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Women with borderline personality disorder experience heightened dissociation symptoms in sexual situations | Compared to healthy women, this increase was most pronounced in symptoms of depersonalization and derealization.
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Liars know they are lying: differentiating disinformation from disagreement. Research shows how the spread of misinformation—and in particular willful disinformation—is demonstrably harmful to public health, evidence-informed policymaking, and democratic processes
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Ultrafine particles linked to over 1,000 deaths per year in Canada’s two largest cities. Study points to an urgent public-health need for tighter environmental regulations | Airborne Nanoparticle Concentrations Are Associated with Increased Mortality Risk in Canada’s Two Largest Cities
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Having strong bonds with pets may alleviate anxiety and depression in women, especially those with a history of childhood abuse | The study of around 200 women found that having a greater attachment to a pet was linked with lower generalised anxiety.
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Plastics and autism in boys: Higher levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic used in food packaging, were detected in urine samples taken from women pregnant with boys later found to have autism, finds new analysis of two small studies in people, along with studies of cells in a dish and in mice.
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Cheap heat-storing 'firebricks' projected to save industries trillions | Researchers predict that firebricks could reduce global reliance on batteries by 14.5%, hydrogen by 31%, and underground heat storage by 27.3% — if the world switches to full renewable energy by 2050.
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A fifth of medicines in Africa could be substandard or fake, a problem that could be contributing up to 500,000 deaths a year in sub-Saharan Africa. Antibiotics and antimalarial products were the most falsified medicines, likely to be fuelling an increase in antimicrobial resistance.
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Study finds that USA adults with chronic pain are more likely to experience symptoms of anxiety and depression than people without chronic pain, yet they access mental health care at lower rates and are less likely to have their mental health needs met in treatment.
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Palaeontologists have described Hypnovenator matsubaraetoheorum, a new genus and species of troodontid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous epoch, based on an articulated postcranial skeleton found from Japan's Albian Ohyamashimo Formation.
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