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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Why Are Killer Whales Ripping Livers Out of Their Shark Prey Killer whales rip open the bellies of sharks to snag the liver. Other predators also have dietary preferences for organs brains and additional rich body parts"
X Link 2023-06-24T18:30Z 4.3M followers, 500.5K engagements
"China May Not Find Enough Coal to Burn Chinas energy consumption continues to grow raising worries about supplies it primarily relies on: dirty coal"
X Link 2016-10-12T16:00Z 4.3M followers, 186.8K engagements
"If Spacetime Were a Superfluid Would It Unify Physicsor Is the Theory All Wet Thinking of space and time as a liquid might help reconcile quantum mechanics and relativity"
X Link 2019-04-22T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.8M engagements
"The Color of Plants on Other Worlds On other worlds plants could be red blue even black"
X Link 2019-02-26T20:00Z 4.3M followers, 5.6M engagements
"Does Humanity Have to Eat Meat Meat eating may not have made us human after all say paleoanthropologists"
X Link 2021-11-01T12:00Z 4.3M followers, 2.3M engagements
"Heres Why Human Sex Is Not Binary Ova dont make a woman and sperm dont make a man"
X Link 2023-06-04T16:10Z 4.3M followers, 763.7K engagements
"Why Dont We Get Our Drinking Water from the Ocean by Taking the Salt out of Seawater Peter Gleick president of the Pacific Institute distills an answer to the question"
X Link 2017-04-18T00:05Z 4.3M followers, 577.9K engagements
"Of [--] Minds: How Fast and Slow Thinking Shape Perception and Choice Excerpt In psychologist Daniel Kahnemans recent book he reveals the dual systems of your brain their pitfalls and their power"
X Link 2022-11-09T06:50Z 4.3M followers, 1.9M engagements
"Innovations In: RSV Scientific American The prevention of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has seen incredible advancement in the past few years. In this editorially independent package Scientific American explores breakthroughs in immunization against RSV the global burden of the disease and upcoming achievements in prevention"
X Link 2025-10-23T20:53Z 4.3M followers, 91.3K engagements
"Talk through a String Telephone Scientific American Bring Science Home: Activity 5"
X Link 2016-05-13T21:08Z 4.3M followers, 1.3M engagements
"What Are Puberty Blockers and How Do They Work Decades of data support the use and safety of puberty-pausing medications which give transgender adolescents and their families time to weigh important medical decisions"
X Link 2024-05-19T23:02Z 4.3M followers, 12K engagements
"The Link between Cannabis and Psychosis in Teens Is Real Scientific American Teens have access to vastly more potent cannabis than their parents had at their age. Parents need to understand the risks including psychosis"
X Link 2025-02-04T06:23Z 4.3M followers, 4.2M engagements
"Cooking Up Bigger Brains Scientific American Our hominid ancestors could never have eaten enough raw food to support our large calorie-hungry brains Richard Wrangham claims. The secret to our evolution he says is cooking"
X Link 2025-06-12T22:07Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Massive Study Finds No Single Genetic Cause of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior Analysis of half a million people suggests genetics may have a limited contribution to sexual orientation"
X Link 2020-06-21T18:30Z 4.3M followers, 403.4K engagements
"Why Does the Brain Need So Much Power New study shows why the brain drains so much of the bodys energy"
X Link 2015-08-12T17:00Z 4.3M followers, 598K engagements
"Mathematical Games The fantastic combinations of John Conways new solitaire game life"
X Link 2020-10-05T18:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.2M engagements
"AI tool decreased political polarization from social media algorithms Scientific American Researchers used a browser extension to reorder peoples X feeds reducing their polarizing effect"
X Link 2026-02-16T10:26Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"NASAs Artemis II moon mission engulfed by debate over its controversial heat shield Scientific American Experts have sounded the alarm over NASAs decision to use a heat shield design for Artemis II that may be riskier than the space agency claims"
X Link 2026-02-11T14:24Z 4.3M followers, 13.9K engagements
"The Extraordinary Evolution of Cichlid Fishes Scientific American Cichlid fishes have undergone a mind-boggling degree of speciation. New research is revealing features of their genomes that primed them to diversify so spectacularly"
X Link 2021-07-24T16:00Z 4.3M followers, 4M engagements
"Why and how do planets rotate Scientific American"
X Link 2015-02-13T18:53Z 4.3M followers, 660.2K engagements
"Masks Work. Distorting Science to Dispute the Evidence Doesnt New mask studies relying on a medical paradigm do not erase decades of engineering and occupational science that show they work"
X Link 2023-05-07T12:55Z 4.3M followers, 853K engagements
"And the Oscar Goes to a Robot Industrial Light & Magic animators push the limits of computer animation technology to create lifelike shape-shifters in the Transformers movie"
X Link 2024-02-20T14:31Z 4.3M followers, 1.8M engagements
"AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models Scientific American As AI-generated content fills the Internet its corrupting the training data for models to come. What happens when AI eats itself"
X Link 2024-03-15T17:36Z 4.3M followers, 124.9K engagements
"Fractions: Where It All Goes Wrong Scientific American Why do Americans have such trouble with fractionsand what can be done"
X Link 2025-07-31T20:16Z 4.3M followers, 598K engagements
"Earth's Inner Core May Have an Inner Core Scientific American Echoes from earthquakes suggest that Earths solid inner core has its own core"
X Link 2024-11-18T14:25Z 4.3M followers, 12M engagements
