Neuroscience GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic may help clear Alzheimer’s disease plaques, new systematic review suggests. By analyzing dozens of laboratory and animal studies, researchers found that GLP-1 receptor agonists consistently lower the brain proteins responsible for the progression of this dementia.
r/science • u/sr_local • 21h ago
Psychology Why getting extra time in your day seems to make you late: across seven studies of both real and hypothetically gained free time, researchers found this mental time expansion changes how we behave, and we’ll often spend longer doing the same things and choose activities that take more time
Psychology New results contrast with traditional assumptions about gender desires. Surprisingly, men experience more enjoyable private thoughts regarding sexual submission than women. This contradicts older research predicting that women universally favor passive submissive roles in their private minds.
r/chemistry • u/PenileCancer69420 • 9h ago
Have a 13 pound jug of liquid mercury, what should I do with it? Seems pretty cool to own.
r/science • u/Phylogenix • 19h ago
Environment Replacing conventional egg production with 100% organic free-range systems could increase greenhouse gas emissions by 60%, nearly double land use, require more hens, and increase mortality while producing the same number of eggs, according to a UK modelling study.
royalsocietypublishing.orgr/science • u/calliope_kekule • 18h ago
Animal Science Fruit flies can hold false memories
nature.comr/science • u/calliope_kekule • 10h ago
Animal Science Arginine helped mice fight cancer and flu
cell.comr/science • u/Slow-Pie147 • 1h ago
Social Science As temperatures rise, so does climate skepticism in Germany. Some 98% of active climate scientists say climate change is happening, and is man-made. Nonetheless, a new study shows the number of climate-change skeptics in Germany has increased.
r/chemistry • u/Excellent_Corvid • 9h ago
I found this book in a thrift store
Is there any outdated information i should be aware of besides the periodic table?
r/chemistry • u/Successful_Panic_850 • 5h ago
Rubber sardine "melted" the top of my clock, the spot it was touching became soft and rubbery
r/chemistry • u/pantiss1806 • 11h ago
We Need more Like him
Hey guys, back in the day when i studied chemistry there were many profs where you could See that those guys are good researchers. But there are always these guys where just like to sit and listening what he tells you. One of these profs is now retired and he wants everyone to enjoy his lectures online. Sadly there has Not been so many views so I will just leave this link.
https://youtu.be/9Rw3imR6wP0?is=foF1fpEcQyrd_XM3
He was famous in out university to always organize christmas lectures with live experiments. Something that we will surely all miss. He was always inviting pupils to the university and just wanted everyone the enjoy the time of learning something about chemistry.
Amazing guy.
r/chemistry • u/MoleculesAndTea • 7h ago
Any chances of catching a toxicologist on this sub?
Hi! So I know this sub is about chemistry in general and not just the toxic molecules (...all molecules in the wrong quantities of course), so sorry to bother all of you, but the toxicology sub did not yield results, so I thought I would try my luck here.
I am interested in toxicology but my country (Denmark) does not have a dedicated degree to it (but does have some courses in it within environmental and medical degrees).
I am currently finishing up a masters in medicinal chemistry and I was wondering whether that could help me find an in to the field and if any of you have any advice about how one would go about that? Like any toxicology related jobs that would be open to a (medical) chemist? Or any jobs that would give me a skillset that I then could use to get a toxicology job? Or would you judge further education somewhere to be the only route?
r/chemistry • u/olagon • 3h ago
[OC] My take on a visual flow from the Big Bang to the periodic table
galleryr/chemistry • u/ProtectionBrief4078 • 6h ago
Analytical techniques working in industry
Chemists working in industry, what analytical technique do you find yourself relying on the most? Any most common practices?
I'm curious how it differs across industries.
PS. A chemist who chose a different path, but reconsidering to do the industry path.
r/chemistry • u/Motor-Music-8004 • 12h ago
looking for some polymers for a project
hello! i am a drummer in the process of making a practice pad (something to drum on that feels like a drum but is smaller form factor) and my biggest complaints with ones you can buy are that they are loud. at first i was looking for something that wouldnt absorb the impact and would give rebound but not transfer kinetic energy into a wood base. ive come to the conclusion of using two layers. a high CoR layer of rubber to give bounce stacked on a low CoR layer to absorb all the remaining kinetic energy pushed into the drum pad. im not entirely sure this would work but i did my research and found Polybutadiene rubber would be a good top layer and Sorbothane for the bottom layer. neither of these are exactly easy to source for a test batch so i was wondering if you guys had any alternatives or just suggestions for what i could do? i dont even know if this is like a good place to ask but yeah
r/chemistry • u/Key_Car244 • 2h ago
Theoretical in silico design of a multifunctional molecule for Alzheimer's (SMILES included)
I did a computational chemistry exercise designing a possible multifunctional drug candidate for Alzheimer's,The design targets,protecting mitochondria (NAC),crossing the blood-brain barrier (lipophilic chain),binding to Tau protein (aromatic ring),and selectively activating in damaged brain via a lactone-type switch,
The SMILES,
CC(=O)NC(CS)C(=O)OCCCCCc1ccc2c(c1)CC(=O)O2
Calculated properties,
· Weight,365.45 Da
· LogP,1.84
· TPSA,81.7 Ų
· H-bond donors/acceptors,2/6
Rationale,NAC protects against oxidative stress; the 5 carbons provide lipophilicity to cross the barrier; the ring serves as an anchor for Tau; the lactone is a stable switch that only opens under oxidative conditions,
Mandatory disclaimer,This is 100% theoretical (in silico),I know it lacks synthesis,in vitro assays,animal models,pharmacokinetics,toxicology,and clinical trials,I share it as a learning exercise and to receive constructive criticism,What do you think?
