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An online experiment found that when men feel jealous, they are more likely to support women’s honor codes. This was not the case for women. Additionally, individuals with more restricted mating orientations also showed greater support for female honor norms. The paper is cognition and emotion. Women’s honor codes are cultural expectations about how women should behave in order to be considered respectable and honorable. They typically require women to maintain a reputation for sexual purity through behaviors such as dressing modestly and maintaining virginity before marriage. Women’s behavior may be seen as reflecting not only themselves but also their…
Feline Health, a tech-enabled preventative health startup, has raised $700 million with backing from celebrities Claudia Schiffer, Maria Sharapova, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, among others, and has entered the U.S. market with plans to open a clinic in New York City later this year. The company, founded by Spotify founders and former CEOs Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilssonne, offers non-invasive, radiation-free diagnostic scans that can capture millions of health data points. Unlike competitors Prenuvo and Ezra, which are currently owned by Function Health, Neko Health does not use large medical imaging machines such as MRIs for its scans. Neo…
Thermo Fisher Scientific introduces the Thermo Scientific™GENESYS™ G5 series of visible and UV-visible spectrophotometers. This series is designed to help your laboratory standardize workflows, simplify routine testing, and expand analytical capabilities as your requirements evolve. This system is ideal for academic and teaching laboratories, providing students with hands-on experience using industry-relevant UV-Vis equipment while maintaining the ease of use required in educational settings. As laboratories face increasing testing demands and limited resources, this platform enables multiple UV-Vis analyzes on a single system, helping streamline operations and improve consistency between methods. Image credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific At the heart of the…
For the first time, 41,506 blind and visually impaired children in the UK could benefit from a breakthrough that gives them access to block coding. Zach Herbert, a 14-year-old student at New Worcester College in Worcester; Image credit: Micro:bit Educational Foundation Today, Microsoft MakeCode launches new screen reader compatibility, removing a barrier that has long prevented many students who are blind or have low vision from participating in block-based coding with their classmates. Developed in partnership with the Micro:bit Educational Foundation and the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Blockly team, this new feature is supported by classroom resources to help teachers bring…
A blood test for the biomarker phosphorylated tau-217 (p-tau217) recently received federal approval, but questions have been raised about how accurately such a test can predict whether cognitively healthy people will develop cognitive impairment, a key symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. A new international study led by experts at the Massachusetts General Brigham Neuroscience Institute and involving researchers on three continents is shedding new light on the prognostic value of these tests. The study found that individuals without cognitive impairment with very high levels of the biomarker had a 38% absolute risk of developing cognitive impairment over the next five years,…
Humans have earned a reputation as “superpredators” because we hunt, trap, and fish on a scale unmatched by other predators. These activities can reshape animal behavior across landscapes. But a new study led by the Indian Institute of Science Center for Ecological Sciences (IISc) suggests that wild animals do not respond the same way to all types of human presence. Animals consistently show fear when humans pose a direct lethal threat, such as when hunting or fishing. However, their reactions to non-lethal human activity are much less predictable. How wild animals respond to human threats The meta-analysis, published in Ecology…
Recent research published in psychology and sexuality suggests that a person’s biological sex and natural sexual desire play an important role in how often they use pornography and experience sudden sexual thoughts. The findings provide evidence that spontaneous mind wandering acts as a bridge between high sexual desire and the sudden onset of sexual thoughts. These insights help explain the sequence of psychological events that shape everyday human sexual cognition. Humans experience a constant stream of thoughts throughout the day. Some of these thoughts are generated intentionally, such as actively trying to remember a grocery list or planning a weekend…
Sometimes very small objects can tell big stories.Consider the dangers of plastic pollution in the ocean and a single bottle cap floating in the Pacific Ocean near Japan.Captured in a net by scientists aboard a Japanese research vessel in 2023, the plastic lid had been transformed into a miniature ecosystem home to hundreds of creatures. Through meticulous detective work, scientists uncovered the journey that brought Cap and his stowaway from tropical waters far to the south.This finding is detailed in a new paper: Marine pollution bulletinThis highlights how life is adapting to oceans increasingly filled with plastic, and how buoyant…
Get the health information and medications you need every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. good morning. I dedicate the first item in today’s newsletter to a friend of mine who is suffering from what I believe to be cystosis. Please feel free to forward this email to a friend who needs information but is afraid to engage in online discussions about the outbreak. What you need to know about parasitic diarrhea outbreaks You’ve probably seen the meme about a parasitic disease called cyclosporiasis, which is commonly associated with intestinal anxiety and diarrhea. As of yesterday,…
Watching your favorite short videos can temporarily quiet areas of the brain involved in self-control and monitoring, and this effect may be linked to levels of the brain chemical glutamate. This study neuroimage. Short video platforms are built around quick and engaging clips that users can continue or skip within seconds. While these platforms may be entertaining and harmless for many people, researchers are becoming increasingly interested in why some users find it difficult to stop using them. One possible explanation is that immersive and enjoyable viewing may reduce the need for active monitoring and self-control. The new study focused…