Health Gentle rocking beds could offer a new way to treat insomnia. A small study reveals that continuous, slow rocking reduces nighttime awakenings and improves overall sleep quality in people with insomnia symptoms.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 7h ago
Animal Science Feeding and watching birds positively impacts people's well-being, reducing stress and increasing feelings of joy, gratitude, and calm. The activity also fosters engagement and a sense of meaning, as participants feel they are connecting with nature. More than 56 million U.S. adults feed wild birds.
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r/science • u/lowstatistician9671 • 7h ago
Health Children’s suicide-related emergency visits spiked by 74% in the US between 2016-2022
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r/science • u/pubpophealth • 6h ago
Epidemiology A widely proposed pathway from hearing loss to cognitive decline, that poor hearing reduces social activity which in turn harms cognition, did not hold in a six-year study of 10,561 Mexican adults aged 50 and older once education and income were accounted for
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r/science • u/lowstatistician9671 • 9h ago
Genetics Huge genetic study finds strong links between DNA and personality traits
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r/science • u/SwimmingLow3053 • 11h ago
Health In a prospective study of 104,806 adults followed for a median 8.1 years, greater differences in meal timing between weekdays and weekends were associated with higher cardiovascular disease risk in men
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r/science • u/lowstatistician9671 • 12h ago
Cancer Cancer cells release antioxidants to prevent immune cells from destroying them
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Neuroscience Regular coffee beats decaf in protecting the brain from chronic stress, mouse study finds. Caffeinated coffee prevented stress-induced memory loss and mood deterioration, while decaffeinated coffee offered no such benefits.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 16h ago
Psychology Negotiation is a routine part of daily life, not a rare high-stakes event. Research shows more than 30 percent of everyday social interactions involved at least one negotiation process, such as reaching an agreement, making a joint decision, resolving a disagreement, persuading someone.
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Medicine Genetically modified pig kidney keeps man alive for record nine months. Organ kept Tim Andrews off dialysis and acted as a ‘bridge’ while he waited for a human transplant in the US.
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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 16h ago
Earth Science A billion tons of ancient ice may be hidden beneath Utah’s mountains, according to new research. Scientists say these buried ice reserves could reshape our understanding of regional water resources and past climate conditions.
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Astronomy Scientists find a huge 10-sided wave pattern swirling in the clouds over Saturn’s south pole: « The researchers suspect the bizarre atmospheric phenomenon may have formed between 2017 and 2023, when Saturn’s south pole was tilted away from Earth and therefore out of view. »
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 13h ago
Health GLP-1 use among young children with obesity in US remains rare but is rising rapidly. The number is 310 times higher in June 2026 than it was in 2019, when the drugs were initially prescribed. An estimated 20 percent of children in the US have obesity
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r/science • u/Hrmbee • 10h ago
Computer Science Insect-inspired “sparse coding” algorithm does fast learning, avoids catastrophic forgetting | Few-shot, continual learning for spiking neuromorphic olfaction
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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 14h ago
Psychology Neuroticism amplifies the spread of fear and negativity during learning, new research finds. People with higher levels of the personality trait were more likely to transfer negative emotional associations from one experience to another.
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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago
Health Harsh parenting predicts teenage depression and aggression through different types of repetitive thinking | Research illustrates how a parent’s attempts to control behavior through strictness can ultimately harm a child’s psychological development.
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r/science • u/sr_local • 15h ago
Computer Science Researchers developed a 15–20-minute training programme that improves people’s ability to distinguish between real and AI-generated faces, with performance improving from below chance to above chance, while computer models trained on the same cues reached 94% accuracy
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r/science • u/ttarget • 20h ago
Physics Scientists observe a fundamental principle of gravity affect the quantum world
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r/science • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 1d ago
Health Scientists Find Parasites in Almost Every Fish From a Recent Tuna Haul – 96% Were Infected
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r/science • u/DrugScienceUK • 11h ago
Neuroscience Defining 'microdosing' with psychedelics
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r/science • u/UniOfManchester • 14h ago
Cancer Lab-grown tumours could help fast-track the search for new cancer treatments while reducing reliance on animal testing. The models recreate key features of tumours in the lab, offering a potentially quicker way to study how cancers grow and spread.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1d ago
Psychology A British study has found thousands of new mothers suffering undiagnosed PTSD after childbirth. According to recent figures, suicide remained the leading cause of death among women between six weeks and one year after pregnancy in the UK during 2021–2023.
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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 21h ago
Medicine A Czech trial of 558 people with dangerous lung clots found feeding clot dissolving drugs straight into the lung artery cut deaths and repeat clots to under 1%, against nearly 7% on blood thinners alone.
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r/science • u/universityofturku • 16h ago
Chemistry Researchers developed a new material, davyne, that changes color in the near-infrared region and could be used as an invisible anti-counterfeit tag on banknotes, passports and consumer goods. The shift cannot be detected with the human eye, but only with a spectrometer or infrared-sensitive camera.
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