r/sciencememes • • Sep 08 '26

Mod Post Voting has ended! Add a body text to your post!

25 Upvotes

Voting has ended and the final tally for Yes! Drop some knowledge! was 966, while Nope. I don't want any explanations was 39. So this has been added to the Automod. Unfortunately Reddit being what it is will only notify you AFTER you post (even though there's something you can toggle it only applies to text posts?!)

So just add why this is funny or what it's about for people who aren't in your field. This serves to both educate people & to weed out karma faming/ low quality post types.

Right now I'm figuring out the Automod so hopefully things will be smoothed out for people who forget to put a body text in within a week.

The vote: https://www.reddit.com/r/sciencememes/s/M1LSoni4rN


r/sciencememes • • May 05 '26

Mod Post Sad news.  The lead mod HowardKinSD passed away as of March 10th, 2026.

234 Upvotes

He was very active in the San Diego sub as a moderator and his passing is a loss.  Here’s the link to the San Diego sub notification.  https://www.reddit.com/r/sandiego/comments/1sxhhk8/comment/oinh2fy/


r/sciencememes • • 4h ago

Faraday's law meme

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261 Upvotes

Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction states that a changing magnetic field within a closed circuit induces an electromotive force which is proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux


r/sciencememes • • 17h ago

🦩Biology!🧫 RNA transcript be like

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1.2k Upvotes

r/sciencememes • • 12h ago

Sexual cannibalism

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239 Upvotes

SEXUAL CANNIBALISM AMONG female praying mantids may actually benefit males, in an evolutionary sense, according to a new study.

The research suggests that when a male mantis is eaten by the female after mating, more of the male’s body material is passed into the female, and in turn, a higher number of eggs are laid.


r/sciencememes • • 1d ago

Antoine Lavoisier meme

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440 Upvotes

"It took them only an instant to cut off this head, and a hundred years may not suffice to produce another like it."

- Joseph-Louis Lagrange


r/sciencememes • • 1d ago

💥Physics!🧲 Scientific progress

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1.9k Upvotes

Over the course of my lifetime, a new experiment was devised that determined the electron mass to a higher degree of precision which then became the new default value.


r/sciencememes • • 1d ago

🌖Astronomy!🌔 Well, that aged like milk

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406 Upvotes

Clip is from the "School Spirit" episode of "Sabrina's Secret Life", a 2003 cartoon.


r/sciencememes • • 1d ago

🦩Biology!🧫 The Ground PH Levels must be Crazy when it comes to Plant Biology

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63 Upvotes

If You've been to an Early Pioneer Succession Forest after a Disturbance, It's very cool


r/sciencememes • • 2d ago

I have a good feeling about this experiment

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835 Upvotes

by cartoonist Tom Gauld, who humorously highlights the frustration and endless patience required in scientific research, showing scientists trapped in a literal and metaphorical loop of waiting for experimental results.


r/sciencememes • • 4d ago

Thank you vaccine

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1.4k Upvotes

We all know correlation ≠ causation. Response to the anti-vax camp who think vaccines caused my autism.


r/sciencememes • • 4d ago

fluid mechanics final exam meme

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324 Upvotes

Many STEM classes allow students to bring scientific calculators but many students forget to bring them and are forced to do calculations mentally. Some problems are very complex and difficult to solve without a calculator.


r/sciencememes • • 4d ago

Lagrange is on a boat!

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50 Upvotes

I can never remember the difference between Eulerian and Lagrangian frames of reference, so I made this. You can imagine Lagrange on a boat (follows the particle) and Euler on the shore watching him pass by (observes the particle from a stationary point).


r/sciencememes • • 4d ago

🪩Science!!🪩 People Who Do Not Get This Pun Will Be Stoned

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132 Upvotes

For people who are less than 35, Napster was a popular website that preceded Google in many ways as a file sharing website. Knapping is how one takes a piece of stone or obsidian and hammers it in the right places to turn it into something useful.

This subreddit should have a flair for things that go into something more like archeology and anthropology and paleontology. But it doesn't so I had to choose science instead.


r/sciencememes • • 5d ago

🪩Science!!🪩 Fluorine needs to calm the hell down.

2.0k Upvotes

Fluorine is an EXTREMELY reactive element and It forms compounds super quickly with most other elements. Plus, it even reacts with noble gases, which are known for their low reactivity.


r/sciencememes • • 5d ago

viscosity meme

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2.7k Upvotes

Viscosity is a fluid's internal resistance to flow. Water has low viscosity while honey has high viscosity


r/sciencememes • • 5d ago

💥Physics!🧲 made this a while back lol

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746 Upvotes

rads = standard unit of angular measure (radians)

rads = unit of measurement for Radiation Absorbed Dose


r/sciencememes • • 5d ago

The guys studying dark matter have a sense of humor

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131 Upvotes

MACHOs and WIMPs are two hypothesis to explain the existence of dark matter. MACHOs are large objects that emit little to no light, such as black holes, brown dwarfs and neutron stars. WIMPs are theorical elementary particles that interact very weakly with matter and light.


r/sciencememes • • 5d ago

Scientists at their most dangerous

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658 Upvotes

by cartoonist Tom Gauld. Gauld is offering a parody of classic wildlife documentary warnings about wild animals aggressively defending their offspring in the jungle. Instead the encounter is with scientists, who are humorously presented as territorial academics who are like unpredictable predators, protecting their theories and equations on flipcharts.


r/sciencememes • • 5d ago

💥Physics!🧲 Spinny thing

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185 Upvotes

Made by me


r/sciencememes • • 6d ago

🦩Biology!🧫 Something something Incubation Time something

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2.5k Upvotes

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as Mad Cow disease, is an incurable neurodegenerative disease found in cattle. One of the most prominent risk factors for infection is feeding contaminated meat and bone meal to cattle - a practice that was well-established among farmers at the time. Government regulations required farmers to report (suspected) cases; if BSE was confirmed or strongly suspected by a veterinarian, the affected animal had to be slaughtered and disposed of. Because the compensation for cattle lost that way only amounted to ~50% of the profit expected from a healthy animal, some farmers chose instead to disregard this law in an attempt to extract more use from the animal, and BSE remained in circulation, as contaminated meat was fed back to healthy cows.

The disease, initially proclaimed to not spread to humans, spread to humans and caused a variation of Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease. As of 2024, 233 cases of vCJD have been reported globally.


r/sciencememes • • 6d ago

Absolute Majestic

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833 Upvotes

Halzen was honored for his decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.


r/sciencememes • • 6d ago

Physics meme

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1.5k Upvotes

The Doppler effect is the change in the observed frequency of a wave when the source and the observer move relative to each other.


r/sciencememes • • 6d ago

Grammatical voices for use in scientific writing

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1.1k Upvotes

by Tom Gauld


r/sciencememes • • 6d ago

🧪Chemistry!⚗️ My 4,4-diphenylbutatrienone is bigger than yours

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441 Upvotes

Phenys