r/science

: "Lupus trigger discovered, reaearchers were able to trace a form of the autoimmune disease lupus back to a single mutation"

: "Automatic checkouts in supermarkets may decrease customer loyalty, especially for those with larger shopping loads. Customers using self-checkout stations often feel overwhelmed and unsupported. The lack of personal interaction can negatively impact their perception of the supermarket."

: "Scientists document first-ever transmitted Alzheimer’s cases, tied to no-longer-used medical procedure | hormones extracted from cadavers possibly triggered onset"

: "Rape-Related Pregnancies in the 14 US States With Total Abortion Bans. More than 64,500 pregnancies have resulted from rape in the 14 states that banned abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned."

: "Trumpism, defined as approval of ex-president Trump, is viewed as an intervening variable that influences both types of science rejection (rejecting the reality of anthropogenic climate change and rejecting COVID-19 vaccination), finds a new study."

: "Nitrogen pollution may threaten a third of the world's natural water reservoirs by 2050 | Potentially causing severe drinking water scarcity for 3 billion people, according to Dutch and German researchers."

: "First-ever sighting of a live newborn great white shark - no one has seen one in the wild, it seems, until now. The Malibu Artist, a well-known drone YouTuber, captured the footage and is a co-author of the peer-reviewed paper in Environmental Biology of Fishes journal."

: "Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations"

: "Updated Covid vaccine has 54% effectiveness, new data suggest"

: "Not a single case of cervical cancer has been detected in Scottish women who received the full HPV vaccine at 12-13 years old"

: "Black women in the US murdered six times more often than White women over last 20 years. The racial inequity was greatest in Wisconsin, where in 2019–20, Black women aged 25–44 years were 20 times more likely to die by homicide than White women."

: "Hurricanes becoming so strong that new category needed, study says"

: "Researchers discover an abrupt change in quantum behavior that defies current theories of superconductivity"

: "Armies of bots battled on Twitter over Chinese spy balloon incident. Around 35 per cent of users geotagged as located in the US exhibited bot-like behaviour, while 65 per cent were believed to be human. In China, the proportions were reversed: 64 per cent were bots and 36 per cent were humans."

: "NASA announces new 'super-Earth': Exoplanet orbits in 'habitable zone,' is only 137 light-years away"

: "A newly identified ‘Hell chicken’ species suggests dinosaurs weren’t sliding toward extinction before the fateful asteroid hit, with fossil finds indicating diverse species thriving towards the end of Cretaceous era"

: "Hackers can tap into security and cellphone cameras to view real-time video footage from up to 16 feet away using an antenna, new research finds."

: "Scientists have come up with a technology to recycle used clothes by separating out the different fibres in the clothes rather than simply burning them. The process involves heating the clothes to 225 degrees Celsius and adding a specific type of alcohol"

: "Male fruit flies whose sexual advances are repeatedly rejected get frustrated and less able to handle stress, study found. The researchers say these rejected flies were also less resilient to starvation and exposure to a toxic herbicide."

: "Cannabis activates specific hunger neurons in the brain: mice exposed to vaporized cannabis triggered a set of cells in the hypothalamus when the rodents anticipated and consumed palatable food, a response not observed in unexposed mice"

: "When Filipino nurses were able to work in the US, it did not cause a "brain drain" in the Philippines. Rather, it led to a net increase in nurses in the Philippines, as more Filipinos got educated and only a few left for the US (for each nurse migrant, nine additional nurses stayed)."

: "Researchers have developed a shape memory polymeric material responsive to humidity, that when applied to a person’s hair and allowed to dry, serves as an exceptionally moisture-resistant hairstyling preventing the uncurling and stretching of curled hair in high humidity conditions"

: "Largest known deep-sea coral reef mapped off US Atlantic coast. The reef, which extends for 310 miles from Florida to South Carolina and at some points is 68 miles wide, is ‘breathtaking in scale’. The total area is nearly three times the size of Yellowstone national park."