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New research published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology We discovered that people think of themselves as moral, individuals as decent, and groups as immoral. For decades, psychologists have documented the “better-than-average effect,” or the tendency for people to believe that they have more positive qualities than others. This effect is particularly strong in the moral realm, where people often believe that they are kinder, more fair, and more principled than the typical person. However, most research on moral self-enhancement relies on comparisons between the self and others, leaving important questions unanswered. The question is: do people actually see…
Plastic trash is reaching some of the most remote places in the world, from the bottom of the Mariana Trench to the top of Mount Everest. Hundreds of plastic-eating microorganisms have been discovered over the past quarter century that could help us clean up, but there’s a long way to go before they work in the natural environment. Digestion of plastic by microorganisms remains slow, requires high temperatures, and can only proceed efficiently in bioreactors. Furthermore, most of the plastic-eating microorganisms discovered so far can only digest one type of plastic. One solution is to combine different microorganisms to work…
A paper from the University of Gothenburg found that women who visited their health care providers frequently for recurring symptoms before the pandemic were more likely to be diagnosed with post-COVID-19 later on. One of the paper’s sub-studies looked at just over 200,000 Swedish women. Researchers analyzed women who visited primary care in the years before the pandemic and compared them with women who later received post-COVID-19 diagnoses, such as long-term fatigue or post-viral fatigue syndrome. The pre-pandemic medical visits analyzed were for symptoms such as fatigue, pain, dizziness, or other physical complaints where a clear diagnosis could not always…
Burnout is at an all-time high, with some surveys showing that two-thirds of employees now cite job burnout as a major challenge. Not only does overwork and chronic stress drain your energy, it can impair your health and cause a wide range of psychological and physical problems, including depression, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, and even increased risk of stroke. Shaina Shiver offers a solution rooted in science in her new book. Using ACT and CFT to recover from burnout: A blueprint beyond burnoutcontains strategies to help people in high-pressure situations break the cycle of fatigue. what is burnout The term “burnout”…
Dinosaur fossils preserved with feathers suggest that some of these animals had already lost the ability to fly. “Feather molt seems like a small technical detail, but when studied in fossils it has the potential to change everything we thought about the origins of flight, highlighting just how complex and diverse the evolution of feathers really was,” the researchers said. A new study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University’s Department of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History analyzed rare fossils with intact feathers and found evidence that these dinosaurs did not have the ability to fly. This…
Discover key shifts in the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines: zero added sugars, increased protein recommendations, saturated fat debates, and clinical insights for metabolic health.
explanation The number of couples struggling to conceive due to unexplained infertility is increasing at an alarming rate around the world. In addition to this alarming increase, there is growing awareness of how endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), particularly chemicals found in plastics and personal care products, are negatively impacting our hormonal health and overall well-being. Could fertility be improved if EDCs were removed or reduced from the environment of couples struggling to conceive, dramatically reducing their exposure? In this episode, Nate is joined by award-winning scientist Dr. Shana Swan and plastics expert Sian Sutherland to join Shana’s new Netflix documentary…
As health tech companies build artificial intelligence to automate administrative tasks such as clinical documentation, they also see a huge opportunity to bridge the gap between medical records and payments. Suki, an AI scribe, works with Optum Real, a real-time claims management system, to orchestrate clinical documentation and revenue cycle workflows in real time, executives from both companies announced last week at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2026 Global Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas*. Optum, a member of UnitedHealth Group, unveiled its artificial intelligence-powered system five months ago at the 2025 HLTH conference, highlighting the company’s goal…
As organisms age, changes in the bacteria that live within the digestive system can directly cause the memory loss that commonly accompanies aging. Researchers have discovered that by reversing these microbial changes and stimulating the nerves that connect the gut to the brain, they can completely restore memory function in aging mice. These results were recently published in the journal nature. Timothy O. Cox, a graduate researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, led the research team. Pathology researchers Christophe A. Theis and Marjan Levy of Stanford Medicine and the Ark Research Institute served as senior authors on the paper. The…
A large prospective cohort study conducted by researchers at Massachusetts General Brigham, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University examined data from 131,821 participants in the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS). The results showed that moderate consumption of caffeinated coffee (2-3 cups per day) or black tea (1-2 cups per day) was associated with lower risk of dementia, slower cognitive decline, and better preservation of cognitive abilities. This research Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association. “As we were exploring the potential for dementia prevention tools, we…