Testosterone levels help explain why women tend to experience lower sexual desire for their partners. Sexual desire for one’s partner — also called dyadic sexual desire — plays an important role in healthy long-term relationships. psypost.org Submitted by Wagamaga t3_z03enz on November 20, 2022 at 12:53 PM in science No comments 4
Nazi propaganda from 1927–1945. Propaganda leading up to the Holocaust progressively denied Jews’ capacity for experiencing fundamental human emotions and sensations—in line with the idea that dehumanization leads to disengagement of moral restraints. eurekalert.org Submitted by Wagamaga t3_yratmy on November 10, 2022 at 10:13 AM in science No comments 1
USA sexually ‘teased’ its troops in the First World War to make them fight harder. Believing that sexually satisfied men could not be easily motivated, the aim of this teasing was to generate unmet sexual desire, which the War Department could leverage as motivation to fight cam.ac.uk Submitted by Wagamaga t3_yoj9iy on November 7, 2022 at 10:56 AM in science No comments 0
Research shows what happens to the brains and behaviour of young teenagers, years after they’ve become “night owls”. A shift in sleep pattern increased the risk of having behavioural problems and delayed brain development in later adolescence. theconversation.com Submitted by Wagamaga t3_ymos4k on November 5, 2022 at 9:04 AM in science No comments 2
Therapeutic community gardening helped reduce loneliness as the pandemic paralyzed the United Kingdom. As people sowed, planted and tended to vegetables and flowers, their self-reported life satisfaction and mental well-being increased by 9 percent. essex.ac.uk Submitted by Wagamaga t3_ylv7lp on November 4, 2022 at 10:35 AM in science No comments 0
Reducing partisan divide alone does not boost support for democracy. Notably, not only academics but also a large majority of Americans believe the country is extremely divided and view this division as a serious problem nature.com Submitted by Wagamaga t3_yl21mx on November 3, 2022 at 12:51 PM in science No comments 1
Political ideology linked with COVID health outcomes. The higher the exposure to conservatism on each political metric, the higher the COVID-19 age-standardized mortality rates, even after adjusting for the district’s social characteristics, voters’ political lean, and vaccination rates hsph.harvard.edu Submitted by Wagamaga t3_yka2il on November 2, 2022 at 4:39 PM in science No comments 5
At least two thirds of Australians, including children and adolescents, have had COVID-19. This is more than double the number of cases reported based on nose and throat swab testing for the virus. Vaccination reduces the risk of developing severe disease if infected with the virus kirby.unsw.edu.au Submitted by Wagamaga t3_z1qdzp on November 22, 2022 at 10:40 AM in science 13 comments 130
A warmer world is making storms transform rapidly into powerful hurricanes or typhoons in a single day, posing a huge challenge to weather forecasters. Stronger storms disproportionately risk lives and devastate homes and businesses, as Hurricane Ian did in Florida in September 2022. ncas.ac.uk Submitted by Wagamaga t3_z0y9cr on November 21, 2022 at 12:52 PM in science 41 comments 1,081
"Green Mediterranean diet” high in polyphenols and fiber can reduce that visceral fat. After 18 months, those subjected to the diet saw a visceral fat reduction of 14 percent; eaters of the Mediterranean Diet saw a 7 percent drop. Visceral fat among “healthy eaters” was reduced by 4.5 percent bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com Submitted by Wagamaga t3_z7vxfd on November 29, 2022 at 2:42 PM in science 66 comments 375
Honey improves key measures of cardiometabolic health, including blood sugar and cholesterol levels -; especially if the honey is raw and from a single floral source. Honey is a complex composition of common and rare sugars, proteins, organic acids and other bioactive compounds academic.oup.com Submitted by Wagamaga t3_z036xh on November 20, 2022 at 12:42 PM in science 62 comments 1,496
A study of NFL games during the 2020 season suggests a link between attendance and COVID spikes in surrounding counties 14 and 21 days later. The inferred connection held strongest for games attended by 20,000-plus fans jamanetwork.com Submitted by Wagamaga t3_z55vqm on November 26, 2022 at 11:59 AM in science 169 comments 3,453
Research shows animals are key to restoring the world’s forests. The unique long-term data set revealed that animals, by carrying a wide variety of seeds into deforested areas, are key to the recovery of tree species richness and abundance to old-growth levels after only 40 to 70 years of regrowth. mpg.de Submitted by Wagamaga t3_z7o9bm on November 29, 2022 at 8:45 AM in science 47 comments 3,909
