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"Cost analysis shows it'd take $1.4B to protect one Louisiana coastal town of 4,700 people from climate change-induced flooding" | science |
"Coca-Cola pours millions of dollars into university science research. But if the beverage giant doesn’t like what scientists find, the company's contracts give it the power to stop that research from seeing the light of day, finds a study using FOIA'd records in the Journal of Public Health Policy." | science |
"Flying insects in hospitals carry 'superbug' germs, finds a new study that trapped nearly 20,000 flies, aphids, wasps and moths at 7 hospitals in England. Almost 9 in 10 insects had potentially harmful bacteria, of which 53% were resistant to at least one class of antibiotics, and 19% to multiple." | science |
"In 2009, Colorado started a program to offer long-acting reversible contraceptives (e.g. IUDs) to low-income women. The initiative reduced births by approximately 20% among 15–19 year olds who lived near the clinics that were funded to offer IUDs." | science |
"The use of jargon kills people’s interest in science, politics. People exposed to jargon when reading about subjects like surgical robots later said they were less interested in science and were less likely to think they were good at science." | science |
"Psychedelic drugs (e.g. psilocybin, LSD, DMT) may reduce depression and anxiety by increasing psychological flexibility, which describes the ability to connect with the present moment and manage one’s feelings, according to a new survey of 2,120 individuals." | science |
"Children who nap midday are happier, excel academically, and have fewer behavioral problems, suggests a new study of nearly 3,000 kids in China, which revealed a connection between midday napping and greater happiness, self-control, and grit; fewer behavioral problems; and higher IQ." | science |
"Dutch woman dies after catching COVID-19 twice, the first reported reinfection death, raising serious questions about how long immunity and antibodies can last. Her immune system was compromised. The case was published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases." | science |
"The pursuit of basic life goals, such as avoiding diseases, maintaining romantic relationships, being accepted by others, achieving social status, and caring for family members, help foster a sense of purpose in life, as they are relevant to our evolutionary fitness, suggests a new study (n=1,993)." | science |
"A cave in a remote part of Mexico was visited by humans around 30,000 years ago – 15,000 years earlier than people were previously thought to have reached the Americas." | science |
"Study, published in the Journal of Sex Research, shows women in equal relationships (in terms of housework and the mental load) are more satisfied with their relationships and, in turn, feel more sexual desire than those in unequal relationships." | science |
"Being mistreated by a customer can negatively impact your sleep quality and morning recovery state, according to new research on call centre workers." | science |
"Scientists have discovered if they block PLpro (a viral protein), the SARS-CoV-2 virus production was inhibited and the innate immune response of the human cells was strengthened at the same time." | science |
"Critics say green policies stifle growth. The opposite may be true. Environmental regulation can in fact increase worker productivity and overall capital accumulation, according to new research, with green taxes having the largest potential effect on productivity." | science |
"A new study has shown that microplastics in soil can be harmful to worms, causing them to lose weight. Earthworms are an important part of farming as they help boost the nutrients found in the soil - so this latest form of plastic pollution is particularly bad news for farmers." | science |
"Double-blind placebo trial of psychedelic tea ayahuasca shows significant, rapid anti-depressant effect" | science |
"Researchers have identified a drinkable cocktail of designer molecules that interferes with a crucial first step of Alzheimer’s, and even restores memories in mice. The next step is to verify the compounds aren’t toxic in preparation for translation to clinical trials on humans." | science |
"Study found that who avoids the news do it in part because they anticipate news will make them anxious without being relevant to their lives, resulting in limited engagement with news, and by extension, civic and political affairs" | science |
"Ignorance of history may partly explain why Republicans perceive less racism than Democrats" | science |
"Microplastics Found In Lungs of People Undergoing Surgery. A new study has found tiny plastic particles no bigger than sesame seeds buried throughout human lungs, indicating that people are inhaling microplastics lingering in the air." | science |
"People of higher status are more likely to think that those who disagree with them are stupid or biased — even when their high status is the result of a random process. The findings could help explain why wealthier individuals tend to be more politically engaged than the less wealthy." | science |
"Some companies may hire unethical bosses on purpose: “Dark” personality traits – questionable ethical standards, narcissistic tendencies – that make a boss bad also make that person much more likely to go along with manipulating earnings, and may be the reason they got the job in the first place." | science |
"MSU study confirms: 1 in 5 adults don’t want children –– and they don’t regret it later" | science |
"Fear of stricter regulations spurs gun sales after mass shootings. Researchers determined that the increase in firearm purchases after mass shootings is driven by a concern about regulations rather than a perceived need for protection." | science |
"On average, the number of excess COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents in US states reopening without masks is 10 times the number in states reopening with masks after 8 weeks. 50,000 excess deaths were prevented within 6 weeks in 13 states that implemented mask mandates prior to reopening." | science |
"Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse" | science |
"Nursing homes with the highest profit margins have the lowest quality. The Covid-19 pandemic revealed that for-profit long-term care homes had worse patient outcomes than not-for-profit homes. Long-term care homes owned by private equity firms and large chains have the highest mortality rates." | science |
"Childhood neglect was associated with Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism, which in turn were related to greater levels of malevolent creativity as adults, who were more likely to think about ways to take revenge on others, fabricate lies to simplify a situation, and pull pranks." | science |
"Dragonfly wings naturally kill bacteria. At the molecular scale, they are composed of tiny "beds of nails" that use shear forces to physically rip bacteria apart." | science |
"Babies have air pollution in their lungs and brains before they take their first breath. Nanoparticles cross the placenta into the foetus in the womb as early as the first trimester of pregnancy and get into its developing organs, including its liver, lungs, and brain." | science |
"Scientists found a caterpillar that thrives when eating plastic. As one of more than 50 known species of "plastivores" — or plastic-eating organisms — researchers hope the greater wax moth caterpillar will help provide us "with a great starting point to model how to effectively biodegrade plastic."" | science |
"Scientists Discover 120,000-Year-Old Human Footprints In Saudi Arabia" | science |
"Using data collected from around the world on illicit drugs, researchers trained AI to come up with new drugs that hadn't been created yet, but that would fit the parameters. It came up with 8.9 million different chemical designs" | science |
"Dads engaged in their kid’s lives can help to improve their mental health and behavior - teens in low-income families whose fathers are more frequently engaged in reading, playing and providing necessities such as clothes and food during childhood have fewer behavioral and emotional problems." | science |
"Flu vaccination in the U.S. substantially reduces mortality and lost work hours. A one-percent increase in the vaccination rate results in 800 fewer deaths per year approximately and 14.5 million fewer work hours lost due to illness annually." | science |
"Parents’ socioeconomic status and children’s inherited DNA differences are powerful predictors of educational achievement. However, new research (n=5,000) suggests that having the genes for school success is not as beneficial as having parents who are highly educated and wealthy." | science |
"Humans can't endure temperatures and humidities as high as previously thought." | science |
"The presence of strong labor unions substantially reduces poverty for both unionized households and non-unionized households." | science |
"Promising anti-obesity drug that shrinks fat without suppressing appetite - Researchers discover a drug that has been shown to selectively shrink excess fat by increasing fat cell metabolism, to significantly reduce body weight and blood cholesterol levels without lowering food intake in obese mice." | science |
"Study on 11,196 couples shows that it's not the person you choose but the relationship you build. The variables related to the couple's dynamic predicted success in relationships more reliably than individual personality traits." | science |
""Many hand dryers operate at levels far louder than their manufacturers claim and at levels that are clearly dangerous to children's hearing" when measured at their height, according to the work of 13-year old Nora L. Keegan." | science |
"Biomarkers in mother’s plasma predict a type of autism in offspring with 100% accuracy. It’s the first time that machine learning has been used to identify with 100% accuracy maternal autoantibody-related autism spectrum disorder-specific patterns as potential biomarkers of ASD risk." | science |
"With child discipline, physical punishment or verbal reasoning when parent is loud and abrupt, may lead to aggression, finds global study (n=215,885). Long-term actions by parents (letting children know they are loved, spending time and listening to them) are better than nonviolent discipline." | science |
"Girls with highly critical mothers are more likely to have engaged in non-suicidal self-injury, including cutting and burning, according to a new study of 204 children (ages 7-11) published in Psychiatry Research." | science |
"Scientists studied six patients who had half of their brain removed during childhood to treat severe epilepsy. Brain scans showed how the mind rewired itself to adapt, with the remaining hemisphere forming even stronger connections that let the patients develop language and motor skills." | science |
"Legalizing weed leads to increased sales of ice cream, cookies and chips, according to a first-of-its-kind study establishing a causal relationship between legal cannabis and junk food consumption." | science |
"Gratitude motivates people to meet the sexual needs of their romantic partners. The study suggests those who feel appreciated by their partner and appreciative towards their partner tend to have a stronger sexual bond." | science |
"Medical cannabis provides immediate symptom relief across dozens of health symptoms with relatively minimal negative side effects, finds a new study based on patient-reported data (n=2,830)." | science |
"Marital satisfaction is linked to women’s sexual desire, suggests a new study, which found that women’s levels of sexual desire were not only lower than men’s at the beginning of their marriages, but much more variable than men’s. Men’s levels of sexual desire stayed higher and more constant." | science |
"Researchers pin point single toxic chemical in tires as cause of mass salmon mortality" | science |
"Researchers examined the guts of freshwater fish preserved in museum collections; they found that fish have been swallowing microplastics since the 1950s and that the concentration of microplastics in their guts has increased over time." | science |
