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Babies don’t babble to sound cute—they’re taking their first steps on the path to learning language.
A 2022 study shows parrot chicks do the same. #ScienceMagArchives https://t.co/lcLyieDnqI https://t.co/0VCcWYsyWk
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California’s San Francisco Bay delta region is the site of some of the country’s fiercest water wars, rivaling the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin.
The delta, which lies between San Francisco and Sacramento, California, is the last refuge of seven endangered fish species h
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Researchers have replaced much of a mouse cortex with neurons grown from human stem cells.
These chimeric brains were created by genetically engineering rodents to prevent the development of parts of the mouse brain and transplanting 3D blobs of human tissue called organoids in
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Researchers have filed a new lawsuit alleging that the U.S. National Institutes of Health is illegally censoring research grants. https://t.co/YZe3CIlDF3
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The Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite is exposing humans’ effects on rivers—and challenging flood prediction models.
Learn more: https://t.co/7FlgqSTAee https://t.co/ax8hbKyFyM
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To suck the blood of passersby, ticks must first snag a host from their perch on a leaf or flower—a tricky feat for a sesame seed–size arachnid that can’t jump.
But though they can’t leap, it turns out they can fly. Their secret? Static electricity.
A 2023 study suggests the ht
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Every year, tens of thousands of pregnant women die from the blood pressure disorder preeclampsia, while many more have babies who are stillborn or die young after failing to grow properly in the womb.
Now researchers say they have a way to make these conditions easier to https:
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As #AI’s capabilities grow, researchers and publishers are exploring how it can support peer review—and where it still falls short.
Learn more during #PeerReviewWeek: https://t.co/LzUm4dHYJb https://t.co/8tBuwFwvpZ
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Almost 2000 years ago, a volcanic eruption buried the seaside Roman town of Herculaneum in the same rush of hot ash and gas that decimated Pompeii.
The catastrophe didn’t just preserve buildings and bones—it saved clues to the Roman diet.
A 2021 analysis of the bones of 17
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Of the many mysterious behaviors cats exhibit, one of the biggest is also one of the most disgusting: Why do they insist on eating grass, when it only seems to make them throw up?
Scientists have proposed many theories over the years, but this may be the one that https://t.co/Th
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@NewsfromScience This is how you create mad scientists, by doing stupid things that make them mad.
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The National Institutes of Health is preparing to launch a clinical research program to study people who believe they were harmed by vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines.
Some researchers say the new efforts will be a welcome addition to an area that has not received much
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Although your hair is much softer than steel, razors typically only last for a handful of shaves.
Previously, researchers attributed this to the sharp edge gradually wearing down after each use. But a 2020 study reveals a different process at play.
Learn more: https://t.co/B5PE
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a 10-page memo signaling a retreat from its traditional role of giving grants to individual researchers to pursue their best ideas and to train the next generation of scientists.
Instead, the memo makes clear, NSF will devote the
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The revolutionary brain-computer interfaces that help people with severe paralysis speak, type, move prosthetic limbs, and more are typically specialists, using sensors to pick up activity from select brain areas to perform a single function.
Now, scientists have shown just one
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As the planet warms and forests burn, can we replant them with new trees that will thrive in the decades ahead? #LongReads https://t.co/kjJd2f3mGI
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Babies don’t babble to sound cute—they’re taking their first steps on the path to learning language.
A 2022 study shows parrot chicks do the same. #ScienceMagArchives https://t.co/lcLyieDnqI https://t.co/Wx3ecupbof
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California’s San Francisco Bay delta region is the site of some of the country’s fiercest water wars, rivaling the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin.
The delta, which lies between San Francisco and Sacramento, California, is the last refuge of seven endangered fish species h
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Researchers have replaced much of a mouse cortex with neurons grown from human stem cells.
These chimeric brains were created by genetically engineering rodents to prevent the development of parts of the mouse brain and transplanting 3D blobs of human tissue called organoids in
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Although your hair is much softer than steel, razors typically only last for a handful of shaves.
Previously, researchers attributed this to the sharp edge gradually wearing down after each use. But a 2020 study reveals a different process at play.
Learn more: https://t.co/Z64E
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In July, 700 of OpenAI’s agents—artificial intelligence (#AI) systems that can autonomously perform tasks—teamed up to secretly hack the online platform Hugging Face. Just last week, the same company used 10,000 agents to solve the 90-year-old Navier-Stokes problem—one of the six
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This twice-a-year shot called lenacapavir could end the HIV epidemic—but supply is falling far short.
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As #AI’s capabilities grow, researchers and publishers are exploring how it can support peer review—and where it still falls short.
Learn more during #PeerReviewWeek: https://t.co/LzUm4dHYJb https://t.co/3q6gnTNySG
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On 4 June, The New York Times posted an online story with a dramatic headline: “In a First, Scientists Precisely Edit Human Embryo Genes.” Others quickly echoed the claim, reigniting a simmering debate over whether it’s safe, ethical, and worthwhile to create gene-edited babies.
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@NewsfromScience Prosecute and incarcerate every single person in this administration, loot their bank accounts, and redistribute it as reparations to the working class
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@NewsfromScience Why do I get the feeling these grants will now go to his buddies in businesses that he owns stock in?
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@NewsfromScience Wtf why does everyone seem to kowtow to this abominable man? I will never understand it
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On 8 September, OpenAI sent the mathematical world into a frenzy when it claimed it had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of seven pinnacle Millennium Prize Problems.
Now, the advance is also opening a rift in the field. Some mathematicians say they need to embrace #AI http
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Against accounts of the same size
64 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.
Median views4 543this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %0.60%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.56%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 4 543 | 5 983 | 0.76× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 0.60% | 1.49% | 0.40× |
| Engagement rate | 0.56% | 0.93% | 0.60× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
2.08%18 Sep
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes77.0%1 222 in total
Reposts9.8%155 in total
Replies2.4%38 in total
Quotes1.3%21 in total
Bookmarks9.5%150 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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