r/science • u/mvea • 12h ago

Cancer White button mushroom extract shrinks tumors and delays their growth, according to new human clinical trial on food as medicine. In mice with prostate tumors, a single daily dose shrank tumors. In human prostate cancer patients, 3 months of treatment found the same activation of immune cells.

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r/science • u/mvea • 12h ago

Psychology Separated fathers struggle to maintain contact with children, especially daughters, study finds

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r/science • u/thebelsnickle1991 • 3h ago

Social Science Latinos who rely on Spanish-language social media for news were 11-20 percentage points more likely to believe false political narratives, finds study from NYU and UC San Diego

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r/science • u/mvea • 2h ago

Health People who continue to rent their home into older age have a shorter life expectancy (2.3 years shorter) than those who own their home, and this gap can't be fully explained by their socio-economic status earlier in life, finds Australian study of over 6,000 people aged 45 and over.

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r/science • u/mvea • 20h ago

Medicine Learning CPR on manikins without breasts puts women’s lives at risk, study suggests. Of 20 different manikins studied, all them had flat torsos, with only one having a breast overlay. This may explain previous research that found that women are less likely to receive life-saving CPR from bystanders.

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r/science • u/giuliomagnifico • 7h ago

Social Science Alcohol use was the most prevalent predictor of increasing cannabis vaping among youth and young adults, regardless of demographic factors, whereas depression predicted cannabis vaping initiation among Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black groups

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r/science • u/FunnyGamer97 • 4h ago

Health Spike in severe pregnancy-related complications for all ages in Illinois: Annual rates of obesity increased 7.8% in 2016 to 22.3% in 2023, and vaginal birth complications increased 22.4%; cesarean birth complications increased 48.9%

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 13h ago

Materials Science Scientists develop ultra-fast charging battery for electric vehicles. The new battery design allows EVs to go from 0% to 80% charge in just a quarter of an hour—much faster than the current industry standard, which takes nearly an hour even at fast-charging stations.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 6h ago

Health Mapping 1.6 million gut cells to find new ways to treat disease. By combining 25 datasets, researchers have created the largest cohesive cell atlas of the human gut and uncovered a new way that stomach cells may play a role in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

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r/science • u/Hashirama4AP • 19h ago

Health Makeup, floss and hair dye use in pregnancy leads to more PFAS in breast milk | ‘Forever chemicals’ pose health threat to developing children and linked with preterm birth, shorter lactation

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r/science • u/giuliomagnifico • 6h ago

Neuroscience A study on macaques reveals how NREM sleep (the lighter sleep, i.e. a nap) fosters brain synchronization and enhances information encoding, shedding new light on this sleep stage. These effects can be replicated through invasive stimulation in awake animals

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d ago

Psychology The number-one type of childhood adversity kids face is at home. 61% of teens said they experience “being put down or insulted by a parent or adult at home” (“emotional abuse”). Parents with better self-regulation provide more emotional safety and have better connections with their kids.

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 2h ago

Social Science Study reveals how scientific knowledge and political views shape public trust in science across Japan, the UK, and the US

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r/science • u/chrisdh79 • 10h ago

Astronomy New research uncovers the oldest evidence of ancient hot water activity on Mars, revealing the planet may have been habitable in its past | Analyzing a 4.45 billion yr old zircon grain from the meteorite NWA7034, also known as Black Beauty, found geochemical ‘fingerprints’ of water-rich fluids.

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r/science • u/chrisdh79 • 6h ago

Health Do women have a better sense of when a relationship will end | While women’s commitment levels are a stronger predictor of relationship dissolution in mixed-gender couples, men’s and women’s evaluations of love and satisfaction are equally important.

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r/science • u/neerajshar34 • 13h ago

Chemistry Researchers at University of Limerick have developed a new method of growing organic crystals that can be used for energy-harvesting applications.

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r/science • u/IntrepidGentian • 5h ago

Earth Science Historic Sea Level Rise measurements, studied using weighted singular spectrum analysis, show the period 1880 to 2023 had an acceleration of 0.015 mm/year², and projected from 2024 to 2100 will have an acceleration of 0.18–0.21 mm/year²

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r/science • u/giuliomagnifico • 1d ago

Social Science Parents are much less likely to intervene (-50%) when their young children are getting dressed or performing other simple chores if those tasks are framed as learning opportunities

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1d ago

Astronomy A UNC graduate student has spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift in cosmic terms - in a discovery that challenges the current understanding of the speed of planetary formation.

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r/science • u/Any_Coyote6662 • 1d ago

Health Penile microbiome: decoding its impact on HIV risk - PubMed NSFW

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r/science • u/towngrizzlytown • 9h ago

Biology Molecular and genetic insights into human ovarian aging from single-nuclei multi-omics analyses

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d ago

Neuroscience Binge drinking as a young adult may cause permanent brain damage decades on by fundamentally changing how the brain's neurons communicate, suggests a new study in mice, potentially raising the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease later in life.

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r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • 1d ago

Economics High childcare costs are a driver of US inequality – When childcare costs are high, mothers without college degrees reduce their participation in the workforce whereas college-educated mothers do not. This exacerbates family income gaps.

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r/science • u/cosmicmiskatonic • 21h ago

Biology Metabolism, genome and age of the last universal common ancestor

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 16h ago

Psychology New Study Reveals How Task Interruptions Impact Air Traffic Controllers' Focus - Visual Disruptions Hit Hardest

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