World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study - Peatlands occupy just 3% of all land, but contain more carbon than all of the world’s forests.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/13/worlds-largely-unprotected-peatlands-are-ticking-carbon-bomb-warns-study
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Researchers find cancer's 'off-grid' power supply and how to cut it | Researchers have discovered a particular type of cancer cell that relies on its own biological electric utility. Disrupting the utility with the help of a puffer fish showed a breakthrough way to fight the tumors in mice.
https://newatlas.com/cancer/cancer-power-supply/
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Weight loss surgery is safe and gets 61% of diabetics off their meds | A large percentage of people who were diabetic before the surgery, meant that they didn’t require diabetes medication five years after.
https://newatlas.com/disease/obesity/bariatric-surgery-safe-effective-diabetes/
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Social media can twist retracted COVID-19 papers, fueling mistrust in science. When a paper critical of hydroxychloroquine was retracted, tweets suggested it was published to undermine the drug and Trump. When a vaccine harm paper was retracted, it was seen as a conspiracy to suppress the “truth”.
https://www.psypost.org/how-social-media-twists-retracted-covid-19-papers-fueling-mistrust-in-science/
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Mars is Rocked By Powerful Quakes That Don't Always Begin Under The Surface, Research Shows
https://www.sciencealert.com/mars-is-rocked-by-epic-quakes-and-they-dont-all-come-from-within?utm_source=reddit_post
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A new study found that White young adults who accept color-blind racial ideology tend to show greater romantic attraction to White individuals, while Black young adults who are more accepting of this ideology tend to show lower romantic attraction to Black individuals.
https://www.psypost.org/color-blind-racial-ideology-linked-to-different-romantic-preferences-for-white-and-black-young-adults/
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After Elon Musk took over, hate speech increased on X (Twitter). The weekly rate of hate speech increased by about 50%, including increased use of specific homophobic, transphobic, and racist slurs. The average number of 'likes' on hate posts also increased by 70%.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/after-elon-musk-took-over-hate-speech-increased-on-x-twitter
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Eating from plastic takeout containers may increase the chance of heart failure, study of 3,000 people suggests. Exposure to plastic chemicals in boiled water poured out of takeout containers led to changes to gut biome in rats that caused cause inflammation damaging the circulatory system.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/plastic-food-containers-heart-failure
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Long-Term Yogurt Consumption Tied to Decreased Incidence of Certain Types of Colorectal Cancer
https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/long-term-yogurt-intake-lower-colorectal-cancer-rates
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A recent study has found that individuals in Israel may exhibit an unconscious aversion to left-wing political concepts | The research found that people took longer to verbally respond to words associated with the political left, suggesting a rapid, automatic rejection of this ideology.
https://www.psypost.org/study-people-show-verbal-hesitation-towards-left-wing-political-terms/
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Second-Hand Smoke Exposure During Childhood Leaves its Mark on Children's DNA . Children exposed to second-hand smoke at home are more likely to show certain changes in the epigenome, which can alter the way genes are expressed.
https://www.isglobal.org/en/-/el-tabaquismo-pasivo-durante-la-infancia-se-relaciona-con-alteraciones-epigeneticas
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Micro- and nanoscale plastic particles in soil and water can significantly increase how much toxic chemicals plants and human intestinal cells absorb. According to research that raises fresh concerns about food safety from plastic pollution.
https://www.rutgers.edu/news/micro-nano-plastics-make-other-pollutants-more-dangerous-plants-and-intestinal-cells#:~:text=The%20combination%20of%20both%20studies,to%20also%20absorb%20both%20those
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500-year-old records reveal how people weathered the Little Ice Age
https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3150225&preview=true&_thumbnail_id=3150226
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Many birds-of-paradise species emit light through their plumage, study finds | Researchers found that most birds-of-paradise are biofluorescent – meaning they absorb light through their bodies
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/12/many-birds-of-paradise-species-emit-light-through-their-plumage-study-finds
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Psychedelic use linked to reduced distress, increased social engagement in autistic adults
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-024-06685-8
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Researchers have successfully grown bioengineered teeth in pigs using a combination of human and pig cells | While the science is still in its early stages, the findings could one day lead to a future where you could have your missing teeth replaced with biological dentition.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/human-like-teeth-grown-in-pigs-could-make-dental-implants-a-thing-of-the-past/
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Study suggests sex can provide relationship satisfaction boost that lasts longer than just act itself. Positive “afterglow” of sex can linger for at least 24 hours, especially when sex is a mutual decision or initiated by one partner, while sexual rejection creates negative effect for several days.
