Prismatic lithium-ion batteries with flexible packaging degrade rapidly due to design flaws, causing inflation, lithium plating, and a 40% capacity loss after 100 cycles, as demonstrated by research from Brno.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-77673-3
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A new study reveals that mosquitoes with impaired smell compensate by detecting human body heat using leg sensors. This adaptation helps them stay efficient in seeking humans.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn5758
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Aging may change some brain cells more than others | Some cells, such as a small group of hormone-controlling cells, may undergo more age-related changes in genetic activity than others
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1069274
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Depressive symptoms may be transmitted from mother to child via early interactions. Mothers with depressive symptoms display fewer supportive responses to infants’ positive emotions. In turn, infants who receive fewer supportive responses are more likely to exhibit depressive symptoms as toddlers.
https://www.psypost.org/depressive-symptoms-might-be-transmitted-from-mother-to-child-through-early-interactions/
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Delaying post-exercise carbohydrate intake impairs next-day exercise capacity but not muscle glycogen or molecular responses
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39263899
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Children in vulnerable positions in the 19th century Ottoman Empire
https://kritarab.hypotheses.org/1102
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A study on nearly 7 million individuals from Northern Europe found that being born preterm may increase the risk of death from external causes. Males had a higher overall death rate, while females born very/moderately preterm had a much higher (80%) risk of suicide
https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2024/12/women-born-prematurely-are-at-greater-risk-of-committing-suicide/
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Human-made materials – the “technosphere” – are a deep store of fossil carbon – and possibly a ticking time bomb. If burned and sent into the atmosphere, it would be equivalent to 30 billion tonnes of CO2. The technosphere is nearing the stage where it stores more carbon than the natural world.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/climate/fossil-carbon-technosphere/
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Hospital admissions for lack of vitamins soaring in England, NHS figures show
https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/01/hospital-admissions-lack-of-vitamins-iron-nhs-figures
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Common Plastic Additives May Have Affected The Health of Millions
https://www.sciencealert.com/common-plastic-additives-may-have-affected-the-health-of-millions
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A 2010 law in France that led to forcible mergers of municipalities resulted in an annual 12.5 percent increase in building permits. The reason is that the mergers reduced the power of NIMBYs to block housing construction.
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20230344
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Conservatives, it has been argued, are more sensitive to negative stimuli, which predisposes them to favor policies emphasizing stability and protection. However, a replication study failed to reproduce this. It found this relationship reached statistical significance in the US but not Netherlands.
https://www.psypost.org/yet-another-study-disputes-link-between-conservatism-and-negativity-bias/
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American burying beetles, which clean up dead animals in their ecosystem, are making a comeback in Nebraska
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/american-burying-beetles-comeback-nebraska
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Children and adolescents aged 2 to 17 who spend five or more hours daily watching television or videos have more than double the risk of vitamin D deficiency compared to those with two hours or less of screen time
https://news.vumc.org/2024/12/16/there-goes-the-sun/
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Hungry Sea Otters Are Taking a Bite Out of California’s Invasive Crab Problem, New Study Finds | Researchers estimate southern sea otters eat up to 120,000 European green crabs per year.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hungry-sea-otters-are-taking-a-bite-out-of-californias-invasive-crab-problem-new-study-finds-180985749/
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Study found that men scored higher on all three Dark Triad traits, aligning with previous research. However, men also scored higher on Agape, reflecting a willingness to sacrifice for their partners, which may align with traditional protector roles.
https://www.psypost.org/dark-personality-traits-and-love-styles-differ-in-partnered-and-single-individuals/
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Study found 34% of couples follow “male breadwinner” pattern but only 5% “female breadwinner”. Male breadwinner pattern was most common among couples with lower socio-economic status, while female breadwinner arose when wives entered marriage with higher earnings and education levels than husbands.
https://www.psypost.org/financial-dynamics-in-long-term-marriages-surprising-findings-unearthed-from-decades-worth-of-data/
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Study traces Ebola's route to the skin surface: Findings suggest a cellular route the virus uses to traverse the inner and outer layers of skin and emerge onto the skin’s surface, which may be one avenue for person-to-person transmission
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1069067
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Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD. Twigstats allows us to see what we couldn’t before, in this case migrations all across Europe originating in the north of Europe in the Iron Age, and then back into Scandinavia before the Viking Age
https://www.crick.ac.uk/news-and-reports/2025-01-01_ancient-dna-unlocks-new-understanding-of-migrations-in-the-first-millennium-ad
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Drinking Coffee Every Day Could Add Up to 2 Years to Your Life
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568163724003994
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A study found that smartwatches, equipped with a newly developed app by researchers, can help in quitting smoking. The app uses sensors to detect typical smoking hand movements and sends a relapse prevention message
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/january/smartwatch-stop-smoking.html
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Partisan Americans are willing to electorally reward co-partisan Presidents and Governors who say they will disregard Supreme Court decisions their party does not like.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-and-courts/article/abs/executives-strike-back-political-benefits-of-sanctioning-the-us-supreme-court/837AD823E75C29A3CD1679D8190EB1E7
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The ability to care for another without regard for yourself is a key component of good relationships. A new study shows willingness to care for others stems from the earliest relationships in the home. By understanding origins of your own compassionate love, you gain insight into your relationships.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/fulfillment-at-any-age/202412/this-kind-of-love-begins-in-the-home
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Quantum uncertainty and wave–particle duality are equivalent, experiment shows.
https://physicsworld.com/a/quantum-uncertainty-and-wave-particle-duality-are-equivalent-experiment-shows/
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Researchers have created lab-grown neurons in a network that exhibit plasticity and can be reconfigured through repetitive stimulation using microfluidic devices, similar to animal nervous systems, providing new tools for studying learning and memory
https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/can_labgrown_neurons_exhibit_plasticity.html
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A 2010 law in France that led to forcible mergers of municipalities resulted in an annual 12.5 percent increase in building permits. The reason is that the mergers reduced the power of NIMBYs to block housing construction.
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20230344
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The import tariffs introduced by President Trump in 2018–2019 adversely affected US exporters by raising input costs – The cost increases for exporters were substantial enough that the import tariffs were also the equivalent of a US export tariff of 2-4 percent.
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20210051
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The Soviet Union sent millions of its educated elites to gulags across the USSR because they were considered a threat to the regime. Areas near camps that held a greater share of these elites are today far more prosperous, showing how human capital affects long-term economic growth.
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20220231
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Narcissism is linked to higher fertility, while traits like psychopathy and Machiavellianism, mediated by criminal behavior, reduce reproductive success. Interestingly, gender differences emerged, with criminal careers negatively affecting fertility in men but showing no significant impact on women.
https://www.psypost.org/fertility-outcomes-differ-among-dark-tetrad-traits-in-criminal-populations/
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New research found that childhood neglect increases the likelihood of various adverse health outcomes in adulthood. However, having a heightened socioeconomic status and the presence of a protective adult during childhood substantially weaken this association.
https://www.psypost.org/childhood-neglect-is-linked-to-troubling-health-outcomes-but-two-factors-can-dramatically-change-this-trajectory-study-suggests/
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