Scientists have been sharing discoveries that ‘should have blown people’s minds’ but have been largely ignored – 21 incredible happenings to marvel over

‘We have actual images of black holes now. Humanity spent centuries wondering what they looked like, finally got a picture, and basically went ‘huh, neat’ before scrolling on.’
–_VelvetComet

‘Teeth regrowth being on the edge of viable on a commercial scale seems to be a small, but pretty unexpected thing that’s ignored a lot.’
–FreedomPuppy

‘Squirrels carry mushrooms into trees, and dry them out before putting them in storage for the winter.’
–Parrotsaurus_rex

‘I was talking to a medical doctor. She said that cancer treatment is progressing so fast, practitioners find that if they can add another five years to a cancer patient’s life, by the time the five years are up, new treatments should be able to keep them alive even longer.

I’m not a doctor so I may not be explaining this right, but that’s the gist.’
–Yugan-Dali

‘Epigenetics. We think of our genes as fixed, but our environments can “turn on” and “turn off” their expression. This is especially true in cases of severe stress and trauma, so things like living in poverty and being exposed to war, death, abuse, etc. can cause cancer even after accounting for the effects of other environmental effects.’
–drgreenhead

‘That one guy who made a strain of wheat that saved three billion people from starvation.’
–TheRealDonahue

‘Back on September 10th last year NASA announced that a rock collected by the Perseverance rover contained the strongest potential evidence yet of ancient microbial life on Mars. It wasn’t a confirmation and it’s still being looked into, but the announcement was totally overshadowed in the media by the assassination of Charlie Kirk.’
–ConanOToole

‘If the platypus wasn’t enough of a hodgepodge of different parts of other animals, they recently discovered that it has MORE weird stuff we never knew about.

In this case, it was found that they have hollow melanomes (pigment-storing organelles) whose structure in birds enables their fathers to be iridescent (think of peacocks). The platypus happens to not be iridescent, but this basic melanosome structure is found in no other mammal.’
–Ill_Disk_1115

‘One from back during the pandemic. People were (naturally) so involved with COVID infection rates, almost no one noticed that we effectively wiped out influenza for two years in a row. Virtually zero deaths in all of North America, compared to the tens of thousands we expect in normal years.

So we basically proved that even the half-assed social distancing and mask usage we had going on then is enough to deal with influenza.

Alas, mask wearing has now become a political issue, so anyone who would suggest we adopt masks during the flu season will come under attack by all the crazies.’
–Hector_P_Catt

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