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 • 17h 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/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/ttarget • 5h ago
Physics Scientists observe a fundamental principle of gravity affect the quantum world
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 22h 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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Social Science Escaping absolute poverty boosts adult cognitive abilities, study finds. Comprehensive poverty reduction policies improve both factual knowledge and abstract reasoning by elevating physical health, educational investment, and job opportunities.
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r/science • u/whiteyzacks • 10h ago
Biology C. difficile colonization in infants reshapes gut development, challenging a long-held assumption
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 34m 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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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 46m 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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r/science • u/CUAnschutzMed • 17h ago
Health New research is shedding light on the surprisingly broad range of neurological and systemic diseases that can be caused by varicella zoster virus (VZV), the virus that causes chickenpox and shingles.
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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 5h 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/Wagamaga • 1d ago
Neuroscience Every Breath You Take Has a Unique Impact on the Brain. The brain does not simply respond to breathing as a steady rhythm. Instead, the detailed shape of each individual breath is closely linked to the shape of neural activity in brain regions involved in cognition, emotion and memory.
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r/science • u/irokie • 18h ago
Health Researchers studying DNA simulations identify a potential common mechanism underlying fatigue in Long COVID, Chronic Fatigue, PTSD, MS and Rheumatoid Arthritis
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r/science • u/KoalaWide2345 • 4h ago
Mathematics When biology inspires mathematics: new discovery explains why a widely used evolutionary method can give false answers
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r/science • u/sr_local • 1d ago
Cancer U.S. cancer deaths linked to alcohol have doubled since 1990, increasing from 11,361 to 23,126 in 2023. Liver cancer was the leading cause among older men, breast cancer among women, and colorectal cancer among men aged 20-54
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r/science • u/universityofturku • 1h 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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r/science • u/chilladipa • 2h ago
Health Summary for Patients: An Updated Systematic Review on Efficacy and Safety of Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists and Co-agonists for Weight Loss Among Adults Without Diabetes | Annals of Internal Medicine
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r/science • u/amesydragon • 13h ago
Neuroscience When tasked with working together, pairs of apparently identical mice spontaneously divide into leaders and followers—and then stick to the same roles over multiple rounds of the experiment.
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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 22h ago
Neuroscience New neuroscience research suggests that age-related memory decline may stem less from forgetting and more from the brain storing memories with less precision, causing details to become increasingly blurred over time.
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r/science • u/Ken_BtheScienceGuy • 12h ago
Biology SGLT2 inhibitors off target effects lead to improved cardiometabolic improvements via PANK1 activation
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r/science • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 1d ago
Psychology Heavy ChatGPT use linked to intellectual laziness and social isolation
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r/science • u/scientificamerican • 1d ago
Health GLP-1 weight-loss medication could slow aging and extend lifespan. Giving old mice semaglutide—commonly sold as Wegovy or Ozempic—extends their lifespan remarkably, a new study finds.
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Psychology Fertility increases women’s desire for conspicuous luxury. Women near ovulation are more likely to prefer luxury products (e.g., a designer bag or shoe) and display luxury in a conspicuous way. When a woman seeks to attract a potential mate, luxury consumption is a way for her to be noticed by men.
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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago
Psychology Sex differences in personality traits are narrowing among younger generations, according to new research, suggesting that social and cultural changes may be reducing long-observed gaps in how men and women score on key personality measures.
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r/science • u/kelcamer • 1d ago
Health Autistic adults showed elevated dopamine receptors and altered brain connectivity compared to their peers - autistic individuals exhibit higher dopamine D2 receptor levels and elevated glucose energy consumption in deep brain regions
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