Scientists have found a new cause for muscle loss in cancer. Tumors destroy blood vessels in muscles, this could lead to new treatments for cachexia.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-025-00975-6
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Canadian natural science graduate stipends lie below the poverty line
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0313972
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Sex differences in disgust sensitivity fade with age, large-scale study finds | Researchers found that younger women consistently reported higher levels of disgust, food-related worries, and contamination fears than men—but these differences diminished with older age.
https://www.psypost.org/sex-differences-in-disgust-sensitivity-fade-with-age-large-scale-study-finds/
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Healthy plant-based diets were associated with a 25% lower lung cancer risk, evident in both non-small cell lung cancer (24%) and small cell lung cancer (27%), study finds
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-024-03570-0
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Study finds Americans do not like mass incarceration. Most Americans favor community programs for nonviolent and drug offenders as opposed to prison sentences. Most do not want to spend tax dollars building more prisons; they favor spending money on prevention programs.
https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2025/05/study-says-americans-do-not-like-mass-incarceration.html
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Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity: « MIT researchers developed a new model of memory that includes critical contributions from astrocytes, a class of brain cells. »
https://news.mit.edu/2025/overlooked-cells-might-explain-human-brains-huge-storage-capacity-0527
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Anti-Aging Cocktail Extends Mouse Lifespan by Around 30 Percent, New Study Finds
https://www.sciencealert.com/anti-aging-cocktail-extends-mouse-lifespan-by-about-30-percent?utm_source=reddit_post
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A large study comparing various types of scans reports that mammography enhanced with iodine-based dye can detect three times as many invasive cancers in dense breast tissue as ultrasound
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/health/dense-breasts-cancer-mammograms.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K08.h8w7.gPu6WtK5PodJ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Unlocking Cocaine’s Grip on the Brain - School of Pharmacy
https://pharmacy.wisc.edu/2025/03/22/unlocking-cocaines-grip-on-the-brain/
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Research has found kids who have warmer mothers at age three are more likely to feel socially safe and secure at age 14, and this sense of security might be further impacting their mental and physical health at age 17,
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2834228
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Problematic usage of the internet is associated with deficits in general executive functions, decision making, and stimulus-specific inhibitory control that may evolve in later stages of addiction development.
https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.20240486
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Meet the very first human pest, which has been bugging us for 60,000 years | Thanks to new genetic detective work, scientists found that bed bugs were the first species that got a taste for humans – and we're still the main dish on its menu.
https://newatlas.com/biology/first-human-pest-arthropod/
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Younger men are less likely to seek professional help for their health. Men aged 18-29 were the least likely, often seeking help from online sources or their own networks. Barriers include cost and logistics, stigma around mental health and a fear of compromising independence by asking for help.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/younger-men-are-less-likely-to-seek-professional-help-for-their-health
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Tickling, or gargalesis, still puzzles neuroscience, finds a new review. We do not know how a touch becomes ticklish or why we respond to other people’s tickles but not our own. Gargalesis is likely the earliest trigger for laughter in life, but it is unclear whether we laugh because we enjoy it.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt0350
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Rapid bedside test predicts sepsis with over 90 percent accuracy
https://news.ubc.ca/2025/05/rapid-bedside-test-predicts-sepsis-with-over-90-percent-accuracy/
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Monarch butterflies migrate thousands of miles, but have also established year-round populations in the San Francisco Bay Area, encouraged by planting of non-native milkweeds. A new study shows that these resident populations are not a "trap" for migrating monarchs that affects their conservation.
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/city-dwelling-monarch-butterflies-stay-put
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‘E-tattoo’ could track mental workload for people in high-stake jobs, study says | Scientists say device could alert workers such as pilots and healthcare staff when they are feeling the strain
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/29/e-tattoo-could-track-mental-workload-people-high-stake-jobs-study-says
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Sleep disorders can signal future risk of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, other dementias years before symptoms appear. Associations often persisted after adjusting for participants' genetic predispositions for conditions like Alzheimer's though interactions with genetic risk were noted for Parkinson's
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44400-025-00008-0
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Younger men are less likely to seek professional help for their health | Men aged 18-29 were the least likely, often seeking help from online sources or their own networks. Barriers include cost and logistics, stigma around mental health and a fear of compromising independence by asking for help.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/younger-men-are-less-likely-to-seek-professional-help-for-their-health
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Poor sleep can bring out the ‘dark side’ of personality at work, study finds. When workers reported poorer sleep, they were more likely to show higher levels of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. These effects point to sleep as an overlooked factor influencing toxic behavior at work.
https://www.psypost.org/poor-sleep-can-bring-out-the-dark-side-of-personality-at-work-study-finds/#google_vignette
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For The First Time, Scientists Have Clear Evidence of The Martian Atmosphere 'Sputtering'
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-clear-evidence-of-martian-atmosphere-sputtering?utm_source=reddit_post
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Night owls (those who stay up at night and go to bed late) are more likely to suffer cognitive decline than morning people, finds a new study that followed more than 20,000 people aged 40 and older over 10 years. Interestingly, the difference was found mostly in higher-educated people.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S227458072500113X
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One suggestion for weight control is to eat slowly. Bento meals, typically eaten with chopsticks, led to longer mealtimes and more chewing than fast food like pizza. First study to isolate meal structure as key factor in eating speed, offering strategy to combat obesity and promote mindful eating.
https://www.fujita-hu.ac.jp/en/news/respr20250527.html
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Ultrasonic cigarettes, or u-cigarettes, marketed as a less harmful alternative to traditional e-cigarettes, may pose significant health risks due to the presence of harmful metals in their liquids and aerosols
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2025/05/28/new-study-highlights-health-risks-ultrasonic-cigarettes
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Despite humanity has evolved beyond the natural influence of sunlight when it comes to our sleep routines, new research shows that our circadian rhythms are still wild at heart, tracking the seasonal changes in daylight
https://news.umich.edu/humans-are-seasonal-creatures-according-to-our-circadian-rhythms/
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Drinking sugar is more problematic for health than eating it. Sugar consumed through beverages, like soda and even fruit juice, was consistently linked to a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Other sugar sources showed no such link and, in some cases, were even associated with a lower risk.
https://news.byu.edu/intellect/rethinking-sugar-byu-study-shows-food-source-is-key-to-understanding-diabetes-risk
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High caffeine intake linked to greater psychological distress in people with depression | Researchers also found that certain genetic differences are associated with how much caffeine people drink and how sensitive they are to its effects.
https://www.psypost.org/high-caffeine-intake-linked-to-greater-psychological-distress-in-people-with-depression/
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People who believe in conspiracy theories may be more likely to exhibit specific cognitive biases found in individuals with subclinical delusional thinking. Cognitive tendencies such as jumping to conclusions, emotional reasoning, and anomalous perception were associated with conspiracy beliefs.
https://www.psypost.org/scientists-identify-delusion-like-cognitive-biases-that-predict-conspiracy-theory-belief/
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Males to blame: We only know how 1.4% of female frogs sound | We barely know the vocalizations of any females because they are being drowned out by their much louder male counterparts. Essentially 98.6% of female frog calls are a mystery.
https://newatlas.com/biology/female-frog-sound/
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MRI scans of 44 young females show that weight-related disorders are associated with significant microstructural and macrostructural changes in the brain's hypothalamic nuclei involved in eating behaviors
https://ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S0002-9165(25)00071-1/fulltext
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