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Exposure to the opioid epidemic increased economic hardship and increased the Republican vote share by 4.5 percentage points per standard deviation.

46 hours ago academic.oup.com economic

A large-scale study challenges the assumption that social media and gaming drive teens’ mental health problems

13 days ago academic.oup.com media psychology

Association between shingles vaccination and slower biological aging: Evidence from a U.S. population-based cohort study

10 days ago academic.oup.com medicine

Antisemitism in Europe: A study, published in the European Sociological Review, shows high levels of antisemitism amongst Muslims in Germany using 2020 data.

22 days ago academic.oup.com europe

A new study found that insufficient sleep had a more significant impact on decreased life expectancy than other lifestyle factors, such as diet, physical activity, and social isolation.

26 days ago academic.oup.com health

An estimated 17,000 strokes each year are linked to long-term exposure to wildfire smoke PM2.5 among older adults in the United States, based on a nationwide study of 25 million Medicare beneficiaries indicating a higher stroke risk from wildfire particles than from other pollution sources.

8 days ago academic.oup.com health

Little Red Dots as direct-collapse black hole nurseries

7 days ago academic.oup.com astronomy

New MEG research finds meditation alters neural oscillations and complexity, shifting the brain toward "critical dynamics." This suggests the practice tunes the brain to a tipping point between order and chaos, potentially optimizing information processing and flexibility.

31 days ago academic.oup.com brain neuroscience

Experimental and survey data shows that there are gender differences in honesty in Western societies (women report stronger honesty norms than men), while such differences are absent in non-Western societies

36 days ago academic.oup.com

Waning immunity drives respiratory virus evolution and reinfection

45 days ago academic.oup.com biology

A loud minority makes the internet seem more toxic than it is. A small group of active users generates most hostility, while the majority remain civil

48 days ago academic.oup.com

Americans overestimate how many social media users post harmful content

49 days ago academic.oup.com media

Biosurveillance of coronaviruses in Rhinolophus bats from South Africa

41 days ago academic.oup.com biology

Sexual Symptoms and Biologic Pathophysiologies of Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction: A 15 Year Review Free A Goldstein , N Kim , S Goldstein , A Drian , A Bajwa , I Goldstein

47 days ago academic.oup.com health

Circadian dysfunction correlates with disease severity in neurodegeneration, highlighting the molecular clock as a key biomarker and therapeutic target

53 days ago academic.oup.com disease neuroscience

Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less aggressive, finds study, as centuries of close contact with humans reshaped their evolution, reducing genetic diversity and favoring behavioral traits that limit conflict in an isolated Apennine population.

51 days ago academic.oup.com biology genetics

Study of nearly 400 patients with advanced malignant melanoma shows that a lower dose of the immunotherapy ipilimumab yields better tumour responses — 49% versus 37% with standard dosing — while also reducing side effects.

58 days ago academic.oup.com cancer

Using a system to rescue human cells with trisomy 21, this study successfully demonstrates the efficient elimination of excess chromosomes using multiple allele-specific targeting

36 days ago academic.oup.com

Gender-affirming hormone therapy is not associated with increased cardiovascular risk in transgender women but is in transgender men

2 months ago academic.oup.com medicine

Study shows flu vaccine effectiveness differs by age

2 months ago academic.oup.com biology vaccine

Prophage induction drives soybean rhizobacterial community differentiation and nutrient cycling benefiting root development

2 months ago academic.oup.com biology

Adsorption of phage T2 is inhibited due to inversion of cryptic prophage DNA by the serine recombinase PinQ

3 months ago academic.oup.com biology

A new study found sea otters in British Columbia contaminated with “forever chemicals” from products like cookware and cosmetics

2 months ago academic.oup.com environment

More than chronic pain: behavioural and psychosocial protective factors predict lower brain age in adults with/at risk of knee osteoarthritis over two years

2 months ago academic.oup.com brain

New evidence confirms a long-held theory that people with schizophrenia hear 'voices' in their heads by misattributing inner speech as external.

3 months ago academic.oup.com psychology

Opt-out organ donation policies lead to 1.21/million increase in deceased donors and a 4.59/million decrease in living donors

3 months ago academic.oup.com medicine

Diversity and Evolution of Prokaryotic Viral Lytic Proteins