# ![@sciam Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::14647570.png) @sciam Scientific American

Scientific American posts on X about science, in the, the world, the most the most. They currently have [---------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

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[science](/topic/science) 13.98%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 6.02%, [the world](/topic/the-world) 5.78%, [the most](/topic/the-most) 5.06%, [awe](/topic/awe) 4.58%, [brain](/topic/brain) 2.89%, [human](/topic/human) 2.89%, [ai](/topic/ai) 2.89%, [data](/topic/data) 2.89%, [how to](/topic/how-to) 2.65%

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/psychiatrists-plan-to-overhaul-the-mental-health-bible-and-change-how-we/)  2026-01-29T04:20Z 4.3M followers, 14.5K engagements


"Why Has a Group of Orcas Suddenly Started Attacking Boats Scientific American Killer whales in a group near Spain and Portugal may be teaching one another to mess with small boats. They sank their third vessel earlier this month"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-has-a-group-of-orcas-suddenly-started-attacking-boats/)  2023-07-21T17:11Z 4.3M followers, 2.6M engagements


"The Advantages of Dyslexia Scientific American With reading difficulties can come other cognitive strengths"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-advantages-of-dyslexia/)  2023-03-21T12:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.7M engagements


"What Science Learned from My Orgasm Brain imaging is providing clues about why some women cant reach climaxand how to help them"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-science-learned-from-my-orgasm/)  2024-02-20T12:47Z 4.3M followers, 158.7K engagements


"Cats Are Perfect. An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why Scientific American Cats have attained evolutionary perfection"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats-are-perfect-an-evolutionary-biologist-explains-why1/)  2025-12-15T11:30Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements


"The quirky geology behind Olympic curling stones Scientific American The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland and one quarry in Wales. What makes them so special"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-quirky-geology-behind-olympic-curling-stones/)  2026-02-12T09:02Z 4.3M followers, [----] 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/am-i-introverted-or-socially-anxious/)  2020-10-25T16:15Z 4.3M followers, 1.1M engagements


"What to Believe in Antarcticas Great Ice Debate Although not all the studies agree most climate scientists argue that yes Antarctica is losing mass in a warming world"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-to-believe-in-antarctica-rsquo-s-great-ice-debate/)  2019-05-31T18:56Z 4.3M followers, 8.9M engagements


"Attraction with Static Electricity An electrically charged challenge from Science Buddies"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bring-science-home-static-electricity-attraction/)  2017-11-24T12:47Z 4.3M followers, 3.5M engagements


"3 Human Chimeras That Already Exist Some peoplesuch as fetuses that absorb a dead twinhave two sets of DNA"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-human-chimeras-that-already-exist/)  2020-02-09T22:00Z 4.3M followers, 5.7M engagements


"Can Mountain Dew Really Dissolve a Mouse Carcass Scientific American Evidence suggests citrus sodas can eat away teeth and bones in months an issue arising after a claim of a dead mouse in a soda"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-mountain-dew-really-dissolve/)  2025-03-31T17:15Z 4.3M followers, 1.8M engagements


"How Climate Change and Plate Tectonics Shaped Human Evolution Scientific American A new study links the emergence of new hominin species expanding brain capacity and early human migration with the appearance of deep freshwater lakes"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-climate-change-and-plate-tectonics-shaped-human-evolution/)  2022-05-26T16:16Z 4.3M followers, 903.4K engagements


"AI Reveals Hotspots of Climate Denial Echo chambers of climate denial on social media are strongest in the U.S. Midwest and South and in states that depend heavily on fossil fuels"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-reveals-hotspots-of-climate-denial/)  2024-02-20T11:45Z 4.3M followers, 953.8K engagements


"Proposed EPA Rule That Companies Must Report Toxic 'Forever' Chemicals Lacks Limits and Cleanup Requirement Scientific American A federal rule would require companies to disclose whether their products contain chemicals known as PFASs"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/proposed-epa-rule-that-companies-report-toxic-forever-chemicals-lacks-limits-and-cleanup-requirement/)  2023-09-01T17:16Z 4.3M followers, 339.5K engagements


"Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste By burning away all the pesky carbon and other impurities coal power plants produce heaps of radiation"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/)  2014-04-19T23:20Z 4.3M followers, 221.2K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/and-the-oscar-goes-a-robo/)  2024-02-20T14:31Z 4.3M followers, 1.8M 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-life-expectancy-hits-all-time-high/)  2026-02-06T17:42Z 4.3M followers, [----] 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/)  2014-10-18T17:04Z 4.3M followers, 465.9K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-launch-first-proof-a-first-of-its-kind-math-exam-for-ai/)  2026-02-11T01:27Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements


"Could certain frequencies of electromagnetic waves or radiation interfere with brain function Scientific American"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-certain-frequencies/)  2019-10-06T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 522.3K engagements


"A Psychedelic May Soon Go to the FDA for Approval to Treat Trauma MDMA known as Ecstasy in the clubs gained high marks in a clinical trial for PTSD"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-psychedelic-may-soon-go-to-the-fda-for-approval-to-treat-trauma/)  2022-11-02T12:45Z 4.3M followers, 120.1K engagements


"Mary Leakey: Unearthing History Scientific American Editors"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mary-leakey-unearthing-hi/)  2026-02-10T19:45Z 4.3M followers, 209.2K engagements


"The First Molecule in the Universe Scientists have identified mystery molecules in space and the compound thought to have started chemistry in the cosmos"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-first-molecule-in-the-universe/)  2023-03-06T02:15Z 4.3M followers, 17.4M engagements


"Small Animals Live in a Slow-Motion World Scientific American Time seems to pass more slowly for lighter animals with faster metabolisms"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/small-animals-live-in-a-slow-motion-world/)  2018-05-07T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 4.9M engagements


"Stone Age Animal Urine Could Solve a Mystery about Technological Development Scientific American Millennia of a rodentlike animals urine preserve crucial data that could help scientists understand early humans leap forward"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stone-age-animal-urine-could-solve-a-mystery-about-technological-development/)  2024-06-07T14:00Z 4.3M followers, 2.2M 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lost-giants-did-mammoths/)  2019-02-28T00:08Z 4.3M followers, 655.1K engagements


"Consequences of DDT Exposure Could Last Generations Scientific American Scientists found health effects in grandchildren of women exposed to the pesticide"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/consequences-of-ddt-exposure-could-last-generations/)  2017-02-04T12:30Z 4.3M followers, 6.5M engagements


"Bone Resilience Depends on Angle of Attack 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bone-resilience-depends-o/)  2016-10-20T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 2.3M engagements


"Probability and the Birthday Paradox Scientific American A mysterious math problem from Science Buddies"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bring-science-home-probability-birthday-paradox/)  2020-10-05T07:29Z 4.3M followers, 3.2M 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worlds-smallest-snowman-scientist-claims-new-record/)  2024-09-16T14:00Z 4.3M followers, 886.3K engagements


"JWST's First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology Scientific American The James Webb Space Telescopes first images of the distant universe shocked astronomers. Is the discovery of unimaginably distant galaxies a mirageor a revolution"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwsts-first-glimpses-of-early-galaxies-could-break-cosmology/)  2023-02-05T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 563.6K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/multiverse-controversy-inflation-gravitational-waves/)  2026-02-13T22:02Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements


"Is Public Transit Really Safer than Driving Scientific American The rates of fatal crashes and crime are both lower on public transportation than on roadways"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-public-transit-really-safer-than-driving/)  2025-09-19T19:12Z 4.3M followers, 45.5K engagements


"Novel Analysis Confirms Climate Hockey Stick Graph A new analysis creates a better look at rising temperatures"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/still-hotter-than-ever/)  2022-01-21T01:00Z 4.3M followers, 218.3K engagements


"Explore the POP in popcorn A bursting science project"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/explore-the-pop-in-popcorn/)  2022-04-11T10:00Z 4.3M followers, 546.4K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/inside-the-russian-dialect-coaching-behind-heated-rivalry/)  2026-02-11T14:54Z 4.3M followers, 298.5K engagements


"Star Treks Warp Drive Leads to New Physics Researchers are taking a closer look at this science-fiction stapleand bringing the idea a little closer to reality"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/star-treks-warp-drive-leads-to-new-physics/)  2017-06-09T17:46Z 4.3M followers, 3.5M engagements


"Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking That IQ Tests Miss Why smart people sometimes do dumb things"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rational-and-irrational-thought-the-thinking-that-iq-tests-miss/)  2017-07-21T02:10Z 4.3M followers, 138K engagements


