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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 30-Dec-2025 12:11 ET (30-Dec-2025 17:11 GMT/UTC)

Do more likes lead to more clicks?

American Marketing Association

Social media likes drive engagement differently, with initial likes boosting clicks and likes, but subsequent likes primarily increasing liking without impacting clicks.

Journal: Journal of Marketing

Gut parasites identified from feces of ancient Mexican people

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

DNA within dried feces dating from more than 1,000 years ago provides valuable insights into the pathogens that plagued ancient Mexican peoples, according to a study published October 22, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS One by Drew Capone of Indiana University, U.S., and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS One

Idiopathic hypersomnia is a rare disease of excessive sleepiness, with patients revealing they never feel rested or awake no matter how much sleep they get, in analysis of online posts

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Idiopathic hypersomnia is a rare disease of excessive sleepiness, with patients revealing they never feel rested or awake no matter how much sleep they get, in analysis of online posts

Journal: PLOS One

Charts can be social artifacts that communicate more than just data

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

MIT research shows users make assumptions about the social context of data visualizations based on design elements. These inferences can impact the degree to which users trust the data that visualization depicts. The researchers hope the work leads to better strategies for scientific communication.

Funder: MIT METEOR and PFPFEE fellowships, Amar G. Bose Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, National Science Foundation

Poverty, food insecurity, and housing instability among US health care workers

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: Significant rates of financial hardship exist among U.S. health care workers. At least 1 measure of food insecurity was reported by 1 in 4 direct care/support workers and 1 in 10 health technologists/technicians; these rates exceed prior reports, perhaps reflecting worsening hardship.

Journal: JAMA

No benefit of ketamine for patients hospitalised with depression, clinical trial reports

Trinity College Dublin
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Findings from a randomised and blinded clinical trial investigating repeated ketamine infusions for treating depression have revealed no extra benefit for ketamine when added onto standard care for people admitted to hospital for depression. The paper is published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry

Journal: JAMA Psychiatry
Funder: Health Research Board

Ants use a genetic 'bulldozer' to achieve a hyper-specific sense of smell

New York University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Ants have evolved an acute sense of smell, which requires each sensory neuron to choose one scent receptor out of hundreds. In a new study published in Nature, researchers at New York University have discovered what ants use to solve this biological puzzle: a self-regulating system in which choosing one gene physically silences all its neighbors.

Journal: Nature
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Tamkeen, Human Frontier Science Program

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