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"Being more likeable on first dates and job interviews by focusing on effort rather than talent: People make a good impression on dates or in job interviews by communicating the hard work and effort behind their success, rather than just emphasising their talent, suggests new research." | science |
"Chatting with adults boosts kids' brain development" | science |
"Scientists discovered a 41,000 to 52,000 years old cord made from 3 twisted bundles that was used by Neanderthals. It’s the oldest evidence of fiber technology, and implies that Neanderthals enjoyed a complex material culture and had a basic understanding of math." | science |
"People who commute short distances, walk or cycle to work, are more likely to be happy commuters, which makes them more productive at work, suggests a new Australian study (n=1,121). However, long commutes and driving to work are associated with negative work performance and productivity." | science |
"According to a study published today in the journal PNAS, many girls who do every bit as well as their male peers in mathematics may still decide on more humanities-centric careers—because their verbal skills outshine their already high marks in math." | science |
"Women who are flexible in their sexual attraction have gaze patterns that are similar to heterosexual men when viewing a nude female body, suggests a small new pilot study, which also found that women tended to be more sexually fluid than men." | science |
"Cooking oil coating prevents bacteria from growing on food processing equipment, resulting in a 1,000x reduction in bacterial levels inside the industrial machines tested, finds new study. Coating a stainless steel surface with an everyday cooking oil appears effective in repelling bacteria." | science |
"Study: 63% of severe alcoholics exhibit significant cognitive improvements within 18 days of abstinence" | science |
"Having an abortion is not harmful to a woman's health, finds a study (n=874) of women at 30 U.S. abortion facilities from 2008-2010: "Our study indicates that having an abortion is not detrimental to women’s physical health, but being denied access to a wanted abortion likely is."" | science |
"Myrkl: new anti-hangover pill said to break down up to 70% of alcohol in an hour" | science |
"Children get more satisfaction from relationships with their pets than with their brothers or sisters, according to new research from the University of Cambridge." | science |
"Chronic work stress can change our personalities: Employees dealing with work-induced stress can experience changes to their physiology, based on genetics and epigenetics, which may result in their personality traits fluctuating or even fundamentally changing over time." | science |
"Vitamin D supplementation to the older adult population in Germany has the cost-saving potential of preventing almost 30,000 cancer deaths per year" | science |
"Healthy levels of Vitamin D are linked to a 75% lower risk of depression, new research finds. The Irish study followed almost 4,000 older adults for four years." | science |
"Research suggests sexual appeals in ads don’t sell brands, products. Research found that not only were study participants no more likely to remember the brands featured in ads with sexual appeals, they were more likely to have a negative attitude toward those brands" | science |
"New study says construction workers are the most likely out of all workforces to use cocaine and opioids; they are the second most likely to use marijuana, after those in the service industry" | science |
"When parents can no longer get "personal-belief" exemptions from childhood vaccinations, they get around it by asking for religious exemptions, suggests new study, which found that after Vermont banned personal-belief exemptions, the number of religious exemptions shot up from 0.5% to nearly 4%." | science |
"The 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act, which raised the minimum wage for several economic sectors, led to a sharp rise in earnings for workers but without any adverse aggregate effect on employment. The minimum wage increases also played a critical role in reducing the racial wage gap in the US." | science |
"Baby boomers show concerning decline in cognitive functioning, study of 30,000 Americans shows. Trend reverses progress over several generations." | science |
"More youth use cannabis than smoke cigarettes in the United States, but cannabis use among teens does not appear to lead to greater conduct problems. Instead, it’s the other way around: It is adolescents with conduct problems who are more likely to gravitate toward cannabis use, finds new research." | science |
"Scientists found that the Mediterranean diet, rich in fish, vegetables, and olive oil, promotes healthy aging of the brain. It may also ward off the build up of harmful proteins in the brain, one of the main causes of Alzheimer’s disease — the most common form of dementia." | science |
