r/science • u/mvea • 3h ago

Psychology 1 in 3 American boys aged 13 to 17 follows Andrew Tate at least a little, and those who do are more likely to believe men should hide their emotions, be dominant and reject anything feminine. But the strongest predictor wasn’t Tate at all - it was parents telling their sons to be big and tough.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 7h ago

Psychology Study identifies world’s first corporate psychopath. The same playbook we see in toxic workplaces today appears in this case from 1629. He removed opponents, rewarded loyalists, created fear, manipulated followers and pursued power at any cost

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 10h ago

Physics Physicists Trapped a Particle of Antimatter And Kept It Caged For Months. A breakthrough that, they say, paves the way to the most rigorous probes yet of particle physics.

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 15h ago

Psychology Bad apple effect: study shows how people are influenced by rule-breaking of others. Research shows how seeing bigger violations by others can lead people to increase their own rule-breaking

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r/science • u/sr_local • 9h ago

Health Cranberry juice may be a boon for oral hygiene: in a study of 14 children and 8 adults, pure, unsweetened cranberry juice slowed dental plaque regrowth and reduced acid production

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r/science • u/Slow_cpu • 7h ago

Biology Mechanism revealed behind the positive effects of cold temperatures on delaying aging and preventing age-related diseases

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d ago

Health About 1 in 4 people with depression may have a ‘body clock’ type, like being stuck in permanent jet lag: late sleepers, tired mornings, worse in certain seasons. Across 11,380 people, this group got less benefit and more side effects from antidepressants, so light therapy or melatonin may help more.

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r/science • u/mvea • 16h ago

Health AI can read your heart's electrical signals while you sleep and predict your risk of heart failure, stroke, irregular heartbeat and early death up to 10 years ahead. Trained on 16,000 sleep-study patients and tested on 23,000 more, it improved on standard risk checks using just one chest ECG sensor.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 15h ago

Computer Science Your car’s weakest spot may not be in the car. Ten years ago, most vulnerabilities were found in the cars’ own systems. Now the share found in apps, websites and cloud services has nearly tripled. These systems hold data about where you live, where you drive and when

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r/science • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 9h ago

Environment Scientists transplanted 306 sq m of a real salt marsh into the world's largest wave generator to test its resilience against extreme storm surges, discovering that the vegetation was strong enough to significantly absorb wave energy while suffering only minimal sediment loss.

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d ago

Neuroscience A 1970s heart treatment that squeezes your legs with inflatable cuffs improved memory and thinking in 84% of people with early Alzheimer’s in a 190-person trial. Most patients actually got better than where they started, not just slower decline, and 75% still had gains 6 months after treatment ended

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 15h ago

Environment Colorado River drought drives unprecedented pattern of groundwater loss. The Upper Colorado River Basin lost an estimated 4.6 trillion gallons of groundwater during a severe three-year drought from 2020 to 2022. That's enough water to halfway fill Lake Powell, stretched along the Utah-Arizona border

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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 1d ago

Psychology A study of 2,587 adults found that AI-generated stories were rated as more engaging and higher quality than human-written fiction, yet readers preferred stories labeled as human-written. Participants also struggled to distinguish AI-generated stories from those written by humans.

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r/science • u/sfgate • 6h ago

Health Stanford researchers used AI “digital twins” of pregnant women’s immune systems to identify two common drugs that may help prevent preterm birth

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r/science • u/StemCellPirate • 21h ago

Genetics Genetic study shows seafarers from Easter Island settled Hawaii

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r/science • u/Fantastic_Guidance54 • 13h ago

Psychology U.S. Senate candidates are increasingly using ads that criticize their own party, with use up 65% over the last decade. Because of political polarization, these ads can trigger backlash, but voters tolerate them when they believe the strategy improves their party’s chances of winning.

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r/science • u/sr_local • 1d ago

Health In teenagers (mean age 12.6 years) one additional serve of any type of fruit each day was associated with a 13% lower risk of depression and a 7% lower risk of anxiety over the study period, according to a study on 6537 Australian adolescents followed for 3 years

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r/science • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 1d ago

Animal Science A new study suggests that physically petting your own dog prepares the body to handle subsequent stressors with calmer brain and heart responses, whereas simply sitting near, talking to, or making eye contact with the pet does not provide the same protective buffer.

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r/science • u/shinybrighthings • 6h ago

Psychology Impact of socioeconomic factors and birth-related conditions on autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

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r/science • u/shinybrighthings • 6h ago

Medicine Whole-blood transcriptomic findings in emergency department patients with suspected cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome: a pilot study

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r/science • u/AgingUS • 8h ago

Biology Hypomagnetic fields modulate lifespan, physical ability and mitochondrial metabolism in a Pink1 model of neurodegeneration

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r/science • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 1d ago

Neuroscience A new study suggests that the severe brain tissue loss caused by chronic alcohol consumption physically masks or overwrites the structural neural scars left by childhood trauma, though these trauma markers reappear when statistically adjusting for addiction severity.

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r/science • u/CUAnschutzMed • 1d ago

Health A randomized clinical trial found that children whose mothers took phosphatidylcholine, a form of choline found naturally in foods, had fewer social withdrawal problems and scored higher on cognitive tests than children whose mothers received a placebo.

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d ago

Neuroscience Scientists turned blood cells from donors aged newborn to 101 directly into brain stem cells, and the new cells kept getting biologically younger over time, shedding about 60 years of cell age in 50 days and acting like young cells, which may one day help treat brain diseases like dementia.

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r/science • u/shinybrighthings • 5h ago

Medicine Opioid and Gabapentinoid Prescribing in Older Adults with Dementia Before and After the 2016 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline

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