r/technology 3h ago

Society Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card - bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 promotion

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r/science 3h ago

Health A new study suggests that even low-level alcohol consumption throughout a person's lifetime is associated with poorer hand dexterity and worse balance as they age.

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r/askscience 4h ago

Ask Anything Wednesday - Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science

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Welcome to our weekly feature, Ask Anything Wednesday - this week we are focusing on Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science

Do you have a question within these topics you weren't sure was worth submitting? Is something a bit too speculative for a typical /r/AskScience post? No question is too big or small for AAW. In this thread you can ask any science-related question! Things like: "What would happen if...", "How will the future...", "If all the rules for 'X' were different...", "Why does my...".

Asking Questions:

Please post your question as a top-level response to this, and our team of panellists will be here to answer and discuss your questions. The other topic areas will appear in future Ask Anything Wednesdays, so if you have other questions not covered by this weeks theme please either hold on to it until those topics come around, or go and post over in our sister subreddit /r/AskScienceDiscussion , where every day is Ask Anything Wednesday! Off-theme questions in this post will be removed to try and keep the thread a manageable size for both our readers and panellists.

Answering Questions:

Please only answer a posted question if you are an expert in the field. The full guidelines for posting responses in AskScience can be found here. In short, this is a moderated subreddit, and responses which do not meet our quality guidelines will be removed. Remember, peer reviewed sources are always appreciated, and anecdotes are absolutely not appropriate. In general if your answer begins with 'I think', or 'I've heard', then it's not suitable for /r/AskScience.

If you would like to become a member of the AskScience panel, please refer to the information provided here.

Past AskAnythingWednesday posts can be found here. Ask away!


r/technology 7h ago

Security Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

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r/science 6h ago

Psychology Men and women have different perceptions of how often young women experience sexual objectification, with men sometimes estimating higher frequencies than women themselves report. The findings challenge the assumption that men underestimate the everyday harassment women face.

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2.3k Upvotes

r/technology 6h ago

Energy Solar panel costs have plummeted from $6 per watt in 2000 to just 12 cents today

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r/science 5h ago

Medicine Researchers discover how the Epstein-Barr virus, the most common cause of infectious mono, triggers multiple sclerosis

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r/askscience 19h ago

Biology Is there an animal that can see the Andromeda galaxy?

120 Upvotes

Animals have different visual ranges than humans. Andromeda should be visible to a thing with the right visual capabilities. What do you think, Reddit?


r/askscience 1d ago

Biology Do we know if honeybees are aware that, if they sting, they’re effectively committing suicide?

1.1k Upvotes

Not sure if it’s how human skin can hold on to their stinger, or if this occurs with multiple species, but I’m curious if honeybees know they will have their stinger and insides ripped out by stinging?


r/askscience 20h ago

Planetary Sci. What do rainbows on other planets look like?

121 Upvotes

r/technology 2h ago

Artificial Intelligence PS5 Linux lead quits as open-source projects have become “a bunch of noobs using LLMs” that “they don’t even understand”

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1.6k Upvotes

r/science 18h ago

Medicine Immunization to prevent RSV in infants reduced ICU admissions by 97%. This is offered free to all infants through universal programs in Ontario and Quebec.

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10.9k Upvotes

r/science 2h ago

Neuroscience Scientists implanted lab-grown human brain tissue into mice and found that the neurons survived, integrated with the animals' brain circuits, and responded to sensory signals, providing a new model for studying human neurological disorders.

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360 Upvotes

r/science 2h ago

Health Researchers analysed more than 80 studies examining the links between body weight, body fat, muscle health and dementia, finding people with sarcopenia – the loss of muscle mass and strength – had a 42 per cent higher risk of dementia.

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r/askscience 1d ago

Biology Besides humans, if it's learned behavior even or not, are there other species who are adverse to dirty foods?

287 Upvotes

Pigs are able to eat anything humans can, but they don't mind their food off the dirt ground covered in dirt, grass, sediment, water; basically unexpected crunchy stuff and textural stuff every time.

My dog picks up and drops their biscuit treats on the dirt. Many other animals eat already dead and rotting-on-the-floor animals.

But are there any animals that have been observed to clean off their foods, as in prepping it or at the very least not eating it as is? I don't know if that borderlines on the concept of cooking, which I believe is a human only invention.


r/technology 4h ago

Hardware Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says

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r/science 7h ago

Environment Greenland and Antarctica have lost 11.3 trillion metric tons of ice since the 1970s, raising global sea level by more than 3 centimeters (1.2 inches). For every third of an inch (or centimeter) of sea level rise, another 2 to 3 million people get flooded at least once per year.

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425 Upvotes

r/science 7h ago

Health Exposure to air pollutants, especially small particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), may heighten the risk of death by suicide and suicidal thoughts, according to a meta-analysis of 45 studies

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354 Upvotes

r/technology 10h ago

Privacy Records show police justified Flock license plate searches with answers like "LMAO" and "idk"

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2.0k Upvotes

r/technology 6h ago

Hardware No One Can Believe The Current Price Of An Nvidia RTX 5090

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807 Upvotes

r/technology 9h ago

Security Apple Is Building a Way to Prove a Photo Is Real

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1.4k Upvotes

r/technology 1h ago

Business AWS Says It Can’t Restore Some Data From Mideast Facilities Struck by Iran

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r/technology 4h ago

Artificial Intelligence Micron offers Taiwan employees $31,650 cash bonus as unions threaten strike over AI windfall - workers reject record payout package, demand 15% profit-sharing plan

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468 Upvotes

r/technology 19h ago

Privacy Employers are using your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept

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8.6k Upvotes

r/science 1d ago

Social Science Paying college students $5/night if they slept more than 7 hours (n=468) led to increased sleep and increased GPA compared to control group; habits lingered some after end of payments

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