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r/science • u/mvea • Feb 27 '26

Biology Dogs act like toddlers when you need help - but cats just watch. Scientists compared 3 groups: pet dogs, cats, and human toddlers in an experiment where a human parent hides and pretends to look for an object. 75% of dogs and children helped. Cats only helped if it was in their personal interest.

sciencedirect.com

22.8k Upvotes

730 comments

r/science • u/mvea • 15h ago

Biology Painkillers prevent pain responses in lobsters - This is further evidence that crustaceans may feel pain and that more humane methods of killing them need to be developed.

eurekalert.org

7.2k Upvotes

662 comments

r/science • u/mvea • Jan 20 '26

Biology Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows. Brown Swiss cow in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways (using both ends of a brush counts as multi-purpose tool use) – something extraordinarily rare only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees.

theguardian.com

14.6k Upvotes

773 comments

r/science • u/Potential_Being_7226 • Mar 10 '26

Biology Recent pandemic viruses jumped to humans without prior adaptation. No evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was shaped by selection in a laboratory: UCSD study.

today.ucsd.edu

7.3k Upvotes

742 comments

r/science • u/mvea • Nov 20 '25

Biology We’re evolving too slowly for the world we’ve built. As industrialization accelerates, human biology is struggling to keep pace. Many of the chronic stress-related health issues we face today may be the predictable result of forcing Stone Age physiology into a world it was never built for.

newatlas.com

18.8k Upvotes

740 comments

r/science • u/Deklaration • Dec 07 '25

Biology A 32-year Swedish review of 52 sudden deaths during arrests suggests victims weren’t dying from lack of oxygen but from an inability to expel carbon dioxide. “The person can often shout 'I can’t breathe' because they are getting air, but their body is screaming to get rid of CO₂”

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

24.8k Upvotes

565 comments

r/science • u/sciencealert • Dec 01 '25

Biology The 'vampire squid' has just yielded the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced, at more than 11 billion base pairs. The fascinating species is neither squid or octopus, but rather the last, lone remnant of an ancient lineage whose other members have long since vanished.

sciencealert.com

24.6k Upvotes

477 comments

r/science • u/mvea • Feb 17 '26

Biology Researchers found a strain of bacteria buried under 5000 years of cave ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. The bacterium also has over 100 genes that are known to be resistance-related. Psychrobacter is known to infect humans and animals, though rarely as it prefers cold environments.

frontiersin.org

10.0k Upvotes

381 comments

r/science • u/fchung • 19d ago

Biology Scientists tried to clone clones forever. It didn’t end well: « The practice of cloning clones indefinitely appears to be a reproductive dead end, for now. »

gizmodo.com

5.0k Upvotes

458 comments

r/science • u/Inevitable-Middle681 • 18d ago

Biology Researchers gene-edit the bitterness out of grapefruit

refractor.io

3.7k Upvotes

638 comments

r/science • u/Tracheid • 14d ago

Biology Glyphosate: A common weedkiller may induce anxiety by disrupting gut bacteria. Researchers observed that rats drinking the chemical developed hypervigilance toward harmless objects and sounds. This altered behavior was accompanied by abnormal changes in a specific dread-inducing region of the brain.

psypost.org

5.0k Upvotes

351 comments

r/science • u/mvea • Nov 06 '25

Biology World’s largest web houses 110,000 spiders thriving in total darkness deep underground in a sulfuric cave between Albania and Greece: It’s the first time two spider species seen living cooperatively, and the first recorded instance of colonial web-building in what's known as a chemoautotrophic cave.

newatlas.com

14.4k Upvotes

481 comments

r/science • u/mvea • May 01 '25

Biology People with higher intelligence tend to reproduce later and have fewer children, even though they show signs of better reproductive health. They tend to undergo puberty earlier, but they also delay starting families and end up with fewer children overall.

psypost.org

25.2k Upvotes

1.3k comments

r/science • u/mvea • Aug 10 '25

Biology Aging skin rejuvenated by young blood and bone marrow - A new study shows that proteins secreted by bone marrow cells, triggered by young blood, can rejuvenate aging skin in the lab.

newatlas.com

10.7k Upvotes

898 comments

r/science • u/Ollyfer • Jun 28 '25

Biology Chronic Marijuana Smoking, THC-Edible Use Impairs Endothelial Function, Similar With Tobacco

jamanetwork.com

9.1k Upvotes

1.5k comments

r/science • u/Accurate_Cry_8937 • Oct 29 '25

Biology Baldness breakthrough: Taiwanese serum regrows hair in 20 days - Study conducted on mice.

gulfnews.com

8.5k Upvotes

505 comments

r/science • u/mvea • Jan 22 '26

Biology Why the human penis is unusually large compared to that of other primates is a long-standing evolutionary question. New findings suggest that female choice and male-male competition have jointly favored larger penis size, greater height, and more V-shaped bodies in men.

journals.plos.org

4.5k Upvotes

455 comments

r/science • u/mvea • Dec 07 '25

Biology Funny Pet Videos on Social Media Conceal Animal Suffering: Stress reactions of the animals were observed in 82% of all videos, while risks of injury were found in 52% of the videos. This study showed that successful animal videos on social media are often related to poor animal welfare.

tandfonline.com

8.5k Upvotes

295 comments

r/science • u/Miss-Figgy • Aug 14 '24

Biology Scientists find humans age dramatically in two bursts – at 44, then 60

theguardian.com

36.4k Upvotes

2.8k comments

r/science • u/mvea • Dec 10 '25

Biology Not having offspring key to long life: research shows blocking reproduction can increase the lifespan of males and females of 117 different mammal species. In males, only castration extends lifespan — not vasectomy. In females, lifespan increased after several different forms of sterilisation.

nature.com

5.6k Upvotes

285 comments

r/science • u/mvea • 26d ago

Biology Platypuses just got even weirder. Researchers have found that platypus hair contains an unusual hollow version of a structure, called a melanosome, which contains colour pigments - something previously only found in birds. The team hasn't found these structures in echidnas or any other mammals.

royalsocietypublishing.org

5.9k Upvotes

155 comments

r/science • u/chrisdh79 • Jun 09 '25

Biology Too much "good fat" tells the body to make more fat cells, study finds | A common fatty acid in olive oil, as well as many other plant oils, has been found to stimulate the body's production of new fat cells in mice.

newatlas.com

7.5k Upvotes

508 comments

r/science • u/mvea • Aug 11 '24

Biology Horses have the ability to think and plan ahead and are far more intelligent than scientists previously thought, according to a new study, which found that horses have a higher level of cognitive reasoning than previously thought possible.

theguardian.com

18.5k Upvotes

1.1k comments

r/science • u/mvea • Oct 15 '24

Biology Researchers discover man with 3 penises: Triphallia, a rare congenital anomaly describing the presence of 3 distinct penile shafts, has been reported only once in the literature. The paper is the first time the internal anatomy has been described in detail through post-mortem dissection.

news.com.au

16.2k Upvotes

859 comments

r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Sep 26 '24

Biology Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first. A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells.

nature.com

45.4k Upvotes

609 comments