- "These results support the hypothesis that male baldness is a thermoregulatory compensation for the growth of a beard in adults." http://www.springerlink.com/content/n08u1697464446vx/ 30 comments science
- Evidence that house dust enhances gut microbial diversity and innate immunity; supporting the hygiene hypothesis http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1462-2920.12895/abstract 47 comments science
- Musicians are more desirable dates to both men and women, supporting Darwin’s sexual selection hypothesis https://www.psypost.org/2023/01/musicians-are-more-desirable-dates-to-both-men-and-women-supporting-darwins-sexual-selection-hypothesis-64835 1358 comments science
- The hypothesis that being bullied will make you stronger in the long term does not seem to be supported by data. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc4552909/ 3 comments science
- New Physics Complications Lend Support to Multiverse Hypothesis http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-physics-complications-lend-support-to-multiverse-hypothesis&wt 6 comments philosophy
- New Physics Complications Lend Support to Multiverse Hypothesis https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-physics-complications-lend-support-to-multiverse-hypothesis 114 comments science
- Watch out for cats! Johns Hopkins researchers find more evidence supporting the hypothesis that toxoplasma infections cause schizophrenia http://www.hopkinschildrens.org/pages/news/pressdetails.cfm?newsid=403 39 comments science
- Findings failed to support the hypothesis that cannabis use improves mental or physical health for veterans with pain - National Epidemiologic Survey https://journals.lww.com/pain/Fulltext/2022/02000/Pain,_cannabis_use,_and_physical_and_mental_health.4.aspx?context=FeaturedArticles&collectionId=2 26 comments science
- The simulation hypothesis proposes that all of reality is an artificial simulation. This debate will explore the various tenets of this hypothesis, and outline those arguments that support it as well as those that contradict. https://www.kialo.com/do-we-exist-within-a-simulated-reality-9858/9858.0=9858.1 16 comments philosophy
- Support for the "Hygiene Hypothesis" - Mice infected with Salmonella had reduced incidence of asthma http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140123125935.htm 22 comments science
- Chinese scientists revealed Wednesday that they have found evidence supporting the hypothesis that gravity travels at the speed of light based on data gleaned from observing Earth tides. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2012-12/27/c_132067538.htm 399 comments science
- Physical healing as a function of perceived time. Results support the hypothesis that the effect of time on physical healing is directly affected by one's psychological experience of time, independent of the actual elapsed time https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-50009-3 18 comments science
- The main areas of serotonin research provide no consistent evidence of there being an association between serotonin and depression, and no support for the hypothesis that depression is caused by lowered serotonin activity or concentrations. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0 551 comments science
- A new study examined the “acting consistently = feeling authentic” hypothesis, and found that behaving congruently with one’s traits did not actually predict experienced authenticity, while positive feelings did. These findings thus support the “feeling good = feeling authentic” hypothesis instead. https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/experimentations/201812/what-is-really-happening-when-we-feel-authentic 4 comments science
- Optimism can change brain volume, providing protection against emotional distress, study finds. The results support the hypothesis that personality traits and brain volume help protect against symptoms of anxiety - 'We can change the volume of the brain through experience and training.' https://www.inquisitr.com/5051313/study-optimism-can-change-brain-volume-providing-protection-against-emotional-distress/ 37 comments science
- Study provides empirical evidence for the hypothesis that Donald Trump attracted unprecedented support from "low-information voters". http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~schram/trumplowinformationvotersfinal.pdf 8 comments science
- Testosterone and age: findings from a 1946 British birth cohort study fail to support the hypothesis that midlife declines in testosterone lead to lower lean mass. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.21092/full 3 comments science
- A new study of sleep in women shows that delaying bedtime by just 90 minutes each night damages cells that line the blood vessels, supporting the hypothesis that poor sleep is linked to heart health. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42758-y 110 comments science
- Experiments by a team of physicists and psychologists now support the hypothesis that the swing feeling in Jazz songs is produced when performers subtly deviate from one another in the timing of their notes https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-022-00995-z 226 comments science
- No support was found for the hypothesis that social media use contributed to the level of affective polarization. Instead, the results lend support to the hypothesis that it was the level of affective polarization that affected subsequent use of social media https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448211044393 7 comments science
- Working memory capacity and fluid intelligence are reduced in smartphone users even when they are switched off. The results provide empirical evidence in support of the smart-phone induced “brain drain” hypothesis https://www.snippetscience.com/smartphoneinduced-brain-drain 23 comments cogsci
- Mars Opportunity rover photo “evidence strongly supports the hypothesis that mushrooms, algae, lichens, fungi, and related organisms have colonized the Red Planet and may be engaged in photosynthetic activity and oxygen production on Mars.” https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340610633_life_on_mars_colonies_of_photosynthesizing_mushrooms_in_eagle_crater_the_hematite_hypothesis_refuted 5 comments science
