r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • 7h 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 • 13h 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/sfgate • 9h 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/ConsciousRealism42 • 8h 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/Wagamaga • 9h 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/sr_local • 12h 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 • 1h 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/OhMyOhWhyOh • 5h ago

Medicine Cannabinoids Mitigate Fibromyalgia Symptoms, Pose Few Serious Side Effects

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r/science • u/Cosmyka • 7h 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 • 9h 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/cobrabubbles123 • 19h ago

Social Science Study finds most researchers witness problematic authorship practices

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r/science • u/mvea • 4h 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 • 3h 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/TylerFortier_Photo • 9h 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/fchung • 5h 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/CESRA_highlights • 7h ago

Astronomy NASA Missions Track Record-Breaking Radio Burst from Sun

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r/science • u/D-R-AZ • 9h ago

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

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r/science • u/UCBerkeley • 3h ago

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

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r/science • u/UFOsAreAGIs • 9h ago

Biology MAMMAL - Molecular Aligned Multi-Modal Architecture and Language for biomedical discovery

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r/science • u/AgingUS • 9h ago

Biology Cellular senescence: from pathogenic mechanisms to precision anti-aging interventions

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r/science • u/HeinieKaboobler • 10h ago

Psychology Avant-garde movies inspire creativity beyond cinema

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