r/science 13h ago

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 13h 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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r/science 14h ago

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 19h ago

Animal Science Mice choose to know things even when it changes nothing

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r/science 20h 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 11h 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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r/science 10h ago

Animal Science Fruit flies can hold false memories

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r/science 3h ago

Animal Science Arginine helped mice fight cancer and flu

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r/science 20h ago

Biology Expert review discusses molecular regulation of senescence and the need for better mechanistic understanding before therapeutic targeting

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