"Toothless Skull Raises Questions about Compassion among Human Ancestors Scientific American"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/toothless-skull-raises-qu/)  2021-06-26T21:49Z 4.3M followers, 5.3M engagements


"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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt/)  2021-04-09T15:07Z 4.3M followers, 1.3M engagements


"Semisolid Science: Growing Yogurt A live culture challenge from Science Buddies"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bring-science-home-yogurt-bacteria/)  2018-11-22T22:00Z 4.3M followers, 202.3K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-universe-made-of-math-excerpt/)  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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/statistician-david-j-hand-shows-how-the-seemingly-improbable-becomes-a-sure-thing/)  2014-09-10T14:49Z 4.3M followers, 33.3M 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-billion-to-zero-what-happened-to-the-passenger-pigeon/)  2017-06-26T21:04Z 4.3M followers, 3.4M 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lenin-s-body-improves-with-age1/)  2015-04-26T19:28Z 4.3M followers, 2.4M 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/slow-motion-ocean-atlantics-circulation-is-weakest-in-1-600-years/)  2019-02-28T00:08Z 4.3M followers, 655.1K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-we-put-salt-on-icy/)  2021-01-25T21:18Z 4.3M followers, 155.1K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/masks-work-distorting-science-to-dispute-the-evidence-doesnt/)  2023-05-07T12:55Z 4.3M followers, 852.9K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/listen-to-the-astonishing-chirp-of-two-black-holes-merging1/)  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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sunlight-dimming-climate-schemes-need-worldwide-oversight/)  2026-02-09T21:55Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements


"Can Carbon Dioxide Replace Steam to Generate Power Scientific American The U.S. Department of Energy hopes to create a more efficient turbine that uses CO2 to make electricity"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-carbon-dioxide-replace-steam-to-generate-power/)  2025-06-17T12:33Z 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-s-just-lost-26-years-worth-of-progress-on-life-expectancy/)  2022-10-28T02:22Z 4.3M followers, 15.5K engagements


"How Ralph Steinman Raced to Develop a Cancer Vaccine--And Save His Life Scientific American When Ralph M. Steinman developed pancreatic cancer he put his own theories about cancer and the immune system to the test. They kept him alive longer than expectedbut three days short of learning he had won the Nobel Prize"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-patient-scientist/)  2026-01-29T07:09Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements


"How Long Can a Person Survive without Food 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-can-a-person-survive-without-food/)  2020-05-30T14:30Z 4.3M followers, 6.5M engagements


"Flying Chariots and Exotic Birds: How 17th-Century Dreamers Planned to Reach the Moon Scientific American People have been dreaming about space travel for hundreds of years long before the arrival of the spectacular technologies behind space exploration today"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flying-chariots-and-exotic-birds-how-17th-century-dreamers-planned-to-reach-the-moon/)  2026-02-08T21:44Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements


"The Human Brain Operates at a Stunningly Slow Pace Scientific American The brain is sometimes called the most complex machine in the known universe. But the thoughts that it outputs putter along at a trifling [--] bits per second the pace of a conversation"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-human-brain-operates-at-a-stunningly-slow-pace/)  2025-01-20T16:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.1M engagements


"Animals Can See Colors We Can't--And New Tech Offers Us a Glimpse Scientific American A colorful new video technique lets scientists see the world like birds and bees"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/animals-can-see-colors-we-cant-and-new-tech-offers-us-a-glimpse/)  2026-02-09T09:16Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements


"The Paris-Berlin Motor Carriage Race Scientific American"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-paris-berlin-motor-carriage-rac/)  2025-06-10T16:54Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements


"A Supersmeller Can Detect the Scent of Parkinson's Leading to an Experimental Test for the Illness Scientific American This Scottish womans hypersensitive nose picked up a chemical signature of Parkinsons disease that has been used to develop a skin-swab diagnostic"  
[X Link](https://scientificamerican.com/article/a-supersmeller-can-detect-the-scent-of-parkinsons-leading-to-an-experimental-test-for-the-illness)  2026-02-08T04:51Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements


"Thanksgiving guilt trip: How warlike were Native Americans before Europeans showed up Scientific American"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/cross-check/thanksgiving-guilt-trip-how-warlike-were-native-americans-before-europeans-showed-up/)  2025-12-31T18:06Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements


"Early Puberty: Causes and Effects Scientific American Increases in obesity appear to be the major culprit but family stress and exposure to chemicals may also play a role"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/early-puberty-causes-and-effects/)  2016-08-20T17:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.4M engagements


