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r/Sciences - Science on Reddit. A community for people who like science Founded 2009 · 240.1K members

240.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 13.5K upvotes, which works out to 56 per 1,000 members.

56peak upvotes per 1,000 members
240.2Kmembers
13.5Kbest post
776most comments
396posts 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.

64% 27%
Link 64% Video 27% Image 5% Text 2% Question 2% Gallery 1%

The topics it labels

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

Research 190 News 83 Discussion 27 Question 9 Resources 7 20x, not 20% 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Samsung AI lab develops tech that can animate highly realistic heads using only a few -or in some cases - only one starter image.

↑ 13.5K 💬 713 video 2019

This heart would have been rejected at most transplant centers (donor: 75 min down time, CPR, LVH). Using warm perfusion technology, however, Duke re…

↑ 7.1K 💬 404 video 2019

A disturbed and unqualified man driven by crackpot theories is destroying the foundations of medicine and public health in America

↑ 6.3K 💬 287 image 2025

The medical staff at Wuhan Union Hospital have been risking their lives fighting the coronavirus. True medical heroes. Great news that 11 medical sta…

↑ 5.7K 💬 264 image 2020

Cancer Cells Being Brutally Destroyed By Genetically Engineered T-cells

↑ 5.4K 💬 243 video 2019

More senior officials resigning from CDC: "I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of dat…

↑ 5.3K 💬 75 link 2025

First photo of a black hole in the heart of the M87 galaxy taken by the Event Horizon Telescope

↑ 5K 💬 301 image 2019

Teasing mosquitoes in the lab before they were provided with blood meal

↑ 5K 💬 309 video 2019

An AI algorithm can now predict faces with just 16x16 resolution. Top is low resolution images, middle is the computer's output, bottom is the origin…

↑ 4.9K 💬 406 image 2019

71% of Americans Say They’re Completely Exhausted | A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.

↑ 4.7K 💬 206 link 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/sciences, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/sciences?
r/sciences ("r/Sciences - Science on Reddit") describes itself this way: A community for people who like science. It was founded in 2009 and has 240.1K members.
How many members does r/sciences have?
r/sciences has about 240.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 396 of its posts; the biggest reached 13.5K upvotes, which is 56 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/sciences?
"Samsung AI lab develops tech that can animate highly realistic heads using only a few -or in some cases - only one starter image." reached 13.5K upvotes and 713 comments in 2019, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/sciences.
What subreddits are similar to r/sciences?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers.
What kind of posts do best on r/sciences?
Of the posts we hold, 64% are link posts and 27% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/sciences?
Across 396 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 13:00 UTC (2.7K avg upvotes), Saturday at 13:00 UTC (2.3K avg upvotes), Sunday at 21:00 UTC (2.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/sciences?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/sciences has 3.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 18 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/sciences, 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.