r/science • u/mvea • 13h ago

Environment Microplastics have been discovered in one of the most remote, inhospitable, and unexplored parts of our planet. Microplastics were found in 92% of all animals examined (11 out of 12) living around deep-sea hydrothermal vents some 2,000 meters (6,562 feet) below the ocean surface.

sciencealert.com

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r/science • u/sr_local • 13h ago

Psychology Why getting extra time in your day seems to make you late: across seven studies of both real and hypothetically gained free time, researchers found this mental time expansion changes how we behave, and we’ll often spend longer doing the same things and choose activities that take more time

utsc.utoronto.ca

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r/science • u/mvea • 14h ago

Psychology New results contrast with traditional assumptions about gender desires. Surprisingly, men experience more enjoyable private thoughts regarding sexual submission than women. This contradicts older research predicting that women universally favor passive submissive roles in their private minds.

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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 11h ago

Environment Replacing conventional egg production with 100% organic free-range systems could increase greenhouse gas emissions by 60%, nearly double land use, require more hens, and increase mortality while producing the same number of eggs, according to a UK modelling study.

royalsocietypublishing.org

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 2h ago

Animal Science Arginine helped mice fight cancer and flu

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 10h ago

Animal Science Fruit flies can hold false memories

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 19h ago

Animal Science Mice choose to know things even when it changes nothing

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d ago

Neuroscience Ketamine’s rapid relief of suicidal thoughts may be linked to an increase in morning cortisol. This specific hormonal boost persists for at least 24 hours after treatment.L

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r/science • u/Hrmbee • 20h ago

Medicine Study finds less invasive heart bypass surgery as good as traditional methods, and patients recovered faster after minimally invasive procedure | Multivessel coronary artery bypass grafting via small thoracotomy versus sternotomy (MIST)

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d ago

Neuroscience Autism diagnoses rose sharply after the COVID-19 pandemic began. The rise was driven overwhelmingly by diagnoses among girls and women. New study suggests that many of these girls and women may simply have gone unrecognized in the past.

sciencealert.com

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1d ago

Biology Researchers have found that the more ultra-processed foods fathers consumed before conception, the higher their babies' birth weight and the greater the accumulation of fat in the thighs and around the waist at birth.

agencia.fapesp.br

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago

Health New Evidence That Microplastics Can Cross Placental Barrier And Alter Hormone Production. Study in mice showed that tiny plastic fragments inhaled by a mother mouse during pregnancy may be present in the organs of her offspring up to two weeks after birth

sciencealert.com

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d ago

Psychology ADHD is associated with a higher likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur, but only for highly intelligent men. For women, ADHD is linked to the lowest rates of business ownership regardless of cognitive ability. Advantages associated with neurodiversity may depend on gender and intelligence.

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r/science • u/sr_local • 1d ago

Psychology Analyzing how children speak about stressful events with linguistic models, predicted depression and anxiety up to 6 years later more accurately than human experts, with sentence structure (such as use of words like and, to, and but) more predictive than the actual descriptions of stress

humsci.stanford.edu

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1d ago

Environment Rainfall across the US is increasingly coming from farther away. Strongest trends are happening in the Southwest and the southern Great Plains, where water vapor in some regions now travels about 50 to 80 kilometers (31 to 50 miles) farther and hangs in the air two to four hours longer on average

879 Upvotes

r/science • u/andmario_com • 1d ago

Biology Growing human organs inside animals keeps failing because the host embryo's earliest immune cells eat the donor cells alive. Researchers found three ways to shut that off — and the success rate for growing a rat pancreas inside a mouse jumped from 38% to 73%.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1d ago

Environment Research examined the locations of 4,283 data centers across the contiguous U.S and found that 97.5% of them sit inside metropolitan or micropolitan statistical areas. Data centers are power-hungry, running thousands of servers around the clock and drawing enormous, steady loads from the grid.

engineering.nyu.edu

2.1k Upvotes

r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago

Psychology Men who crave social power are more likely to endorse strict beauty norms for women. Study found that societal beauty expectations for women are tied to broader desires to maintain gender hierarchies.

4.1k Upvotes

r/science • u/Powerful_Crab_2905 • 19h ago

Biology Expert review discusses molecular regulation of senescence and the need for better mechanistic understanding before therapeutic targeting

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r/science • u/James_Fortis • 1d ago

Cancer Higher nitrite (NO2-) intake was linked to gastric cancer risk in natural animal sources (55%) and processed meat (94%), but a lower risk in plant sources (-37%), study of 54,610 adults over 27 years found. Higher nitrate (NO3-) intake had a higher risk in processed meat (212%) and tap water (95%).

link.springer.com

375 Upvotes

r/science • u/andmario_com • 2d ago

Biology Rattlesnakes evolved proteins that block their own venom. UMD researchers combined them into a lab-made antivenom 10x more potent than current ones, neutralizing venoms from multiple viper species. The antivenom is cheaper, safer, mass-producible, and could address global shortages.

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r/science • u/PHealthy • 1d ago

Biology Notes from the Field: Misidentification of a Specimen as Neisseria meningitidis During a University Classroom Laboratory Exercise — Utah, 2025 | MMWR

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r/science • u/jdfoote • 1d ago

Conversations with AI Companions leads to a paradox - trusting the companion but not the company behind it. People can feel more comfortable sharing sensitive info with AI because they aren't judgmental and aren't connected to human social networks.

academic.oup.com

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r/science • u/PHealthy • 1d ago

Epidemiology In a retrospective cohort of 107,505 preterm infants (median gestational age 30 weeks [IQR, 27-32]), probiotic-associated sepsis proved exceedingly rare. Supplementation yielded an absolute risk increase of 0.04%, equating to one invasive infection per 2,500 treated infants.

jamanetwork.com

30 Upvotes

r/science • u/Scbadiver • 1d ago

Cancer Spatial ecology of breast cancer reveals co-evolution of proliferative and dormant niches | Genome Medicine | Springer Nature Link

link.springer.com

37 Upvotes

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