"First-of-its-kind global survey shows the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown dramatically altered our personal habits. Overall, healthy eating increased because we ate out less frequently. However, we snacked more. We got less exercise. We went to bed later and slept more poorly" | science |
"Scientists conclude 13,000 years ago a 60 mile wide comet plunged Earth into a mini-Ice Age, after examining rocks from 170 sites around the globe" | science |
"New research finds that recovering gold, copper and other metals from e-waste is cheaper than obtaining these metals from mines. The researchers conclude that with these offsets, it costs 13 times more to obtain these metals from ore than from urban mining." | science |
"Scientists have created "golden" bananas rich in vitamin A to fight vitamin A deficiency in Uganda." | science |
"Fossils discovered in Morocco push back origin of Homo sapiens by 100,000 years" | science |
"Cannabis pain relief without the 'high' - In the wake of cannabis legalization, Canadian scientists have pinpointed the effective dose of marijuana plant extract cannabidiol (CBD) for safe pain relief without the typical "high" or euphoria produced by the THC." | science |
"People who eat meat (on average) experience lower levels of depression and anxiety compared to vegans, a meta-analysis found. The difference in levels of depression and anxiety (between meat consumers and meat abstainers) are greater in high-quality studies compared to low-quality studies." | science |
"An estimated 1.7 billion people, 22% of the world population, have at least one underlying health condition that could increase their risk of severe COVID-19 if infected, according to a study that uses data from 188 countries" | science |
"Bonobo mothers pressure their children into having grandkids, just like humans. They do so overtly, sometimes fighting off rival males, bringing their sons into close range of fertile females, and using social rank to boost their sons' status." | science |
"Study: 87% of excess lung cancer risk eliminated if smokers quit before age 45. Among more than 400,000 Americans researchers followed, smokers died of cancer at three times the rate of nonsmokers. However, smokers who managed to quit by age 45 lowered that excess risk by 87%." | science |
"Trained dogs sniff out COVID-19 as well as lab tests do, and the canines are even better than PCR tests at identifying infected people with no symptoms." | science |
"Republican lawmakers vote far more often against the policy views held by their district than Democratic lawmakers do. At the same time, Republicans are not punished for it at the same rate as Democrats. Republicans engage in representation built around identity, while Democrats do it around policy." | science |
"Before the pandemic, one-third of US households with children were already “net worth poor,” lacking enough financial resources to sustain their families for 3 months at a poverty level. Their savings are virtually nil, and they have no financial cushion to provide the basics for their children." | science |
"People’s attachment to the wilderness is linked to the fulfillment of basic psychological needs, study finds" | science |
"New study shows how LSD affects the ability of the thalamus to filter out unnecessary information, leading to an "overload of the cortex" we experience as "tripping"." | science |
"Engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactured in large quantities. New material is a two-dimensional polymer that self-assembles into sheets, unlike all other one-dimensional polymers." | science |
"Older people can come to believe their own lies - New EEG research shows that within an hour of telling a falsehood, seniors may think it's the truth. Findings suggest that telling a falsehood scrambles older people’s memory so they have a harder time recalling what really happened." | science |
"Killer whales go through menopause to avoid competition with their daughters. This sheds light on why menopause exists at all." | science |
"A widely used and increasingly controversial insecticide called neonicotinoid has "negligible" benefits for farmers and commercially grown soybeans, suggests a new study. Scientists have discovered that it may be killing honey bees, monarch butterflies, certain birds and aquatic life." | science |
"Scientists have trained rats to drive tiny cars, suggesting that brains of rodents are more flexible than initially thought." | science |
"New evidence of an illusory 'suffering-reward' association: People mistakenly expect suffering will lead to fortuitous rewards, an irrational 'just-world' belief that undue suffering deserves to be compensated to help restore balance." | science |
