Iron age men left home to join wives’ families, DNA study suggests - Study highlights role of women in Celtic Britain and challenges assumptions most societies were patrilocal.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/15/iron-age-men-left-home-join-wives-families-dna-study-reveals
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Calorie labels on menus and food packets encourage people to choose healthier options but only to the tune of 11 calories – the same as a single Pringle crisp. That is the finding of a study into how effective menu listings are at prompting consumers to select less calorific food.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/17/calorie-labels-encourage-people-eat-less-only-single-crisp-study
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Wearable Devices Can Detect and Predict Inflammatory Bowel Disease Flare-Ups. Circadian patterns of heart rate variability, along with heart rate, oxygenation, and daily activity, all measured by the wearable devices, were significantly altered when inflammation or symptoms were present
https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2025/mount-sinai-study-finds-wearable-devices-can-detect-and-predict-inflammatory-bowel-disease-flare-ups
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Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago. Behavioural adaptations included returning repeatedly over thousands of years to specific rivers and ponds for fresh water, and the development of specialised tools
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1070406
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A new University of Michigan study found broadband connection was a key factor in reducing mortality & incidence during the early months of the pandemic. The average county with high internet access had 48%-53% fewer new COVID-19 deaths and 19%-34% fewer new COVID deaths per 100,000 residents
https://news.umich.edu/digital-lifeline-high-speed-internet-linked-to-drop-in-covid-19-death-rates/
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A new study suggests that the transmission of cognitive ability from parents to children is primarily driven by genetics, with little influence from shared environmental factors like family resources.
https://www.psypost.org/genetics-not-shared-environments-drives-parent-child-similarities-in-cognitive-ability/
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The oral-brain axis: New research uncovers surprising links between the bacteria in your mouth and mental health symptoms
https://www.psypost.org/the-oral-brain-axis-new-research-uncovers-surprising-links-between-the-bacteria-in-your-mouth-and-mental-health-symptoms/
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Focused ultrasound shows promise in treating Alzheimer’s by reducing amyloid plaques
https://www.psypost.org/focused-ultrasound-shows-promise-in-treating-alzheimers-by-reducing-amyloid-plaques/
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Disability often neglected in medical school curricula, study finds: Disability is often neglected in medical education curricula, being framed as a “problem” within an individual, according to participants surveyed
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1070673
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Study Finding Xenon Gas Could Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease Leads to Start of Clinical Trial
https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/study-on-xenon-gas-protecting-against-alzheimers-disease-leads-to-clinical-trial
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COVID-19 Infection associated with nearly eightfold increase in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. New incident cases of ME/CFS are 15 times higher than pre-pandemic levels. Findings highlight the urgent need for healthcare providers to recognize and address ME/CFS as a diagnosable and treatable condition
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-funded-study-finds-cases-me/cfs-increase-following-sars-cov-2
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Fossil fuel industries tweeting together for ‘climate obstruction’ - Fossil fuel energy, plastics, and agrichemical companies are networking on social media for ‘climate delay and denial.’ Their tweets presented environmental ‘solutions’ and highlighted the ‘unbearable weight of regulatory burdens’.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/fossil-fuel-industries-tweeting-together-for-climate-obstruction
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Octopus Arms Are Controlled by a Nervous System That's Segmented Like No Other, Scientists Find
https://www.sciencealert.com/octopus-arms-are-controlled-by-a-nervous-system-thats-like-no-other?utm_source=reddit_post
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Increased surgeon stress in the first 5 minutes of surgery was associated with a significant reduction in major surgical complications after controlling for patient, surgeon, and surgery characteristics. Results suggest optimizing surgeon stress may offer an avenue to improve surgical performance.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstract/2829133
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A neuroimaging study of torture survivors found a decreased connectivity in brain networks associated with response inhibition, attention, and motor function | This effect may be specifically linked to the dysphoria symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
https://www.psypost.org/neuroscientists-illuminate-the-dark-aftermath-of-torture-on-brain-connectivity/
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Strict vegetarian diets during pregnancy are associated with an increased risk of small-for-gestational-age infants and lower birth weights.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589936824000707
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A nanoparticle-based wireless deep brain stimulation system that reverses Parkinson’s disease
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado4927
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Certain types of cancer are on the rise among younger adults and women. This increasing trend in women is driven by breast cancer and thyroid cancer. Those younger than 65 are seeing a rise in cancer incidence. Overall, cancer mortality has decreased, with a shift in frequency from men to women.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/16/cancer-young-women-adults
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Young nearsighted kids who wear bifocal contact lenses that slow uncoordinated eye growth do not lose the benefits of the treatment once they stop wearing the lenses, new research shows. After the treatment, myopia progresses at an age-expected rate.
https://news.osu.edu/the-staying-power-of-bifocal-contact-lens-benefits-in-young-kids/?utm_campaign=omc_science-medicine_fy25&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social
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Sibling rivalry: parents favour older children and daughters. Authors of the study say the findings have important implications, adding that previous work has suggested differential treatment of siblings can have negative consequences for children’s development
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jan/16/sibling-rivalry-parents-favour-older-children-and-daughters-study-finds
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Unsweetened coffee associated with reduced risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, study finds | This association was not observed for sweetened or artificially sweetened coffee
https://www.psypost.org/unsweetened-coffee-associated-with-reduced-risk-of-alzheimers-and-parkinsons-diseases-study-finds/
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People who eat more red meat, especially processed red meat like bacon, sausage and bologna, are more likely to have a higher risk of cognitive decline and dementia when compared to those who eat very little red meat, according to a new study of 133,771 people followed up to 43 years.
https://www.aan.com/PressRoom/Home/PressRelease/1082
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In the 2010s, a municipality in the Wellington metropolitan area in New Zealand upzoned 80% of its residential land to allow medium- and high-density housing. It led to a substantial increase in housing supply and a 21% reduction in rents relative to similar municipalities.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1051137724000512
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The partisanship of mayors in the US has no detectable effect on police spending, police employment, crime, or arrests – This conflicts with a common narrative on the right that Democrat-run cities are rampant with crime and characterized by “soft-on-crime” policies.
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adq8052
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A new study suggests that Russian attacks on Ukrainian medical facilities in Mariupol are not random but instead may have been the result of intentional targeting. 77% of medical facilities in Mariupol sustained damage during Russia’s siege and facility size was not associated with damage.
https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0003950
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Research found more than 97 million U.S. residents are served by U.S. public water systems (PWSs) with detectable levels of contaminants, and disparities related to race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status are apparent,
https://www.ajmc.com/view/nearly-one-third-of-americans-face-unregulated-contaminants-in-water-hispanic-black-communities-hit-hardest
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FDA Bans Red Dye 3 in Foods, Linking It to Cancer in Rats (Gift Article)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/health/fda-red-dye-3-cancer-rats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pU4.C6ZG.Epb8IMpQKRKS&smid=url-share
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New Research suggests that male victimhood ideology among South Korean men is driven more by perceived socioeconomic status decline rather than objective economic hardship.
https://www.psypost.org/male-victimhood-ideology-driven-by-perceived-status-loss-not-economic-hardship-among-korean-men/
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FDA bans red dye No. 3 in foods, decades after additive found to cause cancer in rats
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/15/red-dye-3-fda-ban-food-additive-linked-cancer/
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Waking up does not activate an increase in the release of the stress hormone cortisol, a new study finds | Cortisol does, however, increase in the hours prior to wakening as part of the body’s preparation for the next day.
https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/waking-up-is-not-stressful-395019
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