"The Fog of Cyberwar: What Are the Rules of Engagement Scientific American Countries are beginning to develop cyberwarfare policies to protect their national interests but defending oneself in the borderless Internet will prove problematic"
X Link 2025-12-11T13:21Z 4.3M followers, 261.1K engagements
"The Death Cults of Prehistoric Malta New archaeological excavations reveal that as the ancient island societies suffered from environmental decline they developed an extreme religious preoccupation with life and death"
X Link 2021-12-23T16:00Z 4.3M followers, 369.4K engagements
"EPA scraps the endangerment finding that climate change harms human health Scientific American The Trump administration rescinded the [----] endangerment finding ending regulation of greenhouse gases from cars and trucks"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:26Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Diary of a High-Functioning Person with Schizophrenia Scientific American Legal scholar Elyn Saks talks about her struggles with and surprising triumphs over mental illness"
X Link 2022-07-20T17:34Z 4.3M followers, 90K engagements
"How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail Why worldview threats undermine evidence"
X Link 2017-05-03T18:20Z 4.3M followers, 460.4K engagements
"The Surprising Story behind Indianas [----] Vote to Change the Value of Pi Scientific American How an incorrect value of pi almost got codified into law"
X Link 2026-02-15T23:44Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Make Elephant Toothpaste Scientific American Learn how to make elephant toothpaste with this bubbly science project from Science Buddies"
X Link 2022-07-27T21:39Z 4.3M followers, 214.5K engagements
"The Science of the Great Molasses Flood Scientific American In [----] a wave of syrup swept through the streets of Boston. Fluid dynamics explains why it was even more devastating than a typical tsunami"
X Link 2014-10-18T17:04Z 4.3M followers, 474.5K engagements
"What causes a fever Scientific American"
X Link 2016-12-29T22:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.3M engagements
"Why dont our digestive acids corrode our stomach linings Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives"
X Link 2021-02-01T02:30Z 4.3M followers, 3.7M engagements
"Was the Clean Power Plan Really Bad for the Economy Scientific American Canceling the first-ever standards to reduce emissions from power plants is unlikely to revive the coal industry"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:34Z 4.3M followers, 10.9K engagements
"Emotions Can Be Contagious on Online Social Networks Scientific American The number of positive or negative posts people saw in their feedswas manipulated and found to influence the content of users"
X Link 2018-07-23T13:00Z 4.3M followers, 333.7K engagements
"Why are male birds more colorful than female birds Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives"
X Link 2024-02-20T21:01Z 4.3M followers, 855.9K engagements
"Like Humans Chimps Reward Cooperation and Punish Freeloaders Scientific American Recent research challenges the notion that our closest animal relatives dont like working as a team"
X Link 2022-05-26T14:42Z 4.3M followers, 158.8K engagements
"How Did Dinosaurs See Smell Hear and Move Scientific American New fossils and analytical tools provide unprecedented insights into dinosaur sensory perception"
X Link 2025-06-28T16:58Z 4.3M followers, 400.2K engagements
"Inside the Russian dialect coaching behind Heated Rivalry Scientific American How a Russian dialect coach helped Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie master challenging Russian sounds and build a believable accent"
X Link 2026-02-11T14:54Z 4.3M followers, 301.3K engagements
"Mary Leakey: Unearthing History Scientific American Editors"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:45Z 4.3M followers, 222.1K engagements
"For Olympic Athletes First Come the Games Then Come the Post-Olympics Blues Scientific American Heres what experts and former athletes have to say about dealing with post-Olympics mental health struggles"
X Link 2024-10-25T19:27Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air Scientific American Do recent explanations solve the mysteries of aerodynamic lift"
X Link 2020-02-11T14:41Z 4.3M followers, 373.2K engagements
"Bend Water with Static Electricity Bring Science Home: Activity 3"
X Link 2019-09-26T18:05Z 4.3M followers, 7.3M engagements
"Chemists Confirm the Existence of New Type of Bond A vibrational chemical bond predicted in the 1980s is demonstrated experimentally"
X Link 2023-02-02T22:00Z 4.3M followers, 2.1M engagements
"Fact or Fiction: A Clove of Garlic Can Stop a Vaginal Yeast Infection A medical expert weighs in on our burning questions about alternative therapies for this pesky invader"
X Link 2022-02-04T15:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Ancient Humans Were Making Fire [------] Years Earlier Than Scientists Realized Scientific American Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose has been difficult for scientists to pin down"
X Link 2025-12-11T21:35Z 4.3M followers, 27.7K engagements
"Of After Man The New Dinosaurs and Greenworld: an interview with Dougal Dixon Scientific American Some considerable years ago - February [----] actually - I made the decision to write a short Tet Zoo article on speculative zoology. It was on the biology of Godzilla and I published it with trepidation my concern being that people would balk at the fact that I was covering an imaginary creature not a "
X Link 2025-10-25T16:00Z 4.3M followers, 504.9K engagements
"A Key Series of Events Helped Giffords Survive a Gunshot Wound to the Head The nature of the congresswomans injury along with prompt emergency care kept her alive"
X Link 2021-01-18T19:36Z 4.3M followers, 34.4M engagements
"What causes a meteor shower Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives"
X Link 2017-08-10T21:02Z 4.3M followers, 616.8K engagements