"A global team of scientists including researchers from Australia and the United States has found deforestation in the Brazilian Amazaon-Cerrado region is causing temperatures to rise in areas as far as 50km away from deforestation sites." | science |
"Most Cubans have no internet access, but get a rich variety of media and information in "El Paquete" (the weekly package), a 1 Tb collection of info distributed on USB keys. Selling EP is the largest occupation in Cuba, and challenges notions of how networks operate & what they mean to citizens" | science |
"Single-use plastics dominate debris on the North Pacific's deep ocean floor - Scientists have discovered the densest accumulation of plastic waste ever recorded on an abyssal seafloor (4,561 items per square kilometer), finding that the majority of this waste is single-use packaging." | science |
"Of the 56 million abortions that take place worldwide every year, 45% are not considered safe by WHO standards. Most of the unsafe abortions take place in countries with restrictive abortion laws." | science |
"Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater" | science |
"Deplatforming controversial figures (Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Owen Benjamin) on Twitter reduced the toxicity of subsequent speech by their followers" | science |
"Dogs forming eye contact is important in dog–human communication. Mutual gaze plays a role in dog–human bonding, and is associated with increased oxytocin levels in dogs and human partners. A new study found that shorter headed dogs, mongrels, younger, and more playful dogs form eye contact faster." | science |
"Cancer patients favor medical marijuana with higher THC, which relieves cancer symptoms and side effects, including chronic pain, weight loss, and nausea. Marijuana higher in CBD, which reduce seizures and inflammation, were more popular among non-cancer patients with epilepsy and MS (n=11,590)." | science |
"Reddit's bans of r/coontown and r/fatpeoplehate worked--many accounts of frequent posters on those subs were abandoned, and those who stayed reduced their use of hate speech" | science |
"A single dose of one of the two-shot COVID-19 vaccines prevented an estimated 95% of new infections among healthcare workers two weeks after receiving the jab, a study published Wednesday by JAMA Network Open found." | science |
"For the first time, scientists show that psychedelic substances: psilocybin, ketamine and LSD, leads to an elevated level of consciousness, as measured by higher neural signal diversity exceeding those of normal waking consciousness, using spontaneous magnetoencephalographic (MEG) signals." | science |
"Unwanted celibacy is linked to hostility towards women, sexual objectification of women, and endorsing rape myths" | science |
"The ‘zombie gene’ that may protect elephants from cancer - With such enormous bodies, elephants should be particularly prone to tumors. But an ancient gene in their DNA, somehow resurrected, seems to shield them, by aggressively killing off cells whose DNA has been damaged, finds new research." | science |
"Warning to adults: Children notice everything. Adults are good at paying attention only to what you tell them to – but children don’t ignore anything, a new study finds. That difference can help children do better than adults in some learning situations." | science |
"Most doctors think Obamacare has helped patients get better healthcare, even as a lengthy court battle threatens to strike down the law, finds a new study. About 60% of physicians in the US thought the Affordable Care Act gave more people access to medical treatment they wouldn't otherwise have had." | science |
"People with social anxiety tend to engage in restrictive “safety behaviors” that make them less likable, study finds" | science |
"Fitting 925 pet cats with geolocating backpacks reveals a dark consequence to letting them out — Researchers found that, over the course of a month, cats kill between two and ten times more wildlife than native predators." | science |
"In California, parents could claim a personal belief exemption to vaccination, and the rate of kindergartners without up-to-date vaccinations was 9.84% in 2013. In 2016, due to measles outbreaks, California passed a bill banning all personal belief exemptions. The rate was halved to 4.87% in 2017." | science |
"Women vaccinated against COVID-19 transfer SARS-CoV-2 antibodies to their breastfed infants, potentially giving their babies passive immunity against the coronavirus. The antibodies were detected in infants regardless of age – from 1.5 months old to 23 months old." | science |
"A moderate level of piracy can have a positive impact on the bottom line for both manufacturer and retailer - and not at the expense of consumers - finds a new study. Because piracy can affect pricing power of manufacturer and retailer, it injects "shadow" competition into a monopolistic market." | science |
