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Social topic influence science 14.16%, in the 7.76%, to the 5.94%, the world 5.71%, the most 5.25%, awe 4.57%, brain 4.11%, human 3.2%, how to 2.97%, health 2.97%
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Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Its Time to End the War on Salt The zealous drive by politicians to limit our salt intake has little basis in science"
X Link 2021-04-09T15:07Z 4.3M followers, 1.3M 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
"Jailbroken AI Chatbots Can Jailbreak Other Chatbots Scientific American AI chatbots can convince other chatbots to instruct users how to build bombs and cook meth"
X Link 2025-07-22T15:49Z 4.3M followers, 60.8K 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, 598.4K 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scraps the endangerment finding that climate change harms human health Scientific American The Trump administration rescinded the [----] endangerment finding ending regulation of greenhouse gases from cars and trucks"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
"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
"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, 856.6K 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, 158.9K engagements
"Beer Batter Is Better How it makes a great fish n chips"
X Link 2016-11-17T22:00Z 4.3M followers, 688.4K 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, 400.4K 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
"NASAs James Webb Space Telescope Discovers New Moon of Uranus Scientific American Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope scientists have spotted a moon nestled near Uranuss rings thats so small you could walk around it"
X Link 2026-02-16T14:50Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"Can Birth Control Hormones Be Filtered from the Water Supply Trace elements of prescription drugs have been found in city water supplies"
X Link 2019-07-09T19:30Z 4.3M followers, 152.9K engagements
"Malleability and Ductility of Metals Scientific American"
X Link 2018-09-27T19:01Z 4.3M followers, 275.1K 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, 26.8K engagements
"Mirroring Behavior How mirror neurons let us interact with others"
X Link 2019-06-17T19:00Z 4.3M followers, 261.8K 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
"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, 923.9K 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, 314.3K 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
"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
"Lenin's Body Improves with Age Scientific American Russian scientists have developed experimental embalming methods to maintain the look feel and flexibility of the Soviet Union"
X Link 2015-04-26T19:28Z 4.3M followers, 2.4M 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, 803.5K engagements
"Why Do Earthworms Surface After Rain Scientific American Rather than flooded tunnels easier migration and predation fear may drive the worms out"
X Link 2018-10-25T20:30Z 4.3M followers, 652.6K 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
"Whats the difference between cold and flu The two winter respiratory illnesses may look alike but pay attention to tell them apart"
X Link 2014-12-17T00:42Z 4.3M followers, 759.8K 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, 152.5K 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
"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
"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, 333.8K engagements
"Is Double-Dipping a Food Safety Problem or Just a Nasty Habit Scientific American If you detect double-dippers in the midst of a festive gathering you might want to steer clear of their favored snack"
X Link 2023-09-15T16:29Z 4.3M followers, 574.5K 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, 301.7K 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
"Why Nearly [--] Percent of Autoimmune Sufferers Are Female The effects of sex hormones X chromosomes and different gut microbes may be parts of the answer"
X Link 2023-03-04T15:00Z 4.3M followers, 93K 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
"Fascism's History Offers Lessons about Today's Attacks on Education Scientific American Moves in Florida to control public education mirror past fascist strategies in ways that are disquieting for American democracy a historianargues"
X Link 2025-05-07T15:06Z 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, 41.6K 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
"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, 16.1K 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
"Mass Shootings Are Contagious A new analysis shows these incidents occur in clusters"
X Link 2019-04-20T14:00Z 4.3M followers, 2M 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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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, 830.4K 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
"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
"Explore the POP in popcorn A bursting science project"
X Link 2022-04-11T10:00Z 4.3M followers, 546.9K 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
"Nikola Tesla was born on this day in [----]. Read the autobiographical sketch he wrote in the June [----] issue of Scientific American: http://bit.ly/32iFEHO http://bit.ly/32iFEHO"
X Link 2019-07-10T15:17Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"Damage from the Charles Koch Floods along the Missouri River are being compounded by heavy rains from Hurricane Inhofe. A proposal to name climate disasters after polluters and people who have enabled them. Commentary https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lets-start-naming-climate-related-disasters-for-polluters-and-their-enablers/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lets-start-naming-climate-related-disasters-for-polluters-and-their-enablers/"
X Link 2021-08-14T18:42Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"As the daughter of a cancer researcher Kamala Harris would bring a lifelong familiarity with science to the presidency experts say https://trib.al/v67hilX https://trib.al/v67hilX"
X Link 2024-07-26T13:15Z 4.3M followers, 3.1M engagements
"Gentle nasal spray vaccines against COVID the flu and RSV are coming. They may work better than shots in the arm https://trib.al/E5rUsvx https://trib.al/E5rUsvx"
X Link 2024-10-15T20:24Z 4.3M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Am I Introverted or Socially Anxious At long last introverts are having their day. Over the last few years being quiet and inner-directed has become not only acceptable but downright trendy. But introversion often gets mistaken for its more restrictive self-conscious but treatable cousin social anxiety"