"The Beaver Emerges as a 'Climate-Solving Hero' Scientific American Dam-building beavers are helping stave off some of the worst effects of climate-driven droughts and floods"
X Link 2024-04-11T11:02Z 4.3M followers, 6.7M engagements
"Boys and Girls May Get Different Breast Milk Milk composition differs based on a babys sex and a mothers wealth"
X Link 2015-12-10T17:56Z 4.3M followers, 11.6M engagements
"Newfound Mathematical Einstein Shape Creates a Never-Repeating Pattern A new shape called an einstein has taken the math world by storm. The craggy hat-shaped tile can cover an infinite plane with patterns that never repeat"
X Link 2024-02-20T11:47Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"China Returns First-Ever Samples from the Moons Far Side Scientific American Chinas Change [--] mission has successfully returned samples from the moons far side opening a new phase of the nations lunar space race with the U.S"
X Link 2024-06-25T16:39Z 4.3M followers, 39.1K engagements
"Is ASMR Real or Just a Pseudoscience Scientific American Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is all the rage lately. Is it real Is there something special about people who have it"
X Link 2020-10-28T01:10Z 4.3M followers, 1.6M engagements
"How Has Stephen Hawking Lived Past [--] with ALS An expert on Lou Gehrigs disease explains what we know about this debilitating condition and how Hawking has beaten the odds"
X Link 2014-08-27T22:50Z 4.3M followers, 2M engagements
"Untangling the Formation of DNA Loops New discoveries on ancient loops in DNA offer clues into gene regulation"
X Link 2021-11-08T16:00Z 4.3M followers, 87.2K engagements
"Extraordinary brain network discovery changes our understanding of Parkinsons disease Scientific American An extraordinary brain network discovery shows that Parkinsons disease may not be a movement disorder after all"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:14Z 4.3M followers, 11.9K engagements
"Planet of the Apes During the Miocene epoch as many as [---] species of apes roamed throughout the Old World. New fossils suggest that the ones that gave rise to living great apes and humans evolved not in Africa but Eurasia"
X Link 2018-05-16T16:36Z 4.3M followers, 6.3M engagements
"The Evolution of Continental Crust The high-standing continents owe their existence to Earths long history of plate-tectonic activity"
X Link 2021-06-26T16:09Z 4.3M followers, 4.6M engagements
"Nerve Agents: What Are They and How Do They Work The first nerve agents were invented by accident in the 1930s when German researchers were trying to makecheaper and better alternatives to nicotineas insecticides"
X Link 2022-03-31T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 575K engagements
"First Proof is AI's toughest math test yet. The results are mixed Scientific American Experts gave AI [--] math problems to solve in a week. OpenAI researchers and amateurs all gave it their best shot"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:05Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Evolution of the Eye Scientific American Scientists now have a clear vision of how our notoriously complex eye came to be"
X Link 2026-02-16T15:42Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Ancient Alignments Scientific American A stone circle in Egypt is the world"
X Link 2026-02-16T10:56Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Happy Birthday Electron Lorentzs electron theory of [----] bridges classical and modern physics"
X Link 2023-06-11T17:00Z 4.3M followers, 140.4K engagements
"3 Human Chimeras That Already Exist Some peoplesuch as fetuses that absorb a dead twinhave two sets of DNA"
X Link 2020-02-09T22:00Z 4.3M followers, 5.7M engagements
"Psychiatrists plan to overhaul the mental health bibleand change how we define disorder Scientific American The American Psychiatric Association has announced big upcoming changes to psychiatrys big book of mental disorders the DSM"
X Link 2026-01-29T04:20Z 4.3M followers, 15.9K engagements
"Carolyn Beatrice Parkers Work on the Manhattan Project Inspired Her Birthplace Generations Later Scientific American This Black physicists work on the Manhattan Project inspired a County in Florida two generations after her death"
X Link 2026-01-22T15:43Z 4.3M followers, 26.4K engagements
"Where Does the Brain Store Long-Ago Memories Scientific American An internal filing system sorts events for short- or long-term use"
X Link 2017-09-04T17:00Z 4.3M followers, 165K engagements
"The Universe Is Not Locally Real and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It Elegant experiments with entangled light have laid bare a profound mystery at the heart of reality"
X Link 2023-06-19T17:29Z 4.3M followers, 34K engagements
"Rare Genetic Mutation Lets Some People Function with Less Sleep Ever wished you could get by with less sleep Some people can--and dont seem to be any worse off for it--thanks possibly to one unusual mutation"
X Link 2014-07-27T16:00Z 4.3M followers, 11.9M engagements
"Fact or Fiction: If You Shave (or Wax) Your Hair Will Come Back Thicker Scientific American It may look that way but looks can be very deceiving"
X Link 2014-10-20T15:54Z 4.3M followers, 8M engagements
"Mass Shootings Are Contagious A new analysis shows these incidents occur in clusters"
X Link 2019-04-20T14:00Z 4.3M followers, 2M engagements
"Another Earth or a blip in the data We may never find out Scientific American An exoplanet called HD [------] b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to Earth [---]. The trouble is that its only been seen onceand may never be glimpsed again"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:45Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Mirroring Behavior How mirror neurons let us interact with others"
X Link 2019-06-17T19:00Z 4.3M followers, 261.7K engagements
"Exxon Knew about Climate Change Almost [--] Years Ago A new investigation shows the oil company understood the science before it became a public issue and spent millions to promote misinformation"
