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Research journalism that translates peer-reviewed studies and grey literature into plain English. New findings in society, culture, economics, science, the social sciences and more. Explained clearly and accurately.

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ScholarPeer @scholarpeer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A Photonic Quantum Processor Learns to Change Its Mind Clavina routes photons through reusable linear and nonlinear modules instead of rebuilding the hardware for each task. The result is not a fault-tolerant quantum… scholarpeer.com/a-photonic-quantum-…
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ScholarPeer @scholarpeer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tiny Garlic Droplets Kill a Storage Pest While Sparing Its Wasp Ally Turning a garlic-derived fumigant into nanometer-scale droplets made it deadlier to adzuki bean beetles. The same formulation left… scholarpeer.com/tiny-garlic-droplet…
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ScholarPeer @scholarpeer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A Weak Grip In Youth Can Foreshadow Parkinson’s Disease Decades Later Long before tremors appear, weak muscles may already be signaling trouble. A review of 129 studies traces how skeletal muscle acts as… scholarpeer.com/a-weak-grip-in-yout…
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ScholarPeer @scholarpeer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Sunlight Can Generate Quantum Entanglement, No Laser Required Physicists funneled concentrated sunlight into a nonlinear crystal and pulled out polarization-entangled photon pairs, the first entanglement ever… scholarpeer.com/sunlight-can-genera…
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ScholarPeer @scholarpeer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Hyperfunction: Aging May Not Be Wear and Tear but a Program Left Running A new historical review argues that aging is driven less by accumulated molecular damage than by growth and developmental… scholarpeer.com/hyperfunction-aging…
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ScholarPeer @scholarpeer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Remote Work Softens the Sting of Life in Japan’s Shrinking Cities In Japan's shrinking cities, decline barely dented life satisfaction — but fully remote work did, buffering residents against a fading local… scholarpeer.com/remote-work-softens…
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ScholarPeer @scholarpeer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Unraveling Tau’s Role in Mitochondrial Dysfunction A protein already linked to Alzheimer's turns out to hijack mitochondria directly, flipping their energy production into reverse and flooding nerve cells with reactive… scholarpeer.com/unraveling-taus-rol…
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ScholarPeer @scholarpeer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Single People Who See Growth Potential Report Happier Solo Lives New diary studies of hundreds of single adults find that people who view being unattached as a chance to grow report less fear of singlehood and greater life… scholarpeer.com/single-people-growt…
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ScholarPeer @scholarpeer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Extraordinary Experiences Usually Strike When You’re Alone A survey of over five thousand Brazilian adults finds that deja vu, visions and out-of-body sensations follow oddly similar patterns of… scholarpeer.com/extraordinary-exper…
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ScholarPeer @scholarpeer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Human Neurons Wire Into Rat Spinal Cords and Bolster Breathing Engineered spinal interneurons grown from human stem cells survived inside injured rats, took input from the brainstem and passed signals on to… scholarpeer.com/human-neurons-wire-…
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ScholarPeer @scholarpeer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Carrying a Neanderthal Gene Comes With Extra Muscle Neanderthals carried a growth hormone receptor that signals more strongly in cultured cells than the common modern version. Adults who inherited it average slightly… scholarpeer.com/carrying-a-neandert…
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ScholarPeer @scholarpeer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
What Is Neuroplasticity? The Science of How the Brain Rewires Itself Neuroplasticity lets the brain rewire at any age, but not without limits. See what the evidence on training, injury, and aging actually shows.... scholarpeer.com/neuroplasticity-how…
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ScholarPeer @scholarpeer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Brain Surgery Opens a Short Window for Cancer Drugs in Mice Removing a glioblastoma from a mouse brain leaves the blood-brain barrier leaky at the surgical rim for two brief spells. A single dose of an approved… scholarpeer.com/brain-surgery-opens…
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ScholarPeer @scholarpeer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Physicists Build a Table-Top Way to Image an Electron’s 3D Shape A Göttingen physics team reconstructed the full 3D wavefunction of an organic semiconductor molecule using a lab-bench extreme ultraviolet source, imaging… scholarpeer.com/physicists-build-ta…
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ScholarPeer @scholarpeer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Your Hairdresser May Sway Your Climate Choices, Not a Celebrity Trusted everyday figures like hairdressers and neighbours may shift climate behaviour more than celebrities, argues a Nature Climate Change… scholarpeer.com/your-hairdresser-ma…
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ScholarPeer @scholarpeer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Nearly 20 percent of veterans have used acid, a rate that survives every demographic control, in RAND's first nationally representative survey — which also finds roughly half don't know whether… scholarpeer.com/its-not-mushrooms-l…
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ScholarPeer @scholarpeer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Dowry deaths have risen since the protest years — more than 6,500 in 2022 — even as the public mourning faded. In Public Culture, Kriti Kapila traces the silence to… scholarpeer.com/a-law-made-divorce-…
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