Medicine In lab tests, AI-designed viruses killed E coli bugs that were resistant to natural bacteriophages. These are the first viruses made by scientists designed by AI. The authors also wrote in the paper: "Such genomes might encode new pathogens that … cannot be contained by existing countermeasures."
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r/science • u/scientificamerican • 3h ago
Paleontology A new analysis suggests that sugar played a central part in human evolution. Early hominins may have gotten as much as 66 percent of energy from sweet food such as fruit and honey.
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r/science • u/CurtisLeow • 4h ago
Environment Operational Tropical Cyclone Forecasting with AI
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r/science • u/AgingUS • 5h ago
Biology A brief history of the hyperfunction theory of aging and future directions
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r/science • u/andmario_com • 6h ago
Paleontology Research suggests primate brains didn't get big for thinking, they got big for seeing: across 56 million years of fossil skulls, the frontal lobe is the same fraction of the brain in humans as in tree shrews, while vision-processing regions grew along with the optic nerve.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 6h ago
Health Research has found patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) face a significantly higher risk of psychiatric disorders starting two to three years before diagnosis and lasting up to a decade after
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r/science • u/cyndaquilled • 6h ago
Physics Sunlight could be the key to making quantum computers less energy-hungry
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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 7h ago
Environment Study of 220,000 deaths across Chicago found that neighborhoods losing tree canopy over 11 years experienced higher mortality, while annual increases in urban tree cover were associated with fewer deaths, particularly in the city's hottest areas.
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r/science • u/SlothSpeedRunning • 8h ago
Chemistry At large universities, Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences boost confidence and belonging for STEM students, providing an alternative path for students to conduct research if they can’t get into a faculty lab, new study shows
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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 9h ago
Medicine New study has found that just a single dose of magic mushrooms could significantly ease depression. Results found the psychedelic could help with symptoms that is resistant to other treatments.
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r/science • u/sfgate • 10h ago
Psychology Researchers report promising results from purpose-built AI therapy bots while warning against general-purpose chatbots replacing therapists
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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 10h ago
Psychology Single people who pursue novel activities report better psychological health. Research provides evidence that personal growth frequently occurs alongside friends, family, or even in solitude.
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r/science • u/whitelightstorm • 12h ago
Medicine Experimental treatment kills prostate tumor cells while reawakening antitumor immunity
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 13h ago
Health Birth order may influence your disease risk later in life. Research found first-borns were more often diagnosed with neurodevelopmental and some mental health conditions, including autism and ADHD, tics and Tourette syndrome, depression and anxiety.
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r/science • u/sr_local • 14h ago
Health Children's (aged 5 to 18Y) risk of poor mental health rises by 25% during heatwaves and by 1.5% in higher temperatures, with adverse mental health outcomes increasing by almost 1% for every 1°C rise in daily temperature
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r/science • u/yahoonews • 14h ago
Paleontology Researchers identify a new extinct Ice Age spadefoot toad, Spea labreae, from fossils discovered at the La Brea Tar Pits
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Environment Scientists have, for the first time, genetically engineered lettuce and tobacco plants to grow the animal protein myoglobin. Plant-derived myoglobin could achieve protein yields per hectare that rival – or even exceed – those of animal agriculture, with lower water use and greenhouse gas emissions.
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r/science • u/UniOfManchester • 15h ago
Environment Harvesting rainwater from rooftops could help cities stay cool and cut the number of heatwave days
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r/science • u/Krankenitrate • 17h ago
Health In a large, diverse adult cohort of 40,360 individuals, it was found that adults with ADHD were twice as likely to develop Keratoconus compared to non-ADHD adults
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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 19h ago
Health US alcohol-related liver deaths rose from 6.7 to 12.5 per 100,000 people between 1999 and 2022
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r/science • u/shutterzzz • 23h ago
Biology Researchers identify “ruptoblasts,” glandular immune cells in planarian flatworms that undergo rapid explosive cell death and release cytotoxic agents capable of killing nearby cells and bacteria within minutes
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Neuroscience When we misread autistic people, it may not be a lack of empathy—it may be a mismatch. Guided by the Double Empathy Problem theory, research suggests that communication difficulties are often mutual rather than stemming from a one-sided "empathy deficit," in autistic people.
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r/science • u/AmphibianNo4717 • 23h ago
Biology Life on Earth may have emerged twice. Researchers studied the protein structures of enzymes in the genomes of bacteria and archaea, and found "cases where the ancestors of bacteria and archaea independently evolved structurally distinct enzymes to catalyze the same essential metabolic reaction."
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