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• Surviving 200 snake bites, decoding ancient scrolls and the countries ‘flourishing’ – podcast

  08-05-2025 06:00
  
  Science correspondent Hannah Devlin joins Ian Sample to discuss three intriguing science stories from the week, from a global study that puts the UK third from bottom when it comes to flourishing, to a man who intentionally suffered more than 200 snake bites in the quest to find a universal antivenom and a breakthrough in the quest to understand the contents of the charred Herculaneum scrolls buried when Mount Vesuvius eruptedUK among lowest-ranked countries for ‘human flourishing’ i
  
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• Can a dream help you solve a problem?

  22-10-2026 06:00 via PsycPORT™: Psychology Newswire
  
  There's a resurgence of interest and new research on dream incubation, planting a question in your mind before sleep in hopes your dreams will offer insights.
  
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• The difference between friend types

  18-10-2026 06:00 via PsycPORT™: Psychology Newswire
  
  What you should know about the potential downsides of categorizing yourself and other humans, and how to reject the label while focusing on healthy connections.
  
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• Women More Often Told Autoimmune Conditions Are "Psychological"

  17-10-2026 14:20 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: The GuardianWomen with autoimmune conditions are up to 74% more likely than men to be told their symptoms are psychological, and they face much longer waits for a diagnosis and treatment, a new study suggests. About one in 10 people globally are affected by autoimmune conditions, which can cause a range of health issues such as fatigue, muscle pain, and rashes. But the study found a stark gender divide when it comes to how signs of the conditions are...
  
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• White House Accused of Fast-Tracking Migrant Children's Asylum Cases

  17-10-2026 14:20 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesImmigrant advocacy groups representing migrant children have sued the Trump administration to stop what they call a "cruel and unlawful scheme" to fast-track migrant children's asylum cases. In a complaint filed Thursday, the groups say that unaccompanied children are facing rushed hearings, difficulty finding lawyers, and accelerated removal orders, including in cases involving alleged human trafficking of children and threats of violence.
  
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• VW, Ford, and Tesla Batteries Linked to Deforestation of Indigenous Lands

  17-10-2026 14:20 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: The GuardianVolkswagen, Ford, and Tesla are among the electric carmakers whose batteries may contain nickel mined in indigenous woodlands plagued by deforestation, an analysis has found, highlighting the struggle to make vehicles that are free from environmental destruction. For example, mines in the battery supply chains of automotive giants have been linked to the loss of trees in Sulawesi, a wildlife area in Indonesia that houses the world's largest...
  
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• Fort Hood Survivors Praise Trump for Scrapping Execution Livestream

  17-10-2026 13:03 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesSurvivors of the Fort Hood massacre praised President Donald Trump's decision not to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, after warning that broadcasting his death could turn the execution into a spectacle and hand terrorist groups a propaganda tool. Hasan is still set to die by firing squad on December 3, 2026, and the immediate families of his victims will be permitted to witness the execution in person. But it will no longer be publicly...
  
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• Federal Reserve Chair Warns That AI Spending Could Fuel Inflation

  17-10-2026 13:03 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesFederal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh warned of a potential "shock" to the U.S. economy delivered by a rise in artificial intelligence spending, pledging to contain price increases as a flood of private sector funds drives up demand. "If you're a central banker, you're in the business of trying to ensure stable prices and full employment, you've got to recognize this as a shock," Warsh said in Bangkok at a conference organized by the International...
  
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• Napping linked to dementia risk

  16-10-2026 06:00 via PsycPORT™: Psychology Newswire
  
  A study found that those who nap frequently have higher rates of dementia, with short and unintentional naps having the highest association.
  
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• 93% of Australia's Indigenous People Lost Within 73 Years of Colonization

  15-10-2026 17:35 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: Science Daily - Top SocietyNew research suggests that Australia's Indigenous population before European colonization was far larger than historical estimates have indicated. Scientists now estimate that approximately 2.2 million Indigenous people lived across the continent before the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788—up to seven times the number suggested by some earlier calculations—and a staggering 93% of the Indigenous population was lost within 73 years of...
  
