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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 22h

These "ghost flowers" in Japan "don’t rely on photosynthesis to survive, instead drawing carbon and nutrients from fungi buried in the soil." via @science.org www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/10/g...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 22h

"Science assumes that the laws of nature, like gravity or electromagnetism, are constant and reliable. But if the false vacuum idea is true, then even those laws could change, meaning they’re not as stable as we thought." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/10/t...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 22h

"Since the time of Galileo, Saturn’s rings have remained an unexplained mystery. A new idea may have finally solved the longstanding puzzle." via @bigthink.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/10/a...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 22h

There may be "an optimal number of sensory dimensions—around seven—where memory storage reaches its peak efficiency before declining in higher dimensions." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/10/n...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 22h

"Per new research, more than 99% of heart attacks, strokes, and heart failures are preceded by one or more of four familiar culprits: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, elevated blood sugar, or smoking (past or present)." via @zmescience.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/10/o...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 22h

"There are many rich people who act benevolently... However, research in psychology has found a clear link between wealth and unethical behaviour, including an increased tendency to cheat and steal." via @uk.theconversation.com www.realclearscience.com/articles/202...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 1d

"Paper mills operate with a remarkable degree of transparency, advertising their illicit services online to attract customers, with little concern that they will be shut down." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/09/a...

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 1d

"A new scientific review... suggests that a diet rich in whole, plant-based foods could be a powerful way to prevent or improve erectile dysfunction. What’s good for the heart turns out to be good for the penis, too." via @zmescience.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/09/f...

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 1d

"A team of researchers... has used physics, 3D modeling, and real-world experiments to show how the people of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)... used ropes and just a few laborers to ‘walk’ the massive Moai statues that have made the island famous into place." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/09/h...

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 1d

"Based on several recent dark energy results, a new model finds that the Universe has a lifespan of just 33.3 billion years. Since we are now 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang, this suggests that we have a smidge less than 20 billion years left." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/09/p...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 1d

"Stars are considered "pristine" when the data shows a lack of heavy elements—meaning they are likely very rare, older stars from earlier generations. And now, a group of astronomers... believe they have found the most pristine star on record." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/09/a...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 1d

"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day, according to soon-to-retire Smithsonian astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/09/o...

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

The First-Ever Fossilized Butt Scooting Came From a Rock Hyrax 126,000 Years Ago www.discovermagazine.com/the-first-ev...

The First-Ever Fossilized Butt Scooting Came From a Rock Hyrax 126,000 Years Ago

Learn about a new world’s first: a South African rock hyrax that scooted its way into the fossil record and is highlighting the importance of paleoichnology.

www.discovermagazine.com

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 2d

"Religious thought and spiritual behaviors appear to have emerged explicitly in humans. Spirituality may represent a specific processing capability that constitutes a sudden, major transition in the evolution of the brain’s cognitive abilities." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/08/w...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 2d

"We live in what it’s called the Stelliferous age of the Universe – the era when stars are possible. But if the Universe has an infinite future ahead of it, then this period will be just a short blip in its overall history." by @adamfrank4.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/08/w...

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 2d

The first non-opioid painkiller for post-surgery pain "targets a specific sodium ion channel found almost exclusively on peripheral nociceptors, the pain-sensing neurons throughout your body." via @worksinprogress.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/08/t...

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 2d

"A new analysis of artwork left behind by the enigmatic inhabitants of the abandoned Mesoamerican city Teotihuacan suggests the colorful pictures and shapes may constitute a rudimentary language that ultimately evolved into the language of the Aztecs." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/08/l...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 2d

"Scientists have achieved a “striking” reversal of Alzheimer’s disease in mice by restoring the normal function of the brain's vasculature—the network of blood vessels that supplies it with oxygen and nutrients." via @newsweek.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/08/a...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 3d

"The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed Planet Y. " via @cnn.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/07/f...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 3d

"As philosopher of physics Eugene Chua argues, the models we use to study black holes are shrouded in as yet untested assumptions." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/07/t...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 3d

"According to... forensic psychiatrist Dr Ronald Schouten, 15 per cent of people have ‘almost psychopathy’. This means they are driven by some psychopathic traits, but don’t have a diagnosable personality disorder." via @sciencefocus.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/07/y...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 3d

"The most immediate threat AI poses to humanity is not that its superhuman intelligence will beat us in the game of natural selection, but that it will unleash the power of artificial selection to the advantage of some people over others." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/07/w...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 3d

"The new map of the Universe’s expansion history released by the DESI Collaboration offers hints at a breakdown of the standard model of cosmology." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/07/d...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 3d

The Nobel committee has been unable to reach, Fred Ramsdell, a winner of this year’s prize for medicine who is “living his best life” on an “off the grid” hiking foray. via @theguardian.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/07/n...

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 4d

A new book touts the "scientific evidence" for God: "The authors insist that their book is not a religious one, or one touting the advantages of faith. No, it’s a critique of one of the underpinnings of science, materialism." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/06/n...

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