Friendly forums for passionate Dems!
More than 93 million posts since 2001
Home Latest Greatest Videos Forums Hide ads Join up!
Home Latest Greatest
Videos Forums Help
Hide ads Join up!
Latest Discussions»Culture Forums»Science
Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

Science

Related: About this forum
Start a new discussionStart discussion Subscribe to this forum (see My DU » Subscriptions)Subscribe Mark this forum as read (yellow icons will turn white)Mark as read Search this forum using Advanced SearchSearch forum You will no longer see this forum (see My DU > Trash Can)Trash forum Get forum information and statisticsAbout forum
This is a group, not a forum. Groups often serve as safe havens for members who share similar interests and viewpoints. Individuals who post messages contrary to a particular group's stated purpose can be excluded from posting in that group. For detailed information about this group and its purpose, click here.
Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Earthquakes seem more intense after cosmic ray strikes. Scientists say this is why. 1 Uncle Joe Jun 2023 Jun 2023 16 1729
Maya civilisation: Archaeologists find ancient city in jungle 2 muriel_volestrangler Jun 2023 Jun 2023 9 1074
World War II and Invasive Palms Destroyed a Pacific Paradise. Can Fungi Restore It? 1 NNadir Jun 2023 Jun 2023 7 2915
Tonga Volcano Eruption Created Highest Lightning Rates Ever Recorded On Earth 1 BootinUp Jun 2023 Jun 2023 11 1256
Alien green flash: Lightning crackles in vortex near Jupiter's north pole (photo) 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 11 1996
Space Travel Can Change Astronauts' Brains for Years 4 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 7 1295
Large Hadron Collider may be closing in on the universe's missing antimatter 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 9 2046
Sometimes You Need KISS: The creation of 241U. 4 NNadir Jun 2023 Jun 2023 4 1294
Scientists Find Phosphorus--a Key Element for Life--on a Saturn Moon 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 6 1754
New Tatooine-like exoplanet discovered orbiting twin suns. Meet BEBOP-1c. 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 9 991
Surprise! Jupiter's ocean moon Europa may not have a fully formed core 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 6 1682
We've pumped so much groundwater that we've nudged the Earth's spin 7 Duppers Jun 2023 Jun 2023 32 2390
Boulder Bonanza! Science and Sampling Attempts at the Onahu Outcrop 0 turbinetree Jun 2023 Jun 2023 7 949
James Webb Space Telescope reveals how galaxies made the early universe transparent 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 13 1946
rho ophiuchi cloud complex 4 moonshinegnomie Jun 2023 Jun 2023 14 1034
'Cosmic magnifying glass' reveals super-rare warped supernova with gravitational lens. 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1444
Scientists beam solar power to Earth from space for 1st time ever 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 14 1851
Don't miss Jupiter and its 5 Galilean satellites shine near the crescent moon tonight 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 8 3056
Shining rainbow rings around the sun photographed in Finland. What caused them? 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 13 1676
Primordial soup 5 Tetrachloride Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 1132
Scientists Develop New Birth Control for Female Cats--No Surgery Necessary 18 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 30 4927
Lifesaving Fentanyl Test Strips Are Being Legalized in More States 6 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 7 1461
China wants to launch a moon-orbiting telescope array as soon as 2026 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 4 1691
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission -- Live updates 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 7 875
See Mars like never before in this amazing new photo from a 20-year-old probe 4 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 47 3538
Ethereal 'halo' and light arcs around the sun captured in photos of ultra-rare phenomena 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 11 1354
So I went to a lecture this afternoon by double Nobel Laureate K. Barry Sharpless... 2 NNadir Jun 2023 Jun 2023 13 1733
Chemical fossils spanning 1.64 billion years hint at the evolution of steroids in living systems. 2 NNadir Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1850
The Truth Behind Africa's Piranha Tigerfish Attack Real Wild 0 YoshidaYui Jun 2023 Jun 2023 5 948
Brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen, the largest known explosion since Big Bang, has a unique jet st 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 8 1759