X Link 2015-10-27T12:30Z 4.3M followers, 2.9M engagements
"The [----] Northeast Blackout--Five Years Later Scientific American Tougher regulatory measures are in place but we"
X Link 2023-10-03T09:15Z 4.3M followers, 496.5K engagements
"Strange but True: Komodo Dragons Show that "Virgin Births" Are Possible Scientific American The virgin births of several male Komodo dragons at two English zoos might provide one explanation why Jesus was not a clone of Mary"
X Link 2018-08-25T20:28Z 4.3M followers, 421.8K engagements
"No There Wasn't an Advanced Civilization [-----] Years Ago Scientific American Did an advanced civilization disappear more than [-----] years ago"
X Link 2020-07-20T12:40Z 4.3M followers, 6.6M engagements
"Too Many Black Americans Are Dying from COVID-19 The pandemic exposed a glaring health gap caused by systemic racism. Heres how to narrow it"
X Link 2021-02-19T16:00Z 4.3M followers, 969.3K engagements
"Why do some fish normally live in freshwater and others in saltwater How can some fish adapt to both Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives"
X Link 2015-03-04T19:04Z 4.3M followers, 1.6M engagements
"How Science Figured Out the Age of Earth Scientific American For centuries scholars sought to determine Earths age but the answer had to wait for careful geologic observation isotopic analyses of the elements and an understanding of radioactive decay"
X Link 2017-10-23T12:00Z 4.3M followers, 405K engagements
"Climategate Scientist Cleared in Inquiry Again Scientific American An academic inquiry cleared climate scientist Michael Mann of any academic misconduct arising from leaked e-mails"
X Link 2020-03-02T00:30Z 4.3M followers, 421.9K engagements
"The Spectrum of Sex Development: Eric Vilain and the Intersex Controversy Scientific American The geneticist built a career studying aspects of sex that make some people uncomfortable. Now things are getting uncomfortable for him"
X Link 2019-11-14T01:19Z 4.3M followers, 2.3M engagements
"Why do bees buzz Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives"
X Link 2019-02-26T22:00Z 4.3M followers, 933.2K engagements
"Is the Universe Made of Math Excerpt Scientific American In this excerpt from his new book Our Mathematical Universe M.I.T. professor Max Tegmark explores the possibility that math does not just describe the universe but makes the universe"
X Link 2015-08-01T00:44Z 4.3M followers, 48.9M engagements
"Statistician David J. Hand Shows How the Seemingly Improbable Becomes a Sure Thing Scientific American There are so many things in heaven and earth that coincidences become certainties"
X Link 2014-09-10T14:49Z 4.3M followers, 33.3M engagements
"The Search for Extraterrestrial Life as We Don't Know It Scientific American Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings"
X Link 2022-07-22T19:05Z 4.3M followers, 923.3K engagements
"Scrumptious Science: Making Ice Cream in a Bag Scientific American A chilly edible chemistry challenge from Science Buddies"
X Link 2017-05-09T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.6M engagements
"The Relativistic Heavy Ion Colliders end marks a new beginning for U.S. particle physics Scientific American After [--] years Brookhaven National Laboratorys Relativistic Heavy Ion Colliderthe U.S.s largest and only particle colliderhas ceased operations but its science lives on"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:17Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Bad Weather Makes for a Long Day A strong jet stream can add or subtract microseconds from a day"
X Link 2014-06-16T15:34Z 4.3M followers, 21.9M engagements
"What is the function of the various brainwaves Scientific American"
X Link 2016-11-10T22:00Z 4.3M followers, 3.6M engagements
"Why Havent We Cured the Common Cold Yet Researchers think theyre close to a cure for the common cold but they first need to solve a complex problem thats perplexed scientists for decades"
X Link 2018-09-04T14:40Z 4.3M followers, 488.2K engagements
"3 Billion to Zero: What Happened to the Passenger Pigeon Scientific American Human actions may have caused the speciess populations to grow huge as well as led to its demise"
X Link 2017-06-26T21:04Z 4.3M followers, 3.4M engagements
"BPA May Prompt More Fat in the Human Body Scientific American New research suggests that humans transform the chemical into a compound linked to obesity"
X Link 2023-02-18T16:00Z 4.3M followers, 2M engagements
"5 Common Myths about the Brain Scientific American Some widely held ideas about the way children learn can lead educators and parents to adopt faulty teaching principles"
X Link 2022-11-09T01:45Z 4.3M followers, 3.5M engagements
"The Physician Who Presaged the Germ Theory of Disease Nearly [---] Years Ago Largely forgotten today Girolamo Fracastoro was a seminal figure in our understanding of infectious illness"
X Link 2023-05-26T13:52Z 4.3M followers, 314.1K engagements
"Axolotls can regenerate their thymus a complex immune system organ Scientific American Axolotls can completely rebuild their thymus a key immune organ"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:10Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"Veggies with Vision: Do Plants See the World around Them The concept of a seeing plant fell by the wayside in the early 20th centuryonly to reemerge in the past few years"
X Link 2019-06-24T18:31Z 4.3M followers, 814.6K engagements
"Fact or Fiction: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen that Would Write in Space whereas the Soviet Cosmonauts Used a Pencil Scientific American The problem of weightless writing was not solved by either Soviet central planning or good old American sub-contracting but by a private investor and a good idea"
X Link 2016-11-09T02:02Z 4.3M followers, 525.4K engagements
"Writing Can Help Injuries Heal Faster Expressive writing may lead to faster recovery from injury"
X Link 2022-05-16T14:53Z 4.3M followers, 49.9K engagements
"Probability and the Birthday Paradox Scientific American A mysterious math problem from Science Buddies"