"Social distancing and mask wearing to reduce the spread of COVID-19 have also protected against many other diseases, including influenza and respiratory syncytial virus. But susceptibility to those other diseases could be increasing, resulting in large outbreaks when masking and distancing stop" | science |
"A lost continent has been found under Europe. It's the size of Greenland and it broke off from North Africa, only to be buried under Southern Europe about 140 million years ago." | science |
"Study of 550 college students who had used or were using Tinder finds about one in five participants admit to talking with a person on the dating app while in an exclusive romantic relationship" | science |
"Scientists found the 22 million-year-old fossils of a giant carnivore they call "Simbakubwa" sitting in a museum drawer in Kenya. The 3,000-pound predator, a hyaenodont, was many times larger than the modern lions it resembles, and among the largest mammalian predators ever to walk Earth's surface." | science |
"Neuroscience study indicates that LSD “frees” brain activity from anatomical constraints - The psychedelic state induced by LSD appears to weaken the association between anatomical brain structure and functional connectivity, finds new fMRI study." | science |
"Doing just 10 min to 1 hour of leisure time physical activity such as dancing, walking, or gardening each week is associated with an 18 percent lower risk of death. All exercise, even the smallest, easiest amount, can have lasting benefits." | science |
"Scientists have genetically modified cassava, a staple crop in Africa, to contain more iron and zinc. The authors estimate that their GMO cassava could provide up to 50% of the dietary requirement for iron and up to 70% for zinc in children aged 1 to 6, many of whom are deficient in these nutrients." | science |
"A myth no more: Cranberry products can prevent urinary tract infections for women, according to new global study" | science |
"'Dropout' rate for academic scientists has risen sharply in past 50 years, new study finds. Half of the people pursuing careers as scientists at higher education institutions will drop out of the field after five years, according to a new analysis." | science |
"High vitamin D levels may protect against COVID-19, especially for Black people - In a retrospective study of individuals tested for COVID-19, vitamin D levels above those traditionally considered sufficient were associated with a lower risk of COVID-19." | science |
"An uncomfortable disconnect between who we feel we are today, and the person that we believe we used to be, a state that psychologists recently labelled “derailment”, may be both a cause, and a consequence of, depression, suggests a new study (n=939)." | science |
"Study: "Autistic burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic life stress and a mismatch of expectations and abilities without adequate supports. It is characterized by pervasive, long-term (typically 3+ months) exhaustion, loss of function, and reduced tolerance to stimulus"" | science |
"People find it hard to maintain eye contact when talking, possibly because the dual task of maintaining eye contact while also racking the brain for a word is just too demanding, so the brain pushes for breaking eye contact to focus exclusively on finding a word that will fulfill the obligation." | science |
"Wastewater created during fracking and disposed of by deep injection into underlying rock layers is the probably cause of a surge in earthquakes in southern Kansas over the last 5 years." | science |
"Scientists have discovered a new technique can turn plastic waste into energy-dense fuel. To achieve this they have converting more than 90 percent of polyolefin waste — the polymer behind widely used plastic polyethylene — into high-quality gasoline or diesel-like fuel" | science |
"The cheapest "green diet" costs $2.84 per day, according to a study in The Lancet, but that isn’t affordable for 1.68 billion people, more than a fifth of the global population" | science |
"The prevalence of dementia in countries where more than one language is spoken is 50% lower than in those regions where the population uses only one language to communicate. Active bilingualism is an important predictor of delay in the onset of symptoms of mild cognitive impairment." | science |
"Self diagnoses of diverse conditions including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, autism, and gender identity-related conditions has been linked to social media platforms." | science |
"Black women with natural hairstyles, like curly afros, braids, or twists, are often seen as less professional than black women with straightened hair, new research suggests. Findings show that societal bias against natural black hairstyles exists in the workplace and perpetuates race discrimination." | science |
