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Scientists analyzed billions of words and found human language is not mainly organized around emotion, but around one survival instinct

Oct 25 · 4 min read · Science Advances

Medical Research & Innovations

Coffee calories in America have jumped nearly 40% in 15 years even though people drink the same amount, and sugar isn’t the main reason

Oct 24 · 3 min read · Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Medical Research & Innovations

Scientists tested AI tools that help ERs decide who goes first, and one common label in a patient’s record pushed people about to get worse down the line

Oct 23 · 4 min read · npj Digital Medicine

Wyoming fossil hunters call them squid butts. Scientists have described the fattest one ever found, from a family thought to be long gone

Oct 22 · 3 min read · Papers in Palaeontology

Medical Research & Innovations

Scientists found that women’s higher dementia rates aren’t just because they live longer, in data from 22 studies across 18 countries

Oct 21 · 3 min read · JAMA Neurology

Kids who got two extra lessons a week on feelings and friendship in preschool were less lonely and less depressed at 21, a randomized trial found

Oct 20 · 4 min read · American Psychologist

Scientists found that couples who hate the same bands reported stronger feelings of love, and similar personalities didn’t explain it

Oct 19 · 4 min read · Social Psychological and Personality Science

A study of 2,316 burials spanning 6,000 years in China found that inequality became entrenched long before the first states existed. Farming, the usual suspect, did not explain it.

Oct 18 · 4 min read · Science Advances

Scientists analyzed 38,467 songs released from 1947 to 2024 and found that lyrics have steadily lost their feelings, except for one emotion that kept growing

Oct 17 · 4 min read · Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Medical Research & Innovations

A study of 421,402 people found that those taking cholesterol-lowering statins were 15% less likely to develop glaucoma. Among people who already had it, the bigger difference was in who needed surgery.

Oct 16 · 4 min read · British Journal of Ophthalmology

A study of 747 Norwegian children found that their own screen time was mostly not linked to slower vocabulary growth from age 5 to 7. The screen that mattered belonged to someone else.

Oct 14 · 4 min read · JAMA Pediatrics

A randomized trial of 16,683 college students found that collecting phones at the start of class raised grades, most of all for struggling students. The bigger surprise was how students felt about it afterward.

Oct 12 · 4 min read · Science

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