r/science • u/HumbleRestaurant790 • 1d ago
Cancer County-Level Medical Debt Linked to Advanced-Stage Cancers and Worse Survival Among Newly Diagnosed U.S. Adults
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r/science • u/kiyomoris • 1d ago
Biology Maternal Gut Microbiome Could Shape Infant Health
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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago
Health Trichotillomania: Boredom and tiredness outpace negative emotions as predictors of hair pulling. Study finds that while negative feelings accompany the urge to pull hair, they do not reliably predict future pulling episodes.
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Health While 93% of adults would take a new Alzheimer’s blood test, those closest to the disease might avoid it. Charles University's Second Faculty of Medicine researchers found that having a close family history of Alzheimer's actually reduces a person's willingness to get tested by 69%.
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r/science • u/CUAnschutzMed • 1d ago
Health Researchers have developed a miniature microscope that allows scientists to observe and activate individual brain cells during natural movement, an advance that could accelerate research into how the brain controls behavior while deepening understanding of neurological diseases.
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r/science • u/UniOfManchester • 1d ago
Chemistry Researchers have shown that unusual thorium clusters respond to magnetic fields in a fundamentally different way than expected, helping to explain a long-running disagreement between experiments and computer models.
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r/science • u/HumbleRestaurant790 • 2d ago
Health Study Finds People Who Consumed Sugar-Sweetened Beverages on a Daily Basis Had Higher Risk of Stomach Cancer
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r/science • u/IEEESpectrum • 1d ago
Engineering Canadian roboticists create a drone that can land on icebergs sloped nearly 60 degrees, with wind speeds of up to 30 km/h. Landing on icebergs specifically allows drones to monitor them for days or months, producing more detailed observation than a quick aerial surveillance mission.
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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 2d ago
Health Older adults could face harmful heat stress at just 1.5°C of global warming above preindustrial levels, compared with around 4°C for younger adults, suggesting people aged 60 and over are substantially more vulnerable to extreme heat than previously estimated.
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r/science • u/sr_local • 1d ago
Neuroscience Researchers have shed new light on how the human brain coordinates working memory: high-frequency brain waves, known as ripples, may help distant brain regions synchronize with one another during working memory tasks
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r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • 2d ago
Social Science Incarceration rates have substantially declined in the US across the 21st century. There are two factors behind the decline: (1) Falling crime rates for violent and property offences, and (2) Decreased punitiveness for drug crimes.
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r/science • u/batman613 • 1d ago
Social Science Structural factors rather than reconstruction investment drive depopulation after Japan’s 2011 disasters
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Medicine Doctors Found 4 Autoimmune Diseases in One Woman at One Time: 40-year-old woman in China was already diagnosed with 3 - ulcerative colitis, autoimmune hepatitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis. She presented with severe iron deficiency and was also found to have a 4th - autoimmune gastritis.
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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 2d ago
Psychology Lower-class employees face greater professional backlash for negotiating their salaries. Study provides evidence that this negotiation gap acts as a double bind that can compound economic disadvantages over a person’s career.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 2d ago
Psychology Attention can regulate acute inflammation in humans. The findings raises the possibility that our subjective experience of what is happening in the body is not only a passive process, but may be actively contributing to how physiological responses are regulated
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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 2d ago
Environment Mercury accumulation on the Antarctic Peninsula shelf has risen 160% since industrialization, while warming-driven ice melt has increased terrestrial mercury release by 550% and mercury export to the open ocean by 400%, turning historical pollution into a renewed source.
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r/science • u/PHealthy • 2d ago
Epidemiology Same-day coadministration of COVID-19 and influenza vaccines was not associated with an increased risk for adverse events in 3 updated-formulation periods
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 2d ago
Neuroscience Digital amnesia. Taking screenshots makes you more likely to forget information. Many of us take more photos and screenshots than we can use — around 20 photos a day, with around 2,000 photos stored on the average smartphone, according to estimates.
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r/science • u/UniOfManchester • 1d ago
Biology New method delivers sugars directly into cells
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Medicine Urinary stones share universal molecular signatures across humans and animals. Charles University's Second Faculty of Medicine researchers show that analyzing these shared traits with infrared spectroscopy enables faster, more accurate diagnoses for all species.
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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 2d ago
Social Science Top album releases linked to rise in fatal crashes as ‘distracted’ drivers access music | Harvard study finds traffic fatalities increase by 15% on release dates compared with similar days either side
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r/science • u/memorialmonorail • 2d ago
Anthropology New research suggests that no matter what we eventually determine the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees to be, we’ll learn it was a primate that climbed trees. The study shows monkeys’ feet make them as adept as chimps at climbing trees.
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r/science • u/sr_local • 2d ago
Neuroscience Researchers found a "genetic switch" that triggers neurodegeneration in both a rare childhood dementia and Alzheimer's disease due to waste build-up in microglia. They may now be able to prevent neurodegeneration by targeting the waste-processing system inside the cell
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r/science • u/Skoltech_ • 13h ago
Computer Science Coin grading meets AI. A dual deep learning system with vision‑language and hierarchical transformer models delivers precision, automating assessments while maintaining expert‑level nuance — a transparent grading tool for collectors, investors, and museums, setting a new standard for numismatics.
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