- Viruses represent a deep reservoir of unsequenced genetic diversity, and are almost entirely unrelated to the rest of life on earth. Some propose extraterrestrial origins, but they're only ambiguously alive - and so might not support a panspermia hypothesis for origin of life. https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/3/20/originofviruses 3 comments science
- New analysis provides “geological support for the RNA world hypothesis.” The Murchison meteorite and two others were found to contain ribose and other biologically important sugars, suggesting extraterrestrial sugars contributed to the formation of RNA. https://www.inverse.com/article/61018-rna-world-hypothesis-meteorite-sugar 3 comments space
- Largest-ever ancient-DNA study illuminates millennia of South and Central Asian prehistory - Refutes Anatolian hypothesis and supports Steppe theory https://hms.harvard.edu/news/treasure-trove 25 comments linguistics
- Study presents evidence and observations which do not prove but supports the hypothesis Mars was, and is, a living planet hosting prokaryotes, lichens, and fungi http://journalofastrobiology.com/mars5.html 26 comments science
- A study of political bias in Google search engine results finds no support for the "filter bubble" hypothesis--people of all political orientations receive politically diverse results. There is a slight tendency for right-leaning content to appear higher on the search results page https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3274417 12 comments science
- A new study in Annals of Internal Medicine shows that nearly 1 in 4 biostatisticians have been asked by scientists to remove or alter data to make it better support their hypothesis, which is serious research misconduct. https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/10/30/1-4-statisticians-say-they-were-asked-commit-scientific-fraud-13554 17 comments science
- We grew grains for beer, not bread - Researchers have found the oldest archaeological evidence of beer brewing, that predate the appearance of cultivated cereals in the Near East by several millennia. It supports the hypothesis that beer may have been an underlying motivation to cultivate cereals. https://news.stanford.edu/2018/09/12/crafting-beer-lead-cereal-cultivation/ 130 comments science
- In the '60s, chemist and Nobel laureate Glenn Seaborg predicted "islands of stability" amongst the superheavy elements. Is this hypothesis still plausible, and how well does the evidence support it? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/8wtdle/in_the_60s_chemist_and_nobel_laureate_glenn/ 2 comments askscience
- The hormonal congruency hypothesis suggests that changes to a woman’s contraceptive pill regime since commencing a relationship may affect that relationship, or her attraction to her partner. A large replication study carried out recently did not find any evidence to support this hypothesis. https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/attraction-evolved/201806/do-hormones-really-influence-what-women-find-attractive 133 comments science
- Higher vitamin D plasma concentration was associated with lower risk of total cancer in a large prospective case-cohort Japanese study. These findings support the hypothesis that vitamin D has protective effects against cancers at many sites. http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k671 83 comments science
- Mass famine may be associated with telomere shortening in male descendants of famine survivors, supporting the "thrifty telomere hypothesis", finds researchers based on a retrospective cohort study of survivors and descendants of a Chuvash population that experienced mass famine in 1922–1923. http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/104/5/1410 3 comments science
- A layer of iron and other elements deep underground is the evidence scientists have long been seeking to support the hypothesis that the moon was formed by a planetary object hitting the infant Earth some 4.5 billion years ago http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo2808.html 3 comments science
- A new study in infant gut microbiome supports the hygiene hypothesis: infants in the western countries have limited exposure to various microorganisms which has implications in the development of their immune system. This makes them prone to autoimmune diseases (e.g. type 1 diabetes) and allergies. https://www.broadinstitute.org/news/8131 531 comments science
- Chimp Eggs Degrade Later than Human Eggs—Even Though Humans Live Longer. This supports the Grandmother Hypothesis, suggesting women's menopause, rare in nature, is adaptive, not a side-effect of our recent increased lifespan. http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/articles/2015/04/chimp-eggs-die-later-humans-eggs%E2%80%94even-though-humans-live-longer#.vryqycp4aki.reddit 37 comments science
- Study: Why We Evolved to Love Music "A newly published paper presents intriguing evidence supporting that hypothesis. Researchers argue that music developed 'as a form of social communication, a tool to pass information about the group’s shared mental state to a number of individuals at once.'" http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/the-sounds-that-bind-new-evidence-of-why-we-love-music-63907/ 34 comments science
- New study supports Darwin's hypothesis that struggle for existence is stronger between closely related species than those distantly related - While ecologists generally accept the premise, this is the strongest direct experimental evidence yet to support its validity http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-darwin-hypothesis-competition-species.html 3 comments science
- The discovery of an ancient pre-Maya human skull at the bottom of a lake in Mexcio supports the hypothesis that the 1st humans to live on the North American continent emigrated from Europe & not the Bering Straits (With Photo) http://www.archaeologydaily.com/news/201102206139/pre-maya-bones-found-in-mexico.html 19 comments history
- Remember the psychology study showing that humans can predict the future? This paper applies Bayesian stats to the data and not only does the effect go away, but the data actually support the null hypothesis. http://www.ruudwetzels.com//articles/wagenmakersetal_subm.pdf 257 comments science