As concern grows about America’s falling birth rate, new research suggests that about half of women who want children are unsure if they will follow through and actually have a child. About 25% say they won't be bothered that much if they don't.
https://news.osu.edu/most-women-want-children--but-half-are-unsure-if-they-will/?utm_campaign=omc_science-medicine_fy24&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social
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Science Clears the Way to Treating the Trickiest Bladder Cancers | Bladder tumors that have been excluded from clinical trials have a few things in common that could lead to new therapies.
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/06/430226/science-clears-way-treating-trickiest-bladder-cancers
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Corporate executives with subprime credit scores tend to make poorer business decisions involving risk, a new experiment shows. They tend to be "yes persons" who seeks consensus even when it is counterproductive.
https://news.osu.edu/credit-scores-of-corporate-executives-may-reveal-their-decisions/?utm_campaign=omc_science-medicine_fy24&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social
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Anti-aging "glue" naturally repairs damaged DNA to protect brain cells | A protein known as disulphide isomerase (PDI) assists against biological aging to ward off neurological degeneration including that seen in motor neuron, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
https://newatlas.com/aging/anti-aging-cells/
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A study of microplastics in U.S. coastal waters found that residents of counties adjacent to the most heavily microplastic-polluted waters had significantly higher rates of Type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease and stroke compared to similar counties with low microplastic pollution
https://newsroom.heart.org/news/living-near-an-ocean-polluted-by-microplastics-may-increase-cardiometabolic-disease-risk
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Low sodium in blood can directly cause anxiety-like behaviors in mice by disrupting key neurotransmitters in the brain
https://www.fujita-hu.ac.jp/en/news/respr20250612.html
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Frequent pornography use linked to altered brain connectivity and impaired cognitive performance, finds a new brain imaging student with college students. Frequent pornography consumption may lead to neural and behavioral patterns that mimic other forms of addiction.
https://www.psypost.org/frequent-pornography-use-linked-to-altered-brain-connectivity-and-impaired-cognitive-performance/
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Drinking 1–3 cups of black or lightly sweetened coffee per day is associated with a 14–17% lower risk of death from all causes and cardiovascular disease, but only when sugar and saturated fat were kept low
https://now.tufts.edu/2025/06/16/hold-cream-and-sugar-black-coffee-linked-lower-risk-death
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People living in societies with more corruption, inequality, poverty and violence are more likely to exhibit "dark" personality traits—like narcissism, psychopathy and spitefulness, according to new study led by psychologist professor Ingo Zettler of the University of Copenhagen.
https://www.newsweek.com/psychology-dark-triad-psychopathy-narcissism-personality-conditions-2085956
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Americans’ favorable attitudes toward Asians declined during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The effect was stronger among people who supported then-President Donald Trump, suggesting that partisan cues and pandemic-related rhetoric influenced how Americans viewed Asians as a group.
https://www.psypost.org/covid-19-coverage-linked-to-rise-in-anti-asian-sentiment-especially-among-trump-supporters/
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Neglecting Dads’ Mental Health May Harm Kids’ Development: Depression, anxiety, and stress in new dads are linked to worse outcomes in children’s emotional, cognitive, and social growth. Support that exists for mothers is lacking for fathers, even though 14% of dads experience postpartum depression.
https://neurosciencenews.com/dads-ppd-neurodevelopment-29276/
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The Replication crisis hits sports and exercise research: only 28% replicate fully, effect sizes are reduced by 75% on average. Only 14% of original authors were willing to share their data.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-025-02201-w?s=03
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People were wrecking the climate 140 years ago — we just lacked the tech to spot it. Models suggest that human-caused global warming would have been detectable in the 19th century with today's know-how.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01909-z
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Medicaid cuts in the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" will increase the number of uninsured persons by 7.6 million, undermining the coverage, financial well-being, medical care, and health of low-income Americans, and lead to an additional 16,642 medically-preventable deaths annually.
