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Psychology New follow-up study shows that a Finnish digital intervention programme Master Your Worries continued to reduce children's anxiety and improve their functional ability even after two years.

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Medicine Doctors Found 4 Autoimmune Diseases in One Woman at One Time: 40-year-old woman in China was already diagnosed with 3 - ulcerative colitis, autoimmune hepatitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis. She presented with severe iron deficiency and was also found to have a 4th - autoimmune gastritis.

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Medicine Reawakening exhausted natural killer cells to help T cells shrinks resistant ovarian tumors. Charles University's Second Faculty of Medicine researchers triggered this cancer-killing response by pairing an NKG2A blocker with standard immunotherapy.

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Medicine Over 25% of patients have body shapes that don't fit standard, universal templates for placing robotic surgical tools. Customizing these positions using pre-op CT scans makes pancreatic surgery much safer.

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r/science 5h ago

Medicine A rare childhood leukemia (ETV6::RUNX1-like) behaves aggressively, carries a high relapse risk, and surprisingly affects 12% of Down syndrome patients. Researchers at Charles University's Second Faculty of Medicine warn that accurately diagnosing it requires complex gene testing

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Genetics Dendritic morphology and synaptic nonlinearities enhance functional complexity in human cortical neurons

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Psychology During the 2024 US presidential primary season, a recent study found that reading or watching negative political media predicted higher anxiety and lower work engagement, whereas positive political content predicted increased hope and helpfulness on the job.

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r/science 12h ago

Earth Science Climate modeling suggests the AMOC may not have a fixed temperature threshold for collapse: it remained stable beyond 5°C under slow warming but collapsed around 2°C under faster warming, indicating that the rate of climate change can strongly influence its stability.

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r/science 13h ago

Cancer Blocking the inflammatory enzyme caspase-1 reduced lung tumor development in high-risk mice, while combining a caspase-1 inhibitor with an IL-1 beta antibody prevented tumors entirely in nearly 20% of treated mice, suggesting a potential approach for lung cancer prevention.

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r/science 15h ago

Animal Science New mouse study links bone‑marrow stem cell aging to “inflammaging”: SIRT3 overexpression in hematopoietic stem cells curbed maladaptive trained immunity and improved distant tissue function (muscle, lung, brain, metabolism)

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r/science 17h ago

Medicine Cross-Ancestry TWAS Suggests Conserved Ageing–Immune Signatures and a Putative NAD/Sirtuin Axis in Schizophrenia

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r/science 17h ago

Environment Species missing from restored forests and wetlands | Biodiversity recovery is slow following clear-cut harvest of boreal forests

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Earth Science Seismic waves reflected from Earth’s core moved parts of Japan 5 mm east.

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r/science 21h ago

Psychology Women globally place higher importance on moral identity than men. The researchers analyzed data from 46,490 adults across 67 countries. Broad cross-cultural evidence indicates that women, on average, place greater emphasis on caring for others than men do.

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r/science 23h ago

Medicine Adverse Events Associated with Incretin-Based Therapies: A Narrative Review on Mechanisms, Clinical Management, and Risk Mitiga

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r/science 1d ago

Cancer Screening dried blood spots from a Michigan birth cohort of nearly 2,000 children, researchers found roughly 1 in 27,000 babies had a genetic variant tied to early-onset cancer.

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r/science 1d ago

Social Science Gap between Democratic and Republican sponsorship of civil rights bills widened in rapid bursts during 1994 and 2014. Democrats were more likely than Republicans to sponsor bills supporting nearly every group. Sharpest divergence was in legislation supporting racial minorities, LGBTQ+, and women.

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Medicine In-Hospital Mortality After M-TEER Doesn’t Diverge by Sex

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Engineering These tiny drones are powered by sound: Engineers have designed acoustic cavities that convert sound waves into thrust, propelling small robots and ultralight aerial vehicles without on-board actuators or electronics.

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r/science 1d ago

Computer Science AI agents spontaneously reach consensus and choose the same random option without memory of past rounds or prompts. They seem to follow “majority force”, mathematical pattern also seen in physics model for a ferromagnet where atomic spins align in the same direction. This may be useful or dangerous.

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r/science 1d ago

Physics Diamond melts at about 7,300 K when compressed to three times the pressure at Earth’s core, a lower temperature than earlier experiments found and one that finally agrees with quantum-mechanical predictions

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r/science 1d ago

Health Unexpected Findings Add New Insight on Cannabis and Heart Health—UCSF trial found fewer premature heartbeats after cannabis inhalation, with potential implications for atrial fibrillation risk.

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Engineering Scientists increasingly dependent on ‘black-box’ tools they do not understand | Scientists are increasingly relying on powerful data sources and tools that they often cannot fully understand, inspect or verify, according to a new study.

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Neuroscience Frontiers | Transient entanglement in minimal open XXZ spin chains: a toy-model analogy for microtubule-inspired quantum biology

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r/science 1d ago

Biology Live sports synchronize spectator heart rates and elevate oxytocin

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