"Injecting minute amounts of two immune-stimulating agents directly into solid tumors in mice can eliminate all traces of cancer." | science |
"Dogs may never learn that every sound of a word matters. Despite their great hearing, dogs cannot tell the difference between words which differ in only one speech sound (dog vs dig), finds a new brain wave study. This may explain why the number of words dogs learn to recognize remains low." | science |
"Exposure to “rags-to-riches” TV programs make Americans more likely to believe in upward mobility and the narrative of the American Dream. The prevalence of these TV shows may explain why so many Americans remain convinced of the prospects for upward mobility." | science |
"Doctors don’t just “get over” rude treatment from patients, research suggests. In simulations with an angry parent, the performance of pediatricians suffered dramatically. The findings reinforce past research that rudeness has negative effects on medical performance." | science |
"‘More unites us than divides us’ - New research based on data from over 60 countries and 140,000 people suggests that people are much more united in their beliefs and values than media reporting would suggest. This narrative may be perpetuated and seized upon by politicians to sow divisions." | science |
"Medicare could have saved an estimated $3.6 billion buying generic drugs at Mark Cuban's direct-to-consumer online pharmacy according to an analysis of 89 drugs available for purchase on the platform." | science |
"Helicopter parents say their actions are all about their children, but what they’re doing is reaping the rewards for themselves, suggests new research (n=302), which found that high helicopter parenting leads to low mastery, self-regulation and social competence in young adults aged 18 to 24." | science |
"A new study finds that when 25 percent of people in a group adopt a new social norm, it creates a tipping point where the entire group follows suit. This shows the direct causal effect of the size of a committed minority on its capacity to create social change" | science |
"Vaginal-fluid transplants treat incurable condition in pilot study, fully restoring healthy microbiomes in 4 of 5 women with bacterial vaginosis (BV), which could “revolutionize the way we view and treat conditions affecting the female reproductive tract.” Published this week in Nature Medicine." | science |
"Fentanyl Surpasses Heroin As Drug Most Often Involved In Deadly Overdoses - When fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, infiltrated the drug supply in the U.S. it had an immediate, dramatic effect on the overdose rate, finds a new CDC report." | science |
"2020 is a 'preview' of how bad things can get if we don't fix climate change, other systemic problems: Lancet report | In 2018 in the U.S. alone, pollution caused more than 68,000 people to die prematurely." | science |
"New study shows the best way to express gratitude: People who help you love to hear how their kind actions met your needs. They are less impressed when you acknowledge how costly their action was." | science |
"A law restricting abortions in Texas resulted in more second trimester abortions due to women having more limited access to abortion services." | science |
"Scientists designed a new device that channels heat into light, using arrays of carbon nanotubes to channel mid-infrared radiation (aka heat), which when added to standard solar cells could boost their efficiency from the current peak of about 22%, to a theoretical 80% efficiency." | science |
"Scientists Discover an Ancient Whale With 4 Legs: This skeleton, dug out from the coastal desert Playa Media Luna, is the first indisputable record of a quadrupedal whale skeleton for the whole Pacific Ocean." | science |
"Women who use vibrators both alone and with a partner experience greater sexual satisfaction compared to those who only use a vibrator by themselves, according to a survey of 488 women with male partners. The findings suggest that communication may facilitate a more satisfying sexual experience." | science |
"Only four times in US presidential history has the candidate with fewer popular votes won. Two of those occurred recently, leading to calls to reform the system. Far from being a fluke, this peculiar outcome of the US Electoral College has a high probability in close races, according to a new study." | science |
"Japanese scientists have invented a new loop-based quantum computing technique that renders a far larger number of calculations more efficiently than existing quantum computers, allowing a single circuit to process more than 1 million qubits theoretically, as reported in Physical Review Letters." | science |
"City trees can offset neighborhood heat islands, finds a new study, which shows that enough canopy cover can dramatically reduce urban temperatures, enough to make a significant difference even within a few city blocks. To get the most cooling, you have to have about 40 percent canopy cover." | science |
"Video game playing causes no harm to young children's cognitive abilities - regardless of duration of game playing and video game genre, study finds" | science |
"Combatting PTSD by letting patients hear their own brainwaves - New technology uses algorithms to turn brain signals into sounds, letting patients literally hear their own brain activity, allowing the brain to naturally “self-optimize” into a quiet pattern, resetting the stress response in PTSD." | science |
"Upon using medical cannabis, patients in pain and those suffering from other medical conditions reduced their use of opioids, antidepressants, sleep medications, alcohol, and other dangerous substances, according to a new study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology." | science |
"In Switzerland, among 645 people hospitalized with chronic heart failure, a randomized trial found those who were given regular hospital food – as opposed to a personal nutrition plan – had an almost doubled risk of mortality within 30 days." | science |
