Research shows that if music therapy is designed to individual needs, it can deliver an immediate, short-term reduction in agitation and anxiety for individuals with advanced dementia, and improvements in attention, engagement, alertness and mood
https://www.aru.ac.uk/news/research-shows-how-music-can-reduce-distress
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Individuals with stronger core knowledge confusions are more likely to believe in the paranormal, finds study from 11 countries. Core knowledge confusions describes how our brains sometimes mix up different types of basic knowledge, intuitive shortcuts that feel correct but are not based on science.
https://www.psypost.org/individuals-with-core-knowledge-confusions-are-more-likely-to-believe-in-the-paranormal/
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Antibody that neutralizes inhibitory factors involved in nerve regeneration leads to enhanced motor function after acute spinal cord injury
https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2024/nerve-regeneration.html
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Poor vascular health accelerates brain ageing
https://news.ki.se/poor-vascular-health-accelerates-brain-ageing
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Caffeine can disrupt your sleep — even when consumed 12 hours before bed. While a 100 mg dose of caffeine (1 cup of coffee) can be consumed up to 4 hours before bedtime without significant effects on sleep, a 400 mg dose (4 cups of coffee) disrupts sleep when taken up to 12 hours before bedtime.
https://www.psypost.org/caffeine-can-disrupt-your-sleep-even-when-consumed-12-hours-before-bed/
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Tropical Disease in Switzerland. Although typically found in Latin America, Chagas disease affects between 2,000 and 4,000 people in Switzerland.
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/a-tropical-disease-in-switzerland-call-for-coordinated-action-on-chagas-disease
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First demonstration of quantum teleportation over a fiber optic cable already carrying Internet traffic. Advance opens door for secure quantum applications without specialized infrastructure.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/12/first-demonstration-of-quantum-teleportation-over-busy-internet-cables/
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Gut infection and Alzheimer’s disease. ASU, Banner Alzheimer’s Institute-led study implicates link between a common virus and the disease, which travels from the gut to the brain and may be a target for antiviral treatments.
https://news.asu.edu/20241219-health-and-medicine-surprising-role-gut-infection-alzheimers-disease
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ADHD drug shows promise for treating methamphetamine dependence
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/adhd-drug-shows-promise-for-treating-methamphetamine-dependence-landmark-australian-study-shows
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People motivated by power and the desire to influence others are more likely to share fake news posts on social media
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/dec/power-motivated-social-media-users-disproportionately-spread-misinformation
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Teen Marijuana Use Continues To Drop As More States Legalize, Federally Funded Study Shows
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/teen-marijuana-use-continues-to-drop-as-more-states-legalize-federally-funded-study-shows-contradicting-opponents-claims/
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New study implicates link between common herpes virus, cytomegalovirus, and Alzheimer’s disease. Most humans are exposed to this virus during first decades of life. In some people, the virus may travel from gut to brain via the vagus nerve and contribute to changes associated with Alzheimer’s.
https://news.asu.edu/20241219-health-and-medicine-surprising-role-gut-infection-alzheimers-disease
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Drinking more than 5 cups of caffeinated coffee daily associated with better cognitive performance than drinking less than 1 cup or avoiding coffee in people with atrial fibrillation. Heavier coffee drinkers estimated to be 6.7 years younger in cognitive age than those who drank little or no coffee.
https://newsroom.heart.org/news/drinking-coffee-may-help-prevent-mental-decline-in-people-with-atrial-fibrillation
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Digital labels displayed the base price of food and added discounts as products got closer to expiring. Researchers found the stores changed prices 54% more often, while another study found digital labels increased price change frequency 853%.
https://news.mccombs.utexas.edu/research/digital-labels-can-help-grocers-waste-less-food/
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Around 1 in 127 people globally is on the autism spectrum. This figure is substantially higher than the previous estimate of around 1 in 271 people, based on 2019 data. ASD was most common in people younger than 20 years old, where it ranked within the top 10 causes of non-fatal health burden.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/around-1-in-127-people-globally-is-on-the-autism-spectrum
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CERN's Large Hadron Collider finds the heaviest antimatter particle yet
https://www.techspot.com/news/106061-cern-large-hadron-collider-finds-heaviest-antimatter-particle.html
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A study reveals that lifelong singles have lower scores on life satisfaction measures and different personality traits compared to partnered people, findings that point to the need for both helpful networks and ways to create such networks that are better catered to single people.