X Link 2020-10-25T16:15Z 4.3M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Why do we put salt on icy sidewalks in the winter 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 2021-01-25T21:18Z 4.3M followers, 155.7K 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
"Build a Catapult An energetic science project from Science Buddies"
X Link 2019-04-15T17:11Z 4.3M followers, 131.4K engagements
"The Advantages of Dyslexia Scientific American With reading difficulties can come other cognitive strengths"
X Link 2023-03-21T12:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.7M 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
"Nearly Half of People in the U.S. Have Toxic PFAS in Their Drinking Water New data released by the EPA show that nearly half of people in the U.S. have drinking water contaminated by toxic forever chemicals or PFAS"
X Link 2025-03-28T16:15Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"Misfolded Proteins Travel in Huntingtons Disease The movement of proteins involved in neurodegenerative diseases could serve as a target for future therapies"
X Link 2018-09-24T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 3.2M engagements
"Like Mother Like Daughter--the Science Says So Too Scientific American A new study bolsters evidence that brain structure and mood disorders are genetically passed from mother to daughter"
X Link 2018-04-05T16:00Z 4.3M followers, 2.3M 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
"How Microfinance Loans Help the Environment Loans designed to aid people in poverty can also be used to preserve the planet"
X Link 2022-05-30T16:58Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"The Three-Body Problem Although mathematicians know they can never fully solve this centuries-old quandary tackling smaller pieces of it has yielded some intriguing discoveries"
X Link 2023-05-23T14:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.4M 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
"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
"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
"Lost Giants: Did Mammoths Vanish Before During and After Humans Arrived Three studies seem to disagree as to when mammoths saber-toothed cats and other North American megafauna disappeared"
X Link 2019-02-28T00:08Z 4.3M followers, 655.3K engagements
"Warm Climates Support Longer Limbs A study with mice finds that those kept in warmer environments develop longer limbs than their chillier cousins thanks to enhanced cartilage growth. Karen Hopkin reports"
X Link 2024-01-16T21:10Z 4.3M followers, 145.4K engagements
"How Does Mercury Get Into Fish 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 2015-07-30T22:05Z 4.3M followers, 244K engagements
"New Evidence Fuels Debate over the Origin of Modern Languages Nomadic horse riders likely opened a steppe bridge between Europe and Asia but recent genetic data raise more questions"
X Link 2017-09-28T19:00Z 4.3M followers, 538.1K 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
"Who Owns the Ocean's Genes Tension on the High Seas Scientific American Countries are struggling with how to share genetic code from myriad ocean creatures which could lead to billion-dollar drugs"
X Link 2023-07-14T15:02Z 4.3M followers, 2.3M 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
"For Porn Use Honesty Is the Best Policy Scientific American Women whose partners tried to cover up porn use were less happy overall"
X Link 2015-06-26T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 730.6K engagements
"Avi Loeb's Galileo Project Will Search for Evidence of Alien Visitation Scientific American With nearly $2 million in private funding the controversial new initiative is targeting unidentified phenomena in Earths skies and beyond"
X Link 2021-07-27T15:12Z 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
"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
"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
"A Secret Weapon in Preventing the Next Pandemic: Fruit Bats Scientific American New research links bat habitat destruction with the spillover of their viruses to humans"
X Link 2023-11-22T13:00Z 4.3M followers, 377.3K engagements
"Graphene Researchers Geim and Novoselov Win Nobel Prize in Physics Updated Scientific American One-atom-thick sheets of carbon have been on the scene for just six years but have already drawn a wealth of research interest"
X Link 2014-07-15T03:03Z 4.3M followers, 1.1M 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
"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
"Ancient Crocodilians Used "Death Rolls" to Kill Dinosaurs Scientific American Bite marks on fossils coupled with an analysis of skull strength suggests that crocodilians were capable of using "death rolls" to dismember prey"
X Link 2021-09-21T12:14Z 4.3M followers, 230.4K 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
"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
"Your guide to [--] wildly different theories of consciousness Scientific American The many many ways researchers hope to solve the toughest mystery in science"
X Link 2026-02-17T02:56Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"What causes a fever Scientific American"
X Link 2016-12-29T22:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.3M 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
"Semisolid Science: Growing Yogurt A live culture challenge from Science Buddies"
X Link 2018-11-22T22:00Z 4.3M followers, 202.4K 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
"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
"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
"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, 393.1K engagements
"New Experiment Aims to Crack Neutrino Mass Mystery These particles should not have mass but they do. By sending neutrinos through the ground from Illinois to Minnesota physicists hope to learn why"
X Link 2020-06-10T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 454K engagements
"Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Climate Change Scientific American Morgan Stanley JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreements [--] degree C goal and are examining how to maintain profits"
X Link 2025-07-06T17:00Z 4.3M followers, 744.4K 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, 528.3K 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
"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, 15.4K 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