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• NIH Banned-Word List Kills Research Over Climate Change, DEI, Gender

  14-10-2026 18:22 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsThe U.S. National Institutes of Health has implemented a list of 235 banned keywords used to reject grant funding for research, drawing science into a First Amendment case. The ACLU, Center for Science in the Public Interest, and Protect Democracy have filed a class action lawsuit against the agency, alleging that it is censoring researchers and violating the Administrative Procedures Act. The most commonly occurring flagged term on the list is...
  
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• Drone Swarms Are Problem the Secret Service Has Yet to Solve

  14-10-2026 18:21 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesThe U.S. Secret Service is working out how to handle threats that have evolved beyond a lone gunman to swarms of attack drones. "Swarms are a huge problem and a big threat," said Secret Service Deputy Director Matthew Quinn. "I'd love to tell you the swarm problem is solved. It's not." The concern is that a small, rudimentary drone could be weaponized with explosives and do serious damage to a large concert, sporting event, or political campaign...
  
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• Earth's "Vital Signs" Pushed to Record Extremes in 2026, Report Says

  14-10-2026 18:20 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: CBS News - World NewsClimate change pushed the Earth's environment to—and perhaps beyond—its limits in 2026, as several of its "vital signs" reached record extremes, researchers said Wednesday in a new report on the state of the global climate. Of the 16 climate markers considered key measures of how the Earth is doing, 7 are at record extremes and others show evidence of accelerating or abruptly shifting, said the report, which was published in the journal...
  
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• AI Can Act Just Like a Human, But We Still Don't Think It's Conscious

  14-10-2026 18:20 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: Science Daily - Top HealthAs artificial intelligence becomes more advanced, reports of it misleading users, working together, or pursuing its own goals are becoming common. Yet a new study finds that people draw a sharp line between human consciousness and AI, even when both behave identically. On the whole, people regard even the most responsive AI as less conscious than the least responsive human, but when asked about "awareness" instead, people judge humans and AI...
  
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• The best way to respond to passive-aggressive comments

  14-10-2026 06:00 via PsycPORT™: Psychology Newswire
  Experts explain what to say when someone seems to be taking a dig at you but won’t quite say what they mean.
  
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• Why AI Could End the Price Tag As We Know It

  13-10-2026 12:37 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: CBS News - U.S. NewsThe humble price tag has long served as a common measure of value for consumers. Now, experts warn that artificial intelligence could allow retailers to charge people different prices based on their personal data. One such expert, Lindsay Owens, says that AI threatens to upend universal prices for consumers—a norm that's been in place since the 1860s, when pioneering retailer John Wanamaker introduced fixed prices in his Philadelphia...
  
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• Loneliness Tied to Loss of Nearly 6 Years of Good Health

  11-10-2026 10:05 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: Science Daily - Top HealthLoneliness and social isolation are widespread in the United States, with about half of adults reporting loneliness and nearly as many living in social isolation. Now, a first-of-its-kind observational study, published in Nature Communications, has found that these conditions are associated with the loss of nearly six years of life free from mental disorders such as depression and anxiety. The link to physical health is also significant but...
  
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• A Clock Change Dilemma Pits Science Against Politics

  11-10-2026 10:05 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesDaylight is already fading, and soon Americans will set back their clocks. But this year, political support is building for doing away with seasonal time changes by switching to permanent daylight saving time. That would be a mistake, scientists say. A new report echoes a chorus of studies suggesting that permanent standard time is a better solution than daylight saving because it's more in line with our body clocks, leading to better sleep and...
  
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• Sweating the details: Sauna's potential health benefits draw scientists' interest

  11-10-2026 06:00 via PsycPORT™: Psychology Newswire
  
  Scientists want to study heat therapy as a bonafide intervention that can be recommended for preventing and treating chronic health conditions.
  
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• Watch Navi Pillay Win Nobel Peace Prize for Upholding Global Justice

  10-10-2026 16:36 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: PBS News HourNavi Pillay, a former U.N. human rights chief whose career has spanned defending the rights of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela to leading a panel which found that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her efforts to promote international humanitarian law. Her win is sure to be seen as a high-profile rebuke to President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, both of whom rejected the commission's...
  
