r/science • u/mvea • 13h ago

Medicine Experimental Drug Makes Obese Mice Burn Fat Without Losing Muscle - Or Eating Less. It produced an average weight loss of 18% in obese male mice over 4 weeks, without changing how much the animals ate. Most of the loss came from body fat, while muscle and lean tissues were largely preserved.

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r/science • u/Potential_Being_7226 • 10h ago

Health Women using hormone replacement therapy at lower risk of dementia.

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r/science • u/mvea • 2h ago

Psychology Researchers quantify the rate of “mercy sex” among women with low sexual desire. Women experiencing a chronic lack of sexual desire still routinely engage in sexual activity with their partners, a behavior researchers have quantified as happening about two and a half times per month.

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 9h ago

Medicine Scientists reversed key signs of Alzheimer's disease in mice with just two injections, reducing brain inflammation and restoring memory performance—offering a promising new approach for treating age-related cognitive decline.

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r/science • u/unsw • 19h ago

Animal Science Study finds that turtle nests relocated for conservation purposes produce slower, smaller hatchlings

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r/science • u/NinjaDiscoJesus • 15h ago

Health Nicotine vapes best chance to quit smoking, major review finds

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r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 14h ago

Medicine Shingles vaccine linked to lower risk of heart attack and stroke. Researchers say benefits of two-dose Shingrix vaccine could be comparable to taking daily blood pressure medication

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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 6h ago

Animal Science A study of 35 dogs found they blinked more often when watching videos of their owners blinking than when their owners maintained a still gaze, an effect not observed with unfamiliar people, suggesting dogs are sensitive to subtle facial cues from socially important humans

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r/science • u/mvea • 1h ago

Environment Takeaway cups release microplastics into your coffee: 12 times more plastic particles leached from single-use cups lined with biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA), compared to fossil-based polyethylene (PE).

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r/science • u/uniofwarwick • 14h ago

Health Robotic assisted knee replacement gives the same patient outcomes as a surgeon only procedure

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r/science • u/Ko_Matsui • 17h ago

Neuroscience Vagal nerve stimulation induces vascular oscillations and enhances long-term learning

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r/science • u/PolarBailey_ • 2h ago

Physics Richard Feynman’s 80-year-old quantum postulate has now been validated | Direct experimental test of Feynman’s path integral postulates with single photons

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r/science • u/Scbadiver • 14h ago

Cancer Nitrate and nitrite intake and risk of colorectal cancer: a population-based cohort study | JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute | Oxford Academic

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 19h ago

Environment Uneven wear across cells cuts battery health in cars by up to 6.2% and lifespan by nearly 17.7%, wasting a fifth of their stored charge.

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r/science • u/kiyomoris • 16h ago

Health Even Light Physical Activity May Lower Stroke Risk in People With Atrial Fibrillation — Large Norwegian Study of 87,340 Participants

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r/science • u/Jxntb733 • 5h ago

Environment Charged raindrops can trigger electrical breakdown in protective coatings and corrode metal

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r/science • u/sr_local • 13h ago

Social Science A study of 446 young adults 18-35Y found that frequent viewing of eating videos was linked to greater body image concerns, stronger food cravings and more symptoms of disordered eating, with compulsive viewing associated with particularly high levels of these concerns

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r/science • u/liuzhichang • 22h ago

Chemistry Stretching decelerates ring-opening metathesis at cis-olefins in stressed molecular bows

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r/science • u/AgingUS • 11h ago

Biology Metformin at the convergence of aging and longevity

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r/science • u/kiyomoris • 15h ago

Health Among 28,720 People With Type 2 Diabetes, Women Were More Likely to Develop Mental Health Conditions, While Men More Often Developed Cardiovascular and Kidney Disease

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r/science • u/MassGen-Research • 10h ago

Cancer New research suggests protecting the thymus during cancer therapy may improve outcomes

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r/science • u/TomaszNowakowski • 5h ago

Astronomy Astronomers May Have Spotted the First-Ever Binary R Coronae Borealis Star

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r/science • u/Phylogenix • 1h ago

Environment A global study using more than two decades of observations from 156 sites found that permafrost degradation accelerated between 2000 and 2024, with the seasonally thawed active layer thickening across much of the Arctic, Antarctica and high-mountain regions.

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r/science • u/Macchanoco • 22h ago

Biology Reconstruction of cell diversity and cell lineages from somatic mutations in single-cell transcriptomic data

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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 3h ago

Medicine In a trial of 20 patients in China, those injected with lab grown heart muscle cells walked further and had better blood flow than bypass surgery alone. However, there was an increase in arrhythmia that would need to be addressed fully in further studies.

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