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# ![@ScienceNews Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::19402238.png) @ScienceNews Science News

Science News posts on X about prize, regulatory, icymi, saja the most. They currently have XXXXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::19402238/interactions)
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### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::19402238/posts_active)
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### Followers: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::19402238/followers)
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### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::19402238/influencer_rank)
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### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::19402238/influence)
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**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  XXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXX%

**Social topic influence**
[prize](/topic/prize) 0.6%, [regulatory](/topic/regulatory) 0.4%, [icymi](/topic/icymi) 0.2%, [saja](/topic/saja) 0.2%, [$7731t](/topic/$7731t) 0.2%, [bat](/topic/bat) 0.2%, [hub](/topic/hub) 0.2%, [turkey](/topic/turkey) 0.2%, [bulgaria](/topic/bulgaria) 0.2%, [shield](/topic/shield) XXX%

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### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::19402238/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Studies suggest ultraprocessed foods can lead to cravings loss of control withdrawal and tolerance all hallmarks of a substance use disorder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1976011015067222179) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-08T19:45Z 5.3M followers, 12.4K engagements


"Weve passed a climate tipping point: Coral reef die-off is irreversible under current warming. That threatens the livelihoods of nearly a billion people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1977756262545690874) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-13T15:20Z 5.3M followers, 14.9K engagements


"The most effective avenues for change may be stronger regulations that mandate healthier food tax unhealthy food and require better labeling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1977015128772989391) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-11T14:15Z 5.3M followers, 14.7K engagements


"Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell discovered that the FOXP3 gene helps regulatory T cells develop. They further found that a mutation in that gene causes an autoimmune disorder called IPEX. The duo is sharing the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Shimon Sakaguchi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1975956908591743435) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-08T16:10Z 5.3M followers, 33.7K engagements


"Immune cells called regulatory T cells or T-regs are important for keeping the immune system from attacking the body. Shimon Sakaguchi Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell are sharing the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work on these important cells"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1975672525804761404) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-07T21:20Z 5.3M followers, 22.2K engagements


"Toys can exert an irresistible pull on some dogs in ways that may parallel human behavioral addictions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1977083066913821095) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-11T18:45Z 5.3M followers, 15.8K engagements


"Physicists John Clarke Michel Devoret and John Martinis have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics for their work demonstrating quantum tunneling and energy quantization in a macroscopic electric circuit. #NobelPrize"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1975546914348409147) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-07T13:01Z 5.3M followers, 30.4K engagements


"In case you missed it here's a roundup of who won what scientific Nobel Prizes this year 🧵 #ICYMI #NobelPrize"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1976278547657523326) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-09T13:28Z 5.3M followers, 12.6K engagements


"This bite-resistant wetsuit armors ocean users against sharks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1978559051127484742) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-15T20:30Z 5.3M followers, 19.5K engagements


"The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine went to Mary E. Brunkow Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work in understanding how cells called regulatory T cells keep the immune system from attacking the body. #nobelprize2025"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1975188024817532970) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-06T13:14Z 5.3M followers, 42.5K engagements


"Migrating en masse in the dark of night protects songbirds from most predators but not bats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1977875793855328757) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-13T23:15Z 5.3M followers, 14.9K engagements


"Being a punk rocker means being perpetually misunderstood. So perhaps its vindication that that some seafloor fossils once considered just piles of decomposing gunk may now be reclassified as animals and fittingly named after punk rocker John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1973132043836916111) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-09-30T21:05Z 5.3M followers, 17K engagements


"Smugglers: Fear the muon. The subatomic particles could be used to scan cargo containers for illicit materials"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1977767587506221080) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-13T16:05Z 5.3M followers, 14.3K engagements


"In The Water Remembers Yurok tribal member activist and attorney Amy Bowers Cordalis shares an intimate look into her familys and nations decades-long fight to restore the health of the Klamath and preserve their way of life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1978144494202556725) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-14T17:02Z 5.3M followers, 12.7K engagements


"We and all living things have something in common with ET and the Saja Boys: A bit of a glow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1979316541129691510) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-17T22:40Z 5.3M followers, 12.3K engagements


"Flavor isnt just on your tongueits in your brain. Brain scans show the insula fuses taste and smell into the perception of flavor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1978207978806181934) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-14T21:15Z 5.3M followers, 15.8K engagements


"In just minutes a special quantum processor called a quantum annealing processor solved a complex real-world problem that a classical supercomputer would take millions of years to complete researchers claim"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1899864687128260918) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-03-12T16:46Z 5.3M followers, 15.1K engagements


"A picture painted by muons could be worth a thousand words. But first youve got to get the muons where theyre needed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1977148497892642868) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-11T23:05Z 5.3M followers, 17.2K engagements


"A rogue planet which doesnt orbit a star was caught during a growth spurt sucking up surrounding gas and dust at a rate of X billion metric tons per second"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1977475660865040611) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-12T20:45Z 5.3M followers, 18.5K engagements


