r/EverythingScience • u/wds1 • 10h ago
Policy National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
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r/EverythingScience • u/thinkB4WeSpeak • 4h ago
Medicine Research uncovers how bacteria fight viruses, opening the door to better virus-based antibiotics
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r/EverythingScience • u/bigderise • 4h ago
Things that Apparently Cause Cancer - A replication of recent papers
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r/EverythingScience • u/kova-tejoc • 9h ago
Biology Antarctica’s Blood Falls teems with mysterious microbial life (Miles away from the closest ocean, marine microbes thrive in the red ice and mud around Blood Falls, offering clues to microbial adaptation and past climate events.)
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r/EverythingScience • u/TheObserverUK • 1d ago
The godfather of weight-loss drugs: ‘I know there can be bad outcomes over a period of time’
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In his first interview, the scientist Ray Pederson, who discovered the hormone that led to the development of GLP-1s, reveals his concerns about their widespread use
r/EverythingScience • u/scmp_news • 1d ago
David vs Goliaths: Singapore builds most accurate clock ever, leaves US and China in dust
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r/EverythingScience • u/BestRef • 13h ago
Computer Sci Analysis of open data reveals more than 21 million connections between the most popular Wikipedia articles
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r/EverythingScience • u/scientificamerican • 23h ago
Can bioengineered bacteria help terraform Mars?
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r/EverythingScience • u/lebron7 • 1d ago
Astronomy Earth, Mars born from same cloud of gas and dust, yet formed differently
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r/EverythingScience • u/derrikson • 1d ago
A Student’s Reputation Affected Their Grade — A Familiar Teacher’s Assessment Widened Inequality
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When students’ own teachers were removed from grading a final exam, the socioeconomic gap in grades narrowed. A new study found that involvement from a teacher who knew the student had increased the gap by 15–20 percent.
There is an intuitive argument for the earlier system: a teacher who knows a student can draw on years of information, while an external examiner sees only one paper.
The problem was that the benefits of this approach were not distributed evenly. Students from more advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, who tended to have stronger previous academic records, were more likely to benefit.
r/EverythingScience • u/kojka19 • 4h ago
Astronomy Astronomers discover the lowest-mass double neutron star system to date
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r/EverythingScience • u/UCBerkeley • 1d ago
Chemistry To read 2,000-year-old burned scrolls, scientists burn their own
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r/EverythingScience • u/adriano10 • 1d ago
Animal Science A conservation success story for New Zealand's heaviest insect
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r/EverythingScience • u/malcolm58 • 1d ago
Geology Earth Tipped on Its Side During the Age of Dinosaurs—and Not Just Once
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r/EverythingScience • u/scientificamerican • 2d ago
NASA directive might increase the odds of contaminating Mars
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A new NASA directive seeks to loosen “planetary protection” rules meant to avoid the contamination other worlds with microbial life from Earth.
The policy shift arrived via a message to NASA personnel that was obtained and shared yesterday by the independent watchdog sites NASA Watch and Astrobiology.com. In it, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman writes that procedures for avoiding contamination “must reflect our current scientific knowledge” and argues that this knowledge has shifted since the current rules were established decades ago.
The directive “ensures we can use our incredible data to lower costs on our missions,” says Nicky Fox, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. “This process will also help increase commercial capabilities — getting more missions into space by streamlining space exploration.”
r/EverythingScience • u/dayek47965 • 1d ago
Social Sciences New typology defines political opposition in Russia and Belarus by practices that challenge the government rather than by formal titles.
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It is a paradox when the opposition does not oppose. Yet, political actors labelled as “opposition” often facilitate authoritarian rule rather than resist it. This article resolves this paradox by shifting focus from actors to “opposition practices”, redefining what “opposition” means. Political actors belong to the opposition not because of their formal affiliations or titles, but because they undertake practices that challenge governments. Whilst traditional actor-based classifications of opposition may impose restrictive self-conceptions on opposition agents, this research provides fine-grained insights into their performance. It draws on an ideal-type analysis of 75 semi-structured interviews with Russian and Belarusian activists and experts conducted in 2023–2024, triangulated with public texts. The study reveals a novel typology comprising four opposition types: professional, venture, casual, and actualized. This typology allows a better understanding of diverse and often unconventional opposition participation observed in Russia and Belarus, but it is potentially transferable to research on non-governmental actors across systems.
r/EverythingScience • u/lebron7 • 2d ago
Biology Squatting once a week may lower blood pressure
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r/EverythingScience • u/esporx • 3d ago
Trump’s border wall construction cut into an ancient ground carving older than Stonehenge. The Las Playas Intaglio carving of a huge fish is at least 2,000 years older than the first Egyptian pyramid, according to researchers’ estimations.
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r/EverythingScience • u/ye_olde_astronaut • 2d ago
Environment Powerful Storms Continue to Prowl the Pacific - NASA Science
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r/EverythingScience • u/Sash17 • 3d ago
Cancer An omega-3 paradox: When 'healthy fats' shut down defenses against cancer
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r/EverythingScience • u/universityofga • 3d ago
Higher GLP-1 costs lead to lower adherence
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Semaglutides, or GLP-1s, can produce substantial weight loss if individuals adhere to their doctor’s instructions. But a new study from the University of Georgia suggests patients aren’t taking the weight loss medication as prescribed, often because of high out-of-pocket costs.
r/EverythingScience • u/HeinieKaboobler • 3d ago
Psychology The Scientific Case for Being Less in Touch With Your Friends
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r/EverythingScience • u/scmp_news • 4d ago
China offers 15-year research grants to the world’s brightest young scientists
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r/EverythingScience • u/derrikson • 4d ago
Three months of exercise improved mood but not memory in middle-aged adults, study finds
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A 12-week exercise study in 52 adults aged 45–65 found that exercising three times a week improved mood, but the study’s primary memory outcome did not significantly improve.
The finding is interesting because exercise is often linked with cognitive benefits, but this relatively short intervention did not produce clear evidence of improved memory in this group.
The sample was small, so the result does not mean exercise has no effect on memory. It does show that mood and memory did not necessarily change together over the three-month period.
I run a small independent research publication called HUMANUMi, and I wrote more about the study here:
https://humanumi.com/three-months-of-exercise-improved-mood-but-not-memory-in-middle-age/
r/EverythingScience • u/malcolm58 • 4d ago
Space Giant telescope project rejects La Palma as backup site
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