X Link 2020-10-05T07:29Z 4.3M followers, 3.2M engagements
"Why Do Animals Keep Evolving into Crabs Scientific American Crablikebodies are so evolutionarilyfavorable that theyveevolved at least five different times"
X Link 2022-07-22T19:05Z 4.3M followers, 923.2K engagements
"World's Smallest Snowman: Scientist Claims New Record Scientific American It stands just under three micrometers tall carved with a scanning electron microscope"
X Link 2024-09-16T14:00Z 4.3M followers, 887.1K engagements
"Fossils Rewrite History of Sex Evidence of bony organs in ancient fish suggests that they copulated although many of their descendants stopped doing so"
X Link 2018-02-26T23:58Z 4.3M followers, 928.3K engagements
"The Mind of an Octopus Eight smart limbs plus a big brain add up to a weird and wondrous kind of intelligence"
X Link 2017-10-31T21:09Z 4.3M followers, 2.9M engagements
"Newsletters Scientific American Newsletter Signup"
X Link 2024-12-04T13:01Z 4.3M followers, 127.7K engagements
"Blood Type Matters for Brain Health Scientific American People with AB blood type are at higher risk for age-related cognitive decline"
X Link 2026-02-01T13:00Z 4.3M followers, 545.5K engagements
"What Is a Prion The molecular structure of prions and how they cause infections like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease"
X Link 2017-09-20T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Worlds Richest Man Picks Energy Miracles What is Bill Gates betting on to provide the world with cheap clean reliable energy"
X Link 2024-02-20T12:47Z 4.3M followers, 36.9K engagements
"The physics of Penisgate and how ski jumpers fly Scientific American A scandal involving allegedly enlarged ski suits ahead of this years Winter Olympics has highlighted the intriguing physics behind ski jumps"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:15Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"A push to redraw the map of mental illness Scientific American Why psychiatrys diagnostic system may undergo major changes and what the scientific debates over how mental illnesses should be defined are"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:31Z 4.3M followers, 15.3K engagements
"Starfish Can See in the Dark (among Other Amazing Abilities) Theres a lot more going on beneath those spiny exteriors"
X Link 2019-09-20T17:00Z 4.3M followers, 2M engagements
"Ridley Scotts Prometheus Examines the Roots of Aliens Mythology Co-screenwriter Jon Spaihts speaks with Scientific American about the Alien universe and humanitys quest for knowledge in Scotts latest film"
X Link 2024-02-20T13:45Z 4.3M followers, 1.5M engagements
"Converted Contrarian Argues Humans "Almost Entirely" to Blame for Climate Change Scientific American Physicist Richard Muller has been convinced by his own analysis of the data that global warming is real and humans are causing it"
X Link 2026-02-16T10:05Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"See the Highest-Resolution Atomic Image Ever Captured Scientific American Scientists achieved a record level of visual detail with an imaging technique that could help develop future electronics and better batteries"
X Link 2023-06-15T19:00Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn Our love for telling tales reveals the workings of the mind"
X Link 2019-07-02T12:32Z 4.3M followers, 803.4K engagements
"Why Our Brains Do Not Intuitively Grasp Probabilities Part one of a series of articles on the neuroscience of chance"
X Link 2020-01-14T20:40Z 4.3M followers, 3.7M engagements
"How much of human height is genetic and how much is due to nutrition Molecular biologist Chao-Qiang Lai of the Jean Mayer U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University answers"
X Link 2017-03-03T02:05Z 4.3M followers, 6.4M engagements
"Donald Trump Wants to Make Eugenics Great Again. Lets Not Trumps anti-immigrant good-gene-bad-gene screeds are nothing but factless eugenics for a new era"
X Link 2024-10-17T14:30Z 4.3M followers, 73.7K engagements
"Why has this winter been so cold in the U.S. East and warm in the countrys West Scientific American While its been a frigid winter in the eastern U.S. the western region of the country has seen record warmth"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:15Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Storm Scents: It's True You Can Smell Oncoming Summer Rain Scientific American Researchers have teased out the aromas associated with a rainstorm and deciphered the olfactory messages they convey"
X Link 2014-08-18T17:10Z 4.3M followers, 830.3K engagements
"What Immunity to COVID-19 Really Means The presence of antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 virus could provide some protection but scientists need more data"
X Link 2020-05-17T14:00Z 4.3M followers, 199.7K engagements
"Model Suggests Toxic Transformation on Venus Scientific American A recent study shows how Venus could have explosively changed from habitable to deadly"
X Link 2021-12-13T14:32Z 4.3M followers, 597.8K engagements
"The Beguiling History of Bees Excerpt The first bees existed around [---] million years ago at a time when our own ancestors were small ratlike creatures"
X Link 2015-06-15T18:21Z 4.3M followers, 6.2M engagements
"New Studies Warn of Cataclysmic Solar Superstorms Scientific American New data suggest the New York Railroad Storm could have surpassed the intensity of the famous Carrington Event of 1859"
X Link 2021-05-10T15:00Z 4.3M followers, 772.4K engagements
"Humans Are All More Closely Related Than We Commonly Think Scientific American Humanitys most recent common ancestor and so-called genetic isopoint illustrate the surprising connections among our family trees"
X Link 2022-02-12T15:08Z 4.3M followers, 3.2M engagements
"Just How Little Do We Know about the Ocean Floor Less than [----] percent of the ocean floor has been mapped to a level of detail useful for detecting items such as airplane wreckage or the spires of undersea volcanic vents"
