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Most Dementia Patients 'Return' Before Death And It's Unclear Why 9 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 35 1936
The Chandra X-ray spacecraft may soon go dark, threatening a great deal of astronomy 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 May 2024 8 1230
Today begins "Black Hole Week" at NASA: 5 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 4 866
Alternative Medicine An Orangutan Healed Himself With Medicinal Plant 4 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 17 1146
The most horrifying planets in the universe 4 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 9 1510
Dinosaurs from first to last 2 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 4 1391
The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths 1 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 25 1456
The Largest Single Cause of Death Among African American Youth Is Firearms. 0 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 3 927
James Webb telescope spots wind blowing faster than a bullet on '2-faced planet' with eternal night 4 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 10 1067
Interesting: A Scientist for President? (Mexico). 2 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 5 941
Another Victory for Fear And Ignorance Over the World's Poorest. 1 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 6 1050
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 0 570
Scientists Reveal 'Major' New Factor in Bumblebee Decline 11 Sewa May 2024 May 2024 12 1722
Video of sun's surface shows solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss 3 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 4 1023
The Jurassic Period 0 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 3 1249
99 Dinosaur sounds based on Scientific data 5 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 5 1162
Eta Aquarid meteor shower peak could spawn over 100 'shooting stars' per hour this weekend 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 3 867
These Are The Avalanches To Worry About - Veritasium 0 TexasTowelie May 2024 May 2024 1 1110
Scientists reveal Southern Ring Nebula's unexpected structure: 'We were amazed' 3 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 6 931
Dusty 'Cat's Paw Nebula' contains a type of molecule never seen in space -- and it's one of the largest ever found 4 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 24 1589
The Math That Predicted Black Holes Predicts Even Stranger Objects - Veritasium 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1356
On this day, April 30, 1916, mathematician, electrical engineer, and computer scientist Claude Shannon was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 897
Foxes' skulls are specially adapted for diving into snow 3 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 12268
'Is it aliens?': how a mysterious star could help the search for extraterrestrial life 2 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1189
These Hardy Plants Have Figured Out How to 'Farm' Microbes in Their Soil 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 977
Horsehead Nebula rears its head in gorgeous new James Webb Space Telescope images (video) 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 49 2188
Chickens Can Blush When They're Feeling Emotional, And We Should Pay Attention 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 7 1091
China releases world's most detailed moon atlas (video) 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 741
'Tiger stripes' on Saturn's moon Enceladus could reveal if its oceans are habitable 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 816
Why dangerous bird flu is spreading faster and farther than first thought... 5 littlemissmartypants Apr 2024 Apr 2024 29 1578

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A New Record Concentration for CO2, 427.98 ppm Has Been Set for the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory's Weekly Average. 4 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1443
NASA discovered a planet twice as big as Earth with a gas that is 'only produced by life' 15 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 68 3670
Rare dinosaur tracks are longest continuous set of sauropod footprints (EarthSky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Apr 2024 Apr 2024 24 1194
New CO2 Concentration Record Set, 428.59 ppm, at the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory. 1 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 884
Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1372
There's a mysterious ecosystem underneath the driest desert on Earth 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 42 2298
The Effect of Climate Change on Nuclear Reactor Cooling Will Be Studied at Argonne National Lab. 0 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 937
Judge dismisses superconductivity physicist's lawsuit against university 1 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 882
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Stumbled On A Glistening Lava Lake On Jupiter's Moon Io 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 15 1337
Algorithm ranks peer reviewers by reputation -- but critics warn of bias 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 709
Scientists create 'toxic AI' that is rewarded for thinking up the worst possible questions we could imagine 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1135
4 solar flares erupt in exceptionally rare, "quadruple" solar flare from the sun in rare 'super' explosion 5 LastLiberal in PalmSprings Apr 2024 Apr 2024 9 1142
Cosmic fountain is polluting intergalactic space with 50 million suns' worth of material 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1058
Restoring sight is possible now with optogenetics 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 11 1135
It's Official: Scientists Finally Confirmed What's Inside The Moon 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 12 1368
NASA veteran's propellantless propulsion drive defies laws of physics 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1243
For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism 4 WestMichRad Apr 2024 Apr 2024 30 1363
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 766
NASA's Voyager 1 resumes sending engineering updates to Earth 6 erronis Apr 2024 Apr 2024 22 1275
In my lifetime, space exploration has gone from Sputnik to multiple launches each week. 6 Ptah Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 974
An Interesting Experiment in Trying to Involve Journalists in Reporting Real Science Correctly. 1 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1032
Jupiter's Moon Io has been volcanically active for 4.5 billion years 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 882
Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient 13 BootinUp Apr 2024 Apr 2024 27 1816
A Rare Nova Explosion Will Soon Bring a 'New Star' to the Night Sky--How to Catch a Glimpse 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1021
A Stellar Collision Birthed the 'Dragon's Egg' Nebula, a Puzzling Structure in the Milky Way 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1129
Non Nuclear Portions of Wyoming's Kemmerer Nuclear Power Plant to Start Construction This Summer. 3 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 959
Meet 'goldene': this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 11 935
Too hot for a lizard? Climate change quickens the pace of extinction 0 BootinUp Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 908
I have been waiting for about 20 years for this paper to appear. 8 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 15 1767
Can AI read our minds? Probably not, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be worried 5 BootinUp Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 967

Science Continued...

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This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Mosby Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 520
Watch a swarm of cyborg cockroaches controlled by computers 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 937
Mysterious dark matter may leave clues in 'strings of pearls' trailing our galaxy 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 852
March 2024 Was the Worst Month Ever for CO2 Increases Measured at the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory. 6 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1543
US COVID-origins hearing puts scientific journals in the hot seat 5 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 1282
Earthquake: Japan's Ehime Prefecture. 6.3 on Richter 0 Tetrachloride Apr 2024 Apr 2024 9 881
Bumblebee species able to survive underwater for up to a week 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 904
Water Bears' 'Incredible Response' to Radiation Surprises Scientists 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2024 Apr 2024 14 1074
Nature Energy: An Estimate of the Death Toll Associated with a US Nuclear Power Phase Out. 1 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 1198
Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds 8 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1576
Most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy found 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 911
New analysis reveals the brutal history of the Winchcombe meteorite's journey through space 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 831
Nasa: 'New plan needed to return rocks from Mars' 0 Eugene Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 913
CICADA APOCALYPSE 2024: The Historical Rebirth in Spring 3 YoshidaYui Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1081
NASA releases free e-book on Hubble space mysteries 6 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 26 1619
The science of static shock jolted into the 21st century - phys.org 2 erronis Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 993
New advances promise secure quantum computing at home -- phys.org 3 erronis Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1037
A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular structure inside algae 0 BootinUp Apr 2024 Apr 2024 19 1177
Nominations for invertebrate of the year 6 cbabe Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1042
Turns out wombats *can* run at 40km/h 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1175
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