"11% of all black men in Pennsylvania, born 1986 to 1989, were incarcerated in solitary confinement by age 32. Reflecting large racial disparities, the population prevalence is only 3.4% for Latinos and 1.4% for white men" | science |
"Horses identify photographs of their current keepers, and even of former keepers whom they had not seen in six months, at a rate much better than chance. Horses correctly identified their current keeper and ignored the stranger’s face about 75 percent of the time" | science |
"Extremely rich people are not extremely smart. Study in Sweden finds income is related to intelligence up to about the 90th percentile in income. Above that level, differences in income are not related to cognitive ability." | science |
"More than 60% of people surveyed in a new study supported marijuana legalization because they agreed with arguments saying it would increase tax revenues, create a profitable new industry, reduce prison crowding and lower the cost of law enforcement, finds Cornell University researchers." | science |
"One in four women with ADHD has attempted suicide. Women with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder are eight times more likely to attempt suicide, while men with ADHD are four and a half times more likely; parental violence and substance dependence increase the prevalence of suicide attempts." | science |
"Lack of sleep, stress can lead to symptoms resembling concussion. Between 11% and 27% of healthy college athletes with no history of a recent concussion reported symptoms that met criteria for post-concussion syndrome (PCS), predicted by lack of sleep, pre-existing mental health problems and stress." | science |
"Pornography might serve as a means of existential escape among those suffering from boredom" | science |
"A new study detected an immediate and significant reversal in SARS-CoV-2 epidemic suppression after relaxation of social distancing measures across the US. Premature relaxation of social distancing measures undermined the country’s ability to control the disease burden associated with COVID-19." | science |
"Food neophobia, an eating behaviour trait in which a person refuses to taste and eat new food they are not familiar with, may lead to poorer dietary quality and increase the risk of developing lifestyle diseases, finds a new study (n = 4,091, ages 18-83)." | science |
"Researchers developed a bandage that changes color when it contacts the acidic microenvironment of a bacterial infection and releases an antibiotic. If drug-resistant bacteria are present, the researchers can shine light to cause the bandage to release reactive oxygen species that kill the bacteria." | science |
"Doctors in the U.S. experience symptoms of burnout at almost twice the rate of other workers, due to long hours, fear of being sued, and having to deal with growing bureaucracy. The economic impacts of burnout are also significant, costing the U.S. $4.6 billion every year, according to a new study." | science |
"Consuming small doses of psilocybin at regular intervals — a process known as microdosing — does not appear to improve symptoms of depression or anxiety, according to new research." | science |
"A long-dormant Russian Volcano, Bulshaya Undina, is believed by some scientists to be erupting again; its last period of eruption was 10,000 years ago, still during the Paleolithic Age." | science |
"Support for porn bans founded on religion, not science: Conservative politicians have been citing science to support anti-porn legislation, but a new study suggests that the only Americans who still broadly support banning porn are biblical literalists — not science believers or skeptics." | science |
"Study: One in twenty workers are in useless jobs or 'bullshit jobs' — far fewer than previously thought. However, David Graeber was right to link people’s attitudes towards their jobs to their psychological wellbeing, and this is something that employers—and society as a whole—should take seriously." | science |
"The Arctic Is Shifting to a New Climate Because of Global Warming- Open water and rain, rather than ice and snow, are becoming typical of the region, a new study has found." | science |
"Among 26 pharmaceutical firms in a new study, 22 (85%) had financial penalties for illegal activities, such as providing bribes, knowingly shipping contaminated drugs, and marketing drugs for unapproved uses. Firms with highest penalties were Schering-Plough, GlaxoSmithKline, Allergan, and Wyeth." | science |
"Hope is a key factor in recovering from anxiety disorders, suggests a new study, which found that cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) can result in clear increases in hope, associated with changes in anxiety symptoms, in social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and OCD." | science |
"Babies fed exclusively on breast milk ‘significantly less likely to get sick’, Irish study finds" | science |
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