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• Trump Says Nobel Panel Not Awarding Him Peace Prize Stains Norway

  10-10-2026 16:36 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesU.S. President Donald Trump lamented the Norwegian Nobel Committee not choosing him for its annual peace prize on Friday, telling a crowd that the decision left "an indelible stain on the country of Norway." Speaking at a political rally, he claimed to have "saved more lives than anyone in history." Earlier Friday, the prize went to Navi Pillay, an 85-year-old South African legal pioneer who led a U.N. panel that concluded Israel committed...
  
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• Social Platforms Ban Violent Content. Does a Livestream Execution Count?

  10-10-2026 16:36 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesU.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's revelation that the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be streamed live has drawn fierce criticism and calls for him to reconsider. But it has also put the spotlight on whether social media companies will allow government accounts to stream the death by firing squad on their platforms. Hasan is set to die by firing squad at 1 pm on December 3 at the Texas Army installation, the defense secretary...
  
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• Army Caught Off Guard by Hegseth's Plan to Livestream Execution

  10-10-2026 16:36 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesSecretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on as President Donald Trump speaks to the news media, on the South Lawn of the White House on October 6. - Finn Gomez/Getty Images Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's announcement that the execution of the convicted Fort Hood mass shooter would be shown in public caught people across the Pentagon and the Army off guard, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Hegseth made the announcement in an...
  
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• Anthropic AI Sent a Fake Murder Tip to Philadelphia Police

  10-10-2026 16:36 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesAn artificial intelligence model developed by Anthropic submitted a fabricated tip about an unsolved homicide to Philadelphia police, authorities said Friday, criticizing the company for taking two months to report the incident. The Philadelphia Police Department said the false submission was made in July through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com, a public website where people can share information about unsolved killings.
  
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• 2026 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Navi Pillay

  10-10-2026 16:36 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source:Al JazeeraThe Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay. The committee's announcement of the 125th Nobel Peace Prize, made Friday in Oslo, said the award would go to the South African jurist for her work to promote peace and international law. It added that Pillay, a former U.N. high commissioner for human rights, had been instrumental in ensuring war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide are...
  
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• U.N. Rights Chief: Legacy of Slavery and Colonialism Still Fuels Racism

  09-10-2026 08:49 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: United Nations NewsOver 30 million people were violently uprooted from Africa and condemned to a life of slavery, yet no country involved in the slave trade or colonialism has fully confronted this past. Moreover, the legacy of enslavement and colonialism continues to shape the lives of Africans and people of African descent, U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk said on Thursday, calling for urgent action to deliver reparatory justice beyond financial compensation.
  
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• People High in SDO Tend to Have Less Empathy-Related Gray Matter

  09-10-2026 08:49 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: PsyPostAttitudes toward group-based inequality and social hierarchies may be linked to brain structure and a personality trait tied to reward seeking. According to a new study published in Current Psychology, adults high in social dominance orientation tend to have less gray matter in a brain area involved in empathy and emotional processing. The results suggest that sociopolitical worldviews may be partly a function of basic motivational and emotional...
  
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• Pentagon Says Firing Squad Execution Will Be Livestreamed

  09-10-2026 08:49 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesThe firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed, the Pentagon said Thursday—a stunning revelation about plans for the first military execution in more than 65 years after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had described it as being "public." The Army announced this week that the execution would take place on December 3 after Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in a shooting at the...
  
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• Drug Target Could Block Brain Inflammation Linked to Alzheimer's

  09-10-2026 08:49 via Psychology Headlines Around the World
  Source: Science Daily - Top HealthBlocking a receptor called P2X7 significantly reduced inflammation in human brain tissue, revealing a potential new treatment strategy for neurological and psychiatric disorders. The discovery, published in the journal Brain, could help researchers repurpose existing drugs to treat conditions that include traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, depression, and schizophrenia.
  
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• Wanting to quit leadership doesn’t mean you don’t want to lead

  08-10-2026 06:00 via PsycPORT™: Psychology Newswire
  Leaders can manage emotional weight by identifying what is theirs to regulate, addressing issues, and letting go of responsibilities that do not belong to them.
  
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