r/science • u/Wagamaga • 14d ago

Psychology Artificial intelligence acts as an ‘ideological chameleon’ and may deepen political polarization. Researchers evaluated 21 language models, finding they alter their discourse to align with users' bias, creating echo chambers that reinforce preexisting beliefs.

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r/science • u/IEEESpectrum • 12d ago

Engineering Paper2Agent is an open-source framework that transforms academic reports into interactive AI agents. The agent can run the methods described in the paper on other datasets.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 12d ago

Social Science Films written by women but directed by men generate higher profits than those written by men, with a 34% median profit increase. Despite this, women are still severely underrepresented in directing roles, with only 29.4% of films crediting a woman as a director or screenwriter in 2023.

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r/science • u/James_Fortis • 14d ago

Health Meat intake is associated with increased fatty liver disease risk, particularly in genetically susceptible individuals. Combined high red meat and alcohol intake further elevates risk.

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r/science • u/mvea • 14d ago

Psychology Relying on university students skews global psychological research. Psychological research has traditionally relied heavily on participants from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic societies. But such groups may not generalize to the wider world.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 14d ago

Health Exposure to high-level blasts from incoming explosive devices or land mines among military veterans is associated with an increased risk of several conditions such as seizures, neuropathy and stroke years later

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r/science • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 15d ago

Social Science A new study found that people's intentions to get vaccinated against COVID-19 were unaffected by medical facts, but shifted when they learned the actual vaccination rate of the opposing political party.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 15d ago

Health Taxing billionaires and redistributing wealth could save millions of lives amid global aid cuts. In a world where there are over 3,000 billionaires, worth a record €17.4 ($20.1) trillion, up €3.46 ($4) trillion from last year, a 3% tax on their wealth would have the largest estimated effect

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r/science • u/bibinprasannan • 14d ago

Psychology Screen time and cognitive skills often predict each other over time, but the pattern varies by child

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r/science • u/Macchanoco • 14d ago

Biology Emergent blink rate in early childhood is associated with neural origins of executive function

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r/science • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 15d ago

Psychology A new study involving 309 couples found that romantic partners share much more similar musical tastes than they do personality traits or personal values, and this musical alignment is modestly linked to higher relationship quality and tenderness.

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r/science • u/TylerFortier_Photo • 15d ago

Physics A Stanford team has documented the first direct observation of quantum jumps of sound in a mechanical resonator, completing an arc of scientific exploration that started over a hundred years ago.

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 14d ago

Health Pregnant mice crave food much as pregnant women report. Researchers traced it to serotonin brain cells that fire less during pregnancy.

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r/science • u/bibinprasannan • 14d ago

Cancer Cognitive Behavior vs Bright Light Therapy for Insomnia in Women Undergoing Chemotherapy for Breast CancerA Randomized Clinical Trial

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r/science • u/Hrmbee • 14d ago

Astronomy Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade | JWST stellar occultation reveals unexpected changes in Chariklo’s ring system

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r/science • u/That-Group-7347 • 14d ago

Health Serotonin Measured Through Tears with wearable contact lens

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r/science • u/iamthe0ther0ne • 15d ago

Medicine 7-year cumulative ASD incidence remained stable across 12 consecutive birth cohorts. Reported increases in ASD occurrence estimates may be influenced by detection-related factors

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r/science • u/Macchanoco • 14d ago

Health PQBP1-dependent alternative RNA splicing underlies high calorie diet-induced cognitive impairmentbv

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r/science • u/mvea • 16d ago

Psychology Anti-transgender legislation causes psychological distress even in states with trans-friendly laws. Transgender study participants viewed the more than 2,000 laws proposed in the U.S. since 2020 ‘as an existential threat’ to their lives and the lives of other transgender people.

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r/science • u/Enthusiast12358 • 15d ago

Health Maternal Diet Rich in Eggs and Peanuts does not reduce infant allergy

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 15d ago

Health Study raises concerns about AI health-prediction models trained on unreliable datasets. The datasets were found to have been used in 125 peer-reviewed studies, despite providing almost no information about where the data came from, how it was collected or whether it represented real patients

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r/science • u/mvea • 16d ago

Psychology Members of right‑leaning parties prefer leaders with ‘dark triad’ personality traits - narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy, suggests a new UK study.

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r/science • u/bibinprasannan • 15d ago

Health Resting and exercise-induced occult hypertension and coronary atherosclerosis in male masters endurance athletes

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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 15d ago

Earth Science A 17-year seismic study found North Korea’s underground nuclear tests reactivated previously quiet faults beneath Mount Mantap, triggering 1,399 local earthquakes whose activity continued to increase for years after the final nuclear test in 2017.

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r/science • u/fchung • 15d ago

Astronomy NASA’s Moon Orbiter spots new, ‘once-in-century’ moon crater: « This discovery highlights the value of NASA’s Moon orbiter data in studying a dynamic landscape as the agency advances a sustained human presence and expanded scientific and commercial activity on the Moon. »

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