"Face Masks Critical In Preventing Spread Of COVID-19. Using a face mask reduced the number of infections by more than 78,000 in Italy from April 6-May 9 and by over 66,000 in New York City from April 17-May 9." | science |
"The Amazon is worth $8.2 billion a year if it’s left standing, finds a new study in Nature. In many parts of the rainforest, that economic benefit far outweighs the short-term gain of tearing it down. “The forest should unambiguously be saved when measured in a purely economic sense”." | science |
"Study shows the 'key to happiness' is visiting more places and having new and diverse experiences. The beneficial consequences of environmental enrichment across species, demonstrating a connection between real-world exposure to fresh and varied experiences and increases in positive emotions" | science |
"Study finds that narcissists like fellow narcissists on Instagram" | science |
"People with early-onset dementia are often mistaken for having depression and now research has discovered the cause: a profound loss of ability to experience pleasure - related to degeneration of 'hedonic hotspots' in the brain where pleasure mechanisms are concentrated." | science |
"A lack of sleep affects people’s ability to feel for others. Sleep deprivation and emotional fatigue can hit anyone, but first responders and health-care workers are especially vulnerable due to shift work, long hours and the overall stressful nature of their jobs." | science |
"Trump frequently refers to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 as the “China virus.” New research indicates that his followers are more likely than other Americans to admit they would engage in discriminatory behavior toward people of Asian descent." | science |
"We call upon Reddit to take action against the rampant Coronavirus misinformation on their website." | science |
"In 16 out of 17 advanced democracies, governments have increased economic redistribution to compensate the middle and lower classes amid growing economic inequality. This contradicts claims that governments are unresponsive to popular demands. The one exception is the United States." | science |
"Narcissism is driven by insecurity, and not a grandiose sense of self, suggests a new study. Narcissists cope with these insecurities by flexing, which makes others like them less in the long run, further aggravating their insecurities, which then leads to a vicious cycle of flexing behaviors." | science |
"Physicists "turn back time" by returning the state of a quantum computer a fraction of a second into the past, possibly proving the second law of thermodynamics can be violated. The law is related to the idea of the arrow of time that posits the one-way direction of time: from the past to the future" | science |
"The U.K. would have saved about 65,000 lives and had its GDP fall by just 0.5% rather than 11% in 2020 if it had adopted strict South Korean-style coronavirus controls, researchers have found, showing that there is not necessarily a tradeoff between the economy and public health" | science |
"Today's obesity epidemic may have been caused by childhood sugar intake, the result of dietary changes that took place decades ago. Since the 1970s, many available infant foods have been extremely high in sugar, and high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) after 1970 quickly become the main sweetener." | science |
"Open heart surgery appears to be safer in the afternoon because of the body's internal clock, scientists have said." | science |
"More extroverted people suffered mood declines while more introverted people actually saw mood improvements during the COVID-19 pandemic, finds a new study of students at a US university." | science |
"A research team trained people to use a robotic extra thumb and found they could effectively carry out dextrous tasks, like building a tower of blocks, with one hand. The researchers report that participants trained to use the thumb also increasingly felt like it was a part of their body." | science |
"SARS-CoV-2 can survive for up to 9 hours on human skin compared to nearly 2 hours for influenza A virus. Both were completely inactivated on human skin within 15 seconds by ethanol. The 9-h survival of SARS-CoV-2 on human skin may increase risk of contact transmission and supports hand hygiene." | science |
"Children in kindergartens that emphasized play, improving self-regulation, working together and helping one another, and hands-on learning performed better academically, showed less bullying and more kindness than students in more traditional classes, and teacher enthusiasm for teaching soared." | science |
"Anti-gay attitudes in Africa today can be traced to Colonial Christian missionary activity." | science |
"Social anxiety is related to a preoccupation with making mistakes, finds a new study that monitored children’s brain activity." | science |
"Astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of Earth orbiting the nearby star 40 Eridani — precisely where Star Trek character Spock’s home planet Vulcan supposedly lies." | science |
"Study: Atheists behave more fairly toward Christians than Christians behave toward atheists" | science |
"Bacteria via biomanufacturing can help make low-calorie natural sugar (not artificial sweetener) that tastes like sugar called tagatose, that has only 38% of calories of traditional table sugar, is safe for diabetics, will not cause cavities, and certified by WHO as “generally regarded as safe.”" | science |
"Conservatives have accused social media platforms of being biased against them, whereas a study finds that the reason conservative content was disproportionately removed is because they posted more content that was offensive or allegedly so, misinformation, Covid-related, adult, or hate speech." | science |
"Study: Immigrants in the U.S. are more likely to start firms, create jobs. Compared to native-born citizens, immigrants are more frequently involved in founding companies at all scales." | science |
"Alarming climate change: Earth heads for its tipping point as it could reach +1.5 °C over the next 5 years, WMO finds in the latest study" | science |
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