"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
"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 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, 112.2K engagements
"Evidence of Negative Time Found in Quantum Physics Experiment Physicists showed that photons can seem to exit a material before entering it revealing observational evidence of negative time"
X Link 2024-10-02T12:24Z 4.3M followers, 39.4K engagements
"Three percent of the population now owns half of the countrys firearms a recent study shows. And the American citizen most likely to own a gun is a white male that meets a very specific profile. This was one of our most-read stories in [----]. http://bit.ly/2LEproh http://bit.ly/2LEproh"
X Link 2018-12-28T21:00Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"Happy 30th birthday @NASAHubble 🎂🥳"
X Link 2020-04-24T16:22Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"For only the second time in our 179-year history the editors of Scientific American are endorsing a candidate for president. That person is @KamalaHarris. Editorial https://bit.ly/4daH36q https://bit.ly/4daH36q"
X Link 2024-09-16T16:42Z 4.3M followers, 11.2M engagements
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X Link 2024-12-20T20:56Z 4.3M followers, 121.6K engagements
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X Link 2024-12-20T21:02Z 4.3M followers, 38.6K engagements
"U.S. life expectancy hits all-time high Scientific American Americans are living longer than ever but still well behind the life expectancy of other developed countries"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:42Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"Listen to the Astonishing 'Chirp' of Two Black Holes Merging Scientific American Some of the most violent cosmic collisionsoccursilently in the vacuum of space but with the right instrumental ears we can still hear it happen. Heres how"
X Link 2025-07-16T10:00Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"Sunlight-Dimming Climate Schemes Need Worldwide Oversight Scientific American As the climate crisis intensifies experiments to cool the planet by reflecting solar radiation proliferate. Without proper global and national regulation they will worsen the crisis"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:55Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isnt supported by the available evidence"
X Link 2024-02-28T18:14Z 4.3M followers, 805K engagements
"These two habits are linked to more than a third of all cancer cases Scientific American More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable a massive study finds"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:31Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"The U.S. Just Lost [--] Years' Worth of Progress on Life Expectancy Scientific American COVID and overdose deaths have sharply cut U.S. life expectancy with Indigenous peoples experiencing the biggest decline"
X Link 2022-10-28T02:22Z 4.3M followers, 15.6K engagements
"The TSA's Dumb Air-Security Rules Are Not Based on Science Scientific American Outdated screening rules aren"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:17Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
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X Link 2026-02-07T20:02Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"FDA wont consider a new mRNA vaccine for flu despite the technologys life-saving promise Scientific American The U.S.s drug safety agency declined to review a next-gen flu vaccine that uses the same tech as the coronavirus shots"
X Link 2026-02-12T06:37Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Scientists may have discovered a pulsar at the Milky Ways hearta result that could reveal new physics Scientific American If a pulsar that may lie at the center of our galaxy is confirmed it could enable more precise measurements of the spacetime around the Milky Ways central supermassive black hole"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:14Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
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X Link 2025-12-08T15:55Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
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X Link 2026-02-12T06:15Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
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X Link 2022-08-12T16:00Z 4.3M followers, 32.5K engagements
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X Link 2026-02-08T21:44Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"The Protectors: Inside the Desperate Rush to Save an Orca Community Scientific American As endangered southern resident killer whales fight for survival federal funding cuts threaten the scientists working to save them"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:11Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
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X Link 2026-01-20T17:00Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
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X Link 2026-02-15T07:31Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"COVID-19 Leaves Its Mark on the Brain. Significant Drops in IQ Scores Are Noted. Research shows that even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging"
X Link 2024-03-13T15:08Z 4.3M followers, 248.6K engagements
"This ancient South American kingdom ran on bird poop Scientific American Maize farmers in Perus Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird poop as early as the year 1250"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:17Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
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X Link 2025-06-10T16:54Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
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X Link 2018-09-05T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 477.9K engagements
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X Link 2025-12-31T18:06Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
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X Link 2016-08-20T17:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.4M engagements
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X Link 2025-06-17T19:41Z 4.3M followers, 49.3K engagements
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X Link 2026-02-06T10:28Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
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X Link 2024-04-21T21:19Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
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X Link 2026-02-12T19:13Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
