Metformin may reduce Alzheimer’s disease risk by increasing soluble amyloid-β42 levels

Women code differently, but no worse, than men, study says

Effects of microgravity on human iPSC-derived neural organoids on the International Space Station

Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms

The Event Horizon Telescope image might need a correction

AI-Generated Narratives Show Lower Transportation and Higher Counterarguing Compared to Human-Generated Stories in Experimental Studies.

Study Reveals New Insights into Anaerobic Ciliate and Methanogen Symbiosis

Patients who are members of the BDSM community are likely to have had negative healthcare experiences, and these experiences impact their communication with and trust in future medical encounters.

Can incidental physical activity offset the deleterious associations of sedentary behaviour with major adverse cardiovascular events

Perilous Times on Planet Earth

Forage conservation is a neglected nitrous oxide source

New Study Sheds Light on Ancient Protoribosome and its Role in Early Life Evolution

Effect of Covid-19 global lockdown on our Moon

Scholars have debated whether the Holodomor famine in Ukraine (1932–1933) was intentionally targeted towards Ukrainians or inadvertent

Fermentation Practices Select for Thermostable Endolysins in Phages

The use of circadian-informed lighting, where artificial lighting is synchronised to the natural biological rhythms or a person’s ‘body-clock’, significantly improves quality of sleep and work performance for night shift workers…

Expanding the list of cancers recognized to be caused by infectious agents

Association of COVID-19 Vaccination with Risk of Medically-Attended Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 During the Ancestral, Alpha, Delta, and Omicron Variant Eras [Note: Finds no protective effect of COVID19 vaccination against long covid]

Study finds that medications used to treat alcohol use disorders (naltrexone and acamprosate) are underutilised in Australia.

Soft cells and the geometry of seashells

Study suggests a significant association between Genital Gender-Affirming Surgery and reduced psychiatric comorbidities in individuals with Gender Incongruence

Winner of the 2024 Ig Nobel prize for Medicine goes to a Swiss, German and Belgian group for demonstrating that fake medicine that causes painful side-effects can be more effective in patients than fake medicine that does not cause painful side-effects (full-text link in comment).

A new study finds that fast-paced hyperventilation (breathwork) can induce brain states and experiences similar to psychedelics

DdrC, a unique DNA repair factor from D. radiodurans, senses and stabilizes DNA breaks through a novel lesion-recognition mechanism

2023 state of the climate Entering uncharted territory

Palaeontologists have described Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus, a new genus and species of large theropod dinosaur characterised by an extremely developed orbital brow on the postorbital, amongst other features, from the Callovian Balabansai Formation of Kyrgyzstan.

Women who begin relationships with (eventually) physically abusive men suffer large and significant earnings and employment falls immediately upon cohabiting with the abusive partner

Slavery and Jim Crow have persistently adverse effects on African Americans – Black families whose ancestors were enslaved until the Civil War have considerably lower education, income…

Most ChatGPT users think AI models may have 'conscious experiences', study finds

Trump's attacks on elections and voting-by-mail in the US has altered election attitudes among conservatives in other countries – Right-leaning individuals in Canada show greater distrust in voting-by-mail following Trump's false voter fraud claims about mail ballots.

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