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Coupling and economic analysis of nuclear microreactor enabled ammonia production

3 months ago sciencedirect.com economic engineering

Taxing red meat and sugary drinks while removing taxes on healthy foods could prevent 700 premature deaths a year and cut diet-related CO₂ emissions by 700,000 tonnes — all without raising grocery costs…

3 months ago sciencedirect.com environment

Inflammation leads to lower reward motivation by causing microglia to remove glutamate inputs from dopamine neurons in the brain’s reward center

3 months ago sciencedirect.com brain neuroscience

Non-dietary personal pesticide exposure using silicone wristbands across 10 European countries

3 months ago sciencedirect.com health

People who use both cannabis and tobacco show higher brain levels of FAAH — an enzyme that breaks down mood-regulating anandamide — than cannabis-only users, possibly explaining why mixing the two is tied to worse mental health and harder quitting.

3 months ago sciencedirect.com brain cannabis psychology

Videogame players blink 36% as much compared to baseline while playing, and 59% while viewing gameplay, but no significant difference between Action, Adventure, and Sports genres was found.

3 months ago sciencedirect.com health

Silicone bakeware as source of human exposure to cyclic siloxanes

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Bitter taste preferences are associated with antisocial personality traits

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Scientists identify a brain circuit that keeps alcohol users trapped in addiction - showing how the brain learns to drink not for pleasure, but to escape the pain of withdrawal

4 months ago sciencedirect.com brain psychology

Increased sucrose pellet consumption in mice with access to a protein-restricted diet, relative to mice with access to a non-restricted control diet, after prolonged (7 weeks) protein restriction

3 months ago sciencedirect.com psychology