https://www.psypost.org/science-confirms-the-sexual-afterglow-is-real-and-pinpoints-factors-that-make-it-linger-longer/
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Astronomers confirm the existence of what might be a habitable world around a nearby star. HD 20794 d is just under 6x the mass of Earth and orbits a Sun-like star at the right distance for liquid water to form on its surface.
https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-discover-nearby-alien-world-that-may-sustain-life?utm_source=reddit_post
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Fndings confirm human-induced climate change is weakening extreme cold events | Record-breaking cold in China in 2023 was primarily caused by large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns, accounting for 83% of its intensity. Climate change reduced the event’s severity by up to 22%
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1073559
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Sea turtles learn and remember Earth's magnetic field to navigate, but RF signals disrupt their compass, affecting migration patterns.
https://www.rathbiotaclan.com/how-sea-turtles-use-earths-magnetic-field-to-navigate-the-ocean
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86.6% of the surveyed astrobiologists responded either “agree” or “strongly agree” that it’s likely that extraterrestrial life (of at least a basic kind) exists somewhere in the universe.
https://theconversation.com/do-aliens-exist-we-studied-what-scientists-really-think-241505
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The first clinical trial of its kind has found that semaglutide, distributed under the brand name Wegovy, cut the amount of alcohol people drank by about 40% and dramatically reduced people’s desire to drink
https://today.usc.edu/popular-weight-loss-diabetes-drug-shows-promise-in-reducing-cravings-for-alcohol/
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After sex, we leave a unique genital microbial 'fingerprint' on our partners. Both men and women have unique populations of bacteria around their genitals, dubbed the 'sexome'. This signature could be used to identify the perpetrators of sexual assaults in cases where no sperm is left behind.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/after-sex-we-leave-a-unique-genital-microbial-fingerprint-on-our-partners
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Ketamine shows promise for severe obsessive-compulsive disorder in new study | Researchers discovered that a single injection of ketamine, an anesthetic medication, led to a rapid reduction in obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors.
https://www.psypost.org/ketamine-shows-promise-for-severe-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-in-new-study/
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Human-caused fires growing faster than lightning fires in Western US, study suggests - Risky days for human-caused fires are growing faster than risky days for lighting-caused fires as the climate warms.
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/2/pgaf012/8003458?login=false
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Music makes us move even when we don’t like it, according to new research. People with musical anhedonia still derive pleasure from groovy tunes.
https://www.concordia.ca/news/stories/2025/02/11/music-makes-us-move-even-when-we-dont-like-it-according-to-new-concordia-research.html
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A new study finds that EU restrictions on deforestation-linked palm oil & soy have limited impact due to market shifts. Global coordination is the key to making bans actually work.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56693-1
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Study of middle-aged heterosexual dating app users revealed that men use a higher number of dating apps than women. They have also used them for a longer duration, to a greater extent for casual sex, and for more time per day compared to women.
https://www.psypost.org/middle-aged-men-use-more-dating-apps-and-for-longer-than-women/
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Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing production of certain messenger RNAs and appear to help cells respond to oxidative stress. The segments in question are introns, short sequences of a subset of transfer RNAs.
https://news.osu.edu/junk-rna-segments-play-role-in-protein-production-cell-stress-response/?utm_campaign=omc_science-medicine_fy25&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social
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Adolescents who perceive themselves as overweight are three times more likely to consider committing self-harm compared to those who do not, regardless of whether the person is objectively overweight, according to a new study.
https://www.uta.edu/news/news-releases/2025/02/10/when-teen-body-image-becomes-a-deadly-perception
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