X Link 2016-04-03T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 9.2M engagements
"How often does the average person fart Scientists built a device to find out Scientific American An intrepid team of scientists has created Smart Underwear to measure human flatulence in a bid to better understand our farts"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:07Z 4.3M followers, 147.3K engagements
"Race Is a Social Construct Scientists Argue Scientific American Racial categories are weak proxies for genetic diversity and need to be phased out"
X Link 2019-01-09T18:00Z 4.3M followers, 3.4M engagements
"Snake Oil Salesmen Were on to Something Scientific American Snake oil really is a cure for what ails you if that happens to be arthritis heart disease or maybe even depression"
X Link 2023-03-23T16:22Z 4.3M followers, 1.5M engagements
"Where did Luna [--] land on the moon Scientific American Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna [--] the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Now theyre on the cusp of finding it"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:00Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Heres Whats in Stargate the $500-Billion Trump-Endorsed Plan to Power U.S. AI Tech giants are backing a massive effort announced by President Trump and dubbed the Stargate Project to add data centers across the U.S"
X Link 2025-01-22T17:00Z 4.3M followers, 51.5K engagements
"What Came before the Big Bang Scientific American Our universe may have started not with a big bang but with a big bouncean implosion that triggered an explosion all driven by exotic quantum-gravitational effects"
X Link 2020-11-29T09:32Z 4.3M followers, 2.3M engagements
"A Theory Set in Stone: An Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs After All A single asteroid impact near the Yucatan remains the best explanation for the massive Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction scientists conclude in a new deep review"
X Link 2017-11-06T23:33Z 4.3M followers, 4.7M engagements
"Archaebacteria: The Third Domain of Life Missed by Biologists for Decades These unusual bacteria are genealogically neither prokaryotes nor eukaryotes. This discovery means there are not two lines of descent of life but three: the archaebacteria the true bacteria and the eukaryotes"
X Link 2017-10-09T21:28Z 4.3M followers, 1.5M engagements
"Ancient DNA Reveals Phoenicians Surprising Ancestry Scientific American Phoenician civilization spread its culture and alphabet across the Mediterranean but not evidently its DNA"
X Link 2025-09-22T07:13Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Explore the POP in popcorn A bursting science project"
X Link 2022-04-11T10:00Z 4.3M followers, 546.8K engagements
"Trump rejects climate science winter goes haywire and Penisgate rumors arise at the Olympics Scientific American We take a look at President Trumps decision to reject a landmark climate finding the cause of an unusual winter in the U.S. and the physics behind a bizarre ski jumping scandal"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:15Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"What are the effects of the drug Ecstasy Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives"
X Link 2014-10-16T13:30Z 4.3M followers, 11.9M engagements
"Slow-Motion Ocean: Atlantics Circulation Is Weakest in [----] Years If hemisphere-spanning currents are slowing greater flooding and extreme weather could be at hand"
X Link 2019-02-28T00:08Z 4.3M followers, 655.3K engagements
"How Ultrasound Changed the Human Sex Ratio Scientific American A technology originally developed for maritime navigation and detection has become the dominant method for sex selection"
X Link 2023-06-24T00:00Z 4.3M followers, 850.8K engagements
"Mystery of Moons Magnetic Field Deepens The moon generated a surprisingly intense magnetic field until at least [----] billion years ago [---] years longer than previously thought a new study reports"
X Link 2024-02-20T13:29Z 4.3M followers, 123K engagements
"How Wealthy UFO Fans Helped Fuel Fringe Beliefs There is a long U.S. legacy of plutocrat-funded pseudoscience. Congress just embraced it"
X Link 2023-08-25T18:16Z 4.3M followers, 112.1K engagements
"What Happens in the Brain During Sleep Scientific American via e-mail"
X Link 2018-03-01T22:00Z 4.3M followers, 7.1M engagements
"Is It True that Hot Water Freezes Faster than Cold Water or that Cold Water Boils Faster than Hot Water It seems hard tobelieve but some people swear that it is so"
X Link 2015-10-20T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 746K engagements
"Discover the many ways to enjoy Scientific American 📰Subscribe to Scientific American 📬Sign up for our newsletters 🎧Listen to our podcast Science Quickly wherever you get your podcasts 📲Follow us on TikTok Instagram Threads Reddit YouTube Facebook and LinkedIn"
X Link 2024-12-20T20:56Z 4.3M followers, 121.6K engagements
"Mathematicians launch First Proof a first-of-its-kind math exam for AI Scientific American Frustrated by the AI industrys claims of proving math results without offering transparency a team of leading academics has proposed a better way"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:27Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"Tutankhamen's Familial DNA Tells Tale of Boy Pharaoh's Disease and Incest Scientific American New insight into the fragile pharaoh"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:12Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"The U.K.s Cass Review Badly Fails Trans Children Scientific American A politicized review into transgender medicine in the National Health Service has upended lives in the U.K.and threatens to spread harm across the globe"
X Link 2026-02-16T03:55Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"China Powers AI Boom with Undersea Data Centers Scientific American China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool"
