Medicine Study of 2.5 million children finds no link between MMR vaccine and autism.
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r/science • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 10h ago
Psychology Republican-aligned actors issued nearly three-quarters of fact-checked 2024 election hoaxes. During the 2024 United States presidential election, political actors and anonymous online users regularly spread false information as an open campaign strategy.
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Psychology Problematic pornography use is linked to craving, shame, depression, and loneliness, meta-analysis finds
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Medicine One small 2006 trial of just 40 kids in Iran may have tipped the scales in favour of prescribing Prozac for childhood depression. When researchers removed its suspicious data from major medical reviews, Prozac's huge advantage over placebo vanished, and the team say guidelines now need a fresh look.
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r/science • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 19h ago
Health Researchers have discovered that urolithin A, a gut metabolite produced after eating pomegranates, can improve heart function by up to 80 percent in mice with heart failure by helping the heart muscle relax properly.
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r/science • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 14h ago
Psychology A new study links sexually objectifying messages from family during upbringing to higher self-objectification in young women, which in turn is associated with greater difficulty refusing unwanted sex, communicating sexual desires, and achieving orgasm.
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r/science • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 10h ago
Health In a successful gene therapy study on dogs with a rare genetic vision condition, scientists discovered that damaged nerve connections in adult retinas can physically repair and rebuild themselves.
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Psychology Americans often fail to notice when Democrats and Republicans are moving in the same direction. New research suggests that people frequently fail to notice how much support for certain social issues has grown within both parties.
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r/science • u/Hrmbee • 10h ago
Biology UMass biologists discover what may be the world's loudest birds | Evolutionary drivers of vocal amplitude in birds
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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 2h ago
Environment A study combining satellite, ground and atmospheric model data found global desert dust declined by about 10% between 2003 and 2023, modestly reducing its cooling effect on the climate, although the contribution to recent human-caused warming remains very small.
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r/science • u/Macchanoco • 3h ago
Health Tonicity drives collecting duct maturation in the mammalian kidney
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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 22h ago
Earth Science Researchers traced decades long wobbles in day length to gravity pulling between the spinning inner core and the mantle above it, not magnetism as long assumed.
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r/science • u/shinybrighthings • 5h ago
Neuroscience Acidic cannabinoids in brain disorders: Neurobiological mechanisms, preclinical evidence, and translational challenges
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r/science • u/Connect_Extreme_358 • 12h ago
Animal Science An ancient shark graveyard has been discovered in an Egyptian desert
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r/science • u/chilladipa • 12h ago
Health Survodutide Once Weekly in Adults with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes | New England Journal of Medicine
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r/science • u/Macchanoco • 2h ago
Health Step-by-step maturation mechanism of the binary toxin pore revealed by cryo-EM analysis
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Medicine People who recovered from COVID-19 infection or were vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 are more likely to have immunity to other closely related bat coronaviruses that could have the potential to threaten future human health.
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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 1d ago
Health A global review of 53 studies found Indigenous children are already experiencing climate-related health impacts, including malnutrition, infectious diseases, perinatal problems and poorer mental health, with particularly consistent effects on cultural and psychosocial well-being.
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Health Young adults whose bedrooms were too bright, hot, or noisy slept just as long but slept worse, a Penn State study of 372 people tracked for 14 days found. Bright rooms meant falling asleep later and waking more. Researchers said cheap, simple fixes like earplugs and blackout curtains can help a lot.
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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 1d ago
Environment A 40-year study of Swiss protective forests found declining stands increased across elevation zones, with drought-related losses now reaching forests up to 2,200 meters as warming erodes the historical protection from drought provided by higher elevations.
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r/science • u/amrkzp • 15h ago
Engineering A model learned from experimental data improves control of a robotic joint powered by artificial muscles
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Social Science New Cornell study: Trump has taken more control of federal spending than any president in modern history by freezing funds Congress approved and imposing tariffs on his own, yet Congress whose job it is to control the money, has done almost nothing to stop it, even though most Americans oppose this.
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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 1d ago
Environment Modelling shows a 2°C warmer world makes it far more likely that major farming regions fail at the same time, pushing world crop prices into sudden spikes.
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r/science • u/chromoscience • 1d ago
Biology Description of multiple cryptic species of Obovaria Rafinesque, 1819 (Bivalvia: Unionida) from the Mississippi Embayment and Gulf coastal rivers of North America
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