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09 October 2026 01:31

Death rates from lifestyle-linked cancers fell overall in eight high-income countries from 2000 to 2020, but colorectal cancer death rates rose among people born after 1960 in the US, Canada, and England and Wales
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/55/5/dyag198/8869096

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08 October 2026 23:31

Autism and ADHD traits appear to follow different social paths to mental health problems. Autistic traits were linked to peer difficulties, internalizing problems, but not to academic struggles. ADHD traits were linked to externalizing problems and higher levels of academic difficulties.
https://www.psypost.org/autism-and-adhd-traits-appear-to-follow-different-social-paths-to-mental-health-problems/

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08 October 2026 21:31

Two teams, in Europe and China, have reported the first prototype nuclear clocks, using a low-energy transition in the thorium-229 nucleus to measure time
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2026-10-07/the-age-of-nuclear-clocks-is-here-a-new-tool-for-probing-the-laws-of-physics.html

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08 October 2026 19:31

Study of 1.2 million Danes finds that children who experience both health-related problems and a high degree of family adversity have more than 7 times the risk of dying from the age of 16 and into early adulthood compared with children who grow up with few or no such challenges
https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2026/10/children-facing-multiple-adversities-growing-up-are-more-likely-to-die-young/

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08 October 2026 17:32

Pomacea canaliculata is a globally invasive freshwater pest that poses significant threats to both agriculture and aquatic ecosystems. Researchers from China designed and synthesized a series of 15 novel compounds, among which D-1 emerged as the most promising candidate.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095311926003916

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08 October 2026 15:31

People who favor group-based inequality tend to have less gray matter in an empathy-linked brain region
https://www.psypost.org/people-who-favor-group-based-inequality-tend-to-have-less-gray-matter-in-an-empathy-linked-brain-region/

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08 October 2026 13:31

Nordic Diet Linked to Longer Life in Large Study — People Who Closely Followed a Diet Rich in Berries, Root Vegetables, Whole Grains, Fish, and Rapeseed Oil Had Lower Mortality Risk and Better Long-Term Health Outcomes Compared With Those Who Followed It Less Closely
https://www.sciencealert.com/ever-heard-of-the-nordic-diet-large-study-finds-it-could-help-you-live-longer

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08 October 2026 11:31

Experts have updated the official definition of dyslexia for the first time in over 20 years, removing the requirement for standardized IQ tests while placing greater emphasis on environmental factors, genetics, multi-language research, and early intervention.
https://www.sciencealert.com/experts-just-updated-the-definition-of-dyslexia-for-the-first-time-in-20-years

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08 October 2026 09:31

A survey of scientists in 115 countries found the most tech-optimistic were 23% less likely to protest or lobby on climate, and 18% less likely to make big lifestyle changes.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aea4c7

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08 October 2026 07:31

LSD reconfigures cortical dynamics through faster brain rhythms and increased fractal dimension | Communications Biology
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-026-10629-7

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08 October 2026 05:31

In a new study, scientists unlock the longevity secrets of 194-year-old Jonathan the giant tortoise. They found that, compared with other Aldabra tortoises, Jonathan has unique variants in 287 genes, some involved in DNA repair.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-unlock-the-longevity-secrets-of-194-year-old-jonathan-the-giant-tortoise/

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08 October 2026 03:31

Scientists Discover Human Brain Gene BC200 Embedded in a Poxvirus, Revealing That a Functional Gene Involved in Neuronal Activity Has Retained the Ability to “Jump” Between Genomes—A Genetic Combination Never Before Observed
https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-from-a-human-brain-gene-has-turned-up-in-a-virus

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08 October 2026 01:31

ADHD is associated with > 4x higher risk for late-life cognitive impairment.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2854889

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07 October 2026 23:31

Conservatives describe themselves as more rigid thinkers than liberals, but across 4 studies of 4,800+ Americans they were mostly no more likely to back a policy just because their party did. One sample did show conservatives following party cues more, and highly authoritarian people did in another.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103126001241

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07 October 2026 21:31

People were about 19 percentage points less likely to recommend life-sustaining treatment for a seriously ill patient with dementia than for a patient without dementia, even when an advance directive requested life-sustaining care, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open
https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/study-finds-dementia-influences-decisions-about-life-sustaining-treatment-even-when-advance-directives-request-it?utm_campaign=dementia&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social

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09 October 2026 00:31

Strong Social Networks Are Linked to Higher Birth Rates, Study of 100,750 Adults Across 299 Finnish Municipalities Finds — Communities With Greater Social Support and More Frequent Social Interactions Had Higher Fertility Rates, Even After Accounting for Socioeconomic Factors.
https://www.psypost.org/strong-social-networks-predict-higher-fertility-rates-in-new-study/

