Channel
@ScientificAmericanPodcasts
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1,846subscribers
+9 since we began measuring on 21 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
| Telegram ID | -1001587159611 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @ScientificAmericanPodcasts |
| Created | Between 1 August 2021 and 28 February 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 21 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 16 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 16 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/ScientificAmericanPodcasts |
Science — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 16 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Sept 2026, 13:21 | 1,846 | +3 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 00:19 | 1,843 | -3 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 03:35 | 1,846 | +1 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 17:40 | 1,845 | +5 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 17:18 | 1,840 | +3 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 00:52 | 1,837 | +1 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 19:37 | 1,836 | -1 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 18:31 | 1,837 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 2 August 2023 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 27 December 2024. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
339 reactions across 20 posts, in 18 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 50.1% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 170 | 50.1% | |
| ❤ | 108 | 31.9% | |
| ✍ | 12 | 3.54% | |
| 🔥 | 10 | 2.95% | |
| ❤🔥 | 9 | 2.65% | |
| 😍 | 7 | 2.06% | |
| 👏 | 6 | 1.77% | |
| 🐳 | 4 | 1.18% | |
| ⚡ | 2 | 0.59% | |
| 👎 | 2 | 0.59% | |
| 🤝 | 2 | 0.59% | |
| 👀 | 1 | 0.295% | |
| 💘 | 1 | 0.295% | |
| 😁 | 1 | 0.295% | |
| 🤔 | 1 | 0.295% | |
| 🤗 | 1 | 0.295% | |
| 🤩 | 1 | 0.295% | |
| 🥰 | 1 | 0.295% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 20 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 339 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 2 August 2023 to 27 December 2024, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Chimpanzees can make tools, they display emotions, and they can outfox humans at certain memory games. But chimps also resemble us in another way—they use medicine. They're known to eat tough leaves and bitter plants to purge parasites from their guts. Now researchers have observed chimps applying a never-before-seen type of treatment—snatching flying insects, and applying them to their wounds. You can see this ha…
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A recent analysis predicts that 40 percent of the world’s insect species could go extinct within the next few decades. The highest death tolls could be among butterflies, moths, bees and dung beetles. Conspicuously absent from that list are houseflies. Because they may actually do better in a hotter world. "Under a warming scenario you'd have a larger fly population which is able to hang around for a longer period…
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Think killer robots. What comes to mind? Maybe...this guy? "I'll be back." "We are not talking about Terminator. We're talking about much simpler technologies, which are at best a few years away, and in fact, many of which you can see under development today in every theater of the war." Toby Walsh, a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He spoke February 14th as pa…
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Living with your parents has its benefits…at least when it comes to raising your kids—their grandkids. Because two new studies join the evidence that grandmothers can enhance the survival of grandchildren. That is, unless grandma’s too old or lives too far away. The results appear in the journal Current Biology. Sacha C. Engelhardt et al., Using Geographic Distance as a Potential Proxy for Help in the Assessment of…
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<Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. Mission Control: Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.> Fifty years ago this July, when Apollo 11 made its historic landing on the moon, Houston heard the news almost instantaneously, within a second or so. That won't be the case for human astronauts exploring …
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The compounds THC and CBD are known as cannabinoids, because they come from cannabis. AKA marijuana. Now biologists have taken the genes that produce cannabinoids in weed, and plugged them into: yeast. "Yeah—there's several reasons. The first is cost." Jay Keasling is a synthetic biologist at U.C. Berkeley, who has previously programmed yeast to cheaply produce antimalarial drugs. He says yeast could conceivably p…
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Let's play a word game. What word can be put in front of the words "stick," "maker," and "point" to make three new compound words? Again…stick, maker, and point. <five-second silence> Ready for the answer? "Match. So that would then combine to make the words matchstick, matchmaker, and matchpoint." Emma Threadgold, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Central Lancashire in England. And the point of tasks…
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“I think there will come a time when we will experiment with an automated strike zone.” Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball. Manfred spoke February 27th at the SportTechie State of the Industry conference at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. As the name suggest, SportTechie deals with the intersection of sports and technology. Back to Manfred on the automated strike zone: “The technology has got…
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Every spring, migratory birds flood back to where they breed. That migratory behavior is accompanied by some human behavior: "In English-language Wikipedia, the page views for migratory species like the indigo bunting or the Baltimore oriole tend to peak in the spring when those birds arrive in the United States on their breeding grounds." John Mittermeier, a conservation biologist at the University of Oxford in E…
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It sounds like a witches' recipe: gather the hearts of a fence lizard; a little brown bat; a naked-tailed armadillo; and dozens of others. "So initially we tried to get them from zoos… but unfortunately that didn't work out very well. We couldn't get any samples, even when the animal died, we couldn't get a heart." Guo Huang, a developmental biologist at the University of California, San Francisco. He says they h…
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Few things are more satisfying than sleeping late on weekends. But though the extra z’s may improve your mood, they do not appear to improve your health. Because a new study shows that so-called “recovery sleep” cannot reset the body’s metabolic clock…and may actually lead to some serious health issues. “Sleep loss can impact a range of physiological systems. It can increase our risk for cardiovascular disease, it…
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In the movie Armageddon, an asteroid the size of Texas is hurtling toward Earth. All seems lost, but then Bruce Willis sacrifices his own life to detonate a thermonuclear bomb on the asteroid. ᐸdetonation movie clip> Then you hear this from mission control: ᐸ"The two halves are going to miss us by 400 miles, and most of the small particles have been vaporized!"> Breaking a rock that big into two halves, that someh…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @ScientificAmericanPodcasts. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 6 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 16 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Scientific American Podcasts” (@ScientificAmericanPodcasts), 1,846 subscribers as measured 16 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/ScientificAmericanPodcasts.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.