r/science is a subreddit with 34.4M members. The community frequently discusses health, worst, study, climate, and struggling, and the most common flair used is psychology, health, neuroscience, medicine, and environment.
This community is a place to share and discuss new scientific research. Read about the latest advances in astronomy, biology, medicine, physics, social science, and more. Find and submit new publications and popular science coverage of current research.
Popular Topics in r/science
#1
Health
59 posts
#2
Worst
29 posts
#3
Study
21 posts
#4
Climate
21 posts
#5
Struggling
17 posts
#6
Brain
15 posts
#7
Technology
14 posts
#8
Research
13 posts
#9
Environment
11 posts
#10
Mental
10 posts
Flair Used in r/science
#1
Psychology
: "Adults with ADHD may pay high price to mask traits and fit in. More than 91% of adults with ADHD reported hiding, suppressing or compensating for ADHD traits. They may pretend to pay attention, suppress their urge to fidget, rehearse conversations or over-prepare for meetings to fit social norms."
50 posts
#2
Health
: "Scientists Find Intriguing Link Between Ozempic and Violent Behavior. The same mechanisms that dampen people's cravings for food might also affect our tendency for violent behavior"
47 posts
#3
Neuroscience
: "New compound repairs vital waste-clearing pump at blood-brain barrier, restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer’s proteins. The brain can finally clear out trapped waste. Over 56 days in an Alzheimer’s mouse model, it reduced toxic amyloid-beta by 42% and improved spatial learning by nearly 44%."
28 posts
#4
Medicine
: "Case report: transient return of speech and continence in advanced dementia patient after 5g psilocybin mushrooms"
19 posts
#5
Environment
: "The World's Richest Population are Costing the Earth Trillions. Study finds the top 10% of global consumers is disproportionately responsible for transgressing planetary boundaries, causing damages for which broader society bears the costs."
10 posts
#6
Cancer
: "Colon cancer’s invisibility cloak removed by eliminating a single gene - a fundamental breakthrough. The result was 100% eradication of tumours when paired with immunotherapy treatment in mouse models."
7 posts
#7
Biology
: "Early life adversity such as abuse or neglect leads to long-term poorer physical and mental health due to increased mitochondrial respiratory capacity and energy production reacting to cellular stress, a potential biological explanation for the mental and physical impacts of poverty and trauma"
6 posts
#8
Social Science
: "People have a natural tendency to turn to the left and walk in an anticlockwise direction, a bias observed across countries, ages and sexes, but reason is unclear"
5 posts
#9
Astronomy
: "Spatially distributed complex organic matter detected in an ancient river valley in Jezero crater, Mars"
5 posts
#10
Anthropology
: "Yeast has been growing in the guts of frozen mummy called Oetzi the Iceman for thousands of years, scientists have discovered, telling AFP they used it to make a sourdough bread and publishing their findings in Springer Nature's Microbiome journal."
4 posts
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Last updated: June 26, 2026