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08 October 2026 22:31

Since erupting in December of 2024, Kilauea has spit out over 50 lava fountains at a never before seen frequency
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/kilauea-why-volcanoes-spew-fountains

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08 October 2026 20:31

A new study found that exposure to P. melaninogenica, a bacterium commonly found in healthy airways, changed the behavior of immune cells in the lungs of mice, increasing their ability to engulf and kill pneumonia-causing bacteria and reducing bacterial levels in the lungs.
https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/common-airway-bacterium-may-help-prepare-lungs-to-fight-pneumonia-cu-anschutz-study-finds?utm_campaign=pneumonia&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social

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08 October 2026 18:31

We may need a new map to properly interpret our genome
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1146839

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08 October 2026 16:31

Meta-analysis finds maternal RSV vaccination was 73.6% effective against hospitalization in infants under 6 months, but only 27.1% of 1.3 million US pregnancies were vaccinated in the 2023/24 season
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(26)00259-0/fulltext

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08 October 2026 14:31

Adults with ADHD often struggle with choices that require weighing potential rewards against negative consequences. A new experiment reveals that a common stimulant medication improves these choices specifically by helping individuals pay more attention to the potential costs of their actions.
https://www.psypost.org/medication-helps-adults-with-adhd-weigh-the-negative-consequences-of-their-decis/

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08 October 2026 12:31

In a VR experiment, participants paid a female-presenting AI assistant about 10% less than a male-presenting one for the same work, though both ran on the same AI model with the same instructions
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3829807.3829910

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08 October 2026 10:31

Spin force from a nitrogen-vacancy ensemble drives a 100-mg levitated resonator
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeh0566

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08 October 2026 08:31

A satellite study found North Carolina lost 21% of its coastal forests between 1985 and 2021, about 64,220 hectares, with forest retreat accelerating after 2010 as sea-level rise and extreme events converted forests into marsh, shrubland and “ghost forests”.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0357346

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08 October 2026 06:31

A study of 179 men found higher levels of neonicotinoid insecticides in semen were associated with lower sperm counts, with each quartile increase in combined exposure linked to a 27% reduction in sperm concentration, suggesting potential risks to male reproductive health.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/endocrinology/articles/10.3389/fendo.2026.1871388/full

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08 October 2026 04:31

Gene therapy can partly restore sight in blind people, researchers reveal. Optogenetic therapy, based on Nobel prize-winning science, involves turning nerve cells on and off using light
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/07/gene-therapy-can-partly-restore-sight-in-blind-people-researchers-reveal

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08 October 2026 02:31

Believing science benefits people was most consistently linked to rating measles-mumps-rubella, flu and COVID shots favorably, a poll of 1,763 Americans finds. Republicans rated vaccines lower than Democrats, especially COVID. The measles shot ranked safest and most effective, COVID the least.
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308606

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08 October 2026 00:31

A study of 2,057 Swiss adults found average meat consumption was up to 850% of the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet recommendation and dairy intake was 363%, while legume consumption reached just 4% of the recommended amount.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s44263-026-00306-6

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07 October 2026 22:31

Poor sleep can cause employees to clash with their supervisors and other higher-ranking colleagues. A U.S study showed that soldiers' sleep problems predicted more conflict with everyone, but, surprisingly, the uptick was most distinct for conflict with higher-rank individuals
https://hub.jhu.edu/2026/10/07/poor-sleep-conflict-in-workplace/

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07 October 2026 20:31

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026: Awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai "for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 was awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai "for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis."

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> Life’s chemistry is what chemists call homochiral, after the Greek words for “same” and “hand”. Like hands, all amino acids exist as two mirrored variants, but only one of them is found in the proteins in your cells. The other is rarely found in nature.
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> For a long time, chemists wondered how homochirality can emerge. When they began to experiment with chemical reactions that can form two mirrored molecules, they always obtained equal proportions of both in their test tubes. However, chemists strived to produce only one of these mirror images, because in the development of molecules that will interact with living beings – such as in pharmaceuticals – only one mirror image will have the desired effect.
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> The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 recognises discoveries that have enabled chemists to drive chemical reactions that lead to homochirality.
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> “Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have provided a solution to a chemical mystery that is over a century old: how homochirality can emerge spontaneously. The chemical reactions they have developed are spectacular,” says Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.
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> Henri Kagan took the first decisive step in 1986, when he discovered a new way of manipulating chemical reactions. This allowed him to create a greater excess of one of the mirror images than had previously been thought possible.
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> Kenso Soai took the next step. In 1995, a key publica­tion describes how he designed the first ever chemical reaction that had the potential to be homochiral. In 2003, he finally succeeded. He presented a reaction in which only one of the two possible mirror images was formed. Other than life itself, no one had previously achieved this feat.
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> Thanks to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai, we now know how homochirality can emerge. Their discoveries have been decisive for chemists who design reactions for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.

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