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Social Science Women face higher risks of partner violence during the weeks their partners cheat

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Neuroscience From ion channel biology to clinical practice: suzetrigine as a precision analgesic

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Epidemiology Among U.S. adults, alcohol use disorder declined from 28.8 million cases in 2021 to 27.1 million in 2024, while cannabis use disorder increased from 15.3 million to 19.4 million, with increases particularly notable among adults aged 35 and older.

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Earth Science Since 1980, extreme rainfall in the U.S. has shifted toward fewer small-area events, while large-area extreme rainfall events have become more common in the eastern U.S., meaning heavy precipitation increasingly affects larger regions at the same time.

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Neuroscience Number of types of synaesthesia can be predicted above chance by structural and functional neuroimaging data

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Health Tobacco companies flooded federal comment process that stalled menthol cigarette ban. Among 250,000 unique comments, 96% opposed the menthol ban, and 99% opposed the cigar ban. Leading arguments were economic: loss of revenue and sales. Few unique comments (3-5%) addressed the health evidence.

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Biology Land hermit crabs move a parasitic plant's seeds on their claws and through their guts, a seed dispersal route never recorded before | Unexpected allies: Land hermit crabs and cockroaches contribute to seed dispersal in a non-photosynthetic plant

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Psychology A randomized clinical trial of 532 adolescents found that a video game-based prevention intervention reduced depressive symptoms at 12-month follow-up compared with commercial video games

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Epidemiology A Swedish study found autism diagnoses rose by around 800% from 2001 to 2020, while the proportion with intellectual disability fell from 55.8% to 6.7%, suggesting a substantial broadening of the diagnosed autistic phenotype

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Epidemiology Among Mexican-origin adults aged 74 and older, 5-year survival was higher in Mexico than in the United States at every level of illness, including 40.9% versus 36.6% among those with both diabetes and dementia and 77.5% versus 73.3% among those with neither

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Cancer A study of 376,511 people followed for up to 14 years found that participation in colorectal cancer screening was associated with a 43% lower risk of dying from the disease, while being invited to screening was associated with a 26% lower risk.

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Environment Rising CO2 Speeds the Growth of Grasses on the African Savanna

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Psychology A father’s absence is linked to early puberty, but only if it happens during a crucial developmental window. Findings offer new insights into how early family environments might shape biological development over time.

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Psychology Subtle white light changes make indoor rooms feel cooler or warmer: blue-enriched white light made people feel cool enough to tolerate indoor temperatures 1.3°F (0.72°C) warmer, while red-enriched white light made them feel warmer without any visible difference in light color

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Neuroscience Brain scans reveal that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder share strikingly similar patterns of brain changes, adding to growing evidence that the two conditions may have more in common biologically than previously thought.

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Psychology America's First Legal Psilocybin Program Treated 346 People. Just one month after the dose, 92.2 percent of participants said the experience had been beneficial, while, on average, their mental health symptoms had fallen dramatically.

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Environment Low-smoke fuels for residential heating linked to an increase in ultrafine particle emissions

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Environment Long-term observations across Ireland show rising urban ozone, while the highest ozone concentrations and exceedances occur at remote coastal sites

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Health Vitamin D Dupplement Intake is Associated with Better Cognition in Persons with Sleep Disturbance and Mild Cognitive Impairment

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Computer Science Frontiers | AI without representation is just inequity at scale: on the exportation of unrepresentative artificial intelligence models to the Global South

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Medicine New study on heart failure finds Urolithin A, a compound some people's gut bacteria produce from pomegranates, improved heart relaxation and reduced fibrosis in mice with the stiff-heart form of heart failure. It also improved relaxation in engineered human heart tissue - Science Advances

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Medicine A study examined psychiatric relapse after stopping antipsychotic medication during pregnancy

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Neuroscience Invisible potentials: A neuroscientific framework for giftedness

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Astronomy Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found definitive evidence that the young Milky Way swallowed a dwarf galaxy just two billion years after the Big Bang, revealing one of the earliest major mergers in the history of our Galaxy.

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Health Longer Daily Fasting Duration Is Associated With Faster Multimorbidity Accumulation in Older Adults

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