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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/thebelsnickle1991 on 2025-06-05 05:35:25+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/Shiny-Tie-126 on 2025-06-05 10:17:25+00:00.

Original Title: A new study has revealed for the first time that ancient carbon, stored in landscapes for thousands of years or more, can find its way back to the atmosphere as CO₂ is released from the surfaces of rivers, much more than previous estimates suggested

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/mvea on 2025-06-05 10:09:22+00:00.

Original Title: Low-calorie diets might increase risk of depression. Overweight people and men were particularly vulnerable to the mood changes that come with a low-calorie diet. Cutting calories might also rob the brain of nutrients needed to maintain a balanced mood. Any sort of diet at all affected men's moods.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/calliope_kekule on 2025-06-05 04:37:36+00:00.

Original Title: A new study finds two main routes drive incels to harmful beliefs: one shaped by pain from bullying and poor mental health, the other by anger, control, and extreme ideas. Feelings and beliefs mattered more than time spent online.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/mvea on 2025-06-05 00:37:23+00:00.

Original Title: Even mild face blindness can cause serious difficulties in daily life, finds new study. Around 1 in 50 people have developmental prosopagnosia. A widespread worry among people with face blindness was being misjudged as rude or uncaring, which can lead to social anxiety and reduced self-confidence.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/Wagamaga on 2025-06-04 19:51:46+00:00.

Original Title: Scientists have discovered that differences in heatwaves – such as how much hotter they are than normal temperatures, and how long they last – can increase disease burden by up to 13 times in a commonly used experimental animal model.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/SaabTux on 2025-06-04 14:54:02+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/mvea on 2025-06-04 20:51:49+00:00.

Original Title: Ugly bystanders boost beauty: The study found that even moderately attractive faces were judged more favorably when paired with less attractive ones, a phenomenon linked to emotional brain responses measured through electrical activity.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/fchung on 2025-06-04 20:06:50+00:00.

Original Title: Scientists discover new evidence of intermediate-mass black holes: « In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes, supermassive black holes, and intermediate-mass black holes with masses somewhere in between. »

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/SpeckleSoup on 2025-06-04 19:42:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/-Mystica- on 2025-06-04 18:22:41+00:00.

Original Title: Six decades of data on North Atlantic phytoplankton reveal that their biomass has decreased up to 2% annually across most of the Atlantic Ocean, with potentially widespread implications for the wider food web under climate change.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/-Mystica- on 2025-06-04 18:25:22+00:00.

Original Title: Warming accelerates global drought severity, even where it rains, study finds. The atmosphere’s growing "thirst" has made droughts 40% more severe across the globe over the course of the past 40 years.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/nohup_me on 2025-06-04 17:55:13+00:00.

Original Title: Whole-class mental health sessions in schools have a small but significant effect in reducing depression and anxiety symptoms, according to combined results from 71 existing studies involving 63,041 young people aged 8 to 18

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/Logibenq on 2025-06-04 16:47:30+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/mvea on 2025-06-04 15:01:02+00:00.

Original Title: Authoritarian beliefs predict whether voters see Trump or Clinton as psychopathic. The study, which focused on the 2016 US presidential election, found that people tend to see more psychopathy in the opposing candidate and less in the one they support—particularly if they hold authoritarian views.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/thebelsnickle1991 on 2025-06-04 15:55:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/chrisdh79 on 2025-06-04 15:07:15+00:00.

Original Title: Student Finds the Psychedelic Fungus in the Morning Glory plant the Inventor of LSD Spent His Life Searching For | The discovery could reshape how we study psychedelic compounds in nature and medicine.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/New_Scientist_Mag on 2025-06-04 15:04:33+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/IEEESpectrum on 2025-06-04 14:14:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/James_Fortis on 2025-06-04 11:58:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/mvea on 2025-06-04 12:04:23+00:00.

Original Title: Low calorie diets linked to heightened risk of depressive symptoms. Men and the overweight may be especially vulnerable to effects of restrictive eating. Diets low in carbohydrates or fats may theoretically exacerbate cognitive-affective symptoms, especially in men with greater nutritional needs.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/chrisdh79 on 2025-06-04 11:11:23+00:00.

Original Title: New study indicates that scientists could use black holes as particle supercolliders | Scientists could turn to black holes to aid the search for dark matter and similarly elusive particles that hold clues to the universe’s deepest secrets, a new study by Oxford physicists suggests.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/chrisdh79 on 2025-06-04 10:48:05+00:00.

Original Title: An ‘AI scientist’, working in collaboration with human scientists, has found that combinations of cheap and safe drugs – used to treat conditions such as high cholesterol and alcohol dependence – could also be effective at treating cancer, a promising new approach to drug discovery.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/mvea on 2025-06-04 09:51:42+00:00.

Original Title: Cockatoos in Sydney have worked out how to operate drinking fountains, with footage showing the white birds gripping and turning the handle before leaning in for a sip. Presumably the birds first learned what to do by watching people.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/uniofwarwick on 2025-06-04 09:19:06+00:00.