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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 60897

A whopper of a retraction. 4 NNadir Wednesday Thursday 10 702

Tiny spiders that build giant 'puppet' decoys from disembodied prey discovered in Peru and Philippines 0 SamuelTheThird Wednesday Wednesday 19 581

Scientists make jaw-dropping find after drilling more than 1,500 feet into Antarctic ice: 'We even discovered a school o 12 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 97 3217

G4 (SEVERE) WATCH IN EFFECT FOR 12 NOVEMBER. (Space weather) 3 usonian Tuesday Tuesday 10 400

On Bashing Servers: ShengBTE, A Boltzmann Transport Equation Solver. 9 NNadir Saturday Tuesday 4 322

People Are Falling In Love With AI Chatbots. What Could Go Wrong? 0 YoshidaYui Sunday Sunday 0 281

Boy that went fast. 1 NNadir Saturday Saturday 10 696

'Yale Climate Connection' has a very concise and coherent discussion on Climate-Change Denialism: FLICC & CONSPIR 1 SorellaLaBefana Nov 7 Nov 7 7 305

China's Shenzhou-20 return mission delayed due to space debris impact 2 Eugene Nov 6 Nov 6 3 219

Theory of everything (TOE), Quantum Gravity (QG) and theory of gravity 6 wise47 Oct 15 Nov 6 2 587

This Slime Could Change The World Planet Fix BBC Earth Science 1 Xipe Totec Nov 3 Nov 3 12 542

New theory of evolution 1 wise47 Oct 19 Nov 3 3 661

What Exactly Is Inside Jupiter? 3 YoshidaYui Nov 2 Nov 2 17 663

Galactical model of subquark particles 9 wise47 Oct 15 Nov 2 2 590

Science under attack - hopefully we don't suffer a similar fate. 0 generalbetrayus Nov 1 Nov 1 2 330

Transmutation of Mercury into Gold. 12 NNadir Oct 29 Nov 1 12 686

After distractions, rotating brain waves may help thought circle back to the task 4 erronis Oct 31 Oct 31 7 350

Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation 2 Jim__ Oct 30 Oct 31 3 372

The International Space Station marks 25 years of nonstop human presence in orbit 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 30 Oct 30 5 199

Tool reveals how your dinner affects risk of 30,875 species land-dwelling animals going extinct 0 erronis Oct 30 Oct 30 1 213

Fishers' heartbeats align during collaborative hunts with dolphins, study reveals 0 erronis Oct 30 Oct 30 2 243

My mother told me she had an eye on the back of her head. It appears she may have been right. 2 erronis Oct 22 Oct 29 20 681

World's Biomass Human vs ... 6 SorellaLaBefana Oct 29 Oct 29 9 449

Have you ever been to a lecture where the speaker is so smart people are afraid to ask a question? 11 NNadir Oct 26 Oct 29 12 714

The long, deep dig: Collaboration unearths ancient city of Sardis 0 erronis Oct 28 Oct 28 9 352

NBC covering breakthrough ufo paper 6 SamuelTheThird Oct 26 Oct 27 10 1310

If you had a healthy dollop of disposable income, would you pay 500 hundred bucks for this book? 9 NNadir Oct 25 Oct 25 3 765

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment 2 erronis Oct 25 Oct 25 11 408

Cool science word: Euxinia. 2 NNadir Oct 25 Oct 25 7 448

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NASA tested my chain theory in space - Steve Mould (video) 0 sl8 Oct 24 Oct 24 11 491

A laser pointer at 2 billion fps makes the speed of light look... kinda weird 2 LiberalArkie Oct 22 Oct 22 13 810

American Heart Association reviewing award to rocket scientist with eight retractions 0 erronis Oct 22 Oct 22 2 365

A gorgeous view of M51 - the Whirlpool Galaxy 8 BootinUp Oct 21 Oct 22 16 588

Mosquitoes Have Started Appearing in One of The Last Places on Earth Without Them 0 littlemissmartypants Oct 22 Oct 22 15 548

Sad. Nobel laureate George Smoot, who researched the universe's origins at UC Berkeley, dies at 80 7 usonian Oct 20 Oct 21 11 463

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 usonian Oct 20 Oct 20 0 133

Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of UAP 0 ThreeNoSeep Oct 20 Oct 20 1 335