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2024-dec-singles-differ-personality-traits.html
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Fast food consumption is associated with depression. Each additional fast-food meal per week was associated with a 4% higher likelihood of depression. This association was largely independent of obesity, although obesity did mediate the link, particularly in individuals with severe obesity.
https://www.psypost.org/fast-food-consumption-is-associated-with-depression/
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Your blood can reveal your biological age — and risk of health problem. People whose metabolic age was older than their chronological age tended to be frailer, had shorter telomeres were more likely to suffer from chronic illnesses, and rated their own health worse than others.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/researchers-ai-ageing-clocks-predict-health-lifespan
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ESA and NASA satellites deliver first joint picture of Greenland Ice Sheet melting. Between 2010 and 2023, the Greenland Ice Sheet thinned by 1.2 metres on average. However, thinning across the ice sheet’s margin (the ablation zone) was over five times larger, amounting to 6.4 metres on average.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1068816
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New research suggests extreme longevity is common in balaenid whales, with some southern right whales living beyond 130 years. Industrial whaling likely masked this incredible lifespan in other species.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq3086?adobe_mc=MCMID%3D74660625830360059863294201771530920467%7CMCORGID%3D242B6472541199F70A4C98A6%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1734759322
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Researchers discover 15 days of dry weather can trigger the flowering of durian: Observations of 110 durian plants revealed that flowering occurred around 50 days after an approximately 15-day dry spell, independent of whether the plant was grafted or grown from a seed
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1068620
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Researchers engineered a nanoporous carbon with the highest surface area ever reported, equivalent to about the size of a football field packed into a teaspoon of material, a breakthrough that is already proving beneficial for carbon-dioxide capture and energy storage technologies.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/12/rocket-inspired-reaction-yields-carbon-record-surface-area
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Sunscreen is important to protect skin from the harmful effects of UV but doesn’t cool people off. New formula protects against both UV light and heat using radiative cooling. The prototype sunblock kept human skin up to 6 C cooler than bare skin, or around 3 C cooler than existing sunscreens.
https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2024/december/this-prototype-sunscreen-protects-your-skin-and-cools-you-off-too.html
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Sexual satisfaction’s link to marital happiness grows stronger with age. The study found that age, rather than the length of a marriage, plays the dominant role in this trend, suggesting that couples may increasingly value sexual satisfaction as they grow older.
https://www.psypost.org/sexual-satisfactions-link-to-marital-happiness-grows-stronger-with-age/
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Stonehenge may have been erected to unite early British farming communities, research finds | The altar stone, which we now know is from Scotland, may have been a gift or marker of political alliance
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/20/stonehenge-may-have-been-erected-to-unite-early-british-farming-communities-research-finds
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Gamers who are free to interact with and explore a game world at their own pace are more relaxed and have improved mental well-being | The findings could open the door to using gaming as a therapeutic tool to counter stress and anxiety.
https://newatlas.com/mental-health/open-world-gaming-psychological-well-being/
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Astronomers have uncovered a hidden network of pathways extending from our solar system to distant regions of the galaxy, suggesting that space is far more interconnected than previously thought
https://curiosmos.com/mysterious-interstellar-highways-may-connect-our-solar-system-to-distant-stars/
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Study extends chart of life by nearly 1.5 billion years. Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new Virginia Tech analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 billion years ago.
https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/12/science-extended-chart-of-life.html
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Women exhibit less manipulative personality traits in more gender-equal countries. In countries with lower levels of gender equality, women scored higher on Machiavellianism, potentially reflecting increased reliance on manipulative strategies to navigate restrictive or resource-scarce environments.
https://www.psypost.org/women-exhibit-less-manipulative-personality-traits-in-more-gender-equal-countries/
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