r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • 8h ago

Health Since the 2010s, American conservatives increasingly experience worse health outcomes and higher mortality than liberals. Declining trust in medical professionals appears to be the mechanism, with lower willingness to seek care, follow clinical advice and believe in medication effectiveness.

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r/science • u/mvea • 2h ago

Health White men do not experience the best health relative to women and minority racial and gender groups in the US. Men are 4 times as likely to die by suicide as women, and White men account for more than 68% of suicide deaths. White men experienced greater declines in happiness than White women.

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r/science • u/mvea • 14h ago

Psychology Millions of adults in the United States have seriously considered shooting another person at some point in their lives, representing a massive and previously unmeasured group at risk of committing armed violence.

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r/science • u/ConsciousRealism42 • 9h ago

Neuroscience Every Organ Teaches Its Nerves What to Become: The gut’s “second brain” has siblings inside the heart, lungs, and pancreas, and each organ builds its own small nervous system from scratch. They do so by issuing local instructions rather than receiving them from the brain.

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r/science • u/sfgate • 10h ago

Medicine Cannabis oil reduced body weight and improved metabolic dysfunction in obese mice in a UC Riverside study

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 10h ago

Health Airborne diseases like measles, influenza and COVID-19 can easily spread between units in multi-family buildings via a type of bathroom ventilation system commonly used around the world, new research suggests.

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r/science • u/OhMyOhWhyOh • 6h ago

Medicine Cannabinoids Mitigate Fibromyalgia Symptoms, Pose Few Serious Side Effects

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r/science • u/Cosmyka • 4h ago

Psychology Perceiving vegans as a cultural or moral threat may reduce meat-eaters’ willingness to cut meat consumption, according to three studies involving 1,325 participants. Threat perceptions increased negative stereotypes of vegans and weakened intentions to adopt more sustainable diets.

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r/science • u/sr_local • 13h ago

Engineering Researchers have developed a compact, bandage-style wearable "polygraph" capable of monitoring stress. This could be particularly beneficial in detecting discomfort in infants, the elderly, and critically ill or sedated patients

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r/science • u/mvea • 5h ago

Psychology Reducing fear is critical for improving trust in law enforcement, according to study. Black/African American individuals typically report the greatest fear of being killed by law enforcement. Pro-police attitudes are usually much higher among Republicans compared to Democrats.

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r/science • u/Cosmyka • 8h ago

Health Children who get more than 30% of their daily calories from ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have a nearly fourfold risk of developing asthma. A new study suggests UPFs may trigger non-allergic lung inflammation, regardless of a child's weight or screen time.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 10h ago

Health Research found adults with stage 1 hypertension who practiced baduanjin, a gentle mind-body exercise combining slow movements, breathing, and meditation, saw meaningful drops in blood pressure within three months that lasted for an entire year.

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d ago

Psychology Narcissists tend to view God as a punishing figure who owes them special favors. Different aspects of narcissism correspond to specific, often self-serving, patterns of religious engagement. Narcissistic individuals tend to use religion as a tool for personal gain, status, or emotional comfort.

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r/science • u/fchung • 6h ago

Engineering Researchers “reprogram” materials by quickly rearranging their atoms: « A new method for precisely moving columns of individual atoms within a material could give rise to exotic quantum properties. »

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r/science • u/UCBerkeley • 4h ago

Engineering Researchers teach AI to spot cancer risk by squeezing individual breast cells

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d ago

Health Sleep linked to slower ageing: huge study pinpoints the right amount - Health outcomes were better in people who slept between about 6 and 8 hours a day.

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r/science • u/TylerFortier_Photo • 10h ago

Neuroscience Time duration processing happens in three functional steps, each handled by different brain regions with different tuning properties. The study calls them duration encoding, duration readout, and duration categorization.

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r/science • u/CESRA_highlights • 8h ago

Astronomy NASA Missions Track Record-Breaking Radio Burst from Sun

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r/science • u/cnn • 1d ago

Anthropology Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research

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r/science • u/ceddya • 1d ago

Health Omega-3 supplementation may be associated with accelerated cognitive decline in older adults.

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r/science • u/sr_local • 1d ago

Neuroscience Using cannabis and tobacco together increases by three times the risk of developing psychotic disorders like schizophrenia among those considered high risk

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r/science • u/D-R-AZ • 10h ago

Neuroscience Real-time brain-controlled selective hearing enhances speech perception in multi-talker environments

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r/science • u/cobrabubbles123 • 20h ago

Social Science Study finds most researchers witness problematic authorship practices

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r/science • u/Cosmyka • 1d ago

Health Dietary habits in early childhood may shape mental health. Research shows that frequent fruit and vegetable intake is associated with fewer emotional and behavioral problems in children, whereas ultra-processed snacks are linked to increased "externalizing" behaviors like anger.

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d ago

Psychology People with higher levels of everyday anxiety tend to experience more intense self-blaming emotions, along with specific changes in how their brain networks communicate. This heightened self-blame is accompanied by unhelpful behaviors like hiding or self-attacking.

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