Life is thriving in the subsurface depths of Earth: New research has unearthed communities of underground microbes that are almost as—and sometimes more—diverse than even reefs and rainforests.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/01/life-is-thriving-in-the-subsurface-depths-of-earth/
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Short video applications like TikTok have gained prominence. New research from China indicate that the more elementary school students use short videos, the lower their academic performance, with attention mediating in this relationship.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0309899
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Researchers have demonstrated new wearable technologies that both generate electricity from human movement and improve the comfort of the technology for the people wearing them
https://research.ncsu.edu/researchers-make-comfortable-materials-that-generate-power-when-worn/
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New study links early exposure to violent content in childhood to antisocial behaviour in adolescence
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1070965
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High fertiliser use halves numbers of pollinators, world’s longest study finds | Even average use of nitrogen fertilisers cut flower numbers fivefold and halved pollinating insects
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/20/uk-agriculture-farming-fertilisers-yields-biodiversity-study-park-grass-pollinators-bees-wildflowers-aoe
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A new study shows that dogs can detect COVID-19 in sweat with 67–87% accuracy and up to 92% reliability. They work best within specific viral levels.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317213
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Scientists successfully control when genetically engineered non-toxic bacteria, after intravenously injected, invades cancer cells and delivers cancer-fighting drugs directly into tumors in mouse models, sparing healthy tissue, and delivering more therapy as the bacteria grow in the tumors.
https://www.umass.edu/news/article/research-using-non-toxic-bacteria-fight-high-mortality-cancers-prepares-clinical
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Evidence of primordial black holes may be hiding in planets, or even everyday objects here on Earth: « Small black holes born in early universe may have left behind hollow planetoids and microscopic tunnels. »
https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2024/12/primordial-black-holes-may-be-hiding-in-planets-or-even-everyday-objects-here-on-Earth.html
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New research shows increasingly thawing permafrost soils not only pose a global threat due to the CO2 and methane gas stored in them, but also have far-reaching implications for the approximately three million Arctic residents who live on permafrost soils.
https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/thawing-soils-threaten-millions-of-people-2525174.html
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Compared to a meat-eating diet, plasma lipaemic and glycaemic measures as a collective were more favourable among vegans, whereas among lacto-ovo vegetarians and semi-vegetarians only some measures were favourable, cross-sectional study finds
https://lipidworld.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12944-024-02340-5
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Cannabis users' risk of developing psychotic disorders appears to decrease with time once they stop using the drug: about 37 weeks to recede to the same levels of those who had never used it, however frequent users of high potency strains might maintain an elevated risk, even over the 181 weeks
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/psychotic-disorder-cannabis-use-cessation
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Cognitive aging—how well people retain their cognitive abilities as they age—is an important topic in psychology. A new article reveals how a person's occupation relates to the decline in cognitive ability in middle and old age.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2024.101877
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Research reveals that the energy sector is creating a myth that individual action is enough to address climate change. This way the sector shifts responsibility to consumers by casting the individuals as 'net-zero heroes', which reduces pressure on industry and government to take action.
https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2025/01/14/energy-sector-shifts-climate-crisis-responsibility-to-consumers.html
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New research finds wildfires emit 27% more methane than models predict due to missed small fires. This poses severe risks for climate feedbacks.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56218-w
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New superconductor with unconventional superconductivity discovered | Student project uncovers superconductivity in polycrystalline iron nickel zirconide
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1070535
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The 2017 tax cuts, the key legislative achievement in the first year of the Donald Trump administration, cut taxes for “pass-through” business income. This boosted incomes for affected businesses by 3-4%, but had no broader economic effects (no impact on investment, wages or employment).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272724002299
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Evidence of hominin activity in Romania suggests humans were in Eurasia 1.95 million years ago - 200k years earlier than previously thought.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56154-9
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Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries - Right-leaning and conservative political orientation are negatively associated with trust in scientists in several European and North American countries.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
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Pregnancy triggers profound brain changes, enhancing maternal instincts and mental health. Research found most significant gray matter (GM) volume reductions during pregnancy occurred in the Default Mode and Frontoparietal networks, regions linked to self-referential thinking and social cognition
https://industrialnews.co.uk/pregnancy-triggers-profound-brain-changes-enhancing-maternal-instincts-and-mental-health/
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People with pockets of fat hidden inside their muscles (intermuscular fat) are at a higher risk of dying or being hospitalised from a heart attack or heart failure, regardless of their BMI or waist circumference. Fat stored under the skin (subcutaneous fat) did not increase the risk.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/fatty-muscles-bad-for-our-hearts-regardless-of-bmi
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Ecologists find significant ecological impact of hybrid grouper: The TGGG is a formidable predator feeding on various prey species not typically consumed by native species—including fish, crustaceans, and cephalopods, which has the potential to reshape coastal ecosystems
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1070563
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Textbooks need to be rewritten: RNA, not DNA, is the main cause of acute sunburn - Textbooks say that sunburn damages DNA, leading to cell death and inflammation. But study found in mice and human skin cells that this is a result of damage to RNA, not DNA, that causes the acute effects of sunburn.
https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2025/01/textbooks-need-to-be-rewritten-rna-not-dna-is-the-main-cause-of-acute-sunburn/
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People in California census tracts with higher incarceration rates turned out to vote at higher rates in 2014, when Prop 47 was on the ballot (which reduced the state's prison population)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pops.13053
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Palaeontologists have described a new genus and species of Carcharodontosauridae, Tameryraptor markgrafi, based on material from the Bahariya Formation in Egypt.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0311096
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Researchers find compromised indoor air in homes following Marshall Fire | First-of-its-kind study finds gases harmful to human health lingered for weeks following the fire
https://cires.colorado.edu/news/cires-researchers-find-compromised-indoor-air-home-following-marshall-fire
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Study finds gender gap with children when it comes to negotiating - in a series of cognitive tasks, boys had a higher opinion of their abilities and therefore asked for higher bonuses, even though they performed no better than girls did in these tasks.
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2025/january/study-finds-gender-gap-with-children-when-it-comes-to-negotiatin.html
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Novel framework is introduced that will allow researchers to create individualized brain models based on detailed data from noninvasive, high-temporal resolution brain scans, which could support advances in neuroscience and treatment of neurological conditions
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1070972
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Neuronal-ILC2 interactions regulate pancreatic glucagon and glucose homeostasis. This points to the possibility that the immune system controls blood sugar levels during periods of low energy
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi3624
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Anti-science movements are associated with harassment of—and violence against—scientists. A new study found that science cynicism (the perception that scientists are incompetent and corrupt) and Dark personality traits (psychopathy and narcissism), predict the willingness to harm scientists.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-85208-7
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Photonic processor could enable ultrafast AI computations with extreme energy efficiency: « This new device uses light to perform the key operations of a deep neural network on a chip, opening the door to high-speed processors that can learn in real-time. »
https://news.mit.edu/2024/photonic-processor-could-enable-ultrafast-ai-computations-1202
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