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Vegetarians may be viewed as less attractive dating partners by meat-eaters, particularly in Poland, a country with a strong meat-eating tradition. Heterosexual meat-eaters rated dating profiles of vegetarians less favorably than profiles with no mention of dietary habits.

Vegetarians may be viewed as less attractive datin...

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Geologists Uncover Signs of a Critical Separation Between the Cool Continental Crust and Mantle Deep Beneath California

Geologists Uncover Signs of a Critical Separation ...

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Explaining persistent hydrogen in Mars’ atmosphere. New insight into Red Planet’s hot again, cold again history.

Explaining persistent hydrogen in Mars’ atmosphere...

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People who are heavy cannabis users could have poorer working memory skills even if they haven't used the drug recently. Brain scans showed lower brain activation in several regions.

People who are heavy cannabis users could have poo...

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AI model simulates 500 million years of evolution to generate a novel protein

AI model simulates 500 million years of evolution ...

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Young women’s mixed feelings about sex stem from conflicting social norms | Participating women expressed a desire to have sex with their partners, guided by social norms that valorized such encounters, but they were also influenced by coexisting norms that stigmatized sexual activity.

Young women’s mixed feelings about sex stem from c...

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Moderate-intensity exercise can significantly influence appetite-related hormones and perceptions in males with obesity. The hormones which have been shown to increase after exercise, are the same hormones which the most successful weight loss drugs are mimicking

Moderate-intensity exercise can significantly infl...

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Uncertainty is not all bad. Recent paper summarizes benefits of uncertainty: It focuses attention, heightens learning, serves as a distraction, increases enjoyment of entertainment, and boosts emotions (useful for positive emotions).

Uncertainty is not all bad. Recent paper summarize...

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New research reveals the extraordinary energy demands of humpback whale mothers, who travel over 3,000 miles without food to birth and nourish their 2,600-pound calves, a feat now further imperiled by climate change and marine heatwaves disrupting their critical food supply.

New research reveals the extraordinary energy dema...

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Vagus nerve stimulation (neuromodulation) can help with various diseases. However, this only works well if the body's own rhythms are taken into account, says a new study

Vagus nerve stimulation (neuromodulation) can help...

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Your Mouth Bacteria May Predict Your Dementia Risk. Researchers found that higher levels of bacteria called Neisseria and Haemophilus were associated with better performance on cognitive tests measuring memory, executive function, and visual attention in people with MCI

Your Mouth Bacteria May Predict Your Dementia Risk...

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Findings of a longitudinal study of 1,205 children suggest that classroom norm salience towards aggression may become more important in the later elementary school years and that children of higher-educated parents may be more able to adapt their behavior toward the classroom norm - OPEN ACCESS

Findings of a longitudinal study of 1,205 children...

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Global Warming is accelerating. Sea Surface Temperature increase over the past 40 years will likely be exceeded within the next 20 years.

Global Warming is accelerating. Sea Surface Temper...

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By examining smiles during romantic partner interactions, researchers discovered that couples with high relationship satisfaction had greater smile synchrony and reciprocated each other’s smiles more quickly. These findings suggest that healthy couples are more emotionally attuned to each other.

By examining smiles during romantic partner intera...

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Barnacle geese feeding on agricultural fields can cause large economic damage to farms. The combined use of areas where the geese are not disturbed and no-go areas where the geese are repelled from fields can help to mitigate the damage to crops as well as the local human-wildlife conflict.

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Sentinelese contacts: anthropologically revisiting the most reclusive masters of the terra incognita North Sentinel Island

Sentinelese contacts: anthropologically revisiting...

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Study finds no racial bias in soccer foul judgments: Participants showed no difference in penalty assignments when viewing identical fouls with digitally altered player skin tones

Study finds no racial bias in soccer foul judgment...

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US researchers say COVID-19 is likely to be more severe and more deadly than flu or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Analysing the data, they found COVID-19 was linked with more severe disease outcomes, including long-term mortality, compared with flu or RSV.

US researchers say COVID-19 is likely to be more s...

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