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RETRACTED: Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Our World in Data’ estimates of January 2020 to December 2022

u/shiruken 784d ago

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Childhood trauma may change the way the brain develops, leading to greater apathy and less enjoyment later in life, according to research.

u/HumbleRestaurant790 1054h ago

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1139511(eurekalert.org)

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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.

u/andmario_com 2169h ago

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/8/pgag250/8762454?login=false(academic.oup.com)

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‘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.

u/Wagamaga 115h ago

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Of more than 500 occupations in the United States, flight attendants and pilots have the highest and second-highest proportion of radiation-related cancer deaths, a new study has found.

u/HumbleRestaurant790 7811d ago

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/pilots-flight-attendants-have-greater-risk-radiation-related-cancer-death-other-professions(hms.harvard.edu)

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County-Level Medical Debt Linked to Advanced-Stage Cancers and Worse Survival Among Newly Diagnosed U.S. Adults

u/HumbleRestaurant790 25h ago

https://pressroom.cancer.org/medical-debt-linked-to-worse-survival(pressroom.cancer.org)

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Maternal Gut Microbiome Could Shape Infant Health

u/kiyomoris 34h ago

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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.

u/Phylogenix 617m ago

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-026-02070-6(nature.com)

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Researchers have shown that unusual thorium clusters respond to magnetic fields in a fundamentally different way than expected, helping to explain a long-running disagreement between experiments and computer models.

u/UniOfManchester 210h ago

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Researchers have shed new light on how the human brain coordinates working memory: high-frequency brain waves, known as ripples, may help distant brain regions synchronize with one another during working memory tasks

u/sr_local 313h ago

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Researchers have developed a miniature microscope that allows scientists to observe and activate individual brain cells during natural movement, an advance that could accelerate research into how the brain controls behavior while deepening understanding of neurological diseases.

u/CUAnschutzMed 12h ago

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Mercury accumulation on the Antarctic Peninsula shelf has risen 160% since industrialization, while warming-driven ice melt has increased terrestrial mercury release by 550% and mercury export to the open ocean by 400%, turning historical pollution into a renewed source.

u/Phylogenix 323h ago

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2613472123(pnas.org)

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New method delivers sugars directly into cells

u/UniOfManchester 113h ago

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New research suggests that no matter what we eventually determine the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees to be, we’ll learn it was a primate that climbed trees. The study shows monkeys’ feet make them as adept as chimps at climbing trees.

u/memorialmonorail 121d ago

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Women Who Experienced Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Had Higher Health-Related Social Needs, Such as Inadequate Food, Employment and Education Among Black and Latina Women

u/MassGen-Research 441d ago

https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/women-with-adverse-pregnancy-outcomes-had-higher-health-related-social-needs(massgeneralbrigham.org)

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Women globally place higher importance on moral identity than men. The researchers analyzed data from 46,490 adults across 67 countries. Broad cross-cultural evidence indicates that women, on average, place greater emphasis on caring for others than men do.

u/mvea 7212d ago

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During the 2024 US presidential primary season, a recent study found that reading or watching negative political media predicted higher anxiety and lower work engagement, whereas positive political content predicted increased hope and helpfulness on the job.

u/mvea 512d ago

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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

u/Schwettes 2682h ago

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.125.074482(ahajournals.org)

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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

u/sr_local 4577h ago

https://cdn.nutrition.org/article/S2475-2991(26)01803-2/fulltext(cdn.nutrition.org)

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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.

u/FreeHugs23 15911h ago

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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.

u/mvea 22012h ago

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A common statistical shortcut may be causing researchers to miss important discoveries, a new study finds.

u/UniOfManchester 8513h ago

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New imaging technique sees through deep tissue, dense fog, and other obstacles

u/URochester_Hajim 34h ago

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Trichotillomania: Boredom and tiredness outpace negative emotions as predictors of hair pulling. Study finds that while negative feelings accompany the urge to pull hair, they do not reliably predict future pulling episodes.

u/FreeHugs23 1511h ago

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Canadian roboticists create a drone that can land on icebergs sloped nearly 60 degrees, with wind speeds of up to 30 km/h. Landing on icebergs specifically allows drones to monitor them for days or months, producing more detailed observation than a quick aerial surveillance mission.

u/IEEESpectrum 49h ago

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Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree

u/DentalAnthropology 12h ago

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Doctors Found 4 Autoimmune Diseases in One Woman at One Time: 40-year-old woman in China was already diagnosed with 3 - ulcerative colitis, autoimmune hepatitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis. She presented with severe iron deficiency and was also found to have a 4th - autoimmune gastritis.

