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A new study confirmed that frequent TV watching physically changes the brain, then found that sitting at work does something completely different to the same brain regions
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▲ 0 · Jul 21
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People with narcolepsy collapse when they laugh or feel joy. Scientists just found the brain circuit responsible, and it runs through the love hormone
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▲ 0 · Jul 19
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Social psychology’s most influential theory says mixing different groups reduces prejudice. A re-analysis of 31 studies and 33,000 people found the causal evidence for that is largely a statistical artifact
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▲ 0 · Jul 17
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A five-year study of 10,000 adolescents found that the pandemic damaged every teenager’s mental health, then hit the most genetically vulnerable ones with additional harm on top
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▲ 0 · Jul 15
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Roger Penrose proposed in 1969 that energy could be pulled out of a spinning black hole. A lab in New York just proved he was right
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▲ 0 · Jul 13
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One of physics’ oldest unsolved problems is why time exists at all. A new experiment built a universe small enough to fit in a laboratory and found the first experimental answer
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▲ 0 · Jul 11
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A study of 544,000 couples across 29 countries confirmed that relationships fail more often when women earn more, then ruled out almost every explanation researchers assumed was responsible
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▲ 0 · Jul 9
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A new study shows children are not moral blank slates: prosocial gut feelings appear at age 3 and deliberate reasoning spends the next five years catching up
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▲ 0 · Jul 7
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The largest mental health study ever conducted on researchers surveyed 138,000 PhD students and postdocs and found that nearly one in three are clinically depressed or anxious, and one in five has had suicidal thoughts
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▲ 0 · Jul 4
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Scientists spent 30 years trying to find what carries Alzheimer’s from one brain cell to the next. A new study just identified it, and it turns out to be a protein the brain uses to carry memories
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▲ 0 · Jul 2
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Psychology assumed that helping others feel better was a universal human motive. A study of 6,900 people just showed it is not
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▲ 0 · Jul 1
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Researchers spent 17 years following older adults and found that the slowest steppers died significantly earlier, and the difference was measured in milliseconds
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▲ 0 · Jun 29
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A decade of research on thousands of people proves that human brains literally synchronize during face-to-face conversation, and lonely brains cannot do it
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▲ 0 · Jun 27
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Scientists recorded individual neurons in bilingual brains for the first time and found that the brain does not translate words, it does something more sophisticated
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▲ 0 · Jun 25
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A Harvard study compared the Mediterranean diet, plant-based diet, and four others for brain protection and found one diet beat all of them by a significant margin
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▲ 0 · Jun 23
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Scientists found that sleep and exercise can suppress a blood mutation carried by up to half of people over 80, but only if you have the right gene mutated
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▲ 0 · Jun 21
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A new study found that the well-known link between impulsivity and violent behavior was 62% weaker in current Ozempic and Wegovy users compared to people who’d stopped taking them
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▲ 0 · Jun 19
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Scientists found that your brain, heart, and lungs can each be aging at completely different speeds, and a single blood test can now tell you which one is aging fastest
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▲ 0 · Jun 17
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New research found that brain immune cells in Alzheimer’s patients can carry cancer-driving mutations detectable in a routine blood test, and drugs that target those mutations already exist
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▲ 0 · Jun 15
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Scientists found that a Parkinson’s drug significantly improves the depression symptom that current antidepressants barely touch, and brain scans show exactly why
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▲ 0 · Jun 13
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Scientists found that a supplement taken by 40 million Americans for joint pain is associated with 25% faster progression to Alzheimer’s in people with early memory decline
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▲ 0 · Jun 11
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New research reveals that thymus health may be one of the strongest predictors of lifespan, cardiovascular survival, and cancer outcomes ever found
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▲ 0 · Jun 9
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New research found that the chronic brain inflammation responsible for memory decline can be reversed with two doses of a nasal spray derived from human neural stem cells
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▲ 0 · Jun 7
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The largest cannabis study ever conducted found no evidence it helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD and warned it may be making all three worse
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▲ 0 · Jun 4
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Scientists found that the antidepressant millions take for depression is worsening tinnitus through the same brain chemical it uses to treat anxiety
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▲ 0 · Jun 2
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Scientists found that the creatine supplement millions take for muscle gains is quietly raising brain energy levels and slowing early Alzheimer’s cognitive decline by 30%
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▲ 506 · May 31 · 328 comments on HN
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Scientists found that people taking Ozempic face more social judgment than people who stay obese and the data explains why millions are hiding their prescriptions
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▲ 0 · May 29
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Scientists found that the vitamin B12 levels doctors call normal are quietly damaging the aging brain
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▲ 0 · May 26
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New research found that whether Ozempic works for you depends entirely on why you overeat and most doctors never ask that question
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▲ 0 · May 24
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Scientists found that the fish oil supplement millions take for brain protection is actively slowing brain repair in a specific group of people
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▲ 0 · May 22

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