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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 18h

"Is science still on the side of fiber? Emphatically yes, though limiting certain fibres can help temporarily for some people. Let’s investigate." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/14/t...

The Fiber Debate: Could Skipping It Be a Health Hack?

Fiber has become an example of how views on healthy eating are growing as polarized as politics. The long-standing belief that fiber is essential for gut and overall health still dominates, yet it now

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 18h

"Emergence... doesn’t reveal hidden truths—it masks our ignorance, mistaking gaps in explanation for gaps in reality." via @iai.tv www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/14/s...

Scientists Have Fallen for Emergence. It's Bad Science

Scientists and philosophers have fallen for a seductive buzzword: “emergence.” It’s invoked to explain life, consciousness, and the flow of time: when simple parts combine, it is cla

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 18h

"The Selfish Gene perspective minimises the importance of the organism, demoting it to the position of a “survival machine” that exists only to propagate its genes into the next generation." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/14/w...

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 18h

"A new study published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy has found that men and women tend to approach sex with different emotional needs and relationship strategies in mind." via @psypost.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/14/w...

What Sex Might Say About Your Emotional Life

A new study published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy has found that men and women tend to approach sex with different emotional needs and relationship strategies in mind. By analyzing how

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 18h

"We tend to think of memory as exclusively the brain’s domain, but new research suggests that this view may be far too narrow. A study shows that some ordinary human cells outside of the brain can also learn and store information." via @zmescience.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/14/s...

Scientists Found That Memory Can Happen Outside the Brain

We tend to think of memory as exclusively the brain’s domain, but new research suggests that this view may be far too narrow. A study from New York University shows that some ordinary human cell

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 18h

"The evidence on whether or not the average attention span is declining is mixed and inconclusive, with some evidence suggesting that being chronically online or routinely juggling different types of media affects cognition." via @discovermag.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/14/f...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 1d

One in ten women have exercise-induced orgasms. In a new study, researchers interviewed 21 women about their experiences with it. The triggering exercise is typically vigorous, repetitive, and/or demanding of core abdominal muscles. www.realclearscience.com/articles/202...

When Exercise Makes You Orgasm

Numerous facets of human sexuality are rarely discussed. Many of us share the same sexual fantasies, masturbate regularly, and are attracted to people other than our partners. However, societal norms

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 1d

The same malicious prompts used to jailbreak chatbots could soon be used to jailbreak A.I. agents, producing unintended behavior in the real world. via @nytimes.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/13/the_ai_prompt_that_could_end_the_world_1140444.html

The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

How much do we have to fear from A.I., really? It’s a question I’ve been asking experts since the debut of ChatGPT in late 2022. The A.I. pioneer Yoshua Bengio, a computer science professo

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 1d

"The planets around white dwarf stars might provide long-term homes for alien life, but they suffer from a fatal overheating problem. Who's going to rescue them? According to new research, it's none other than Albert Einstein." via @livescience.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/13/r...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 1d

A climate tipping point has been reached. "Rising ocean temperatures, acidification, overfishing, and pollution are combining to cause coral bleaching and mortality, meaning that a large number of coral reefs will be lost..." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/13/t...

The World’s First Climate Tipping Point Has Been Crossed

The exact moment when Earth will reach its tipping points—moments at which human-induced climate change will trigger irreversible planetary changes—has long been a source of debate for sci

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 1d

Terraforming Mars is no longer impossible, just very, very difficult. via @universetoday.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/13/t...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 1d

We may have found the underlying mechanism for why naked mole rats live so long. The pathway could be used to boost longevity in humans. by @erictopol.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/13/a...

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 3d

"Bluetoothing" is on the rise:
"One user injects a drug like methamphetamine or heroin, then draws a syringe of their own drug-laced blood and passes it to the next person — who injects it, hoping for a secondhand high." via @zmescience.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/11/t...

The Disturbing Rise of 'Bluetoothing' Drugs

It started as a rumor too grotesque to believe. People, mostly young, poor, and desperate, were injecting each other’s blood to get high. In places like Fiji, that rumor has become a national cr

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 3d

"If you bite it and you die, it’s poisonous. If it bites you and you die, it’s venomous." via @mcgilloss.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/11/t...

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 3d

What is the strongest muscle in the human body? "When it comes to absolute force, the gluteus maximus — the muscle of the buttocks that straightens the leg at the hip — tops the list." via @livescience.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/11/w...

RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 3d

"At one of the world’s oldest Stone Age archaeological sites—Karahantepe in southeast Turkey—researchers have unearthed a T-shaped stone pillar bearing a carved human face... Dating back some 11,000 years..." via @smithsonianmag.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/11/f...

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 3d

Metal-organic frameworks just earned the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. They could revolutionize water harvesting from the air and carbon capture. via @wsj.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/11/n...

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

"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 · 4d

"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 · 4d

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 · 4d

"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 · 4d

"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 · 5d

"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 · 5d

"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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