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r/ScienceFacts

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r/ScienceFacts is a subreddit with 65k members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is large in size.

All fields of science are fascinating and there is so much to learn. Have a great fact? Become an approved submitter and share it here! Science Facts are for new breakthroughs, well-worn facts, and discussion about your favorite science topics.

Popular Themes in r/ScienceFacts

News

: "Scientists used CRISPR to store a GIF inside the DNA of a living E. coli cell"

65 posts

Pain & Anger

: "There is a woman with a ‘mutant’ gene who feels no pain and heals without scarring. She reported numerous injuries without pain, often smelling her burning flesh before noticing any injury."

1 post

Advice Requests

: "All of NASA's research is free for the public to read! NASA is using PubMed Central to permanently preserve and provide easy public access to the peer-reviewed papers resulting from NASA-funded research."

1 post

Popular Topics in r/ScienceFacts

Science

: "Science Summary for last month"

22 posts

Insects

: "Females of some types of Insects, reptiles, and birds can store sperm from multiple males within specialized sperm storage areas of their reproductive tracts. Different animals can store sperm for days or years. Stored sperm can fertilize multiple eggs over time."

14 posts

Animals

: "Females of some types of insects, reptiles, and birds can store sperm from multiple males within specialized sperm storage areas of their reproductive tracts. Different Animals can store sperm for days or years. Stored sperm can fertilize multiple eggs over time."

13 posts

Astronomy

: "Astronomers have published a paper in the journal Nature Astronomy detailing their observations of phosphine at Venus which may have a biological origin. Additionally, they have shared investigations they've made to try to show this molecule could have a natural, non-biological origin."

10 posts

Birds

: "When the weather is hot, zebra finches in Australia sing to their eggs - and these "incubation calls" slow the chicks growth and allow them to cope better in heat."

9 posts

Bats

: "Pallid Bats were long considered to be gleaning insectivores which specialized in eating venomous arthropods like scorpions and centipedes. Newer research has found that they are also pollinators. Hundreds of plant species are pollinated by Bats."

8 posts

Plants

: "In 1941 the world’s largest seed bank (created by botanist Nikolai Vavilov) was housed in Leningrad. As the Germans surrounded the city forcing mass starvation, Vavilov’s scientists refused to eat from the collection, slowly dying of hunger as they maintained 16 rooms of edible Plants."

7 posts

Mammals

: "Bats are found on every continent except Antarctica. The golden-crowned flying fox is a fruit-eating megabat. It has a wingspan up to 5ft 6in long and weigh up to 2.6 pounds. Finally, the Mexican free-tailed bat can reach speeds up to 100 mph, making it by far the fastest mammal on earth."

7 posts

Bees

: "HoneyBees can be trained to locate landmines due to their acute sense of smell. Croatian scientists mixed a sugar solution with a small amount of TNT — and after about five minutes of hunting for this doped sugar solution, the honeyBees are trained to flock to the smell of TNT."

6 posts

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Space

: "The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the Spacecraft’s 70-foot sunshield, a key milestone in preparing it for science operations."

6 posts