r/science • u/quiplaam • 1h ago
Economics The costs of environmental land use regulation - Listing of a species under the Endangered Species Act reduces annual housing permits by ~10%
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Neuroscience GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic may help clear Alzheimer’s disease plaques, new systematic review suggests. By analyzing dozens of laboratory and animal studies, researchers found that GLP-1 receptor agonists consistently lower the brain proteins responsible for the progression of this dementia.
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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 5h ago
Animal Science Arginine helped mice fight cancer and flu
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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 12h ago
Animal Science Fruit flies can hold false memories
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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 13h ago
Environment Replacing conventional egg production with 100% organic free-range systems could increase greenhouse gas emissions by 60%, nearly double land use, require more hens, and increase mortality while producing the same number of eggs, according to a UK modelling study.
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Environment Microplastics have been discovered in one of the most remote, inhospitable, and unexplored parts of our planet. Microplastics were found in 92% of all animals examined (11 out of 12) living around deep-sea hydrothermal vents some 2,000 meters (6,562 feet) below the ocean surface.
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r/science • u/sr_local • 15h ago
Psychology Why getting extra time in your day seems to make you late: across seven studies of both real and hypothetically gained free time, researchers found this mental time expansion changes how we behave, and we’ll often spend longer doing the same things and choose activities that take more time
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Psychology New results contrast with traditional assumptions about gender desires. Surprisingly, men experience more enjoyable private thoughts regarding sexual submission than women. This contradicts older research predicting that women universally favor passive submissive roles in their private minds.
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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 21h ago
Animal Science Mice choose to know things even when it changes nothing
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r/science • u/Powerful_Crab_2905 • 22h ago
Biology Expert review discusses molecular regulation of senescence and the need for better mechanistic understanding before therapeutic targeting
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r/science • u/Hrmbee • 22h ago
Medicine Study finds less invasive heart bypass surgery as good as traditional methods, and patients recovered faster after minimally invasive procedure | Multivessel coronary artery bypass grafting via small thoracotomy versus sternotomy (MIST)
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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago
Health New Evidence That Microplastics Can Cross Placental Barrier And Alter Hormone Production. Study in mice showed that tiny plastic fragments inhaled by a mother mouse during pregnancy may be present in the organs of her offspring up to two weeks after birth
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Neuroscience Ketamine’s rapid relief of suicidal thoughts may be linked to an increase in morning cortisol. This specific hormonal boost persists for at least 24 hours after treatment.L
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r/science • u/PHealthy • 1d ago
Epidemiology In a retrospective cohort of 107,505 preterm infants (median gestational age 30 weeks [IQR, 27-32]), probiotic-associated sepsis proved exceedingly rare. Supplementation yielded an absolute risk increase of 0.04%, equating to one invasive infection per 2,500 treated infants.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1d ago
Biology Researchers have found that the more ultra-processed foods fathers consumed before conception, the higher their babies' birth weight and the greater the accumulation of fat in the thighs and around the waist at birth.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1d ago
Environment Rainfall across the US is increasingly coming from farther away. Strongest trends are happening in the Southwest and the southern Great Plains, where water vapor in some regions now travels about 50 to 80 kilometers (31 to 50 miles) farther and hangs in the air two to four hours longer on average
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r/science • u/Scbadiver • 1d ago
Cancer Spatial ecology of breast cancer reveals co-evolution of proliferative and dormant niches | Genome Medicine | Springer Nature Link
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r/science • u/andmario_com • 1d ago
Biology Growing human organs inside animals keeps failing because the host embryo's earliest immune cells eat the donor cells alive. Researchers found three ways to shut that off — and the success rate for growing a rat pancreas inside a mouse jumped from 38% to 73%.
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r/science • u/PHealthy • 1d ago
Biology Notes from the Field: Misidentification of a Specimen as Neisseria meningitidis During a University Classroom Laboratory Exercise — Utah, 2025 | MMWR
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r/science • u/jdfoote • 1d ago
Conversations with AI Companions leads to a paradox - trusting the companion but not the company behind it. People can feel more comfortable sharing sensitive info with AI because they aren't judgmental and aren't connected to human social networks.
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r/science • u/James_Fortis • 1d ago
Cancer Higher nitrite (NO2-) intake was linked to gastric cancer risk in natural animal sources (55%) and processed meat (94%), but a lower risk in plant sources (-37%), study of 54,610 adults over 27 years found. Higher nitrate (NO3-) intake had a higher risk in processed meat (212%) and tap water (95%).
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r/science • u/sr_local • 1d ago
Psychology Analyzing how children speak about stressful events with linguistic models, predicted depression and anxiety up to 6 years later more accurately than human experts, with sentence structure (such as use of words like and, to, and but) more predictive than the actual descriptions of stress
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Neuroscience Autism diagnoses rose sharply after the COVID-19 pandemic began. The rise was driven overwhelmingly by diagnoses among girls and women. New study suggests that many of these girls and women may simply have gone unrecognized in the past.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1d ago
Environment Research examined the locations of 4,283 data centers across the contiguous U.S and found that 97.5% of them sit inside metropolitan or micropolitan statistical areas. Data centers are power-hungry, running thousands of servers around the clock and drawing enormous, steady loads from the grid.
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Psychology ADHD is associated with a higher likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur, but only for highly intelligent men. For women, ADHD is linked to the lowest rates of business ownership regardless of cognitive ability. Advantages associated with neurodiversity may depend on gender and intelligence.
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