u/mvea 2431d ago

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Attention can regulate acute inflammation in humans. The findings raises the possibility that our subjective experience of what is happening in the body is not only a passive process, but may be actively contributing to how physiological responses are regulated

u/Wagamaga 1341d ago

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Same-day coadministration of COVID-19 and influenza vaccines was not associated with an increased risk for adverse events in 3 updated-formulation periods

u/PHealthy 151d ago

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-26-00217(acpjournals.org)

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Urinary stones share universal molecular signatures across humans and animals. Charles University's Second Faculty of Medicine researchers show that analyzing these shared traits with infrared spectroscopy enables faster, more accurate diagnoses for all species.

u/mightx 217h ago

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/05704928.2026.2691719(tandfonline.com)

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Researchers found a "genetic switch" that triggers neurodegeneration in both a rare childhood dementia and Alzheimer's disease due to waste build-up in microglia. They may now be able to prevent neurodegeneration by targeting the waste-processing system inside the cell

u/sr_local 31d ago

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New follow-up study shows that a Finnish digital intervention programme Master Your Worries continued to reduce children's anxiety and improve their functional ability even after two years.

u/universityofturku 31d ago

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Over 25% of patients have body shapes that don't fit standard, universal templates for placing robotic surgical tools. Customizing these positions using pre-op CT scans makes pancreatic surgery much safer.

u/mightx 21d ago

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11701-026-03376-8(link.springer.com)

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Climate modeling suggests the AMOC may not have a fixed temperature threshold for collapse: it remained stable beyond 5°C under slow warming but collapsed around 2°C under faster warming, indicating that the rate of climate change can strongly influence its stability.

u/Phylogenix 282d ago

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-026-02730-w(doi.org)

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Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk

u/Potential_Being_7226 18010h ago

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Cannabis linked to earlier onset of psychosis, with gap wider in older adults

u/jivatman 4826h ago

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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.

u/mvea 312h ago

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Inactive tall children develop disproportionately weak muscles and thinner bones. Regular sports fully reverse this deficit.

u/mightx 6717h ago

https://karger.com/hrp/article/doi/10.1159/000552378/948683/Muscle-Function-and-Bone-Strength-in-Children-and(karger.com)

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Historically, there was very strong guidance that you must always finish an antibiotic course. Now, we're seeing a growing body of evidence saying that that is not always the case. And oftentimes, shorter durations of antibiotics are as effective and safe as longer alternatives.

u/mvea 16123h ago

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While 93% of adults would take a new Alzheimer’s blood test, those closest to the disease might avoid it. Charles University's Second Faculty of Medicine researchers found that having a close family history of Alzheimer's actually reduces a person's willingness to get tested by 69%.

u/mightx 9117h ago

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13195-026-02070-z(link.springer.com)

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Study Finds People Who Consumed Sugar-Sweetened Beverages on a Daily Basis Had Higher Risk of Stomach Cancer

u/HumbleRestaurant790 2351d ago

https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/daily-sugar-sweetened-beverages-higher-risk-of-stomach-cancer(massgeneralbrigham.org)

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Older adults could face harmful heat stress at just 1.5°C of global warming above preindustrial levels, compared with around 4°C for younger adults, suggesting people aged 60 and over are substantially more vulnerable to extreme heat than previously estimated.

u/Phylogenix 581d ago

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Incarceration rates have substantially declined in the US across the 21st century. There are two factors behind the decline: (1) Falling crime rates for violent and property offences, and (2) Decreased punitiveness for drug crimes.

u/smurfyjenkins 671d ago

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02536-y(nature.com)

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Lower-class employees face greater professional backlash for negotiating their salaries. Study provides evidence that this negotiation gap acts as a double bind that can compound economic disadvantages over a person’s career.

u/FreeHugs23 1361d ago

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Structural factors rather than reconstruction investment drive depopulation after Japan’s 2011 disasters

u/batman613 15h ago

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03843-y(nature.com)

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Digital amnesia. Taking screenshots makes you more likely to forget information. Many of us take more photos and screenshots than we can use — around 20 photos a day, with around 2,000 photos stored on the average smartphone, according to estimates.

u/Wagamaga 921d ago

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Top album releases linked to rise in fatal crashes as ‘distracted’ drivers access music | Harvard study finds traffic fatalities increase by 15% on release dates compared with similar days either side

u/FreeHugs23 591d ago

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First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists

u/badumtsssst 346m ago

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It’s not just flowers that help the pollinators. Grass can too.

u/universityofga 131d ago

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Preclinical Study Suggests Restoring Inhibitory Neuron Plasticity May Reverse Neurodevelopmental Disorder Symptoms

u/MassGen-Research 21d ago

https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/restoring-inhibitory-neuron-plasticity-neurodevelopmental-disorder-symptoms(massgeneralbrigham.org)

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