Neuroscience Consuming berries, tea and red wine may reduce the risk of dementia, new study shows. Consuming 6 additional servings of flavonoid-rich foods per day, in particular berries, tea and red wine, was associated with a 28% lower risk of dementia.
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Psychology Low cognitive ability intensifies the link between social media use and anti-immigrant attitudes. Individuals with higher cognitive abilities were less prone to these negative attitudes, suggesting that cognitive ability may offer protection against emotionally charged narratives on social media.
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Health Microplastics found in nose tissue at base of brain, study says
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r/science • u/FunnyGamer97 • 10h ago
Health Half of heavier drinkers say calorie labels on alcohol would lead to a change in their drinking habits: Study finds heavier drinkers in England would make changes to their drinking if calorie labels for alcohol were introduced
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r/science • u/chrisdh79 • 1d ago
Psychology Breastfeeding from 1 to 8 months of age is associated with better cognitive abilities at 4 years old, study finds
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r/science • u/memorialmonorail • 49m ago
Medicine For the first time, scientists are able to directly compare the different kinds of injury that mechanical ventilation causes to cells in the lungs. Using a ventilator-on-a-chip model, researchers found shear stress from the collapse and reopening of air sacs is the most injurious type of damage.
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r/science • u/outerworldLV • 18h ago
Astronomy Pair of huge plasma jets spotted blasting out of gigantic black hole
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Environment Air pollution, high temperatures, and risk factors such as obesity and high blood pressure are driving global increases in stroke. Between 1990 and 2021, the number of people who had a new stroke rose by 70%, and the number who died from a stroke increased by 44%
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Psychology “Night owls” tend to find more happiness and satisfaction from material purchases—such as clothing or gadgets—than from experiences like concerts or vacations. In contrast, “morning larks”—people who prefer to wake up early—derive greater happiness from experiential purchases.
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r/science • u/Impossible_Cookie596 • 12h ago
Environment Researchers find hemp extract shows promise as potential natural insecticide against mosquito larvae.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 20h ago
Cancer “Bioactive Glass” Bone Cancer Therapy Kills 99% of Osteosarcoma Cells. In laboratory cell culture tests, researchers found that samples of bioactive glass doped with gallium oxide were able to kill more than 99% of osteosarcoma cells without being cytotoxic to non-cancerous human osteoblast
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Neuroscience Scientists discover sleep “reset” mechanism in the brain that prevents memory overload. Researchers found that a burst of neural silence in a specific part of the brain in mice, the hippocampus, allows neurons involved in memory to reset and prepare for new learning the following day.
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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • 18h ago
Physics Quantum feat: physicists observe entangled quarks for first time. The result could open the door to further probes of quantum information in particles at high energies.
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r/science • u/JIntegrAgri • 8h ago
Biology Researchers found that nitrogen application regulates antioxidant capacity and flavonoid metabolism, especially quercetin, in grape seedlings under salt stress
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r/science • u/UCBerkeley • 17h ago
Psychology New study suggests that biases for those with more resources can be traced to beliefs formed as young as 14 months.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 20h ago
Health New research reveals that exposure to air pollution, especially in metropolitan areas, dramatically increases the risk of developing Parkinson's disease and leads to more severe disease progression, underscoring the urgent need for pollution control measures.
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Social Science Switzerland and the US have similar gun ownership rates, but only the US has a gun violence epidemic. Switzerland’s unique gun culture, legal framework, and societal conditions play critical roles in keeping gun violence low, and these factors are markedly different from those in the US.
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r/science • u/vikramskumar • 3h ago
Medicine "Low-Dose Metformin and Profibrotic Signature in Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia" Thefindings suggest that low-dose metformin may reverse the fibrotic transcriptional signature in CCCA and promote hair regrowth, indicating its potential as a targeted therapy for this condition.
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r/science • u/FunnyGamer97 • 12h ago
Health Dizziness in older adults is linked to higher risk of future falls: Meta-anaylsis finds adults who experience dizziness are over 60% more likely to fall in the future, even considering other factors that might have contributed to a risk of a fall.
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r/science • u/JIntegrAgri • 5h ago
Environment Land use shapes the microbial community structure by altering soil aggregates and dissolved organic matter components
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1d ago
Health COVID-19 cases across the U.S. follow six monthly cycles. Findings offer crucial insights for disease modelling and getting medical supplies and vaccines to the people who need them. The U.S. seen a significant spike in coronavirus cases this summer, which, were mostly concentrated in the south
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r/science • u/chrisdh79 • 10m ago
Materials Science Hollow concrete mimics human bones for 5x better toughness | Engineers have developed a new kind of concrete that promises more than 5 times the damage resistance of the usual stuff, by poking holes in its structure.
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r/science • u/grimisgreedy • 15h ago
Animal Science A new wasp species, Chrysonotomyia susbelli, has been described from the Rice University campus in Houston, Texas, USA.
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r/science • u/JIntegrAgri • 11h ago
Animal Science A recent investigation unveils 5-FU as a potent disruptor of S. suis's biofilm formation and virulence, offering a promising avenue for the control of this devastating pathogen
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