New study reveals four psychological profiles of gamers linked to mental health and attachment style
https://www.psypost.org/new-study-reveals-four-psychological-profiles-of-gamers-linked-to-mental-health-and-attachment-styles/
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Even mild face blindness can cause serious difficulties in daily life, finds new study. Around 1 in 50 people have developmental prosopagnosia. A widespread worry among people with face blindness was being misjudged as rude or uncaring, which can lead to social anxiety and reduced self-confidence.
https://theconversation.com/even-mild-face-blindness-can-cause-serious-difficulties-in-daily-life-new-study-254644
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Ugly bystanders boost beauty: The study found that even moderately attractive faces were judged more favorably when paired with less attractive ones, a phenomenon linked to emotional brain responses measured through electrical activity.
https://www.psypost.org/ugly-bystanders-boost-beauty-study-finds-background-faces-shape-personality-judgments/
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External factor turns a male mammal into a female for the first time
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-06-04/for-the-first-time-an-external-factor-turns-a-male-mammal-into-a-female.html
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Childhood curiosity might be somewhat protective against depression in adulthood, study finds
https://www.psypost.org/childhood-curiosity-might-be-somewhat-protective-against-depression-in-adulthood-study-finds/
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Student Finds the Psychedelic Fungus in the Morning Glory plant the Inventor of LSD Spent His Life Searching For | The discovery could reshape how we study psychedelic compounds in nature and medicine.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/chemistry/student-finds-the-psychedelic-fungus-the-inventor-of-lsd-spent-his-life-searching-for/
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Low calorie diets linked to heightened risk of depressive symptoms. Men and the overweight may be especially vulnerable to effects of restrictive eating. Diets low in carbohydrates or fats may theoretically exacerbate cognitive-affective symptoms, especially in men with greater nutritional needs.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1085817
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Cockatoos in Sydney have worked out how to operate drinking fountains, with footage showing the white birds gripping and turning the handle before leaning in for a sip. Presumably the birds first learned what to do by watching people.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/04/cockatoos-drink-from-sydney-water-fountains
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Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping in the last 800,000 years warns of future ice loss - Communications Earth & Environment
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02366-2
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People across 11 countries underestimate how many others agree that climate change is human-caused. Providing information about the truth, namely the actual public consensus on climate change, seems largely ineffective, except for a slight increase in willingness to express pro-climate opinions.
https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976251335585
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Psychopaths tended to be less emotionally reactive and showed deficits in emotional functioning. Narcissists on the other hand, were more likely to report using emotions to facilitate performance, but showed reduced ability to recognize negative emotional states in others.
https://www.psypost.org/how-are-dark-triad-traits-associated-with-emotional-functioning/
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Researchers estimate that early humans began smoking meat to extend its shelf life as long as a million years ago.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086138
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Research reveals that incarceration in the U.S creates a ripple effect of premature death that extends far beyond individual prisoners to entire communities, with each 10% increase in a county’s jail population adding roughly 5 deaths per 100,000 residents.
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/01/30/county_mortality_jails/
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Global yields of wheat are around 10% lower now than they would have been without the influence of climate change, according to a new study. Yields were lower than they otherwise would have been by 12-14% for barley, 8-12% for wheat and 4% for maize.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2502789122
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Whole-body movement play shows promise for children with autism | Findings show that a movement-focused intervention led to faster responses on a test of inhibitory control and fewer sensory and disruptive behaviors, while a more traditional sedentary play program had no such effects.
https://www.psypost.org/whole-body-movement-play-shows-promise-for-children-with-autism/
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A new study finds two main routes drive incels to harmful beliefs: one shaped by pain from bullying and poor mental health, the other by anger, control, and extreme ideas. Feelings and beliefs mattered more than time spent online.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-025-03161-y
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A new type of extremely rare explosion has been discovered—it is a baffling twenty-five times more energetic than the most energetic supernova known
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt0074
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Whole-class mental health sessions in schools have a small but significant effect in reducing depression and anxiety symptoms, according to combined results from 71 existing studies involving 63,041 young people aged 8 to 18
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/jun/mental-health-sessions-schools-can-reduce-depression-and-anxiety-symptoms
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Warming accelerates global drought severity, even where it rains, study finds. The atmosphere’s growing "thirst" has made droughts 40% more severe across the globe over the course of the past 40 years.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09047-2
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Authoritarian beliefs predict whether voters see Trump or Clinton as psychopathic. The study, which focused on the 2016 US presidential election, found that people tend to see more psychopathy in the opposing candidate and less in the one they support—particularly if they hold authoritarian views.
https://www.psypost.org/authoritarian-beliefs-predict-whether-voters-see-trump-or-clinton-as-psychopathic/
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Massaging the neck and face may help flush waste out of the brain
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2483083-massaging-the-neck-and-face-may-help-flush-waste-out-of-the-brain/
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An ‘AI scientist’, working in collaboration with human scientists, has found that combinations of cheap and safe drugs – used to treat conditions such as high cholesterol and alcohol dependence – could also be effective at treating cancer, a promising new approach to drug discovery.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ai-scientist-suggests-combinations-of-widely-available-non-cancer-drugs-can-kill-cancer-cells
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Research found in the U.S incarcerated individuals were 39 percent more likely to die from any cause than those who were not incarcerated. They were also three times more likely to die from a drug overdose
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1085816
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Anxiety over income and unfair feedback dominates working lives of delivery riders, drivers and “digital labour” workers in UK’s gig economy – with many reporting physical pain and hours spent working without pay waiting for the app to ping, according to new Cambridge research
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/gig-economy-anxiety-ratings-pay
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In much of the world, parents may coo at infants, but they rarely mime full conversations, often called “parentese.” And yet, studies show the benefits of conversation for infant development. Improving the practice in developing countries could start with videos on a smart phone.
https://www.pnas.org/post/journal-club/improving-baby-health-developing-countries-could-start-videos-smart-phone
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Eye movement patterns drive stress reduction during Japanese garden viewing
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2025.1581080/full
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A new study of 3.26M US adults found that being jailed increases overdose death risk 3-fold and raises overall mortality by 39%.
https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.13537
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200,000 radioactive barrels dumped in the Atlantic: French researchers launch unprecedented mission to track them down-
https://www.elcabildo.org/en/200000-radioactive-barrels-dumped-in-the-atlantic-french-researchers-launch-unprecedented-mission-to-track-them-down-49042/
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Urban trees already save cities tens to hundreds of millions in stormwater costs, but a new paper shows they could do even more. By harvesting "stemflow" (the concentrated rainwater running down tree trunks), we could further reduce runoff and provide free irrigation for community gardens.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391919636_Tapping_the_Urban_Forest_Integrating_Tree_Canopy_Runoff_Stemflow_into_Blue-Green_Infrastructure
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Marijuana use among older adults in the US has reached a new high, with 7% of adults aged 65 and over who report using it in the past month, with pronounced increases in use by older adults who are college-educated, married, female, and have higher incomes, and those with chronic diseases.
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2025/june/cannabis-use-older-adults.html
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