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

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"In practical terms, vitamin D may help support the systems that allow brain cells to communicate and adapt. When levels are low, those systems may not function as smoothly as they should." via @PsychToday realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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"LED lights have been called the new asbestos health crisis, but there’s a lot here that doesn’t pass the sniff test." via @McGillOSS realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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Geologists searching for gold in Australia instead found evidence of a massive impact event from the deep past. via @ScienceAlert realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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"The remains of the Japanese freighter Hōfuku Maru were spotted off of the western coast of the Philippines. But the Hōfuku Maru was not just a run of the mill military vessel. The freighter was called a Hellship." via @PopSci realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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"People living in Near Oceania, a region spanning New Guinea, surrounding island chains, and the main Solomon Islands, carry more ancient, pre-modern human DNA than any other population on Earth." realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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What a 92-year-old sprinter teaches about aging. “What we are learning is that, definitely, exercise training is a major thing we should focus on to change the aging process." via @washingtonpost realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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"The river of molten iron flowing 1,400 miles below the Pacific Ocean in Earth’s outer core has surprised scientists by changing direction." via @sciencefocus realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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Around 13,000 years ago, the Gulf Stream suddenly moved north. Here's what happened... via @ConversationUK realclearscience.com/article…
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"Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Tommy Tuberville (R- AL) have recently introduced a bill that would limit the FDA’s ability to regulate the blatant pseudoscience of homeopathy." via @ScienceBasedMed realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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"Basically, if your genetic hand of cards means you find it more difficult to say ‘no’ to food, then there are clear advantages to being in a situation where you’re not forced to make the decision in the first place." via @sciencefocus realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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"At ABI Research... we did a rough total-cost-of-ownership comparison between a data center on Earth and one in space. It showed that the cost to launch and run a GPU in space for a year is at least an order of magnitude higher..." via @IEEESpectrum realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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"Researchers are at a loss for why people across cultures and ages, regardless of their dominant hand, have a natural bias toward wandering in a counterclockwise direction." via @NYTScience realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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Scientific American went from fighting pseudoscience to platforming it, all while regularly sharing ideologically-biased screeds. realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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"We’re still very new to the game of searching for life beyond Earth, and our three main methods of looking for it are still being developed; life may yet be common." by @StartsWithABang realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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"In a recent study, published in Quaternary Science Reviews, archaeologist Huw S. Groucutt argues that the ideas of modernity and a "Human Revolution" arise more from bias and "cherry-picking" evidence than from a data-driven perspective." - @physorg_com realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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"An eagerly awaited and controversial clinical trial to 'wind back the clock' on aging cells in the eye and restore them to a more youthful state has officially begun." via @ScienceAlert realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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"The transition from small hunter-gatherer societies into civilizations gave rise to the first Axial Age. The planetary polycrisis of climate chaos, mass migration, increasing warfare and transformative AI represents a rupture of comparable magnitude." realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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An increasingly common sleep aid may raise the risk of car crashes for those who take it and drive the following morning. via @ScienceAlert realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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The optimal amount of strength training: "Putting in 90–119 minutes per week was the sweet spot identified by the study, associated with a 13% reduction in the likelihood of dying from any cause over a period of up to 30 years." via @ScienceAlert realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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Top 7 most dangerous volcanoes in the world "Millions of people live in the shadow of these volcanoes. That’s what makes them truly hazardous." via @IntEngineering realclearscience.com/2026/06…
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