Looking to shift the tone of your Twitter feed from sushi pics to scholarly information? These accounts prove that Twitter f*cking loves science, too.
If you're interested in science, we guarantee these accounts will teach you something new every day. Whether it's a fact about space sent from space or a fact about sea otters sent from a reclining chair, each of these accounts has something fresh and interesting to bring to the table.
Give your brain a boost and follow these scientific tweeters today.
1. @neiltyson
Just an FYI: Stars in the Universe far outnumber all sounds & words ever uttered by all humans who ever lived.— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) April 11, 2012
2. @AsapSCIENCE
We actually live about 80 milliseconds in the past because that's how long it takes our brains to process information.— AsapSCIENCE (@AsapSCIENCE) September 30, 2013
A lovely picture of the Great Lakes, taken by @AstroKarenN up on Space Station. One fifth of the world's fresh water pic.twitter.com/I2wek5qXgq— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) October 16, 2013
A crocodile can’t move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.— What The F*** Facts (@WhatTheFFacts) November 4, 2013
A blue whale heart weighs 600kg. A human could crawl through their arteries. pic.twitter.com/86U4VA2haN— Elise Andrew (@Elise_Andrew) March 21, 2013
Did you know that the pyramids of Giza were built before wooly mammoths went extinct?!?— Henry Reich (@minutephysics) May 8, 2013
7. @carlzimmer
You will produce bacteria equal in weight to five elephants over your lifetime. Pleasant dreams.— carlzimmer (@carlzimmer) February 21, 2011
8. @science
Crazy Bosses: Study found 4% of senior managers displayed psychopathic tendencies, compared to 1% of people overall http://t.co/yZLfVxFe— science (@science) January 30, 2012
2 layers of clouds. Mountains induce lift- lower pressure, vapor cools & condenses.. It's not magic; it's science. pic.twitter.com/Dx1BIq4C— Bill Nye (@TheScienceGuy) January 26, 2013
10. @GoogleFacts
The human earlobe is an erogenous zone because of its nerve endings. Otherwise the organ has no use in a human body.— Google Facts (@GoogleFacts) October 27, 2013
11. @mental_floss
The light emitted by 200,000 galaxies makes our universe a shade of beige. Scientists call the color "cosmic latte."— Mental Floss (@mental_floss) October 26, 2013
12. @sciencegoddess
What spooky planet is this? It's Earth! Check out today's Astronomy Photo of the Day! explaned http://t.co/Ica3Xdcbhs pic.twitter.com/l7242yjIX6— Joanne Manaster (@sciencegoddess) October 31, 2013
13. @ScienceDaily
Without plants, Earth would cook under billions of tons of additional carbon http://t.co/3DTdCIk1Lo— ScienceDaily (@ScienceDaily) October 16, 2013
14. @NSF
Spider silk as an artificial muscle, 50 times stronger than human muscle http://ow.ly/6dZZO— National Science Fdn (@NSF) August 28, 2011
15. @ScienceChannel
"Humanity today generates more data in 2 days than it produced in all of history up to the year 2003." #ThroughTheWormhole— Science Channel (@ScienceChannel) July 12, 2012
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