r/AskScienceDiscussion↗
Discuss, learn, teach. Follow the tangents.
Here you can ask any question you have about being a scientist, what's new in a field, what's going to happen in a field, or are curious about how we got to this point.
194k subscribers199 posts / mo in Sep 2026181 authors / mosince 2012
r/AskScienceDiscussion has 194k members (+16% over the last 12 months). It gets about 199 posts a month from 181 people. Top topics: ScientificJournalsAndResearch, Mars Colonization & Terraforming and Big Bang Theory.
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- ScientificJournalsAndResearch0.3%
- Mars Colonization & Terraforming0.3%
- Big Bang Theory0.3%
- Research Reading Strategies0.2%
- Physics Books0.2%
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- Doi
- ScienceDirect
- Nature
- xkcd
- NASA
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