NeuroscienceResearchers Call for New Studies to Learn How Our Brains Change When We’re Awake After Midnight. Your worldview narrows and becomes more negative, you start to make poor decisions, and the mental map you create of the world around you may no longer match up with reality. (mgriblog.org)
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Health"Infodemic” of false information on COVID-19. While Twitter suspended one-fifth of the users associated with the tweets, 80% of them were left to post and repeat misinformation (defined as false information not intended to harm) and disinformation (false information that carries an intent to harm). (eurekalert.org)
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Social SciencePeople in the United States strongly associate vegetarianism with whiteness, study finds (psypost.org)
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BiologyWhen testing 10 diets, researchers found that a high protein diet changes the gut microbiome, triggering an immune response. (technologynetworks.com)
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Astronomy'Black widow' is heaviest neutron star after devouring its stellar companion (cnn.com)
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PsychologyA brain mechanism underlying the evolution of anxiety (eurekalert.org)
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PsychologyCritical thinking protecting Ukrainians against Russia's disinformation campaign. People who rely more on quick judgments – in lieu of engaging in critical deliberation – are more likely to believe in disinformation regardless of whether it is consistent or inconsistent with their political ideology (eurekalert.org)
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MedicineA Zoonotic Henipavirus in Febrile Patients in China | NEJM (nejm.org)
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EnvironmentSustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world (nature.com)
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CancerCool room temperature inhibited cancer growth in mice: mice acclimatized to temperatures of 4°C had significantly slower tumor growth and lived nearly twice as long compared with mice in rooms of 30°C because they were burning more brown fat, but high sugar drink obliterated the effect of cold (news.ki.se)
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HealthCausal relationship between type 1 diabetes and hypothyroidism: A Mendelian randomization study - Therefore, it is recommended that patients with T1D should undergo thyroid function tests regularly in order to minimize the risk of undiagnosed hypothyroidism among young patients with T1D (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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Materials ScienceStrong yet ductile nanolamellar high-entropy alloys by additive manufacturing | Nature (nature.com)
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Social ScienceA recent US study finds shootings at week t have a negative or null effect on shootings at week t + 1 within cities. However, in years when cities went through sharp increases in gun violence, the prevalence of shootings at t have a strong, positive, causal effect on shootings in the following week. (sciencedirect.com)
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