X Link 2025-07-16T16:13Z 4.3M followers, 78.6K engagements
"Bait and Switch: Anchovies Eat Plastic Because It Smells Like Prey The tiny fish are a critical part of ocean food chains"
X Link 2022-08-12T16:00Z 4.3M followers, 32.5K engagements
"Solar Software Company kWh Analytics Raises $5 million Scientific American This month San Francisco-based solar software company kWh Analytics announced that it had raised $5 million in Series A venture capital to support the scaling of the companys solar data platform as well as its new PowerLock (an A-rated insurance-backed production guarantee)"
X Link 2026-02-15T07:31Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"3 Brain Technologies to Watch in [----] Scientific American "Neural dust" thought-powered typing and mini-brains generate academic and corporate interest"
X Link 2026-02-15T21:34Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"How a year of RFK Jr. has changed American science Scientific American After a year of RFK Jr. heading the Department of Health and Human Services the Make America Healthy Again movement has upended science and medicine"
X Link 2026-02-14T05:39Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking That IQ Tests Miss Why smart people sometimes do dumb things"
X Link 2017-07-21T02:10Z 4.3M followers, 140.6K engagements
"New chicken-sized dinosaur baffles paleontologists Scientific American The tiny Foskeia pelendonum was a plant-eating dinosaur with a weird anatomy scientists say"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:00Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Dark Oxygen Discovered Coming from Mineral Deposits on Deep Seafloor Scientific American Baffling new results show that rocklike mineral deposits in the deep sea can produce oxygen"
X Link 2025-01-16T12:52Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Why Cicadas Power Spray Their Pee Scientific American Thirsty cicadas produce more powerful jets of urine than some mammals"
X Link 2024-07-09T15:00Z 4.3M followers, 21.6K engagements
"Science Bleeds When Its Cut Scientific American As funding dries up researchers face setbacks that threaten innovation and public progress"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:55Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Katharine Burr Blodgetts brilliance had to fit into the role of the only woman in a lab filled with menit was the air she breathed Scientific American From Schenectady N.Y. to the University of Cambridge Katharine Burr Blodgetts brilliance impressed the worlds leading physicists"
X Link 2026-02-13T07:17Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Conservative and Liberal Brains Might Have Some Real Differences Scanners try to watch the red-blue divide play out underneath the skull"
X Link 2020-10-29T18:06Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"What the First Results from the Global Flourishing Study Tell Us about Age Employment and Partnership Scientific American Young people are struggling; retirees are happier than employees; people in partnerships are flourishing more than those who are single. Hear the first takeaways from the Global Flourishing Study"
X Link 2025-05-30T17:44Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Bad Bunnys Super Bowl halftime show highlighted Puerto Ricos power grid. Heres why Scientific American Bad Bunny performed part of the Super Bowl halftime show from a power-line-themed set drawing attention to the problem of widespread blackouts in Puerto Rico"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:20Z 4.3M followers, 11K engagements
"Experts Doubt Claims that World's Oldest Pyramid Was Discovered in Indonesia Scientific American Massive buried structures at Gunung Padang in Indonesia have been described as much older than Egypts great pyramids in a new study but some doubt theyre even human constructions"
X Link 2024-01-28T14:00Z 4.3M followers, 472.8K engagements
"Kanzi the famous bonobo may have understood pretend objects Scientific American This famous ape may have understood pretend actionssuggesting he had the capacity to imagine"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:00Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Major Cell Phone Radiation Study Reignites Cancer Questions Exposure to radio-frequency radiation linked to tumor formation in rats"
X Link 2022-10-27T19:50Z 4.3M followers, 72.1K engagements
"Here's the One Thing Not to Do on Valentine's Day Scientific American Avoid the example of animals that practice semelparityand dont murder your mate"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:10Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Forever Chemicals Are Widespread in U.S. Drinking Water Experts hope that with the incoming Biden administration the federal government will finally regulate a class of chemicals known as PFASs"
X Link 2022-06-22T14:55Z 4.3M followers, 192.2K engagements
"AI uncovers solutions to Erds problems moving closer to transforming math Scientific American LLMs have recently helped find solutions to a number of minor longstanding problems. But a new plan called First Proof is really putting them to the test"
X Link 2026-02-15T06:28Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Without the Moon Would There Be Life on Earth By driving the tides our lunar companion may have jump-started biology--or at least accelerated its progression"
X Link 2017-10-10T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 393K engagements
"Sticky Science: the Evolution of Spider Webs Scientific American *The eight-legged weavers have been hunting insects for almost [---] million years flaunting their long history in a rich array of architectures"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:56Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"Viruses Can Help Us as Well as Harm Us Scientific American Experts are figuring out how to exploit the [---] trillion viruses that make up the human virome"