"Moltbot is an open-source AI agent that runs your computer Scientific American This open-source agent installs software makes calls and runs your digital liferedefining what digital assistants are supposed to do"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/moltbot-is-an-open-source-ai-agent-that-runs-your-computer/)  2026-01-31T23:40Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements


"Yes AI Models Can Get Worse over Time Scientific American More training and more data can have unintended consequences for machine-learning models such as GPT-4"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/yes-ai-models-can-get-worse-over-time/)  2025-09-23T18:55Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements


"Records Found in Dusty Basement Undermine Decades of Dietary Advice Scientific American Raw data from a 40-year-old study raises new questions about fats"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/records-found-in-dusty-basement-undermine-decades-of-dietary-advice/)  2023-09-18T16:37Z 4.3M followers, 384.7K engagements


"Physicists trace particles back to the quantum vacuum Scientific American Scientists have found strange quarks that originated as virtual particles that sprang from nothing"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-trace-particles-back-to-the-quantum-vacuum/)  2026-02-06T05:14Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements


"Ski Wax Chemicals Can Build Up in Blood Scientific American The extra speed provided by ski wax comes at a cost--perfluorochemicals"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ski-wax-chemicals-buildup-blood/)  2026-02-06T15:14Z 4.3M followers, [--] 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-a-clove-of-garlic-can-stop-a-vaginal-yeast-infection/)  2022-02-04T15:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.4M engagements


"Epstein files show a complicated relationship with science and journalism Scientific American Jeffrey Epstein aggressively sought access to publishers mentions of Scientific American and other media in Department of Justice files show"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/epstein-files-show-a-complicated-relationship-with-science-and-journalism/)  2026-02-05T20:55Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements


"Yellowstones earthquakes spark microbial boom deep underground Scientific American Earthquake swarms can supercharge microbial growth"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/yellowstones-earthquakes-spark-microbial-boom-deep-underground/)  2026-02-10T07:40Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements


"The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives Scientific American By enacting simple laws that make guns safer and harder to get we can prevent killings like the ones in Uvalde and Buffalo"  
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[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/grand-design-spiral-bx442/)  2017-01-31T20:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.1M engagements


"The AI data center boom could cause a Nintendo Switch [--] memory shortage Scientific American Data centers are eating up computing resources and pushing chipmakers toward AI-grade memory tightening supply for Nintendo and other hardware makers"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ai-data-center-boom-could-cause-a-nintendo-switch-2-memory-shortage/)  2026-02-06T05:08Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements


"5 New Types of Gravitational-Wave Detectors Could Reshape Astrophysics Scientific American With the confirmation of gravitational waves less than a decade old scientists are barreling ahead with new detectors to pick up ever more elusive ripples in spacetime"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/5-new-types-of-gravitational-wave-detectors-could-reshape-astrophysics/)  2025-07-16T10:00Z 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-powers-ai-boom-with-undersea-data-centers/)  2025-07-16T16:13Z 4.3M followers, 78.6K engagements


"The Schrdinger equation just turned [---] and quantum physicists are still grappling with its mysteries Scientific American A century ago Erwin Schrdinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking what happens when the observer is part of that world"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-schroedinger-equation-just-turned-100-and-quantum-physicists-are-still/)  2026-01-28T22:24Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements


"Relative to the solar system where is the Oort cloud And what is its size and shape 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-where-is-the-oort-cloud/)  2018-03-13T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 456.7K engagements


"Anger Can Help You Meet Your Goals Scientific American This emotion can push people to overcome obstacles though results are best when people keep their long-term aims in mind"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anger-can-help-you-meet-your-goals)  2026-01-15T08:15Z 4.3M followers, 56.5K engagements


"Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than [------] U.S. Lives during COVID The numbers of lives lost and dollars spent would have been significantly lower if coverage had been extended to everyone a new study says"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/universal-health-care-could-have-saved-more-than-330-000-u-s-lives-during-covid/)  2022-06-13T23:00Z 4.3M followers, 58.6K engagements


"Scientists Harness Human Power for Electricity From footfalls to button pushes scientists seek to generate current to power small devices"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-harness-human-power-electricity/)  2014-09-10T20:35Z 4.3M followers, 2.7M engagements


