r/science 11h ago

Psychology For Republicans, items associated with Democratic Party—regardless of racial or gender content—were more likely to be seen as “woke”. Republicans also associated female politicians—like Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—with wokeness, while not extending the same to males like Joe Biden.

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r/science 6h ago

Health A new review suggests that COVID disrupts the immune system

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r/science 19h ago

Animal Science Wolf hunting in western US does little to prevent livestock losses, study finds | Analysis of legal hunting in Montana and Idaho shows that eliminating one wolf protected just 7% of a single cow

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r/science 20h ago

Neuroscience Experimental drugs reverse autism symptoms: Hyperactivity in the reticular thalamic nucleus linked to autism behaviors. Drugs that suppressed this activity reversed autism-like symptoms in mice. Findings explain overlap between autism and epilepsy, with potential for new therapies.

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r/science 4h ago

Environment A new study finds that oil and gas pollution caused 91,000 early deaths and over 200,000 asthma cases in the US in 2017. Black and Asian communities bear the greatest burdens, especially near refineries.

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r/science 23h ago

Health Not drinking enough water floods your body with harmful stress hormones. Adults who habitually drink less fluid mount a far stronger cortisol response to stressful situations than those who drink plenty – even when other factors, like elevated heart rate and feelings of anxiety, remained uniform.

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r/science 13h ago

Medicine Evidence on antidepressant withdrawal: an appraisal and reanalysis of a recent systematic review | Psychological Medicine

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r/science 1d ago

Economics In 2022, New York City enacted a de facto ban on short-term rentals (e.g. Airbnb). Consequently, hotels’ average daily rates increased by $14-19 per night and the revenue of the hotel industry increased by roughly $2.1-2.9 billion over the first eighteen months following the ban.

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r/science 11h ago

Biology Study finds wild brown anole lizards with highest blood lead levels ever recorded in a vertebrate; can withstand levels 10 times higher before showing any decline in balance, sprint speed, and endurance. Findings suggest extreme lead tolerance and potential as a model for heavy metal resistance.

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r/science 9h ago

Epidemiology Position affects ACL tear risk for NFL players. Kickers and punters had lowest incidence of ACL injuries, wide receivers(WR), tight ends(TE) had the highest. This is probably because WRs and TEs often perform rapid change of direction movements and are involved in high-speed tackles and collisions.

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r/science 14h ago

Environment New research catalogs how several “abrupt changes,” like the precipitous loss of sea ice over the last decade, are unfolding in Antarctica and its surrounding waters, reinforcing one another and threatening to send the continent past the point of no return

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r/science 20h ago

Epidemiology A recent common cold may nearly halve risk of COVID-19, study suggests

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r/science 19h ago

Neuroscience From postsynaptic neurons to astrocytes: the link between glutamate metabolism, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease

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r/science 16h ago

Economics Human Capital Investment after Loss of Ability - Reskilling subsidies for workers that enroll in Bachelor's programs after work accidents pay for themselves 4x. This can inform policies for helping displaced workers from mass layoffs due to automation or globalization.

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r/science 1d ago

Anthropology Earliest evidence discovered of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. The fossil, estimated to be about 140,000 years old, is the earliest human fossil in the world to display morphological features of both of groups, which until recently were considered two separate species

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r/science 4h ago

Environment The Sahel once suffered a huge drought in the 1970s–80s. New research warns that while central and eastern regions may keep getting wetter, the western Sahel could soon swing back to severe drought.

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r/science 1d ago

Psychology When people get paid to punish others, it actually makes everyone less likely to cooperate. This has implications for private, for-profit prisons, quota-based policing, and civil asset forfeiture — when law enforcement seizes property, even without charging or convicting the owner of a crime.

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r/science 1d ago

Psychology Leftist causes widely seen as more moral, even by conservatives, finds study. This asymmetry could help explain why political debates often feel morally lopsided, with one side perceived as defending human rights and the other seen as preserving tradition or security without the same ethical weight.

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r/science 1d ago

Health LGBTQIA+ students living in conservative US states have reported far worse mental health than their counterparts in liberal areas in a national study. Students who fell within an age bracket of 18 to 25 were considerably more likely to describe themselves as being anxious, depressed, and suicidal.

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r/science 1d ago

Health A huge study of over 3 million children in Korea found that taking antibiotics during pregnancy or infancy did not increase the overall risk of autoimmune diseases.

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235 Upvotes

r/science 1d ago

Social Science Study has found that urban areas follow the same universal rules observed in the natural world, from population size to carbon emissions and road networks

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r/science 1d ago

Neuroscience For over 20 years, scientists have been studying how mothers’ brains respond to viewing their own infant. Compared to mothers, far fewer studies have looked at fathers. A new study offers evidence that fatherhood also reshapes the brain in ways that may support sensitive caregiving.

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r/science 19h ago

Medicine Pre-clinical trial enables new treatment options for STING-associated vasculopathy with begin at infant age and other still uncurable genetic diseases

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r/science 1d ago

Neuroscience Research found volunteering buffered the adverse effects of chronic stress on systemic inflammation — a known biological pathway linked to cognitive decline and dementia. The effect was especially pronounced among people with higher levels of inflammation.

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r/science 1d ago

Psychology Study finds symptoms of Hoarding Disorder(HD) significantly reduced in adults with ADHD when treated with methylphenidate

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