Swarms of tiny nose robots could clear infected sinuses, researchers say ~health medicine Article 732 words, published Jun 25 2025 14 votes
Swedish study offers strong evidence that remote care, when well implemented, can match in-person treatment in effectiveness, even during something as challenging as a pandemic ~health.mental Article 618 words, published Jul 8 2025 8 votes
AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds ~tech Article 724 words 40 votes
US National Institutes of Health suspends dozens of pathogen studies over ‘gain-of-function’ concerns ~science Link 32 votes
A passage of water in the North Sea known as the Skagerrak is a hotspot for young Greenland sharks, according to a new study. But what are the elusive animals doing there? ~enviro Link 7 votes
Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles ~enviro plastics.micro Article 489 words 31 votes
Scientists built a canoe using only prehistoric tools. Then they sailed the dangerous 140-mile route early humans traveled 30,000 years ago. ~humanities.history Article 32 votes
Disposable vapes may be more toxic than cigarettes ~health Article 409 words, published Jun 25 2025 28 votes
Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task ~tech Article 875 words 54 votes
'Unparalleled' snake antivenom made from man bitten 200 times ~health medicine Article 929 words, published May 3 2025 38 votes
Research suggests reading can help combat loneliness ~books Article 818 words, published May 14 2025 13 votes
When the Swedish town of Kallinge discovered their drinking water contained extremely high levels of PFAS, they had no idea what it would mean for their health and their children's future ~enviro pollution.ground pollution.water water.drinking Article 4883 words 21 votes
Genetic variant tied to doubled dementia risk for older men ~health.mental Article 410 words 14 votes
New study shows regions with best potential to regrow trees and suck climate-heating CO2 from the air ~enviro climate change Article 924 words 16 votes
Black paint on wind turbines sharply reduces bird death but there are issues ~enviro energy.renewable Article 588 words, published May 28 2025 26 votes
How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter ~enviro climate change Article 1539 words, published Jun 1 2025 30 votes
Finland's obsession with saunas is going global – what does science say about the claimed health benefits? ~health Article 1872 words 28 votes
Large Language Models are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders ~tech Article 459 words 14 votes
Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits transgender youth ~lgbt transgender Article 1541 words 27 votes
Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests ~humanities.languages Article 609 words, published May 18 2025 40 votes
Konstantine Vlasis never imagined that a single track on a Sigur Rós album would lead him to study the melting glaciers of Iceland ~music Article 1283 words 7 votes
The effect of physical fitness on mortality is overestimated ~science Article 988 words, published May 15 2025 26 votes
Adolescents' screen time displaces multiple sleep pathways and elevates depressive symptoms over twelve months, Swedish study finds ~health.mental Article 421 words 30 votes
Scientists reveal how DMT alters brain activity and consciousness by lowering control energy ~science psychology Link 23 votes
They don’t read very well: A study of the reading comprehension skills of English majors at two midwestern universities ~humanities.languages Article 5993 words 54 votes
ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the Large Hadron Collider ~science physics Article 855 words, published May 8 2025 29 votes
The Viking Age is undergoing a revisionist transformation based on studies of artifacts and documents tying them to the Silk Road ~humanities.history Article 3731 words 18 votes
Researchers secretly ran a massive, unauthorized AI persuasion experiment on Reddit users ~tech social media Article 465 words, published Apr 28 2025 64 votes
The disturbing history of Dr. Oetker's success. What started as a small pharmacy in Bielefeld, Germany, grew into a food empire that aligned with Adolf Hitler’s regime and profited from the war. ~food history Video 5:37 17 votes
Is dark energy weakening over time? Why some cosmologists aren’t sure. ~space Article 2324 words 19 votes
Microplastics found in human ovary follicular fluid for the first time ~health Article 665 words 30 votes
Meet the death metal singers changing vocal health research ~music metal.progressive metal.death Article 1220 words 28 votes
Finland is under pressure to switch its rail to standard gauge – planned train line to run between Kemi and Haparanda in Sweden is the first phase ~transport Article 620 words 17 votes
Arctic haze induced by an Icelandic volcanic eruption – evidence from China's highest-resolution trace gas monitoring ~enviro pollution.air Article 395 words 7 votes
New study attributes nine trillion dollars of climate change related damages to just five companies, and outlines how they could be held accountable for specific local damages ~enviro climate change Article 1051 words 42 votes
US National Institutes of Health guts its first and largest study centered on women ~science Link 19 votes
Ultra-processed diets cause weight gain compared to unprocessed diets of similar energy density and macronutrients, possibly due to overeating ~health diet Link 18 votes
Clobazam, an anti-anxiety drug, is polluting our waterways – Swedish study found traces of the drug had altered the way wild Atlantic salmon migrate ~enviro pollution.water Article 1022 words 11 votes
Study finds strongest evidence yet that shingles vaccine helps cut dementia risk ~health.mental Article 710 words, published Apr 2 2025 31 votes
Swedish study finds surprising number of environmental pollutants in hedgehogs, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and heavy metals ~enviro pollution.ground Article 717 words 6 votes
Immune ‘fingerprints’ aid diagnosis of complex diseases in Stanford Medicine study ~health medicine Article 917 words, published Feb 21 2025 6 votes
Study unlocks how diabetes distorts memory and reward processing. The risk of developing Alzheimer’s is 65% higher in diabetics. ~health Article 737 words, published Mar 25 2025 17 votes
Apparently magpies and crows are using "Anti-Bird Spikes" to make their nests ~enviro Article 1075 words, published Jul 13 2023 18 votes