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Reply to Animals adjust reactions to misinformation: fish can adjust their sensitivity to the actions of others – such as fleeing due to a false alarm – in order to reduce the risk of overreacting to misinformation, this decision-making mechanisms may be preserved in other animals, including humans by giuliomagnifico
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Reply to comment by [deleted] in Researchers have developed a family of eco-friendly glass of biological origin fabricated from biologically derived amino acids or peptides, this proposed glass is biodegradable and biorecyclable by giuliomagnifico
I don’t know what can be the use case of it, but for example a drone boat that can degrade, or a temporary shelter, or a temporary transparent solution.
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Reply to Study finds increased risk in 12,924 young adults (20 to 44Y) for cardiovascular disease, like hypertension, diabetes, and obesity by giuliomagnifico
>This serial cross-sectional study included medical data and self-reported information from 12,924 young adults aged 20 to 44 who participated in the long-running National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted by the CDC.
The study population included 51 percent female, 57 percent white, 12 percent Mexican American, 8 percent other Hispanic, 13 percent Black, and 10 percent other race and ethnicities.
Wadhera and colleagues observed that the prevalence of hypertension increased from 9 percent during 2009–2010 to 12 percent a decade later.
Similarly, the researchers saw statistically significant increases in rates of diabetes, which climbed from 3 to 4 percent, and obesity, which rose from 33 to 41 percent during the study period.
The percentage of young adults with a smoking history was high and did not change.
In contrast, rates of high cholesterol declined from 41 percent in 2009–2010 to 36 percent in 2017–2020, a decrease the scientists suggest reflects government regulation of the use of trans fatty acids and other partially hydrogenated oils in packaged convenience foods and fast-food restaurants.
The researchers found substantial variation in prevalence of risk factors by race and ethnicity. Mexican Americans were the only group to experience a significant increase in diabetes.
Obesity significantly increased across all racial and ethnic groups except Black adults. While rates of hypertension increased among Mexican Americans and other Hispanic adults, Black adults experienced the highest rates of hypertension.
paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2802263
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Reply to comment by MundanePlantain1 in Researchers have developed a new device that can detect and analyse cancer cells from blood samples, enabling doctors to avoid invasive biopsy surgeries, and to monitor treatment progress by giuliomagnifico
Yes but this a university/public stuff, not a private company business.
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Reply to comment by bigedd in Researchers take on the myriad complex questions of beer foam dynamics, pointing to more precise brewing and nozzle manufacturing by giuliomagnifico
The researchsays that in order to have a more “consistent” beer foam, you need to look at the brewing process.
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Reply to comment by bigedd in Researchers take on the myriad complex questions of beer foam dynamics, pointing to more precise brewing and nozzle manufacturing by giuliomagnifico
Correct, the research is on the beer pouring not brewing.
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Reply to comment by Cringeforcancer in Scientists have identified the brain structures responsible for compulsive drug-seeking behaviours due to repeated use of cocaine by identificating the structures involved and neural pathways activated with repeated exposure to the drug by giuliomagnifico
This one is conducted in mice.
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Reply to comment by osnapitsjoey in The discovery of an 80-million-year-old fossil plant in California pushes back the known origins of lamiids to the Cretaceous, extending the record of nearly 40,000 species of flowering plants including coffee, tomatoes, potatoes and mint that survived cataclysm that killed the dinosaurs by giuliomagnifico
Yes those plants are the precursors of the actual plants, they “survived” to the dinosaurs extinction and they evolved in the coffee, tomatoes, etc…
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Reply to comment by Stardust_Staubsauger in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
The better is obviously not produce plastic.
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Reply to comment by Stardust_Staubsauger in UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year by giuliomagnifico
>Potentially, there may be good news in this research, says Niemann. "In part, the plastic breaks down into substances that can be completely broken down by bacteria. But for another part, the plastic remains in the water as invisible nanoparticles."
Although
> We need to continue investigating the fate of the remaining plastic. Also, we need to investigate what all this micro and nano plastic does to marine life. Even more important”, Niemann stresses, “is to stop plastic littering all together, as this thickens the ocean’s plastic soup.