"Work on regulatory T cells or T-regs took home the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. These important immune cells tell the immune system to stand down after a fight and keep the immune system from attacking the body"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1975331541648601182) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-06T22:45Z 5.3M followers, 14K engagements


"A staged snapshot of a rice weevil spreading its wings on a grain of rice won first place in the 2025 Nikon Small World photomicrography competition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1979219671493587311) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-17T16:15Z 5.3M followers, 11.9K engagements


"Birds of a feather do their best to avoid being hunted by Europes largest bat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1977408962497536309) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-12T16:20Z 5.3M followers, 17.6K engagements


"Richard Robson Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi developed metal-organic frameworks structures that can collect water from air capture CO and more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1976989961132835098) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-11T12:35Z 5.3M followers, 14.3K engagements


"Squiggly markings like a punk rock hairdo led researchers to identify the remains as spongelike animals that may have lived around XXX million years ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1972784749480431670) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-09-29T22:05Z 5.3M followers, 14.4K engagements


"Mango vs. peach: same sour taste different aroma. New research shows a brain region that makes smell and taste inseparable turning them into flavor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1977167379332210803) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-12T00:20Z 5.3M followers, 19.6K engagements


"In The Water Remembers Amy Bowers Cordalis shares her familys account of the Indigenous-led fight to restore the Klamath River in the Pacific Northwest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1979204560305484191) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-17T15:15Z 5.3M followers, 10.7K engagements


"When asked to generate resumes for people ChatGPT ranked female applicants as less qualified than male applicants showing age and gender bias"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1977001277759357084) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-11T13:20Z 5.3M followers, 14.2K engagements


"New research uses brain scans and machine learning to pinpoint flavors fusion hub in the brain: the insula"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1977364927842025730) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-12T13:25Z 5.3M followers, 17.4K engagements


"As Earth continues to warm coral reef die-off is the first domino to fall. But other climate tipping points may not be far behind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1978804417320091781) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-16T12:45Z 5.3M followers, 11.9K engagements


"Ants and their microbial besties have helped make traditional yogurts in Turkey and Bulgaria. Now we know some of the microbes and enzymes responsible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1975705239643709511) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-07T23:30Z 5.3M followers, 13.5K engagements


"These wetsuits come with a built-in shark shield"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1979251110352142540) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-17T18:20Z 5.3M followers, 10.6K engagements


"Questions about the identity of the rat hole culprit began almost immediately after a picture of it went viral in 2024. Now science has an answer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1978457132572795039) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-15T13:45Z 5.3M followers, 13.7K engagements


"Tiny Antarctic krill are powerhouse carbon-sequesterers. In addition to their profuse poop the krill eject compact masses of leftover food to sink to the seafloor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1976682942534414811) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-10T16:15Z 5.3M followers, 10.5K engagements


"Scientists arent sure whether tiny amounts of light created by our cells normal processes serve a purpose or if theyre just glowing motes of cellular junk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1978463421763879044) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-15T14:10Z 5.3M followers, 10.7K engagements


"A rogue planet some XXX light-years away has been going through a growth spurt gobbling up gas and dust at a rate of X billion metric tons per second researchers report"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1976972341021155605) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-11T11:25Z 5.3M followers, 14.2K engagements


"John Clarke Michel Devoret and John Martinis have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics for demonstrating quantum effects in an electric circuit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1976278550606205411) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-09T13:28Z 5.3M followers, 9109 engagements


"The development of spacious molecular constructions earned Susumu Kitagawa Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry. These constructions called metal-organic frameworks can capture and store different chemicals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1976672880470503920) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-10T15:35Z 5.3M followers, 26.1K engagements


"Weight loss drugs are going oral"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1976765987748827562) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-10T21:45Z 5.3M followers, 15.7K engagements


"We may glow with about a millionth the intensity of a firefly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1978903818508140878) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-16T19:20Z 5.3M followers, 15.6K engagements


"A 20-month study of wasting among young children living in the Gaza Strip estimates that in August this year more than 54600 children were acutely malnourished with nearly 13000 of them severely malnourished"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1979173094833926255) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-17T13:10Z 5.3M followers, 9935 engagements


"The longest woolly rhino horn ever found is providing new insights into the lives of these now extinct animals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1977059159410385303) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-11T17:10Z 5.3M followers, 14K engagements


"Through the lens of a microscope even a dirty windowsill can hold some of natures tiniest treasures"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1979548396101726662) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-18T14:01Z 5.3M followers, 6879 engagements


"The cells in every living organism produce minuscule amounts of light though a visible glow-up takes some movie or illustrator magic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1979521639621488856) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-18T12:15Z 5.3M followers, 8156 engagements


"In 2024 XX percent of the worlds warm water corals experienced severe bleaching due to relentless marine heat waves. Now scientists say corals have reached a point of no return"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ScienceNews/status/1978159138287853960) [@ScienceNews](/creator/x/ScienceNews) 2025-10-14T18:01Z 5.3M followers, 15.6K engagements