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People who favor group-based inequality tend to have less gray matter in an empathy-linked brain region
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.
Research shows doctors’ prescribing habits are heavily influenced by payments, gifts, and free meals from pharmaceutical companies, leading to more expensive, less appropriate and more drugs being prescribed.
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.
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
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
Since erupting in December of 2024, Kilauea has spit out over 50 lava fountains at a never before seen frequency
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
A global study found more than 40% of the world's river basins will see both worse floods and worse droughts by 2100. Cutting emissions eases this, but does not stop it.
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.
A new study has found that genetic signatures of assortative mating, where people pair up with partners who share similar traits, have grown significantly stronger among more recently born generations in the United States, particularly regarding educational attainment and smoking habits.
Gene link to inherited blindness discovered
A 12-week clinical trial found that a daily supplement combining berberine, white mulberry extract, and chromium helped adults with obesity lose 2.35 kg of body fat and improve their insulin sensitivity by 28% compared to a placebo.
Why big dogs age faster
Greater eveningness (later chronotype) at age 12-13 causes poorer mental health at age 13-14, shows study of 7,000 U.S. children
Research found restricting phone use in class improves academic performance, especially among lower-performing students, with minimal impact on higher-performing students. Removing phones also reduces disparities in GPA, indicating a potential way to close learning gaps
Rapid changes in transcription during a feast-famine event
Polymer-photosensitizer conjugate exerting pH-responsive hydrophilic-to-hydrophobic conversion for cell-specific photochemical internalization of mRNA
How big is a Git commit?
Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler
Two-Way Doors: Don’t Code Yourself into a Corner
Bit arrays in the Linux kernel
Prometheus on AWS: A 96% Cost Cut From One Line
Microsoft: Post-quantum authentication: Why organizations should start testing certificate ecosystems now
Build better software to build software better
Tracing np.add, all the way down
Java garbage collection in its own log: eight checks you can run
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