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A randomized study of 3,000 low-income Americans found that giving participants $1,000/month for 3 years reduced labor-force participation by 4.2 percentage points and work hours by ~1–2 hours/week

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

A large experiment finds that removal of noncompete clauses increases labor mobility between competing firms by 36–52% and raises workers’ total earnings by 12–17%

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

The strongest conspiracy believers had a 91% probability of simultaneously endorsing two claims that cannot both be true, vs 3% for the weakest (8 studies, n=8,590)

Among Mexican-origin adults aged 74 and older, 5-year survival was higher in Mexico than in the United States at every level of illness, including 40.9% versus 36.6% among those with both diabetes and dementia and 77.5% versus 73.3% among those with neither

Conversations with AI Companions leads to a paradox - trusting the companion but not the company behind it

Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)

Privatization of hospital management in Brazil lead to a 40% increase in admission and a 3% decrease in mortality

Outmigration to the US mainland topped 2.5% among Puerto Rico Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older in the year of Hurricane Maria regardless of health status, while those with a dementia diagnosis were slightly more likely to leave across 2012 to 2019

Surgical treatment of gynecomastia leads to significant improvements in hormonal parameters and sexual function

Mutation rate estimate and population genomic analysis reveals decline of koalas prior to human arrival

People enjoy poems less if they think an AI wrote them (even though they are actually really bad at recognizing which poems were written by humans and which were AI-generated).

Contrary to pro-Brexit rhetoric, Brexit had an adverse impact on the quality of the National Health Service (NHS) – By inducing a shortage of skilled nurses (from the EU)…

Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

Italy passes obesity law to prevent cardiovascular disease across Europe

Xylem Surfactants Introduce a New Element to the Cohesion-Tension Theory(2017)

Flu viruses spread most easily when air is either very dry or very humid, explaining why outbreaks surge during cold winters in the US but spike during rainy seasons in the tropics

New study reveals top AI models (GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, Gemini 2.5) completely fail the classic "Stroop" psychological attention test, exposing a fundamental limitation in artificial reasoning.

Deficient executive control in transformer attention

Local community stewardship of cultural keystone species enhances nature's contributions to people.

The average adult in the U.S. sleeps 7.6 hours per night, with a 10th–90th percentile range of 6.5 to 8.9 hours

A major European clinical consensus confirms that ultra-processed foods (UPFs) increase the risk of cardiovascular death by up to 65%

Gun ownership is a quasi-causal factor in declining social capital

A scoping review of 30 studies finds that 60% of haemodialysis patients don't follow dietary recommendations — and frames non-adherence as a structural failure of the care system…

The extended predicative Mahlo universe in Martin-Löf type theory (2023)

Some evidence that cultural differences are actually increasing with modernization

Kono-S surgical technique is highly safe for children with Crohn's disease

Combined variations in sleep, physical activity, and nutrition and the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events

Meditation induces shifts in neural oscillations, brain complexity, and critical dynamics: novel insights from MEG

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