A USC analysis of tens of thousands of cannabis-related posts on Twitter found that social bots regularly perpetuated bogus health claims on the platform, illustrating how false statements may drown out solid science on social media.
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Social media bots often tweet fake health claims about cannabis
USC researchers analyzed thousands of tweets and found that social bots frequently shared false information about cannabis’s health benefits.
Healthy Diet Could Save $50B in Health Care Costs. Study examining 10 dietary factors finds that unhealthy diets account for almost 20 percent of heart disease, stroke and diabetes costs in the U.S.
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BWH Press Release - Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Stronger 2005 U.S. air quality standards resulted in large health returns, study finds. Researchers compared, over time, health outcomes in counties complying with the standards to outcomes in counties that were not. This new approach builds upon past research, providing new evidence of causality.
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Light pollution can suppress melatonin production in humans and animals.Melatonin synchronizes the day-night-rhythm in animals and humans. It adjusts the circadian clocks of cells, tissues and organs, and regulates other seasonal processes like reproduction.
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Light pollution can suppress melatonin production in humans and animals
Researchers from Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) in an international team have analyzed data on the impact of light pollution on melatonin formation in humans and vertebrates.
Impacts of Green New Deal Energy Plans on Grid Stability, Costs, Jobs, Health, and Climate in 143 Countries: a transition to 100% Wind-Water-Solar energy should reduce private and social costs substantially without the need for nuclear power, fossil fuels with carbon capture, or bioenergy.
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BBC News 中文 | 无论在YouTube还是Instagram，一代新型“网红”潮流似乎已经袭来。他们是虚拟人物，却时常以假乱真，如同现实人类一样聊天。未来，人们的偶像会是一群虚拟人类吗？ telegra.ph/虚拟网红来袭当你的偶像不是真的人类-12-22
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虚拟“网红”来袭：当你的偶像不是真的人类
无论在YouTube还是Instagram，一代新型“网红”潮流似乎已经袭来。他们是虚拟人物，却时常以假乱真，如同现实人类一样聊天。未来，我们的偶像会是一群虚拟人类吗？ “绊爱”（Kizuna AI）在YouTube上有230万粉丝。她几乎每天都会发布视频，面对镜头讨论生活、爱情和电子游戏。 但她实际上是一个由电脑生成的虚构角色，外表是一个年轻女人，声音来自一名演员。她自称是先进的人工智能。 她也是近段时间风靡日本的虚拟YouTube博主之一。 虚拟视频博主们拥有卡通的外表，运用廉价的运动传感技术生成。…
Parents’ socioeconomic status and children’s inherited DNA differences are powerful predictors of educational achievement. However, new research (n=5,000) suggests that having the genes for school success is not as beneficial as having parents who are highly educated and wealthy.
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Genes and family are biggest predictor of academic success, study suggests
Whether children will enjoy academic success can be now predicted at birth, a new study suggests.
Scientists discovered that the dermal sheath surrounding growing hair follicles is a previously unknown smooth muscle in mice. Experiments suggest that this is similar in human hairs. Blocking its contraction with drugs may allow men to maintain the hair they have now, instead of slowly losing it.
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Hair growth finding could make baldness 'optional'
"The future of hair loss looks very promising and this study shows that baldness may soon be optional," said Dr. Michele Green.
Gender-tailored methods to address harmful mental health effects of childhood adversity may help alleviate current opioid crisis and make treatment more effective. Women with opioid use disorder are more likely than men to have mood and anxiety disorders, and less likely to have conduct disorders.
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Association Between Use of Multiple Classes of Antibiotic in Infancy and Allergic Disease in Childhood (Dec 2019, n=798,426) "all commonly prescribed antibiotics during infancy are associated with subsequent diagnosis of allergic disease"
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Left-handedness is associated with greater fighting success in humans, consistent with the fighting hypothesis, which argues that left-handed men have a selective advantage in fights because they are less frequent, suggests a new study of 13,800 male and female professional boxers and MMA fighters.
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Left-handedness is associated with greater fighting success in humans
Scientific Reports - Left-handedness is associated with greater fighting success in humans
Brains of adolescents struggling with mental-health issues may be wired differently from those of their healthy peers. Research shows clear differences in connective neural pathways, as a function of cognitive control, between the healthy adolescents and those struggling with mental-health issues.
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Understanding the adolescent brain
Study shows brains of adolescents struggling with mental illness are structurally different than healthy peers.
BBC News 中文 | 人类的近亲生活也不容易，要跟同族同类斗，还要跟人斗。
telegra.ph/七个世界一个星球拍摄感悟和花絮1与猴斗与人斗-12-23 https://t.co/5bqkusUZh7
telegra.ph/七个世界一个星球拍摄感悟和花絮1与猴斗与人斗-12-23 https://t.co/5bqkusUZh7
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《七个世界，一个星球》拍摄感悟和花絮（1）：与猴斗、与人斗
《七个世界，一个星球》（Seven Worlds, One Planet）是BBC Studio 继《蓝色星球》、《地球脉动》和《王朝》之后推出的一部记述与人类共享地球的其他生物的系列纪录片。那些令人震撼、惊心动魄的画面、拨动人心弦的场景、令人匪夷所思的奇观......摄制组成员在这里分享自己的亲身经历和感悟。 《七个世界，一个星球》拍摄期间最令人难忘的经历之一，是去直布罗陀拍巴巴里猕猴（Barbary macaques）那段。 运气不错。我们要拍的那群巴巴里猕猴已经被跟踪、研究多年，所以开机前就对这群…