"A Simpler Origin for Life Scientific American The sudden appearance of a large self-copying molecule such as RNA was exceedingly improbable. Energy-driven networks of small molecules afford better odds as the initiators of life"  
[X Link](https://scientificamerican.com/article/a-simpler-origin-for-life/)  2023-03-06T02:15Z 4.3M followers, 176.4K engagements


"An Ice-Free Arctic Could Be Only a Decade Away A new study finds that Arctic sea ice could disappear in the summers as early as the 2030s a decade earlier than previously thought"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-ice-free-arctic-could-be-only-a-decade-away/)  2023-12-12T06:46Z 4.3M followers, 79.5K engagements


"The winter solstice is the culmination of a period every year when each cell in our body literally craves more light https://trib.al/GTze2jv https://trib.al/GTze2jv"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sciam/status/1870130496912408747)  2024-12-20T15:33Z 4.3M followers, 39.1K engagements


"The Inner Life of Quarks What if the smallest bits of matter actually harbor an undiscovered world of particles"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-inner-life-of-quarks-extreme-physics-special/)  2020-09-23T15:04Z 4.3M followers, 183.9K engagements


"Can You Be Healthy at Any Size Its not that your weight doesnt matter. Its just that its not the only thing that matters"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-you-be-healthy-at-any-size/)  2022-05-29T19:49Z 4.3M followers, 1.4M 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-generated-data-can-poison-future-ai-models/)  2024-03-15T17:36Z 4.3M followers, 124.9K engagements


"Build a Catapult An energetic science project from Science Buddies"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/build-a-catapult/)  2019-04-15T17:11Z 4.3M followers, 131.4K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/)  2024-02-28T18:14Z 4.3M followers, 805K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/epa-set-to-scrap-the-endangerment-finding-that-climate-change-harms-human/)  2026-02-13T04:26Z 4.3M followers, [--] 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/these-two-habits-are-linked-to-more-than-a-third-of-all-cancer-cases/)  2026-02-10T16:31Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements


"RFK Jr. just claimed the keto diet can cure schizophrenia. Heres what the science says Scientific American Preliminary studies suggest that a high-fat low-carbohydrate diet could reduce schizophrenia symptoms in some people but claiming its a cure is misleading experts say"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-jr-keto-diet-can-cure-schizophrenia-heres-what-the-science-says/)  2026-02-07T20:02Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements


"Infrasound Tech Silences Wildfires before They Spread Scientific American A new sound-based system could squelch small fires before they grow into home-destroying blazes"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/infrasound-tech-silences-wildfires-before-they-spread/)  2025-12-08T15:55Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements


"Why did Jeffrey Epstein cultivate famous scientists Scientific American The Epstein files revive questions of whether the disgraced financier sought to merely cultivate famous scientists or to shape science itself"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-did-jeffrey-epstein-cultivate-famous-scientists/)  2026-01-20T17:00Z 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/king-tut-dna/)  2026-02-13T18:12Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements


"Wind and Solar Energy Are Cheaper Than Electricity from Fossil-Fuel Plants Scientific American Even without subsidies renewable energy is staying competitive with power from gas and coal"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind-and-solar-energy-are-cheaper-than-electricity-from-fossil-fuel-plants/)  2025-06-17T19:41Z 4.3M followers, 49.3K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-nearly-80-percent-of-autoimmune-sufferers-are-female/)  2023-03-04T15:00Z 4.3M followers, 92.8K engagements


"South Carolina measles outbreak is triggering dangerous brain swelling in some children Scientific American The South Carolina measles outbreak has triggered rare but serious brain swelling in some children"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/south-carolina-measles-outbreak-triggering-encephalitis-brain-swelling/)  2026-02-06T10:28Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements


"Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise Scientific American Why the brain believes something is real when it is not"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/patternicity-finding-meaningful-patterns/)  2024-04-21T21:19Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements


"Scans Show How Hypnosis Affects Brain Activity Scientific American"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scans-show-how-hypnosis-a/)  2016-11-10T22:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.8M 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-humans-were-making-fire-350-000-years-earlier-than-scientists/)  2025-12-11T21:35Z 4.3M followers, 27.7K engagements


"States and medical societies are stepping up to fill the CDCs data void Scientific American Dozens of routinely updated CDC databases have gone quiet. Heres what states and medical societies are doing to preserve U.S. public health"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/states-and-medical-societies-are-stepping-up-to-fill-the-cdcs-data-void/)  2026-02-03T22:48Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements


