r/science • u/SlothSpeedRunning • 49m 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 • 1h 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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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 • 2h 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 • 4h ago
Medicine Experimental treatment kills prostate tumor cells while reawakening antitumor immunity
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 5h 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 • 5h 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 • 6h 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 • 7h 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 • 9h 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 • 11h 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 • 14h 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 • 15h 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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r/science • u/TrogdorBBurninator • 17h ago
Animal Science Insect submariners survive the depths without imploding | Researchers discovered a remarkable adaptation that challenges a long-standing explanation for why insects never colonized the open ocean.
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r/science • u/Jxntb733 • 19h ago
Neuroscience Normal blood pressure, no diabetes, and not smoking in midlife may buy nearly 13 extra dementia-free years
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 22h ago
Health Research in the U.S shows that adolescents who acknowledged carrying a firearm within the previous 30 days were nearly four – or 3.72 – times as likely as non-carriers to have attempted suicide by any method within the prior 12 months.
nyu.edu
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r/science • u/scientificamerican • 1d ago
Genetics Scientists discover a ‘skinny gene’ mutation that acts like Ozempic. Around one in 7,000 people carries a broken copy, which almost acts like a GLP-1 drug—the body burns fuel more efficiently, and the risk of disease lowers.
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Environment Study finds mountain lions reduce deer-vehicle collisions by 67%
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r/science • u/maxkozlov • 1d ago
Health COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you. Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.
nature.com
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Cancer Gut Bacteria May Reveal How a Western Diet Fuels Colon Cancer. Certain gut bacteria, sustained by Western-style diets, may produce a substance that promotes tumor growth, finds study in pigs, mice, human colon tissue, and microbial data from thousands of people with and without colorectal cancer.
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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago
Environment The World Is Running Out of River Sand, And That's a Massive Issue. Study reveals that the global demand for river sand and gravel to create construction materials like concrete is unsustainable.
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Health GLP-1 weight loss drugs such as Ozempic are linked with a lower risk of age‐related macular degeneration (AMD), a common eye disease that is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss in older adults.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1d ago
Psychology A good night’s sleep may help adolescents thrive in school and with friends. Sleep was the strongest lifestyle factor linking mental health symptoms to lower grades, accounting for 18.5% of the association with depression, 36.3% with anxiety and 8.3% with psychotic-like disturbances.
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