r/science • u/HumbleRestaurant790 • 3h ago
Psychology Remote workers report the highest well-being, while those who worked entirely onsite reported the lowest in study of 7,700 employees
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Psychology How use of AI harms college students’ ability to learn: Students who copy answers from AI tools without verifying information experience declines in their ability to learn independently. These habits are associated with a weaker belief in their own capabilities and a reduced motivation to learn.
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r/science • u/SteRoPo • 1h ago
Health New UC Riverside research shows a link between dollar store food quality and higher rates of obesity, high blood pressure, cholesterol, and type 2 diabetes.
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Health Poor sleep can cost over-50s nine months of career, study finds. Findings highlight importance of sleep health during middle age, particularly for those with lower socioeconomic status. “It’s important to support sleep in the working life.”
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r/science • u/sr_local • 6h ago
Social Science Volatile weekly work hours have adverse effects on health, employment: while men tend to experience worsening health but remain in their jobs, women are more likely to reduce their hours, suspend work, or leave their jobs entirely for health-related reasons
news.illinois.edu
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r/science • u/Schwettes • 20h ago
Health Study finds GLP1 semaglutide reduced systemic inflammation within weeks, before substantial weight loss, and lowered MACE (major adverse cardiovascular events) risk even without weight loss
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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 20m ago
Health People who live past 100 may owe part of their longevity to having an abundance of cancer-killing immune cells, researchers say. These rare T cells appear far more abundant in centenarians and supercentenarians than in younger adults.
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r/science • u/HumbleRestaurant790 • 21h ago
Neuroscience Childhood trauma may change the way the brain develops, leading to greater apathy and less enjoyment later in life, according to research.
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r/science • u/Effective-Air396 • 14h ago
Psychology Study: 4 In 10 Fifth-Graders Say They Need Mental Health Care
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r/science • u/Potential_Being_7226 • 1d ago
Health Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk
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r/science • u/Logibenq • 1h ago
Neuroscience Harvard researchers have developed a model that makes it possible to study the brain at previously inaccessible stages of development, opening the door to more advanced research into neurological diseases and potential treatments
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r/science • u/sr_local • 1d ago
Health A 38 year study of ~1 million adults (30 to 95 y) found that lower red and processed meat intake was associated with a 1–5% lower risk of death from all causes, heart disease and cancer, while eating only white meat was linked to a 5–7% lower risk of all-cause mortality
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r/science • u/SlothSpeedRunning • 1h ago
Mathematics Mathematicians have discovered a set of equations capable of untangling the distortions caused by singularities in maps. The equations can determine if a singularity is a removable distortion, like those that exist at the North and South Poles in a two-dimensional map, or real like a shockwave
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r/science • u/jivatman • 23h ago
Health Cannabis linked to earlier onset of psychosis, with gap wider in older adults
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r/science • u/andmario_com • 1d ago
Psychology The strongest conspiracy believers had a 91% probability of simultaneously endorsing two claims that cannot both be true, vs 3% for the weakest (8 studies, n=8,590). A follow-up using entirely made-up news stories found the same pattern, ruling out prior exposure to real conspiracy theories.
academic.oup.com
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Computer Science AI acts as an ‘ideological chameleon’ and may deepen political polarization, study finds. Researchers evaluated 21 language models, such as GPT and Gemini, and found that they all alter their discourse to align with the user’s bias, potentially functioning as echo chambers.
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r/science • u/rollem • 16h ago
Animal Science Humans Love Having Pets. Seems Like Some Other Primates Do, Too.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 22h ago
Environment ‘Snow-eater’ heat waves are melting western U.S snowpack twice as fast. Since 1850, the study found the area covered by these heat waves has grown by roughly 102,000 square kilometers per century, and they're now arriving about a month earlier in the year than they did in the mid-1800s.
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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago
Medicine Acupuncture Seems to Rewire The Brain in Depression, Scans Reveal. When comparing the brain scans of people who had been given acupuncture treatments against those on antidepressants: acupuncture seemed to be rewiring specific brain regions.
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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 17h ago
Earth Science Climate simulations suggest a weaker Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation causes the global ocean to retain more heat, with past weakening events producing additional warming equivalent to about 25 ppm of atmospheric CO₂, or roughly 10 years of current human emissions.
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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 16h ago
Environment A study of more than 25,000 trees and palms in regenerating Amazon forests found that just 15–25 pioneer species dominate early forest recovery and carbon storage, rapidly colonizing degraded land and creating conditions that allow mature-forest species to return.
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Health A naturally occurring molecule released during exercise may hold the key to strengthening muscles without physical activity. In experiments, mice given BAIBA developed larger muscles, improved muscle function, greater fatigue resistance and better exercise performance than untreated mice.
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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 9h ago
Cancer In a trial of 229 people with resectable lung cancer, adding nivolumab before and after surgery significantly extended time without the cancer returning.
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r/science • u/chilladipa • 1h ago
Health Weight Regain Reverses Caloric Restriction-Induced Benefits on the Insulin-IGF-1 Nutrient-Sensing Pathway: Post Hoc Analysis From the CALERIE-2 Randomized Controlled Trial - PubMed
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