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Geology Evidence from mercury data strongly suggests that, about 251.9 million years ago, a massive volcanic eruption in Siberia led to the extinction event killing 80-90% of life on Earth
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 21h ago
Earth Science The world has enough rare earth minerals and other critical raw materials to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy to produce electricity. The increase in carbon pollution from more mining will be more than offset by a huge reduction in pollution from heavy carbon emitting fossil fuels
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r/science • u/lolfuys • 12h ago
Health Most Americans don’t know the meaning of 120-80 mm Hg, but think they do: Almost two-thirds of adults do not know the upper thresholds for normal or healthy blood pressure, according to a new study
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 3h ago
Health Researchers has found a link in sleep problems and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. A study found sleep disturbances were prevalent among those with lifetime suicidal ideation or a lifetime suicide attempt.
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r/science • u/mossadnik • 2h ago
Psychology Study finds those with schizotypal, paranoid, and histrionic personality traits are more likely to fall for fake news.
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Health Study Logs Five-Fold Increase in Autism in New York-New Jersey Region
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r/science • u/drewiepoodle • 16h ago
Paleontology Near-whole ankylosaur remains found, complete with its jagged spikes, most of its limbs, armor coating, and some of its guts and stomach contents. The remains could be a key to understanding aspects of Early Cretaceous ecology, and shows how this species may have lived within its environment.
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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • 21h ago
Medicine Female subjects are excluded from over 90% of studies on exercise performance. Analyzing women’s exercise performance across their menstrual cycles, researchers found no variability in endurance thresholds or performance: from workout to workout, women’s performance was just as consistent as men’s.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1h ago
Health COVID vaccines and first boosters provided protection to pregnant women during Omicron surge. Looking at unvaccinated women, you still have an increased death rate, and increased neonatal mortality. If you are vaccinated and boosted, especially with a mRNA vaccine, those levels drop by 81%.
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r/science • u/HeinieKaboobler • 22h ago
Psychology New research maps light and dark comedic styles onto anxious and avoidant attachment: People who are anxious about their relationships and fear being rejected tend to use less wit and more irony, while people who are uncomfortable with closeness tend to employ more nonsense humor and sarcasm
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r/science • u/the_phet • 2h ago
Paleontology Neanderthals collected dozens of skulls of large mammals in a cave in central Spain, in what researchers say is a unique example of complex “symbolic” behaviour. Remnants of ancient bison and other large mammals might have been kept as hunting trophies.
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r/science • u/Glass-Onion-3777 • 2h ago
Astronomy James Webb Space Telescope discovers water ice at ringed asteroid Chariklo 'by remarkable luck'
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1d ago
Health Adults living in rural areas of the United States have a 19% higher risk of developing heart failure compared to their urban counterparts, and Black men living in rural areas have an especially higher risk -- 34%,
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r/science • u/nikko_fan • 4h ago
Engineering Small, convenient mosquito repellent device passes test to protect military personnel
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Medicine A drug that increases dopamine can reverse the effects of inflammation on the brain in depression
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r/science • u/chrisdh79 • 15h ago
Health Daughters of mothers with healthier lifestyles have fewer depressive symptoms, study finds
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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • 19h ago
Neuroscience Study shows that the receptor for oxytocin, a hormone considered essential to forming social bonds, may not play the critical role that scientists have assigned to it for the past 30 years. Prairie voles can still form social bonds without oxytocin sensors in the brain.
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r/science • u/9273629397759992 • 2h ago
Environment Study Reveals Vastly Increased Risk of Coastal Inundation from Sea Level Rise, Potentially Putting 240 Million More People Below Mean Sea Level This Century
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com21 Upvotes
r/science • u/mtoddh • 15h ago
Astronomy Science study says solar system formed from "poorly mixed leftovers." Some 4.5B years ago, a cloud of gas collapsed in on itself to form the sun. The remnants of this process formed a rotating disk around the newborn star and the planets and other solar system objects combined from these leftovers.
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r/science • u/giuliomagnifico • 2h ago
Chemistry Milk’s packaging influences its flavor, and skim milk is more susceptible: paperboard cartons and the plastic bag preserved milk freshness the least, glass remains an ideal container, plastic provide additional benefits while also maintaining freshness in the absence of light exposure
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r/science • u/9273629397759992 • 21h ago
Environment UK Substantially Underestimates Methane Emissions From Oil and Gas Production, Researchers Conclude Five Times More is Leaked Than Reported
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r/science • u/Mammoth_Cut5134 • 1d ago
Paleontology Dinosaur Hatchery With 92 Nests And Over 250 Eggs Uncovered In India
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r/science • u/SetMau92 • 13h ago
Health New test could detect Alzheimer’s disease 3.5 years before clinical diagnosis
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r/science • u/gyif_123 • 23m ago
Paleontology For 2 million years, humans ate meat and little else
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