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Edward Stone, who guided NASA's Voyager to distant planets, dies at 88 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 455
Mars Was Hit With a Solar Storm Days After Earth's Aurora Light Show, NASA Says 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 472
Meet the 'Echidnapus,' an Extinct Creature That Resembles Both the Echidna and Platypus of Today 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 530
A Giant Interstellar Cloud May Have Once Enveloped Earth, Potentially Causing Ice Ages 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 480
Researchers leverage shadows to model 3D scenes, including objects blocked from view 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 570
Rocket company develops massive catapult to launch satellites into space without using jet fuel 11 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 16 1553
Neanderthal DNA Exists in Humans, But One Piece Is Mysteriously Missing 7 BootinUp Jun 2024 Jun 2024 29 1969
The GOP's war on science is suicidal -- Sabrina Haake 3 erronis Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 719
Webb Detects Giant Collision in Beta Pictoris System 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 12 914
Astronomers Spot Parallel Jets and Circumstellar Disks in Nearby Multistar System 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 579
Wild New Study Suggests Gravity Can Exist Without Mass 2 Warpy Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 915
Future evolution: from looks to brains and personality, how will humans change in the next 10,000 years? 3 erronis Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 715
Study confirms the rotation of Earth's inner core has slowed 8 Jim__ Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 1233
Why scientists fear a second Trump term, and what they are doing about it 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 740
Elite researchers in China say they had 'no choice' but to commit misconduct 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 9932
AI & robotics briefing: The year machines will run out of data (Nature) 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 585
Study: African Elephants Address Each Other With Name-Like Calls 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 22 859
Water Frost Deposits Spotted on Tropical Martian Volcanoes 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 694
A telescope on Earth just took an unbelievable image of Jupiter's moon 12 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 51 2548
In Wyoming, Bill Gates moves ahead with nuclear project aimed at revolutionizing power generation 7 BootinUp Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 1430
George Mason University Announces Its First NASA Space Mission Which Seeks to Uncover the Secrets of Dark Energy 0 nitpicked Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 478
All Human Existence May Have Begun in a Black Hole, Some Scientists Believe 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 9920
A Biologist Reveals How To Avoid Deadly Bites From South America's Most Feared Snake 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 986
Researchers made ultra-thin night-vision lenses that fit regular glasses 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 707
Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 708
A Herpetologist Reveals The World's Most Venomous Snake--Shockingly, It Has Never Killed Anyone 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 1176
Scientists Have Discovered a New Way to Look Inside Crystals 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 586
Ed Dwight, first African American candidate for space travel, takes off 60 years later 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 496
Peering Through Cosmic Dust: James Webb Telescope Is on the Hunt for Newborn Planets 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 450
First Detection of Magnetism in Massive Stars Beyond Our Galaxy 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 459

Science Continued...

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"Extraordinary" Slow-Spinning Neutron Star Shakes Astrophysics 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 632
Giant viruses discovered in Greenland could slow ice melt 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 613
New model suggests partner anti-universe could explain accelerated expansion without the need for dark energy 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 857
Bornean clouded leopard family filmed in wild for 1st time ever 8 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 63 2027
FBI asks scientists for trust in taking anti-Asian bias seriously 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 786
More Than a Century Ago, Flamingos Disappeared From Florida. Now, They're Coming Home 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 1519
The Man Who Took the Historic "Earthrise" Picture Was a Nuclear Engineer. 1 NNadir Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 802
Take a Tour of Pandora's Cluster - NASA 0 BootinUp Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 550
Prehistoric mini-ape discovered in Germany the smallest to ever live 0 Eugene Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 675
Researchers map meerkat chit-chat 6 BootinUp Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 1058
World's first wooden satellite could herald era of greener space exploration 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 605
Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 721
Gene therapy: kids hear for the first time 0 cbabe Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 580
New discovery questions theory that earth was covered by ocean four billion years ago 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 9 845
Pre-historic discovery: Scientists find complete skull of 230 kg 'giant goose' in Australia 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 8754
Boing Starliner expected to launch 1 June 6 RussBLib Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 1051
Boeing Starliner 1st astronaut flight: Live updates 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 661
MUSE Spots Bizarre Stellar Object with Illuminated Protoplanetary Disk 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 700
Hubble will change how it points, but NASA says 'great science' will continue 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 545
Hubble Looks at Face-On Barred Spiral Galaxy 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 13 924
Australian Marsupials Fear Humans Far More Than Any Other Predator, New Study Shows 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 9 726
Extinct North American Porcupine Had Long, Prehensile Tail 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 9 563
Scientists make 'huge' $540 billion discovery at the bottom of a giant lake 16 NJCher Jun 2024 Jun 2024 42 3136
From Stethoscopes to Reactors, a leftist doctor speaks on energy. 1 NNadir Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 731
Semeru Eruption This Week in Volcano News; Damaging Iceland Eruption, Krakatau Could Erupt 5 catbyte Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 821
Energy Developer to Trash 1000s of Endangered Joshua Trees and Desert Turtle Habitat. 7 NNadir Jun 2024 Jun 2024 16 1136
China says its spacecraft lands on Moon's far side 3 Eugene Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 662
Biomedical paper retractions have quadrupled in 20 years -- why? 3 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 789
What would we see at the speed of light? 5 Uncle Joe May 2024 May 2024 12 991
Biggest genome ever found belongs to this odd little plant 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 6 743

Science Continued...

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Astronomers find most distant galaxy using James Webb Space Telescope 1 Zorro May 2024 May 2024 5 739
Disputed dark-matter claim to be tested by new lab in South Korea 1 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 5 628
China is about to land on the far side of the moon with Chang'e 6 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 5 511
Genetically modified foods. How are they bad? 2 SarahD May 2024 May 2024 0 780
Icelandic eye candy, raw video 5 Warpy May 2024 May 2024 7 1020
Injuries by police fall as diversity and income rise 2 BootinUp May 2024 May 2024 2 665
A robot will soon try to remove melted nuclear fuel from Japan's destroyed Fukushima reactor 3 WhiteTara May 2024 May 2024 3 705
Secrets of radioactive 'promethium' -- a rare earth element with mysterious applications -- uncovered after 80-year search 2 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 8 800
Auroras could paint Earth's skies again in early June. Here are the key nights to watch for. 1 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 9 1064
Kīlauea Reveals A New "Stomp Rocket" Type Of Volcanic Eruption 2 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 12 702
More transparent than glass, new material cools rooms and self-cleans 11 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 32 1694
Milky Way's Center is Venting, Astronomers Say 2 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 10 775
A Rare Risk of Asteroid Fastballs Turns Scientists Into Sluggers 2 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 17 1143
Pluto's Subsurface Ocean is 8% Denser than Seawater on Earth, Study Suggests 1 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 6 583
Astronomers Create Catalog of Exotic Exoplanets 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 5 527
New Webb telescope photo truly boggles the mind 18 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 73 3881
Scientists found an incandescent planet. It's 'constantly exploding.' 1 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 13 775
Scientists find Earth-like planet that could be home to alien life 3 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 15 967
These Ancient Animals Scarier Than Dinosaurs 4 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 8 1478
Krakatoa: Devastating Explosion How the Earth Was Made (S1, E3) Full Episode 1 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 5 841
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