This message was self-deleted by its author 1 SamuelTheThird Oct 20 Oct 20 2 204

Evidence suggests mRNA (Covid) vaccines prolong some cancer patients' lives. 16 Laffy Kat Oct 19 Oct 20 40 1392

Science saving whales: Scientists hope underwater fiber-optic cables can help save endangered orcas 4 cbabe Oct 19 Oct 19 8 371

An Iranian volcano appears to have woken up -- 700,000 years after its last eruption 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 17 Oct 18 7 489

How Afraid of the AI Apocalypse Should We Be? The Ezra Klein Show 1 YoshidaYui Oct 18 Oct 18 2 397

The most accurate 3D map of stellar nurseries in the Milky Way (ESA) 3 usonian Oct 16 Oct 17 7 412

Sam Altman Shows Me GPT 5... And What's Next 4 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 17 2 558

Dinosaurs Were Weirder Than We Thought 3 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 16 7 838

Why Gravity Is A Lie, explained in Zero G 1 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 16 7 628

'Bored aliens': has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth? 9 hunter Oct 15 Oct 15 8 578

Cascadia quake may create 'emergency situation' in other West Coast fault zone, study warns 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 15 Oct 15 5 427

The Small World Paradox 4 Uncle Joe Oct 8 Oct 15 5 657

Playing with Tantalum. 2 NNadir Oct 15 Oct 15 3 479

Mysterious gullies on Mars appear to have been carved by burrowing CO₂ ice blocks 0 erronis Oct 14 Oct 14 7 359

SpaceX successfully lands 11th test starship - FRANCE 24 0 TexasTowelie Oct 14 Oct 14 4 385

In the wild, chimpanzees likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks every day 5 erronis Sep 17 Oct 12 5 652

Satellite Technology Uncovers New Ancient Egyptian Cities And Pyramids 1 William Seger Sep 19 Oct 12 7 3121

Your iPhone Tracking You and Listening - TURN THIS OFF! 0 YoshidaYui Oct 11 Oct 11 16 832

Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science 2 douglas9 Oct 11 Oct 11 8 388

One of the largest great white sharks ever tagged pings in unusual spot 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 10 Oct 11 12 800

How Europe's largest bat catches and eats birds mid-air 0 erronis Oct 9 Oct 9 6 396

Annie Walker: The astronomer with an asteroid, but no known photographs 2 cbabe Oct 9 Oct 9 9 495

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The "American" winner of the Nobel in Chemistry is Palestinian by birth. 6 NNadir Oct 8 Oct 9 10 563

Success on my quest to make a mutant! 2 mr715 Oct 9 Oct 9 2 467

What Does AI Think of Star Trek's Data (& SciFi AI)? 0 YoshidaYui Oct 8 Oct 8 2 413

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Joe Rogan discuss the cherry picking of Science...12 min vid 2 mitch96 Oct 6 Oct 6 6 656

Rogue planet's record growth spurt of 6 billion tonnes per second 3 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 4 468

Elephants know when we're looking at them 2 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 10 884

Why Do Women Outlive Men? WaPo: Redundancy of XX vs XY Genetics 14 GreatGazoo Oct 5 Oct 6 20 1166

APOD: "Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website." 4 SorellaLaBefana Oct 2 Oct 6 9 796

Scientists Develop Robots That Literally Walk on Water 1 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 3 543

Generations of Bearded Vultures Stashed Humans' Treasures, Including a 650-Year-Old Sandal, in These Bird Nests 1 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 19 839

ESA inaugurates new deep space antenna in Australia 0 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 2 352

String Theory - ScienceClic 6 BootinUp Oct 3 Oct 5 9 656

Sputnik Starts Space Race (APOD Redux from 2000) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 4 Oct 4 4 418

What if the Universe Remembers Everything? New Theory Rewrites the Rules of Physics 12 erronis Oct 3 Oct 3 27 1398

Another Comet, from another time (From the APOD files) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 3 Oct 3 3 572

Bizarre ankylosaur with spikes is unlike any known dinosaur (earthsky.org) 3 eppur_se_muova Sep 30 Sep 30 10 2223

'Wholesale destruction': Government shutdown or not, critical science programs are at risk 0 douglas9 Sep 30 Sep 30 6 1954

Paleontologists Discover Megaraptor Fossil With a Crocodilian's Leg Still in Its Mouth 1 Judi Lynn Sep 29 Sep 30 12 2529

These Ancient Footprints Rewrite Human History 5 Ptah Sep 29 Sep 29 17 2967

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