X Link 2026-01-05T16:43Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Clearing and Present Danger Fog That Nourishes California Redwoods Is Declining If the northern California coast gets less fog the states iconic redwoods may be in trouble"
X Link 2017-02-05T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 324.5K engagements
"How the Brain Gets Addicted to Gambling Scientific American Addictive drugs and gambling rewire neural circuits in similar ways"
X Link 2014-06-26T13:00Z 4.3M followers, 363.6K engagements
"The story of the first kiss21.5 million years ago Scientific American Why the simple act of kissingwhich can be traced back [----] million yearscontinues to confound evolutionary biologists"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:42Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"Sex and violence linked in the brain Scientific American Cells lurking deep in the mouse hypothalamus help determine whether it fights or mates"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:57Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Rules of mysterious ancient Roman board game decoded by AI Scientific American A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago but AI might have just worked out the rules"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:32Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"How to name a Madagascar hissing cockroach for Valentines Day at the Bronx Zoo Scientific American The Bronx Zoo is celebrating [--] years of its extremely popular Valentines Day Name a Roach program"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:57Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Getting Enough Sleep Is Critical for Weight Loss and Maintenance Scientific American A sleep medicine specialist explains how restless nights lead to consuming more calories and how you can use sleep as a tool for weight loss"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:15Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"How much can the brain recover from years of excessive alcohol consumption Scientific American Richard Ridderinkhof professor of neurocognitive development and aging at the University of Amsterdam answers"
X Link 2018-09-19T14:34Z 4.3M followers, 113.5K engagements
"Changing Our DNA through Mind Control Scientific American A study finds meditating cancer patients are able to affect the makeup of their DNA"
X Link 2015-07-18T01:19Z 4.3M followers, 89.6K engagements
"The Most Accurate Flat Map of Earth Yet Scientific American A cosmologist and his colleagues tackle a centuries-old cartographic conundrum"
X Link 2026-02-15T12:15Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Multiverse Controversy Heats Up over Gravitational Waves Scientific American The BICEP2 experiments potential discovery of spacetime ripples may provide support for the concept of many universes but critics are unconvinced"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:02Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"What Is the Memory Capacity of the Human Brain Paul Reber professor of psychology at Northwestern University replies"
X Link 2016-02-12T18:00Z 4.3M followers, 12.6M engagements
"Conservative and Liberal Brains Might Have Some Real Differences Scientific American Scanners try to watch the red-blue divide play out underneath the skull"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:40Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Inside-out planetary system perplexes astronomers Scientific American Four worlds around a small dim star are challenging theories of planet formation"
X Link 2026-02-15T10:02Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Will North Korea Sell Its Nuclear Technology Scientific American North Korea is more than willing to breach sanctions to earn cash"
X Link 2017-12-10T01:16Z 4.3M followers, 12.5M engagements
"The Shared Psychosis of Donald Trump and His Loyalists Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee explains the outgoing presidents pathological appeal and how to wean people from it"
X Link 2021-01-17T22:30Z 4.3M followers, 332.7K engagements
"The Dire Wolf Isnt BackBut Heres What De-Extinction Tech Can Actually Do Scientific American Colossal Bioscience says it has de-extincted the dire wolf but other scientists disagree and say more important conservation science is being lost in all the hype"
X Link 2025-04-08T21:42Z 4.3M followers, 580.1K engagements
"Novel Analysis Confirms Climate Hockey Stick Graph A new analysis creates a better look at rising temperatures"
X Link 2022-01-21T01:00Z 4.3M followers, 218.4K engagements
"How Does Catnip Work Its Magic on Cats Scientific American"
X Link 2014-10-23T13:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Earliest Evidence of Wooden Construction Uncovered Scientific American Researchers say the discovery of the earliest known wooden construction expands their knowledge of the woodworking skills of early humans that existed before Homo sapiens"
X Link 2023-12-26T01:00Z 4.3M followers, 317.4K engagements
"Seahorses Genome Explains Why They Are So Weird Genes offer clues about male pregnancy strange body and other oddities"
X Link 2018-12-30T14:00Z 4.3M followers, 434.8K engagements
"Primordial Pinwheel: Astronomers Spot Oldest Prominent Spiral Galaxy Yet Three billion years after the big bang most galaxies were clumpy and odd-shaped but at least one had already assumed a familiar form and may elucidate how modern galaxies got their shapes"
X Link 2017-01-31T20:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Elon Musk says SpaceX will prioritize establishing a city on the moon instead of building a Mars colony Scientific American SpaceXs decision to focus on establishing a lunar city ahead of building a Mars colony represents a significant shift in Elon Musks space exploration ambitions"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:50Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
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