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Psychology Men and women report similar levels of “duty sex,” and similar reasons behind it. People who worry their partner might cheat, who see their partner as a more desirable catch than themselves, or who experience higher levels of emotional instability tend to report having sex out of duty more often.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1m ago

Environment Climate change must be declared a "global health emergency" to shape governments' policies after heat caused three million deaths between 2016 and 2023. By reducing worker productivity, warming has cost the global economy more than $1 trillion per year over the past three years

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 4m ago

Physics Physicists Discover That Maxwell’s Demon Can Extract Three Times More Energy by Exploiting Hidden Memories, Revealing How Information Stored in a System Can Be Used to Boost Energy Extraction and Challenge Our Understanding of the Relationship Between Information, Entropy, and Thermodynamics

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r/science • u/Science_News • 6m ago

Earth Science Comets probably didn’t deliver life’s building blocks to Earth | The speed and angle of impact would have destroyed most organic compounds from comets, researchers report

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r/science • u/Unlikely_Forever_466 • 30m ago

Geology Study finds rising salinity in Antarctic Intermediate Water after sea-ice decline

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r/science • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 1h ago

Astronomy Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered 2026 ED138, a massive new dwarf planet candidate in the Kuiper Belt that measures between 600 and 1,500 kilometers across and had previously eluded detection due to its tilted orbit.

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r/science • u/Slow_cpu • 2h ago

Genetics How our blood vessels age from within. The Human Aging Endothelial Cell Atlas provides scientists with a new resource for exploring how blood vessels age across different tissues...

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r/science • u/JIntegrAgri • 2h ago

Biology Researchers found that TaTB1 suppresses wheat spikelet formation by interacting with TaDUO1 to synergistically activate WFZP transcription

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r/science • u/1Parshvanath • 9h ago

Neuroscience How your brain learns to cope with uncertainty

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r/science • u/Macchanoco • 10h ago

Biology Coordinated mosquito biting dynamics at the human skin interface

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r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • 11h ago

Social Science Otto von Bismarck, the conservative chancellor of the German Empire, created the world's first welfare state in the 1880s. Intended to combat the Socialist Party as an emerging challenger party, the policy ended up benefiting the socialists in elections due to issue ownership.

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 12h ago

Health Mice With Parkinson’s-Like Brain Damage Unexpectedly Recovered a Year Later, Raising New Questions About Whether the Brain Can Reverse Some Effects of Neurodegenerative Disease

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r/science • u/chromoscience • 13h ago

Biology Females shape hunting of vertebrates in wild bonobos

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r/science • u/mvea • 13h ago

Neuroscience Autistic children’s brains respond less to the emotional meaning of sentences, fMRI study finds. This may contribute to autistic children’s social communication challenges.

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r/science • u/LogicalDirect • 16h ago

Cancer Young adults with cancer report getting dismissed by doctors

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r/science • u/shinybrighthings • 16h ago

Epidemiology Drug scheduling laws and the emergence of novel synthetic drugs

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r/science • u/LogicalDirect • 17h ago

Health Living Alone Linked to Mortality Risk From Multiple Causes in U.S. Including Cancer; Suicide Highest

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r/science • u/sr_local • 17h ago

Neuroscience Brain stimulation temporarily changes perception of sexualised images of women: study of 76 students found that applying a mild electric current to the scalp for 10 minutes improved how well participants recognised upright sexualised images of women, compared with a placebo

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r/science • u/pubpophealth • 18h ago

Health Medicare patients with dementia who had more annual wellness visits were more likely to start a dementia medication within a year, rising from 9.8% with no visits to 14.1% with three or more

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r/science • u/uniofwarwick • 18h ago

Astronomy Astronomers spot first white dwarf star with two debris discs

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 20h ago

Health Dogs’ Mouths Harbor Parasites Associated With Humans, Revealing a Potentially Overlooked Source of Cross-Species Parasite Exposure. Research can't establish whether our pets are getting these oral parasites directly from us, but that is a possibility.

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r/science • u/CUAnschutzMed • 20h ago

Epidemiology A new national study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases found that hospitalizations for drug use-associated infective endocarditis, a potentially life-threatening heart infection, declined 18% between 2020 and 2022 after years of increases.

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r/science • u/AgingUS • 20h ago

Biology Body composition, but not morphological masculinity, is associated with biological aging markers in middle-aged men

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r/science • u/MayLikePepsi • 20h ago

Psychology Students with disabilities are more likely to use GenAI for various activities. Students with ADHD, mental health conditions, neurological conditions, and learning disabilities were among the most likely to use GenAI, while those with mobility disabilities had the lowest use.

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r/science • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 20h ago

Medicine News coverage of psilocybin often outpaces the science, systematic review finds

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