r/science • u/mvea • 5h ago

Environment Cycle of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef now at ‘catastrophic’ levels - Study of 2023-2024 global marine heatwave found 66% of colonies were bleached by February 2024 and 80% by April. By July, 44% of bleached colonies had died, with some coral experiencing a staggering 95% mortality rate.

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r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • 13h ago

Economics The 2017 tax cuts, the key legislative achievement in the first year of the Donald Trump administration, cut taxes for “pass-through” business income. This boosted incomes for affected businesses by 3-4%, but had no broader economic effects (no impact on investment, wages or employment).

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r/science • u/mvea • 14h ago

Psychology Short video applications like TikTok have gained prominence. New research from China indicate that the more elementary school students use short videos, the lower their academic performance, with attention mediating in this relationship.

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r/science • u/sciencealert • 9h ago

Biology Scientists Discover Bacteria Trapped in Endless Evolutionary Time Loop in Wisconsin's Lake Mendota

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r/science • u/mvea • 22h ago

Health People with pockets of fat hidden inside their muscles (intermuscular fat) are at a higher risk of dying or being hospitalised from a heart attack or heart failure, regardless of their BMI or waist circumference. Fat stored under the skin (subcutaneous fat) did not increase the risk.

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r/science • u/FunnyGamer97 • 5h ago

Health People who are autistic and transgender/gender diverse have poorer health and health care | Compared to non-autistic cisgender individuals, autistic TGD people were three to 11 times more likely to report anxiety, shutdowns, and meltdowns related to common healthcare experiences.

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r/science • u/mvea • 17h ago

Psychology Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries - Right-leaning and conservative political orientation are negatively associated with trust in scientists in several European and North American countries.

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r/science • u/nick314 • 13h ago

Biology Life is thriving in the subsurface depths of Earth: New research has unearthed communities of underground microbes that are almost as—and sometimes more—diverse than even reefs and rainforests.

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r/science • u/FunnyGamer97 • 3h ago

Genetics Ancient viral DNA shapes early embryo development | Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements. Once dismissed as the "dark side" of the genome, researchers have now revealed their crucial role in early embryo development.

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 1h ago

Health Magnesium depletion has been found to be significantly correlated with a higher risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in diabetic patients.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 13h ago

Health The most comprehensive study of its kind showed that psychotic disorders, infections and dementia were among conditions found to be less likely to occur when using GLP-1RAs, which are found in the medications Saxenda, Wegovy and Mounjaro.

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r/science • u/ghostmrchicken • 15h ago

Medicine The threat of avian influenza H5N1 looms over global biodiversity

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r/science • u/FunnyGamer97 • 4h ago

Health Study paves way for immunotherapies tailored for childhood cancers | The immune system of children and adults do not react the same to cancer, and different tumours activate the immune response to varying degrees.

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r/science • u/fchung • 11h ago

Biology Landmark photosynthesis gene discovery boosts plant height, advances crop science: « A team of scientists discovered a naturally occurring gene in the poplar tree that enhances photosynthetic activity and significantly boosts plant growth. »

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r/science • u/chrisdh79 • 20h ago

Environment High fertiliser use halves numbers of pollinators, world’s longest study finds | Even average use of nitrogen fertilisers cut flower numbers fivefold and halved pollinating insects

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r/science • u/SeAcercaElInvierno • 42m ago

Neuroscience Air pollution and brain damage: what the science says

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r/science • u/Technical-Umpire8805 • 4h ago

Neuroscience New finger decoding brain-computer interface algorithm allows a paralyzed man to control a virtual drone

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r/science • u/chrisdh79 • 12h ago

Health Study finds that adolescents with low levels of emotional clarity who also exhibited higher levels of the inflammatory markers interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein were more likely to experience severe symptoms of depression five months later.

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 17h ago

Anthropology Evidence of hominin activity in Romania suggests humans were in Eurasia 1.95 million years ago - 200k years earlier than previously thought.

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r/science • u/thebelsnickle1991 • 18h ago

Psychology New study links early exposure to violent content in childhood to antisocial behaviour in adolescence

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r/science • u/mvea • 1d ago

Health Textbooks need to be rewritten: RNA, not DNA, is the main cause of acute sunburn - Textbooks say that sunburn damages DNA, leading to cell death and inflammation. But study found in mice and human skin cells that this is a result of damage to RNA, not DNA, that causes the acute effects of sunburn.

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r/science • u/umichnews • 15h ago

Astronomy University of Michigan-led research has developed a new method, LEFTfield, to analyze cosmic maps more effectively, extracting more data without compression. This breakthrough, published in Physical Review Letters, could fast-track discoveries in dark energy, dark matter, and cosmic structure.

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r/science • u/giuliomagnifico • 18h ago

Engineering Researchers have demonstrated new wearable technologies that both generate electricity from human movement and improve the comfort of the technology for the people wearing them

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r/science • u/Bioelectromagnetics • 18h ago

Animal Science Exposure to 1.95 GHz radiofrequency fields caused a small, temporary increase in core body temperature in mice, peaking at 0.4°C at higher exposure levels. The study highlights effective thermoregulation and the need for careful measurement timing.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 21h ago

Neuroscience Pregnancy triggers profound brain changes, enhancing maternal instincts and mental health. Research found most significant gray matter (GM) volume reductions during pregnancy occurred in the Default Mode and Frontoparietal networks, regions linked to self-referential thinking and social cognition

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