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In a field experiment with 27 227 people, an effortful sign-up cut enrollment by a quarter yet led to 1.6 times more carpool trips per week. A small, meaningful upfront effort seems to build commitment.
Read the story →In a randomized trial of 119 adults with OCD, the concentrated Bergen 4-Day Treatment cut symptoms far more than an 8-week self-guided online program, and about 4 in 10 were in remission three months later.
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New Japanese hypertension guidelines bring together evidence that cold indoor temperatures push up blood pressure, especially on winter mornings, and recommend keeping homes at 18°C or warmer.
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Brain scans of nearly 8 800 Canadian adults found that the heaviest eaters of ultra-processed food had 40% higher odds of hidden blood-vessel damage in the brain, years before any sign of memory problems.
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A new study of hospital mergers in the Netherlands suggests that consolidation can increase physicians' earnings, but the benefits depend heavily on how they are employed.
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A meta-analysis of 11 long-running studies found that rising income was followed by more conscientiousness and emotional stability but less extraversion, and that those traits in turn predicted later pay.
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By repeatedly flipping how atoms push and pull on each other, physicists in Innsbruck say they created a 'fractional Fermi sea', an excited yet ordered state that breaks a standard theory. The experiment still awaits peer review.
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New research reveals a fundamental problem with targeting assistance: those at greatest risk are not necessarily those who benefit most from the help available.
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In a randomized trial of 283 adults with type 2 diabetes not using insulin, wearing a continuous glucose monitor lowered HbA1c by 0.9 points more than routine care and added about five hours a day in the healthy range.
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In England and Wales, the share of people who were victims of crime fell by a third over 17 years, but the share who witnessed crime did not. That may explain why falling crime figures fail to convince the public.
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Logs from one AI tool show its monthly clinician users grew from 355 to over 700 000 in two and a half years, mostly asking about treatment, not diagnosis. Across all AI tools, the real number is likely higher.
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Danish data suggest that after starting GLP-1 drugs, people with diabetes became more likely to work and weight-management patients worked more hours, gains that could partly pay back the drugs' cost through taxes.
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In an experiment with 108 adults, the same carbohydrate challenge raised blood sugar about 15% less when their romantic partner was present than when they were alone.
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An automated scan of more than 10 000 Android health apps found most requested permissions, like location, camera or microphone, that their own descriptions didn't justify, and few asked for consent before collecting data.
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In a 16-year study of 8 274 adults over 50, people who went to museums, concerts, theater or the cinema every few months had 29% fewer hospital-treated mental disorders, including dementia and depression.
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