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Reply to Fathers exposed to chemicals in plastics can affect the metabolic health of their offspring for two generations of mice by giuliomagnifico
> The researchers found that paternal DCHP exposure for four weeks led to high insulin resistance and impaired insulin signaling in F1 offspring. The same effect, but weaker, was seen in F2 offspring. > >“We found paternal exposure to endocrine disrupting phthalates may have intergenerational and transgenerational adverse effects on the metabolic health of their offspring,” Zhou said. “To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first to demonstrate this.”
Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412023000429
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Reply to comment by imaginexus in Women with high body dissatisfaction, when compared to women with low body dissatisfaction, directed their gaze more frequently and for longer durations towards low weight female body stimuli by giuliomagnifico
> Thea House, the study’s lead author and a PhD student at the University of Bristol and Macquarie University, explains: “Body dissatisfaction is a risk factor for eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and purging disorder. It is also a key diagnostic symptom of anorexia nervosa. Women experiencing body dissatisfaction may be worsening it by spending more time looking at thinner body sizes.
>“Our findings have implications for the prevention and treatment of eating disorders and suggest that interventions such as attention training tasks, which have been used to improve symptoms of anxiety, could be adapted to treat symptoms of eating disorders by shifting attention away from thin body sizes. These types of task can be completed on a home computer, so they have potential to be a practical and cost-effective treatment option for people with these disorders.”
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Reply to comment by mprziv in Hisense Hi Reader Pro is an Android smartphone with a 6.1 inch E Ink display (pre-order 250$) by giuliomagnifico
I think it’s more an e-reader that can be also a phone.
But could be useful as a second phone. The battery will last x days and you still have the ability to write messages/mail/etc.. like a phone for adventures, emergencies or sport.
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Reply to A new study found bird diversity increased in North Carolina mountain forest areas severely burned by wildfire in 2016, reinforcing that while wildfire can pose risks to safety and property, it can be beneficial to wildlife by giuliomagnifico
> When they compared the numbers of birds in areas of different fire severity, they found an increase over time in the number of birds, as well as greater bird diversity, in forest areas where wildfire severity was high. By the fifth year, the total abundance of birds and the species richness, or number of different species present, in areas of high-severity burns were twice as high as that in unburned areas
Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120715
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Reply to comment by JonLane81 in Researchers have developed a high-precision microscale 3D printing method that can produce new polarisation-encoded 3D anticounterfeiting labels by giuliomagnifico
This could be useful not only for capitalists but also for security, for example for toys, food, helmets and similar products.
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Reply to comment by croninsiglos in TIL that the narrative that Coca-Cola designed the modern Santa Claus as part of an advertising campaign is not true, because Coca-Cola did start using Santa in advertising in 1933. But Santa had been portrayed almost exclusively in red from the early 19th century by giuliomagnifico
Oh I didn’t know, thanks. Anyway if you search (also in this subreddit), you will find lots of posts/info about “how Coca-Cola created the modern Santa Claus”.
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Reply to TIL that the narrative that Coca-Cola designed the modern Santa Claus as part of an advertising campaign is not true, because Coca-Cola did start using Santa in advertising in 1933. But Santa had been portrayed almost exclusively in red from the early 19th century by giuliomagnifico
Lots of interesting fact in the linked article, the first myth debunked:
> 1 Coca-Cola designed the modern Santa Claus as part of an advertising campaign > >This is one you always hear at dinner parties. It makes the speaker sound rather clever and cynical. Except it’s tosh. Coca-Cola did start using Santa in advertising in 1933. But Santa had been portrayed almost exclusively in red from the early 19th century and most of his modern image was put together by cartoonist Thomas Nast in the 1870s. Even if you were to confine your search to Santa in American soft drinks adverts, you would find a thoroughly modern Santa Claus in the posters for White Rock that came out in 1923.
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Reply to Longitudinal study finds no evidence heavier smartphone use results from or triggers heightened stress by nora-puzze
Stress could be triggered not by “phone use” but from what use you are doing with your phone. If you use it to listen music and play game you are relaxed, if you use it to reply to work emails and calls, you will be stressed.