Food additive titanium dioxide likely has more toxic effects than thought, study finds | Controversial additive may be in as many as 11,000 US products and could lead to diabetes and obesity in mice.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/titanium-dioxide-food-additive-toxic
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Sensory issues in autism may stem from co-occurring emotional blindness, not autism itself, finds a twin study. These sensory traits appear to be genetically linked to alexithymia—a condition characterized by difficulties in identifying and describing one’s own emotions.
https://www.psypost.org/sensory-issues-in-autism-may-stem-from-co-occurring-emotional-blindness-not-autism-itself/
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A study of 7,100+ US adolescents found that living near greenspace was linked to slower brain thinning, greater surface area, and better mental health outcomes – via changes in brain structure.
https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(25)01120-5/fulltext
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Adopting a healthy diet may have cardiometabolic benefits regardless of weight loss
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/adopting-a-healthy-diet-may-have-cardiometabolic-benefits-regardless-of-weight-loss/
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Researchers found that populations of dopamine neurons don’t simply signal reward prediction errors—they encode rich maps of possible future outcomes, including when and how much a reward might be
https://www.fchampalimaud.org/news/many-possible-futures-how-dopamine-brain-might-inform-ai-adapts-quickly-change-0
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A new study across 11 African reserves found that dehorning rhinos cut poaching by ~78% – far more effective than costly law enforcement alone.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado7490
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Lack of key mineral induces male mice to develop ovaries | The discovery challenges the longstanding belief that sex is determined purely by genetic factors.
https://newatlas.com/biology/male-mice-ovaries/
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Scientists map the hidden architecture of the brain’s default mode network | The findings help explain why the default mode network is involved in such a wide variety of mental states—from introspection to decision-making.
https://www.psypost.org/scientists-map-the-hidden-architecture-of-the-brains-default-mode-network/#google_vignette
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People around the world are more likely to favor dominant, authoritarian leaders during times of intergroup conflict. Drawing on data from 25 countries, the findings support that humans may have a psychological system that evolved to prioritize strong leadership when faced with external threats.
https://www.psypost.org/major-study-points-to-evolved-psychology-behind-support-for-strongmen/
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Low-calorie diets might increase risk of depression. Overweight people and men were particularly vulnerable to the mood changes that come with a low-calorie diet. Cutting calories might also rob the brain of nutrients needed to maintain a balanced mood. Any sort of diet at all affected men's moods.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/06/04/low-calorie-diets-impact-mood-depression/1921749048018/
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A new study finds two main routes drive incels to harmful beliefs: one shaped by pain from bullying and poor mental health, the other by anger, control, and extreme ideas. Feelings and beliefs mattered more than time spent online.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-025-03161-y
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A new type of extremely rare explosion has been discovered—it is a baffling twenty-five times more energetic than the most energetic supernova known
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt0074
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Whole-class mental health sessions in schools have a small but significant effect in reducing depression and anxiety symptoms, according to combined results from 71 existing studies involving 63,041 young people aged 8 to 18
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/jun/mental-health-sessions-schools-can-reduce-depression-and-anxiety-symptoms
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Warming accelerates global drought severity, even where it rains, study finds. The atmosphere’s growing "thirst" has made droughts 40% more severe across the globe over the course of the past 40 years.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09047-2
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Authoritarian beliefs predict whether voters see Trump or Clinton as psychopathic. The study, which focused on the 2016 US presidential election, found that people tend to see more psychopathy in the opposing candidate and less in the one they support—particularly if they hold authoritarian views.
https://www.psypost.org/authoritarian-beliefs-predict-whether-voters-see-trump-or-clinton-as-psychopathic/
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Children whose parents divorce when they are aged five or younger are more likely to experience early death, a new study has claimed.
https://www.newsweek.com/divorce-increases-childrens-risk-death-incarceration-pregnancy-2080382
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First scientific observation of the largest Sahulian rodent, Mallomys istapantap, in the wild
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-06/scientists-document-wild-giant-wooly-rat-highlands/105379060
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Despite the harsh cold, precolonial farmers thrived in what is now northern Michigan, lidar surveys reveal
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/menominiee-farmers-north-america-maize
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Pregnant women are more often uninsured and have worse access to routine medical care in US states that ban (or restrict) abortion care, according to a new study. These findings suggest that the deep Medicaid cuts included in the Republican budget bill could worsen care for many pregnant women.
https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/pregnant-women-are-often-uninsured-and-go-without-needed-care-in-abortion
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Self-perceived physical attractiveness linked to stronger materialistic values. Research suggests this occurs because people who believe they are attractive are more likely to compare themselves with others in terms of abilities, opinions, and social status, which increases materialistic tendencies.
https://www.psypost.org/self-perceived-physical-attractiveness-linked-to-stronger-materialistic-values/
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Efficient mRNA delivery to resting T cells to reverse HIV latency
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60001-2
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Treating great star corals with probiotics helped fend off stony tissue loss disease
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/probiotics-great-star-corals-disease
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Longer expressions don’t slow reading. A new study shows that when readers encounter formal phrases instead of short pronouns, their reading speed and comprehension remain unchanged.
https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.V6.N3.ID751
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A new study has revealed for the first time that ancient carbon, stored in landscapes for thousands of years or more, can find its way back to the atmosphere as CO₂ is released from the surfaces of rivers, much more than previous estimates suggested
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/june/ancient-carbon-from-rivers.html
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New study reveals four psychological profiles of gamers linked to mental health and attachment style
https://www.psypost.org/new-study-reveals-four-psychological-profiles-of-gamers-linked-to-mental-health-and-attachment-styles/
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Even mild face blindness can cause serious difficulties in daily life, finds new study. Around 1 in 50 people have developmental prosopagnosia. A widespread worry among people with face blindness was being misjudged as rude or uncaring, which can lead to social anxiety and reduced self-confidence.
https://theconversation.com/even-mild-face-blindness-can-cause-serious-difficulties-in-daily-life-new-study-254644
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Ugly bystanders boost beauty: The study found that even moderately attractive faces were judged more favorably when paired with less attractive ones, a phenomenon linked to emotional brain responses measured through electrical activity.
https://www.psypost.org/ugly-bystanders-boost-beauty-study-finds-background-faces-shape-personality-judgments/
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External factor turns a male mammal into a female for the first time
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-06-04/for-the-first-time-an-external-factor-turns-a-male-mammal-into-a-female.html
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Childhood curiosity might be somewhat protective against depression in adulthood, study finds
https://www.psypost.org/childhood-curiosity-might-be-somewhat-protective-against-depression-in-adulthood-study-finds/
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Student Finds the Psychedelic Fungus in the Morning Glory plant the Inventor of LSD Spent His Life Searching For | The discovery could reshape how we study psychedelic compounds in nature and medicine.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/chemistry/student-finds-the-psychedelic-fungus-the-inventor-of-lsd-spent-his-life-searching-for/
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