Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)(academic.oup.com)

152 points by bohaska 2 months ago | 154 comments

Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations(academic.oup.com)

7 points by gradus_ad 1 month ago | 1 comments

Splash-free urinals (2025)(academic.oup.com)

205 points by u1hcw9nx 1 month ago | 113 comments

The extended predicative Mahlo universe in Martin-Löf type theory (2023)(academic.oup.com)

25 points by danny00 5 months ago | 0 comments

Deficient executive control in transformer attention(academic.oup.com)

33 points by derbOac 4 months ago | 11 comments

Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)(omnia.sas.upenn.edu)

116 points by bryanrasmussen 4 months ago | 67 comments

Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (2023)(academic.oup.com)

345 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 200 comments

Open-access SLEEP journal article reporting a prospective cohort study finding sleep regularity predicts mortality risk better than sleep duration.

Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds(monash.edu)

418 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 381 comments

Monash University news article reporting a study finding that each 1% yearly loss of deep sleep in people over 60 is linked to a 27% higher dementia risk.

MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline(publichealthpolicyjournal.com)

438 points by cainxinth 1 year ago | 432 comments

Article reporting on an MIT study claiming that using AI tools like ChatGPT alters brain activity and leads to cognitive decline.

Engineering Sleep(minjunes.ai)

407 points by amin 1 year ago | 170 comments

Personal essay arguing sleep can be engineered to be more efficient, drawing on Familial Natural Short Sleep mutations that let people sleep less without harm.

Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain(news.mit.edu)

525 points by gmays 1 year ago | 254 comments

MIT News article on research showing attention lapses during sleep deprivation coincide with fluid flushing from the brain, a process normally occurring during sleep.

Big data is dead (2023)(motherduck.com)

548 points by armanke13 2 years ago | 428 comments

A 2023 MotherDuck blog post by Jordan Tigani arguing that the era of big data is over and most organizations' data workloads are small.