General Science
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General Science Subreddit Analytics
General Science is a Nerds topic covering 81 Reddit communities with 198,342,209 combined members. Use this page to compare top General Science subreddits, track daily and weekly growth, and find related communities for research, marketing, or audience discovery.
General Science communities currently show β +0.21% average daily growth and β +0.86% average weekly growth across tracked subreddits. Net tracked movement is +27,323 members today and +127,403 members this week .
Popular General Science Reddit communities include r/science, r/space, r/askscience, r/explainlikeimfive, r/history.
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Top General Science Subreddits (20)
r/science
This community is a place to share and discuss new scientific research. Read about the latest advances in astronomy, biology, medicine, physics, social science, and more. Find and submit new publications and popular science coverage of current research.
r/space
Share & discuss informative content on: * Astrophysics * Cosmology * Space Exploration * Planetary Science * Astrobiology
r/askscience
Ask a science question, get a science answer.
r/explainlikeimfive
Explain Like I'm Five is the best forum and archive on the internet for layperson-friendly explanations. Don't Panic!
r/history
r/history is a place for discussions about history. Feel free to submit interesting articles, tell us about this cool book you just read, or start a discussion about who everyone's favorite figure of minor French nobility is! This is a somewhat more serious subreddit compared to many others. Make sure to familiarize yourself with our rules and guidelines before participating. All posts must be manually approved by a moderator. Thanks!
r/philosophy
/r/philosophy: the portal for public philosophy
r/MapPorn
High quality images of maps.
r/psychology
A Reddit community for sharing and discussing science-based psychological material.
r/spaceporn
SpacePorn is a subreddit devoted to beautiful space images ππ. As long as the focus of the image is related to space in some way, it is allowed. This includes photographs, composites, photoshops, simulation renders, artist's depictions, and artwork.
r/chemistry
A community for chemists and those who love chemistry
r/spacex
Welcome to r/SpaceX, the premier SpaceX discussion community and the largest fan-run board on the American aerospace company SpaceX. We recommend using r/SpaceX with Old Reddit. This board is not an official outlet for SpaceX information."
r/Physics
For physicists and physics students. See the rules before posting, and the subreddit wiki for common questions. Basic homework questions are not allowed.
r/Astronomy
The amateur hobby of humanity since the dawn of time and scientific study of celestial objects.
r/AskHistorians
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
r/CatastrophicFailure
Videos, gifs, or aftermath photos of machinery, structures, or devices that have failed catastrophically during operation.
r/geography
The study of the Earth and its features, inhabitants, and phenomena.
r/ask
This is a place to ask specific, closed-ended, non divisive questions.
r/Cyberpunk
A genre of science fiction set in a lawless subculture in an oppressive society dominated by computer technology and big corporations.
r/AskScienceFiction
**It's like Ask Science, but all questions and answers are written with answers gleaned from the universe itself.** Use in-universe knowledge, rules, and common sense to answer the questions. Or as **fanlore.org** calls it [Watsonian, not a Doylist point of view](http://fanlore.org/wiki/Watsonian_vs._Doylist)
r/science
This community is a place to share and discuss new scientific research. Read about the latest advances in astronomy, biology, medicine, physics, social science, and more. Find and submit new publications and popular science coverage of current research.
r/space
Share & discuss informative content on: * Astrophysics * Cosmology * Space Exploration * Planetary Science * Astrobiology
r/explainlikeimfive
Explain Like I'm Five is the best forum and archive on the internet for layperson-friendly explanations. Don't Panic!
r/history
r/history is a place for discussions about history. Feel free to submit interesting articles, tell us about this cool book you just read, or start a discussion about who everyone's favorite figure of minor French nobility is! This is a somewhat more serious subreddit compared to many others. Make sure to familiarize yourself with our rules and guidelines before participating. All posts must be manually approved by a moderator. Thanks!
r/spaceporn
SpacePorn is a subreddit devoted to beautiful space images ππ. As long as the focus of the image is related to space in some way, it is allowed. This includes photographs, composites, photoshops, simulation renders, artist's depictions, and artwork.
r/spacex
Welcome to r/SpaceX, the premier SpaceX discussion community and the largest fan-run board on the American aerospace company SpaceX. We recommend using r/SpaceX with Old Reddit. This board is not an official outlet for SpaceX information."
r/Physics
For physicists and physics students. See the rules before posting, and the subreddit wiki for common questions. Basic homework questions are not allowed.
r/Astronomy
The amateur hobby of humanity since the dawn of time and scientific study of celestial objects.
r/AskHistorians
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
r/CatastrophicFailure
Videos, gifs, or aftermath photos of machinery, structures, or devices that have failed catastrophically during operation.
r/Cyberpunk
A genre of science fiction set in a lawless subculture in an oppressive society dominated by computer technology and big corporations.
r/AskScienceFiction
**It's like Ask Science, but all questions and answers are written with answers gleaned from the universe itself.** Use in-universe knowledge, rules, and common sense to answer the questions. Or as **fanlore.org** calls it [Watsonian, not a Doylist point of view](http://fanlore.org/wiki/Watsonian_vs._Doylist)