Research shows land that often lies fallow or is poor in soil quality — across the United States would provide enough biomass feedstock to meet the liquid fuel demands of the U.S. aviation sector fully from biofuels, an amount expected to reach 30 billion gallons per year by 2040. news.asu.edu Submitted by Wagamaga t3_yw3cot on November 15, 2022 at 5:10 PM in science 30 comments 72
Aerobic exercise can reduce the risk of metastatic cancer by 72%. According to the researchers, intensity aerobic exercise increases the glucose (sugar) consumption of internal organs, thereby reducing the availability of energy to the tumor. aacrjournals.org Submitted by Wagamaga t3_yv8taa on November 14, 2022 at 6:52 PM in science 81 comments 1,857
New research shows Black adults in mid-life — on average, in their mid-50s — were more likely than white or Hispanic adults of the same age to have a higher prevalence of white matter lesions, markers of cerebrovascular disease that are associated with cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease jamanetwork.com Submitted by Wagamaga t3_yv5nlt on November 14, 2022 at 5:06 PM in science 10 comments 63
Scientists have discovered that plastic pollution in Antarctica is as bad as everywhere else on the planet. Most of the microfibres were found in air samples, meaning that Antarctic animals and seabirds could very well be breathing them in. ox.ac.uk Submitted by Wagamaga t3_z54m69 on November 26, 2022 at 10:43 AM in science 75 comments 2,591
The lifespans of honey bees living in laboratory environments has dropped about 50% over the last 50 years, hinting at possible causes for the worrisome trends across the beekeeping industry, according to new research by University of Maryland entomologists. today.umd.edu Submitted by Wagamaga t3_yuvf0g on November 14, 2022 at 10:38 AM in science 147 comments 5,094
Childhood traumas strongly impact both mental and physical health, new study shows. For every reported type of abuse experienced in childhood, a participant's risk for PTSD increased 47%. Each cumulative trauma also increased one's risk for making a suicide attempt by 33%. frontiersin.org Submitted by Wagamaga t3_z5z8ln on November 27, 2022 at 11:44 AM in science 83 comments 1,625
10% of patients infected early in the pandemic still had symptoms 1 year later. Common long COVID symptoms were shortness of breath (26.5%), joint pain (26.9%), loss of smell or taste (27.0%), impaired attention or concentration (22.3%), memory loss (40.0%), and sleep disorders (36.6%) cidrap.umn.edu Submitted by Wagamaga t3_yt5i9y on November 12, 2022 at 12:19 PM in science 90 comments 609
Major political and societal events can have dramatic impacts on psychological health. Scientists looked at how these changes in behavior may have affected mood and well-being of U.S participants, they found significant links between sleep and drinking, stress, negative mood, and depression. bidmc.org Submitted by Wagamaga t3_ys6vee on November 11, 2022 at 10:35 AM in science 10 comments 96
New research shows Krill oil rewires distinct gene expression programs that contribute to attenuating several aging hallmarks, including oxidative stress, proteotoxic stress, senescence, genomic instability, and mitochondrial dysfunction. aging-us.com Submitted by Wagamaga t3_z4hjga on November 25, 2022 at 4:29 PM in science 13 comments 35
30% of cancer contents on social media are unproven info. Some cancer patients use unproven alternative or supplementary treatments without consulting medical professionals, which leads to delaying or rejecting existing treatments, sharply reducing their survival possibilities. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Submitted by Wagamaga t3_z6ta1k on November 28, 2022 at 10:38 AM in science 26 comments 406
Self-reported psychological distress, defined as symptoms of depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or perceived psychosocial stress, is associated with a 28% greater risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality medicine.yale.edu Submitted by Wagamaga t3_ypivbm on November 8, 2022 at 11:07 AM in science 9 comments 188
Why conflict parties cease fighting. Research shows that parties to a conflict are more likely to agree to a ceasefire in periods where the conflict is particularly bloody and when an above-average number of civilians have been accidentally killed by rebel attacks. css.ethz.ch Submitted by Wagamaga t3_ynn1c4 on November 6, 2022 at 10:59 AM in science 11 comments 343