"Killer Whales and Dolphins May Team Up to Hunt Salmon Scientific American Tantalizing observations suggest marine mammals may be teaming up to hunt"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/killer-whales-and-dolphins-may-team-up-to-hunt-salmon/)  2025-12-11T17:53Z 4.3M followers, 63.4K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-causes-a-meteor-show/)  2017-08-10T21:02Z 4.3M followers, 616.6K engagements


"How Does the Flu Actually Kill People Scientific American Every year the common virus is lethal to many. What happens inside the body that results in death"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-does-the-flu-actually-kill-people/)  2026-02-12T04:23Z 4.3M followers, [--] engagements


"The Math Mystery That Connects Sudoku Flight Schedules and Protein Folding Thousands of notoriously difficult problems in computer science are actually the same problem in disguise"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-math-mystery-that-connects-sudoku-flight-schedules-and-protein-folding/)  2025-01-07T07:44Z 4.3M followers, [---] engagements


"Nevermore or Tomorrow Ravens Can Plan Ahead Like great apes the canny corvids seem capable of delaying gratification"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nevermore-or-tomorrow-ravens-can-plan-ahead/)  2017-11-06T00:19Z 4.3M followers, 792K engagements


"Malleability and Ductility of Metals Scientific American"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/malleability-and-ductility-of-metal/)  2018-09-27T19:01Z 4.3M followers, 275.1K engagements


"Untangling the Formation of DNA Loops New discoveries on ancient loops in DNA offer clues into gene regulation"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/untangling-the-formation-of-dna-loops/)  2021-11-08T16:00Z 4.3M followers, 87.2K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/planet-of-the-apes-2006-06/)  2018-05-16T16:36Z 4.3M followers, 6.3M engagements


"How to Age Gracefully Ask a Bowhead Whale Scientific American To learn the secret behind aging gracefully you may want to check out the bowhead whale the majestic denizen of the Arctic waters that boasts a lifespan topping [---] years"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-age-gracefully-ask-a-bowhead-whale/)  2020-03-27T17:00Z 4.3M followers, 226.9K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nerve-agents-what-are-they-and-how-do-they-work/)  2022-03-31T21:00Z 4.3M followers, 574.9K engagements


"Timeline of Photosynthesis on Earth Scientific American"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timeline-of-photosynthesis-on-earth/)  2020-12-20T15:09Z 4.3M followers, 5.9M 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/how-h5n1-went-from-an-illness-in-wild-birds-to-a-global-pandemic-threat/)  2025-06-23T14:15Z 4.3M followers, [----] engagements


"Environmental Effects of Exxon Valdez Spill Still Being Felt Scientific American"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/environmental-effects-of/)  2019-03-23T22:03Z 4.3M followers, 112.8K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dishonesty-the-best-polic/)  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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-bunnys-super-bowl-halftime-show-highlighted-puerto-ricos-power-grid/)  2026-02-09T19:20Z 4.3M followers, 11K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hypnosis-memory-brain/)  2016-11-10T22:00Z 4.3M followers, 1.8M engagements


"Surgeons Can Permanently Change Eye Color with Experimental Keratopigmentation Procedure Scientific American A new surgical procedure to permanently change eye color is gaining traction in the U.S. But many ophthalmologists fear long-term unknowns"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/surgeons-can-permanently-change-eye-color-with-experimental)  2026-02-12T20:57Z 4.3M followers, [--] 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/)  2015-10-27T12:30Z 4.3M followers, 2.9M 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-komodo-d/)  2018-08-25T20:28Z 4.3M followers, 420.5K engagements


"Human Monogamy Has Deep Roots Scientific American Pairing up might have been the best move our ancestors ever made"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-monogamy-has-deep-roots/)  2024-11-28T19:33Z 4.3M followers, 12.6K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-did-scientists-determ/)  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"  
[X Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-quietly-halts-money-to-states-for-preventing-disaster-damage/)  2025-07-07T19:33Z 4.3M followers, [---] 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/warm-climates-support-longer-limbs-08-12-08/)  2024-01-16T21:10Z 4.3M followers, 145.3K 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-relativistic-heavy-ion-colliders-end-marks-a-new-beginning-for-u-s/)  2026-02-10T20:17Z 4.3M followers, [--] 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](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-havent-we-cured-the-common-cold-yet/)  2018-09-04T14:40Z 4.3M followers, 488.2K engagements

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