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RCS is your portal to clear, relevant, and evidence-based science news and opinion. We strive to bring you the best of #scicomm. Editor: @SteRoPo
GLP-1s are wonder drugs... until you stop taking them. "Eight weeks. That’s how long it takes, on average, for the pounds to begin creeping back after someone stops taking the world’s most promising weight-loss drugs." via @ZMEScience realclearscience.com/2025/07/22/oze…
Why do some people keep self-sabotaging? "The core issue is that such people don't seem able to make a causal connection between their choices/behavior and the bad outcome." via @arstechnica realclearscience.com/2025/07/25/why…
After 15 years of controversy, Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper. via @RetractionWatch realclearscience.com/2025/07/25/aft…
"One scientist champions a theory that new physics could be hiding in what he calls the “zeptouniverse”—the realm of objects on the scale of the zeptometer (which is 1 quintillionth of a meter)." via @PopMech realclearscience.com/2025/07/25/new…
"Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the well-preserved remains of early humans dating back some 100,000 years were carefully arranged in pits." via @AP realclearscience.com/2025/07/25/100…
Did USAID Really Save 90 Million Lives? Not Unless It Raised the Dead. via @reason realclearscience.com/2025/07/25/usa…
"According to a recent high-profile Nature paper, climate change will make us go hungry. At least that’s what media reports on the study would have you believe." via @TheBTI realclearscience.com/2025/07/24/wil…
Trump's Golden Dome missile defense shield is projected to cost $175 billion, but nobody really knows what it's going to look like exactly. via @arstechnica realclearscience.com/2025/07/24/wha…
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb is going anomaly hunting for aliens again. It's lazy thinking. realclearscience.com/2025/07/24/avi…
The six red dots that nearly broke the universe: "Everything about them seemed wrong – their color, the wavelengths of light they were giving off and the fact they were so numerous. Their existence didn’t fit into our understanding." via @sciencefocus realclearscience.com/2025/07/24/the…
"What tipped Earth’s climate into “Snowball Earth” state? A new study suggests a cold climate and massive volcanic eruptions set the scene." via @guardianscience realclearscience.com/2025/07/24/we_…
"When leading physician and health policy researcher H. Gilbert Welch reviewed 30 years of data from a landmark cancer screening trial, he was stunned: screening hadn’t helped people live longer. Not even a bit." via @IAI_TV realclearscience.com/2025/07/23/can…
"Whether you run the clock forward or backward, most of us expect the laws of physics to be the same. A 2012 experiment showed otherwise." by @StartsWithABang realclearscience.com/2025/07/23/uni…
Did Isaac Newton Predict The End of the World in 2060? via @ZMEScience realclearscience.com/2025/07/23/did…
"Women who have had multiple children of the same sex are more likely to have another baby of the same sex, a new study has found. Maternal age and genetics could be ‘weighting the coin toss’ for some couples..." via @sciencefocus realclearscience.com/2025/07/23/it_…
"The Nobel Prize-winning click chemistry technology allowed researchers to target tumors directly with a chemotherapy drug, preventing toxicity and side effects." via @TheScientistLLC realclearscience.com/2025/07/23/fir…
RFK Jr.'s cruelest cut: "RFK Jr. cut off U.S. funding to the Global Alliance Vaccine Initiative (GAVI), which supports vaccines for more than half of the world’s children. GAVI... has vaccinated about 1.1 billion children in the world." by @DrPaulOffit realclearscience.com/2025/07/23/rfk…
Study reveals two vaccines are linked with reduced Alzheimer's risk. "The shingles vaccine and the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine are associated with a reduced risk of dementia compared to the annual flu vaccine." via @ScienceAlert realclearscience.com/2025/07/22/stu…
"A team of scientists led by the NSF's Green Bank Observatory (NSF GBO) recently identified an incredibly rare object known as a Long Period Radio Transient (LPT), designated CHIME J1634+44." via @universetoday realclearscience.com/2025/07/22/ast…
"Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”" via @QuantaMagazine realclearscience.com/2025/07/22/ais…