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X Link 2016-11-10T22:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.8M engagements
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X Link 2026-02-10T07:40Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
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X Link 2026-02-03T22:48Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
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X Link 2024-07-26T23:24Z 4.3M followers, 321.1K engagements
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X Link 2025-12-11T17:53Z 4.3M followers, 63.4K engagements
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X Link 2026-02-13T23:23Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
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X Link 2017-07-21T02:10Z 4.3M followers, 140.6K engagements
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X Link 2014-05-21T16:58Z 4.3M followers, 379.7K engagements
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X Link 2025-01-07T07:44Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
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X Link 2026-02-09T12:35Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
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X Link 2022-06-07T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 437K engagements
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X Link 2025-03-21T14:38Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
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X Link 2017-11-06T00:19Z 4.3M followers, 792K engagements
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X Link 2022-02-17T13:00Z 4.3M followers, 10.9K engagements
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X Link 2026-02-09T15:21Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
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X Link 2026-02-10T07:12Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
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X Link 2016-09-10T16:26Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
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X Link 2024-07-09T15:00Z 4.3M followers, 21.6K engagements
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X Link 2026-02-15T14:55Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
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X Link 2026-02-13T07:17Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
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X Link 2020-10-29T18:06Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
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X Link 2016-04-24T16:00Z 4.3M followers, 4.1M engagements
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X Link 2022-01-24T13:00Z 4.3M followers, 2.7M engagements
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X Link 2026-02-09T10:43Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Enrico Fermi: The Last Man Who Knew Everything Scientific American David N. Schwartz talks about his latest book The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi Father of the Nuclear Age"
X Link 2025-10-21T15:33Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
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X Link 2020-03-27T17:00Z 4.3M followers, 226.9K 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
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X Link 2020-12-20T15:09Z 4.3M followers, 5.9M engagements
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X Link 2025-07-21T13:16Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"How H5N1 Went from an Illness in Wild Birds to a Global Pandemic Threat Scientific American The first hints that a new strain of avian illness is emerging could be found on this beach on Delaware Bay where migrating birds flock. Heres what virus detectives who return there every year know right now"
X Link 2025-06-23T14:15Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"Evidence Does Not Support the Use of the Death Penalty Capital punishment must come to an end. It does not deter crime is not humane and has no moral or medical basis"
X Link 2024-07-29T19:28Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"Dishonesty the Best Policy Cuttlefish Study Concludes 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 2023-11-11T14:00Z 4.3M followers, 922.7K 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
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X Link 2026-02-13T07:53Z 4.3M followers, [--] 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
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X Link 2026-02-12T14:00Z 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
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X Link 2026-02-14T00:10Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Hypnosis Memory and the Brain Scientific American A new study points to specific areas of the brain affected by hypnosis. The technique could be a tool for exploring what happens in the brain when we suddenly forget"
X Link 2016-11-10T22:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.8M engagements
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X Link 2026-02-12T20:57Z 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
"Bad News for the Highly Intelligent Superior IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders research suggests"
X Link 2019-06-27T01:16Z 4.3M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Blow the Best Bubbles A soapy chemistry challenge from Science Buddies"
X Link 2022-06-13T08:00Z 4.3M followers, 824.3K engagements
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X Link 2026-02-12T09:02Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"How Brainless Slime Molds Redefine Intelligence Video Scientific American Single-celled amoebae can remember make decisions and anticipate change urging scientists to rethink intelligent behavior"
X Link 2023-02-09T05:30Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements
"How did scientists determine our location within the Milky Way galaxy--in other words how do we know that our solar system is in the arm of a spiral galaxy far from the galaxys center 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 2017-02-07T20:00Z 4.3M followers, 476.2K engagements
"Trump Quietly Halts Money to States for Preventing Disaster Damage Scientific American President Trump is the first president in at least three decades to deny governors requests for funding thats meant to protect people and property"
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