We've all see the weird and wonderful science news stories that pop up on your Facebook timeline that makes you think 'Oh my God, really?' Well here's a list of the top 5 most shared science stories... The ranking considers the popularity of the story on each social media platform.
1. Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks
- Over 600,000 Facebook users took part in a research programme and were unaware of it, Facebook altered their timeline to reflect negative or positive posts by their friends to monitor the impact it had on them.
2. Variation in melanism and female preference in proximate but ecologically distinct environments
It's a mouthful, but the paper published by Ethology looked at evolutionary traits in fish - and it all landed in the authors in deep trouble!!!
3. Artificial sweeteners induce glucose intolerance by altering the gut microbiota
4. Artificial sweeteners in diet drinks and food could cause obesity and diabetes
Published in the journal Nature criticised the use of chemicals in food and that the chemicals do more harm than good - so are chemicals harming our health?
5. Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth's magnetic field
idea taken from - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11281171/Which-weird-science-stories-have-proved-to-be-a-hit-on-social-media.html
1. Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks
- Over 600,000 Facebook users took part in a research programme and were unaware of it, Facebook altered their timeline to reflect negative or positive posts by their friends to monitor the impact it had on them.
2. Variation in melanism and female preference in proximate but ecologically distinct environments
It's a mouthful, but the paper published by Ethology looked at evolutionary traits in fish - and it all landed in the authors in deep trouble!!!
3. Artificial sweeteners induce glucose intolerance by altering the gut microbiota
4. Artificial sweeteners in diet drinks and food could cause obesity and diabetes
Published in the journal Nature criticised the use of chemicals in food and that the chemicals do more harm than good - so are chemicals harming our health?
5. Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth's magnetic field
idea taken from - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11281171/Which-weird-science-stories-have-proved-to-be-a-hit-on-social-media.html
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