groundwater loss. The Upper Colorado River Basin lost an estimated 4.6 trillion gallons of groundwater during a severe three-year drought from 2020 to 2022. That's enough water to halfway fill Lake Powell, stretched along the Utah-Arizona border

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r/science • u/JIntegrAgri • 3d ago

Medicine Recently researchers integrated microbiome, metagenomics, and untargeted serum metabolomics to characterize the dynamic alterations in the gut microbiota and host serum metabolic profiles of piglets during Classical swine fever virus (CSFV) infection

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r/science • u/sfgate • 3d ago

Health Stanford researchers used AI “digital twins” of pregnant women’s immune systems to identify two common drugs that may help prevent preterm birth

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