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-00716
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Bisexual, gay and lesbian medical students are more likely to leave school before graduation, a new study says. Bisexual medical students were twice as likely to drop out or be dismissed from medical school, and gay and lesbian students were 47% more likely.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/06/12/study-lesbian-gay-bisexual-medical-students-less-likely-graduate/8201749734967/
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US teens showing high and increasing addictive use of social media and mobile phones were linked to two to three times greater risk of suicidal behaviour and ideation compared to kids with low addictive use patterns
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/18/teenagers-social-media-mobile-phones-video-games-mental-health
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Artificial light at night outweighs temperature in lengthening urban growing seasons
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00258-2
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Scientists demonstrate superior cognitive benefits of outdoor vs indoor physical activity. Children experience greater improvements in attention, memory, and thinking speed after physical activity when it takes place outdoors rather than indoors.
https://www.psypost.org/scientists-demonstrate-superior-cognitive-benefits-of-outdoor-vs-indoor-physical-activity/
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Racial insecurity helped shield Trump from Republican backlash after Capitol riot, study suggests. The findings highlight how feelings of group threat can protect political leaders from consequences—even after violent, anti-democratic actions.
https://www.psypost.org/racial-insecurity-helped-shield-trump-from-republican-backlash-after-capitol-riot-study-suggests/
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Republicans are flagged more often than Democrats for sharing misinformation on X's Community Notes according to a new analysis of the crowd-sourced program.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2502053122
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As romantic couples accumulate shared experiences, shared feelings, goals, and memories, they develop a generalized shared reality. Couples who co-create a shared worldview find greater meaning and satisfaction in life and work. It’s not just ‘my partner gets me,’ it’s ‘we get it.’
https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/couples-who-co-create-shared-worldview-find-greater-meaning-life-365744
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Relationship satisfaction fluctuates frequently—even daily—but these shifts are a normal part of romantic dynamics. Using high-frequency surveys from over 700 couples, researchers found that satisfaction often rises and falls in sync between partners.
https://press.uni-mainz.de/satisfaction-in-romantic-relationships-significantly-fluctuates-over-several-days-and-even-within-a-24-hour-period/
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Childhood trauma linked to changes in brain structure and connectivity, study finds | Reduced cortical volume was observed in a cluster involving the left postcentral gyrus.
https://www.psypost.org/childhood-trauma-linked-to-changes-in-brain-structure-and-connectivity-study-finds/
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Dads with poor mental health may be impacting the development of their kids | Research linking mental distress in fathers to poorer social-emotional, cognitive, language, and physical development in their kids.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/dads-mental-health-linked-to-kids-wellbeing
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Scientists develop methanol breathalyser that could prevent thousands of poisonings each year | Prototype is able to detect small concentrations of the toxic substance in alcoholic drinks or on someone’s breath
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/11/scientists-develop-methanol-breathalyser-that-could-prevent-thousands-of-poisonings-each-year
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Children exposed to PFAS chemicals in the womb had higher blood pressure through childhood – especially boys, teens, and Black children.
https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.124.039949
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Stalled planetary waves tied to extreme summer weather—like floods and heatwaves—have tripled since 1950, a new study finds. By locking weather patterns in place for weeks, they cause prolonged droughts or floods and reveal another way humans disrupt the climate system.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2504482122
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Glyphosate linked to rare and aggressive tumors in rats, new study shows. Alarming rise in cancers across multiple organs including leukemia, liver and brain following lifetime exposure starting even before birth.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40490737/
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Men are at risk of mental distress during transition to fatherhood, with prevalence as high as 8% for clinical depression, 11% for anxiety, and 6% to 9% for elevated stress. Fathers’ mental distress is linked to subpar child cognitive, social-emotional, language and physical development.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/16/health/father-mental-health-child-development-wellness
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Window-sized device taps the air for safe drinking water: « MIT engineers developed an atmospheric water harvester that produces fresh water anywhere — even Death Valley, California. »
https://news.mit.edu/2025/window-sized-device-taps-air-safe-drinking-water-0611
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