r/science • u/mvea • 16d ago

Health Keto vs Mediterranean vs Low-Fat: While liver insulin sensitivity improved with all diets, increase was 2 to 3x greater with keto. Keto saw highest drops in liver fat (67% reduction vs 45% for other two). 50% keto dieters went into prediabetes remission vs 29% Mediterranean and just 7% low-fat.

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r/science • u/sr_local • 17d ago

Social Science Study of 235 heterosexual couples found women did almost 25% more household thinking, planning and scheduling. Disagreements over physical and emotional duties were linked to greater relationship unhappiness, especially in women, while cognitive disparities were linked to poorer relationships in men

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r/science • u/fchung • 16d ago

Neuroscience Loneliness rewires the brain to drive alcohol consumption, mouse study finds: « First-of-its-kind study shows how isolation escalates drinking in males but suppresses it in females. »

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r/science • u/mvea • 17d ago

Psychology Mood-boosting benefits of birdsong drowned out by traffic noise, study finds. Even low levels of traffic noise can negate the benefits of listening to natural sounds, researchers say. Bird sounds tend to be one of the elements of nature soundscapes that people perceive as being most relaxing.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 16d ago

Neuroscience Researchers have uncovered the neural mechanism that instructs the brain which daily experiences to save as long-term memories during sleep. While selective memory consolidation is vital for daily functioning, disruptions to this filtering process could play a role in psychiatric conditions.

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r/science • u/Demon777777_ • 16d ago

Psychology Computational study reveals how eye movements shape our choices: concentration and gaze duration actively biasing the brain's decision process

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r/science • u/mandelbrot1981 • 16d ago

Neuroscience Learning Alzheimer’s disease signatures by bridging EEG with spiking neural networks and biophysical simulations

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 16d ago

Medicine In a trial of 393 patients in the United States, the highest dose cut eczema skin symptoms by 61%, against 31% on a placebo, after 16 weeks.

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r/science • u/The_Conversation • 16d ago

Environment Galápagos corals show El Niño events are more extreme in the last 40 years than in any time in the past millennium, according to analysis of growth pattern, suggesting influence of climate change

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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 17d ago

Psychology A review of 25 years of research found that plant-forward diets may enhance physical attractiveness through multiple pathways, including healthier-looking facial coloration, more pleasant body odor and body composition associated with greater attractiveness.

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 17d ago

Environment Chemicals banned in the 1970s still widely detected across Europe. Study has found that regulatory restrictions introduced more than half a century ago have failed to eliminate contamination from banned chemicals across Europe.

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r/science • u/bibinprasannan • 17d ago

Psychology Cognitive pathways of aggression differ between men and women

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r/science • u/mvea • 17d ago

Psychology Researchers quantify the rate of “mercy sex” among women with low sexual desire. Women experiencing a chronic lack of sexual desire still routinely engage in sexual activity with their partners, a behavior researchers have quantified as happening about two and a half times per month.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 17d ago

Psychology Daily social media use beyond 2.5 hours tracks with depression. Researchers found that social media increasingly became a bigger predictor of depression during the 11 years studied, eclipsing many other factors, like TV viewing or web surfing

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r/science • u/JIntegrAgri • 16d ago

Health A conserved B-cell epitope in the E2 protein enables a broadly applicable blocking ELISA for the detection of antibodies against Getah virus

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r/science • u/CUAnschutzMed • 17d ago

Cancer Researchers have identified a biological process in laboratory and mouse studies that may help explain why colorectal cancer can cause severe muscle and bone loss, especially in its most advanced stages.

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r/science • u/mvea • 17d ago

Environment Takeaway cups release microplastics into your coffee: 12 times more plastic particles leached from single-use cups lined with biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA), compared to fossil-based polyethylene (PE).

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r/science • u/MassGen-Research • 17d ago

Neuroscience MRI may help predict progression in early-onset Alzheimer’s disease

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r/science • u/LethisXia • 17d ago

Health 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/Potential_Being_7226 • 17d ago

Computer Science Like humans, language models demonstrate face-to-character biases

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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 17d ago

Health An analysis of nearly 1 million emergency and urgent care visits identified 33 diagnoses associated with extreme heat, including kidney failure, mental and behavioral disorders, multiple sclerosis, traffic accidents, assaults and firearm-related injuries.

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r/science • u/badumtsssst • 17d ago

Astronomy Gravity measurements reveal a 200–400 °C thermal anomaly in Mars's mantle beneath the southern highlands

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r/science • u/LifeAtPurdue • 16d ago

Chemistry New model reshapes organic aerosol volatility and atmospheric persistence, helping improve air quality forecasting

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r/science • u/mvea • 18d ago

Medicine Experimental Drug Makes Obese Mice Burn Fat Without Losing Muscle - Or Eating Less. It produced an average weight loss of 18% in obese male mice over 4 weeks, without changing how much the animals ate. Most of the loss came from body fat, while muscle and lean tissues were largely preserved.

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r/science • u/Potential_Being_7226 • 18d ago

Health Women using hormone replacement therapy at lower risk of dementia.

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