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r/science

34.5M members. The best post we have captured here reached 199.3K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
34.5Mmembers
199.3Kbest post
10.8Kmost comments
2.1Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Psychology 22 Health 17 Social Science 15 Biology 8 Medicine 7 Economics 5 Epidemiology 5 Environment 4 Astronomy 4 Neuroscience 3

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Physicist Stephen Hawking dies aged 76

↑ 199.3K 💬 3.8K text 2018

The first picture of a black hole opens a new era of astrophysics. The supermassive beast lies in a galaxy called M87 more than 50 million light-year…

↑ 155.3K 💬 5.5K link 2019

Since legalizing cannabis in 2012, crime clearance rates are increasing faster in Washington and Colorado than the rest of country, suggesting that l…

↑ 124.7K 💬 4.7K link 2018

Raising the taxes of graduate students by as much as 300% will be a disaster for the USA

↑ 124.4K 💬 10.8K text 2017

Attractive female students no longer earned higher grades when classes moved online during COVID-19

↑ 123.8K 💬 3.9K link 2022

No evidence to support link between violent video games and behaviour - Researchers at the University of York have found no evidence to support the t…

↑ 114.6K 💬 3.8K link 2018

LED lights found to kill coronavirus efficiently, quickly, and cheaply, a global first in fight against COVID-19. The finding suggests the UV-LEDs ca…

↑ 114.4K 💬 3.5K link 2020

Wealthy, successful people from privileged backgrounds often misrepresent their origins as working-class in order to tell a ‘rags to riches’ story re…

↑ 113.7K 💬 3.1K link 2021

New study finds that most redditors don’t actually read the articles they vote on.

↑ 111K 💬 4.5K link 2017

Casual sex among young adults has declined due to decline in drinking, an increase in computer gaming, and more young adults living with their parent…

↑ 110.7K 💬 9.4K link 2021

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/science, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.