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Top posts this week The 10 highest-scored posts from the last 7 days — ranking by real score over a week naturally filters out posts that got removed shortly after posting.
Post Score Posted Are there instances in nature, where a species has evolved to occasionally produce offspring with a specific trait that, as a side effect, makes it infertile but creates an advantage to the group as a whole (and thus keeps reappearing)? 876 6d ago Are centipedes FWD, RWD or AWD? 749 4d ago Did extinct species of humans have different skin tones? 503 6d ago Will the rocks we find on other planets be new or will we be able to identify them as variations of the same types of rocks we find on earth? 317 6d ago Why did dinosaurs survive the end-Triassic extinction when the dominant predators like Postosuchus did not? 273 5d ago Does a tall person have larger heart compared to a short person to accommodate the larger body? 177 6d ago How do we define a gas giants atmosphere? 104 7d ago Did the Amazon stay wet during the Early Holocene / African Humid Period? 43 7d ago AskScience AMA Series: I’m Daniel Cox, a public opinion researcher studying the growing divide between young men and women. Ask Me Anything about Gen Z, politics, dating, loneliness, and what the data actually shows. 41 6d ago AskScience AMA Series: We are Kratom Researchers, Ask Us Anything! 40 5d ago
Posting rules Medical advice Offensive or abusive language Homework question Meme, joke, or just link Top-level comment not answering the question Nonreputable answer Simple calculation or easily Googleable No bots, no AI generated answers Pull this with the API 1 credit per page — this exact request:
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curl "https://api.threadsnoop.com/v1/posts?subreddit=askscience&limit=25" \
-H "x-api-key: ts_live_YOUR_KEY"See /docs/posts for pagination, filtering with q=, and full response shape, or /docs/subreddits for the rules endpoint used above.
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