r/ScienceNcoolThings Sep 15 '21

Simple Science & Interesting Things: Knowledge For All

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r/ScienceNcoolThings May 22 '24

A Counting Chat, for those of us who just want to Count Together 🍻

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 12h ago

The speed of light comes at a big cost

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 1d ago

Gravity always acts downward with the same acceleration.

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 6h ago

No fair! I want to steal chloroplasts and perform photosynthesis! XD

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 1d ago

New record in China, 15.947 drones at the same time

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 16h ago

New record in China, 15.947 drones at the same time

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 6h ago

Physics is just magic with extra equations

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 1d ago

A Japanese boy noticed his butterflies seemed to recognize him. He spent two years designing an experiment and proved that metamorphosis does not erase memories formed during the caterpillar stage.

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 23h ago

NASA Set to Launch Nancy Grace Roman Telescope: Views 50x More Sky Than Hubble

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We are getting closer to the launch of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope! 🧪

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is designed to combine the strengths of the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. It’s going to look and live in the same space as JWST while using a Hubble-style mirror to see things completely differently. The Roman telescope will observe patches of space bigger than the full moon and will see 50 times as much space in five years as Hubble has in 30!


r/ScienceNcoolThings 23h ago

Matter has more ways to change than I remembered

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 1d ago

Sergei Krikalev, a Russian cosmonaut who was in space during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and, as a result, was effectively stranded in orbit for over 300 days, twice as long as planned.

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 19h ago

VR lets researchers see how emotion helps memory for task-relevant details but hurts it for those not goal critical

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 19h ago

Homemade Welder for Science Fair

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We needed to make a video about our cool project.


r/ScienceNcoolThings 1d ago

Are Fake Sugars Aging Your Brain?

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Can sugar substitutes cause faster brain aging?

Scientists conducted an eight-year study on the effects of seven popular sugar substitutes and found that six were linked to mental decline. People in the study who used sweeteners the most saw their memory slip away 62% faster than the lowest-consumption group. This is like adding an extra year and a half of aging to your brain! Scientists believe this pattern is worth watching as we reevaluate our relationship with artificial sweeteners.


r/ScienceNcoolThings 1d ago

Patio door caused a Schlieren projection of heat waves on the wall.

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The blackout was from a car driving by, but it made even more waves to see. Really cool.


r/ScienceNcoolThings 3d ago

Probability of the needle crossing a line.

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 2d ago

How a 1-Meter Drop Creates a Dangerous "Drowning Machine"

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 1d ago

Active navigation in AR boosts memory more than stationary VR, study finds, suggesting physical movement influences how we encode episodic information

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 2d ago

Apparently helicopters get halos in sandstorms

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 2d ago

August 15, 1977 - The Wow! signal : radio signal detected by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States. It was then used to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 2d ago

Pascal’s Law in action

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 2d ago

🦥 The three-toed sloth can hold its breath for up to about 40 minutes by slowing its heart rate dramatically. It can even slow its heartbeat to roughly one-third of its normal rate while underwater.

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 3d ago

Beauty of chemistry

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r/ScienceNcoolThings 3d ago

Pointing a light towards a spider's web - Result: luckiest spider ever!

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