r/science • u/Wagamaga • 2d ago

Health Firearm-Related Suicides Increasing Among Senior Women in the U.S . Firearms are the leading method of suicide among seniors 65 and older, especially men, researchers say. In fact, senior men are 13 times more likely to kill themselves with a gun than senior women.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 2d ago

Health Mindset shift curbs depression after catastrophe. Those who received the intervention showed lower levels of depression three months later compared to a control group. Blood tests also revealed lower levels of C-reactive protein, an inflammatory marker linked to chronic stress and disease

news.stanford.edu

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r/science • u/chrisdh79 • 2d ago

Health Mouth to gut bacteria migration explains why smoking is good for inflamed bowels | Study shows that smoking produces metabolites that encourage bacteria from the mouth to grow in the large intestines where they trigger an immune response in mice.

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r/science • u/Kerubiel_Cherub • 2d ago

Geology Models suggested that there was a large Neoproterozoic dissolved organic carbon (DOC) reservoir in the ocean that could have triggered the end of Snowball Earth and the proliferation of metazoan life, but a new proxy-based reconstruction shows that oceanic DOC remained low until the Phanerozoic

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r/science • u/brainquantum • 2d ago

Computer Science A scalable framework for evaluating multiple language models through cross-domain generation and hallucination detection

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r/science • u/SpeckleSoup • 2d ago

Astronomy Discovery of the first ring-shaping embedded planet in a multi-ringed disk

iopscience.iop.org

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r/science • u/chrisdh79 • 2d ago

Environment Heatwaves are making people age faster, study suggests | Exposure to high temperatures could result in long-lasting damage to health of billions of people, scientists warn

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r/science • u/mvea • 2d ago

Health Working out doesn't just reshape your body – it rewires your gut microbiome. During intense training, rowers had more frequent bowel movements, with 92% going within a 24-hour window. Pushing yourself harder in training may be “feeding” your gut microbes in ways that promote better health.

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r/science • u/universityofturku • 2d ago

Psychology Spending time in nature helps people to identify what is meaningful in their lives, shows a new Finnish study. For young people, nature provided an important place for solitude, whereas older adults felt that it was important to strengthen intergenerational connections by spending time in nature.

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r/science • u/thebelsnickle1991 • 2d ago

Social Science Research reveals how political crises cause a shift in the force behind viral online content ‘from outgroup hate to ingroup love’

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 2d ago

Health A new study finds ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini align with clinicians only at the extremes of suicide risk. They struggle with intermediate-risk queries.

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r/science • u/Lord-Julius • 2d ago

Social Science Linguistic patterns obscure responsibility in newspaper coverage of traffic crashes in German-speaking countries with the use of metonymy, passive constructions, and reflexive verb forms

tandfonline.com

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r/science • u/Lord-Julius • 2d ago

Animal Science Glandular quinoline-derivates protect crustacean woodlice from spider predation

royalsocietypublishing.org

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r/science • u/Lord-Julius • 2d ago

Biology Contamination-controlled upper gastrointestinal microbiota profiling reveals salivary-duodenal community types linked to opportunistic pathogen carriage and inflammation

tandfonline.com

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r/science • u/JadeLuxe • 2d ago

Animal Science Thousands of climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 2d ago

Health Data from 56 low- and middle-income countries show unusual heat or cold raises death risk for children under five, with impacts varying by climate zone.

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r/science • u/mvea • 2d ago

Psychology Children raised in poverty are less likely to believe in a just world. Belief in a just world refers to the psychological tendency to think that people generally get what they deserve and deserve what they get.

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r/science • u/Super_Letterhead381 • 2d ago

Paleontology New predatory beetle larvae from about 100 million years ago and possible niche differentiation effects in the Kachin amber forest

sjpp.springeropen.com

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r/science • u/JIntegrAgri • 2d ago

Health Researchers comprehensive evaluated HA epitope modifications in H9N2 subtype avian influenza vaccines for broad cross-protection

sciencedirect.com

11 Upvotes

r/science • u/upyoars • 3d ago

Environment Rising Environmental Inequalities and Their Relationship to Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in the US Southwest

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r/science • u/drewiepoodle • 3d ago

Epidemiology High pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus detected in brown Skua using portable laboratory while at sea in Antarctica. (Skua are a large seabird that breeds in the subantarctic and Antarctic zones and moves farther north when not breeding.)

journals.asm.org

130 Upvotes

r/science • u/bluish1997 • 3d ago

Biology Anti-restriction functions of injected phage proteins revealed by peeling back layers of bacterial immunity

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r/science • u/Old_Glove9292 • 3d ago

Health Cost minimization analysis of digital-first healthcare pathways in primary care | npj Digital Medicine

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r/science • u/SteRoPo • 3d ago

Medicine Researchers interviewed 45 doctors in Europe and the U.S. about their end-of-life preferences. Physicians preferred being at home, loved ones nearby, with pain and symptoms controlled. They also expressed the desire to avoid life-prolonging measures, differing from the general public.

realclearscience.com

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r/science • u/drewiepoodle • 3d ago

Biology Study finds glaucoma patients have lower levels of two natural metabolites in their eye fluid, agmatine and thiamine, which could serve as early biomarkers. Neuroprotective treatments using a mouse cone photoreceptor cell line show potential to prevent vision loss.

showme.missouri.edu

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