Science Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
NASA's sun-kissing Parker Solar Probe finds source of 'fast' solar wind 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 800
Strange star holds 'holy grail' clues about unique supernova explosions in the early universe 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1563
Origins of masturbation traced back to primates 40m years ago 18 milestogo Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 2638
The Biggest Meat Eating Dinosaur Ever: Spinosaurus Documentary 4 YoshidaYui Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1059
Wow Wildlife Moments from the Deep Waters Near Kingman Reef 1 catbyte Jun 2023 Jun 2023 4 1349
James Webb Space Telescope spies earliest complex organic molecules in the universe 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 9 1787
Dinosaurs 101 National Geographic 1 YoshidaYui Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 787
TARBOSAURUS I. THE MIGHTIEST EVER PART 1 Dinosaur documentary 1 YoshidaYui Jun 2023 Jun 2023 4 1773
Why do animals keep evolving into crabs? 9 Judi Lynn May 2023 Jun 2023 7 1470
This psychedelic-eyed gecko isn't what we thought it was 7 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 20 2296
Biggest Volcanic Eruptions Mega Disasters Free Documentary 1 YoshidaYui Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 844
Hidden Volcano Abyss: Behind Tonga's Massive Eruption Full Documentary NOVA PBS 1 YoshidaYui Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1251
Cannabis-derived products have flooded the US market - two immunologists explain the medicinal benef 5 BootinUp Jun 2023 Jun 2023 9 2119
Mysterious cosmic threads are reaching out from the Milky Way's monster black hole 0 muriel_volestrangler Jun 2023 Jun 2023 11 1668
Japan and NASA planning to launch a wooden satellite into space next year. 2 BootinUp Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1486
This message was self-deleted by its author 7 GenXer47 Jun 2023 Jun 2023 17 1427
Monster black hole burps out hot gas in bright 'H' shape (photos) 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 6 870
Infant stars burst out of their cosmic cribs in a violent stellar nursery (photo) 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 10 1772
Hubble captures starry tentacles of faraway 'jellyfish galaxy' in stunning detail (photo) 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 7 1095
OmegaCAM Sees Giant Filaments in Vela Supernova Remnant 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 660
SpaceX could launch this wild, origami-inspired folding heat shield later this year 5 Judi Lynn May 2023 Jun 2023 10 1955
Listen to the sounds of Pando, the largest living tree in the world 7 Judi Lynn May 2023 Jun 2023 12 1698
And now we have the first X-ray taken of a single atom 2 BootinUp Jun 2023 Jun 2023 10 1653
New 'quasi-moon' discovered near Earth has been travelling alongside our planet since 100 BC 1 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 17 1721
M16 the eagle nebula 2 moonshinegnomie May 2023 May 2023 6 963
New record! 17 people are in Earth orbit at the same time right now 1 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 3 1603
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 0 446
Mystery pathogen is stripping sea urchins of their flesh and turning them to skeletons -- and it's sp 3 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 15 1709
Small earthquake in Cook Inlet, Alaska 0 Tetrachloride May 2023 May 2023 3 701
Scientists find fungi that can eat plastic 4 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 9 3226

Science Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
M83: The Thousand Ruby Galaxy 14 BootinUp May 2023 May 2023 40 3000
a universe of galaxies 8 moonshinegnomie May 2023 May 2023 22 1643
The Euclid spacecraft will transform how we view the 'dark universe' 0 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 13 1289
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor's Earth Shattering Discovery of the Taylor Cone Took Place at Ages 78-83. 1 NNadir May 2023 May 2023 13 1862
Photon lights a path towards a nuclear clock 0 NNadir May 2023 May 2023 6 976
World's oldest human footprint identified in South Africa (earthsky.org) 2 eppur_se_muova May 2023 May 2023 20 1825
A Very Wonderful Open Chemical Review On A Most Powerful Analytical Chemistry Tool: IMS/Mass Spec. 2 NNadir May 2023 May 2023 2 1515
6.1 Earthquake offshore of Chiba Prefecture, Japan 5 Tetrachloride May 2023 May 2023 2 1066
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Isn't What You Think It Is - Scientifc American 6 BootinUp May 2023 May 2023 5 1879
Strange star system may hold first evidence of an ultra-rare 'dark matter star' 4 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 5 2467
Liberals, Conservatives, and the Political Brain: fMRI Studies of Political Ideology 3 xocetaceans May 2023 May 2023 7 1122
James Webb telescope discovers gargantuan geyser on Saturn's moon, blasting water hundreds of miles 2 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 11 1194
Giants of the Jurassic seas were twice the size of a killer whale (U Portsmout/EarthSky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova May 2023 May 2023 6 1384
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 eppur_se_muova May 2023 May 2023 0 465
Crystals and rich ores drawn from deep inside active volcanoes might lead the way to a better future 1 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 7 1266
Mind reading breakthrough immediately raises questions of ethics 2 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 8 1205
These giant 'drop bears' with opposable thumbs once scaled trees in Australia. But how did they grow 0 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 4 1203
Volcanoes may carpet surface of newfound Earth-size exoplanet 1 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 2 1007
Human-evolution story rewritten by fresh data and more computing power 2 NNadir May 2023 May 2023 13 2115
The Geologic Oddity in Arizona; The Wave 4 catbyte May 2023 May 2023 6 1148
Latest Discussions»Culture Forums»Science
Home | Latest Discussions | Greatest Discussions | Latest Videos | All Forums

About | Copyright | Privacy | Terms of service | Contact

In Memoriam

© 2001 - 2025 Democratic Underground, LLC. Thank you for visiting.