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Sea, Ice and Land: Different Perspective on the Top of the World 4 SorellaLaBefana Apr 4 Apr 4 5 501
Blaze Star: How To Prepare For The Biggest Sky Event For 79 Years 14 Judi Lynn Mar 27 Apr 4 49 2728
This 7,000-year-old mummy DNA has revealed a 'ghost' branch of humanity 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 3 Apr 3 32 1012
Bonobos combine calls in similar ways to human language, study finds 2 erronis Apr 3 Apr 3 5 422
Scientists discover major differences in how humans and AI 'think' -- and the implications could be significant 0 milestogo Apr 2 Apr 2 10 674
Video: Is space debris a crisis? 2 Jim__ Apr 1 Apr 2 3 448
Airbus to test radical engine design for successor to A320 9 usonian Mar 25 Apr 1 1 874
ICK!!! Going through some old literature I came across a process with an obscenity as a name. 3 NNadir Apr 1 Apr 1 4 790
How cancer cells travel to new tissues and take hold 2 milestogo Apr 1 Apr 1 8 609
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Parker: The Solar System from Near the Sun 2 Ptah Mar 31 Apr 1 21 732
The Particle That Might Explain Why Anything Exists at All 2 erronis Apr 1 Apr 1 16 647
Scientists Just Discovered Quantum Signals Inside Life Itself 3 erronis Mar 31 Mar 31 11 936
We are finally beginning to understand how LLMs work 0 William Seger Mar 31 Mar 31 10 702
A Useful Tutorial on the Analysis of Polymers. 4 NNadir Mar 29 Mar 29 4 548
A partial solar eclipse will stun in the sky this Saturday. Here's how and where you'll be able to see it. 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 28 Mar 28 7 649
Project 2025 Tracker 1 littlemissmartypants Mar 28 Mar 28 10 578
Hidden supermassive black hole revealed through hot gas 0 Judi Lynn Mar 28 Mar 28 5 386
Finding Clues in the Ruins of Ancient Dead Star with NASA's Chandra 0 Judi Lynn Mar 28 Mar 28 5 431
Nine New Tardigrade Species Discovered Thanks to the Efforts of Danish Schoolchildren 0 Judi Lynn Mar 27 Mar 27 7 453
African science leaders unite to amplify global voice 0 Judi Lynn Mar 27 Mar 27 3 302
Webb telescope captures weird auroras on Neptune for the first time 0 Judi Lynn Mar 27 Mar 27 8 470
Sharks Aren't Silent After All. This One Clicks Like a Castanet 1 Judi Lynn Mar 27 Mar 27 6 439
Scientists Just Built a Battery That Never Needs Charging 33 erronis Mar 26 Mar 27 39 3115
AI tools may weaken critical thinking skills by encouraging cognitive offloading, study suggests 6 erronis Mar 25 Mar 26 13 622
This One Cognitive Skill May Be a Better Predictor of Life Expectancy Than Health Habits 6 erronis Mar 26 Mar 26 11 1042
An annually resolved 5700-year storm archive reveals drivers of Caribbean cyclone frequency 1 Sancho Mar 24 Mar 24 2 466
A French university is offering 'scientific asylum' for US talent. The brain drain has started 5 usonian Mar 24 Mar 24 10 652
India's Floating Solar Farms Can Be Seen From Space 0 erronis Mar 23 Mar 23 8 574
Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields 2 erronis Mar 22 Mar 22 2 571
Science is shattering our intuitions about consciousness Annaka Harris 17 Uncle Joe Mar 21 Mar 22 19 1440

Science Continued...

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Physicists Bend Time Inside a Diamond, Creating a Brand-New Phase of Matter 3 Judi Lynn Mar 22 Mar 22 23 1019
Scientists Uncover a Hidden Brain Plumbing System That Restores Memory 2 erronis Mar 21 Mar 21 11 734
A transition point in romantic relationships may signal the beginning of their end 0 erronis Mar 21 Mar 21 10 725
Mysterious Ancestors: Scientists Just Uncovered a Shocking Secret About Human Origins 2 erronis Mar 21 Mar 21 12 790
Scientists Trick the Brain With a Fake Hand - And Pain Disappears 0 erronis Mar 21 Mar 21 5 438
The Hidden Logic Behind Poland's Stunningly Striped Fields 0 erronis Mar 20 Mar 20 10 648
Scientists find evidence of 'supernova graveyard' at the bottom of the sea -- and possibly on the surface of the moon 0 Judi Lynn Mar 20 Mar 20 10 622
Hubble Telescope spies star-forming cocoons in neighboring galaxy (photo) 0 Judi Lynn Mar 20 Mar 20 7 468
Scientists Detect Silent "Scream" of Skin Cells for the First Time 2 erronis Mar 19 Mar 19 9 713
Oh Dear God. Realize am late to the party but: MAGA now may be going to halt mRNA research !?! 2 SorellaLaBefana Mar 19 Mar 19 14 612
Not sure this is the group, but: "Glasses" That Transcribe Text To Audio. By an eighth grade student. 2 usonian Mar 19 Mar 19 5 489
The Independent: Mutant snake with three sharp fangs 'might be most dangerous death adder' ever found 0 Dennis Donovan Mar 19 Mar 19 13 538
Tiny 'microlightning' flashes inside water droplets may have sparked life on Earth 0 highplainsdem Mar 19 Mar 19 8 301
AI's research blunder: How a mistake sparked a chain of flawed scientific papers. Can artificial intelligence be trusted 1 eppur_se_muova Mar 18 Mar 18 14 560
Welcome to the New, Ad-Free Universe Today, Brought to You By 3,000 Space Fans 0 usonian Mar 17 Mar 17 7 419
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants 2 douglas9 Mar 17 Mar 17 4 322
Young scientists see career pathways vanish as schools adapt to federal funding cuts 4 Eugene Mar 16 Mar 17 5 344
122 devil rays joined in a wild mating ritual that lasted for hours 2 milestogo Mar 16 Mar 16 10 528
H5N1 bird flu virus is infectious in raw milk cheese for months, posing risk to public health, study shows 0 littlemissmartypants Mar 16 Mar 16 2 429
Why does nature love spirals? The link to entropy 0 erronis Mar 15 Mar 15 6 526
Bullseye! Astronomers discover a giant galaxy with nine rings 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Mar 13 7 525
'A political division, not a physical one, determined who got measles and who didn't' 4 littlemissmartypants Mar 13 Mar 13 34 1435
Beyond Earthrise: Blue Ghost's Chilling New Perspective From the Moon 0 erronis Mar 13 Mar 13 9 560
Superb lyrebirds have an unexpected new skill 1 Judi Lynn Mar 12 Mar 13 15 612
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Installs LSST Camera on Telescope 1 Ptah Mar 12 Mar 13 3 435
Black holes: Not endings, but beginnings? Theoretical study delves into 'white holes' 3 erronis Mar 12 Mar 12 4 504
The 'Silent' X Chromosome Gives the Aging Female Brain a Boost 5 WestMichRad Mar 12 Mar 12 16 702
NASA's newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies 2 Judi Lynn Mar 12 Mar 12 7 536
Water's Hidden Side Revealed - It Can Exist in Two Liquid Forms at Once 0 Judi Lynn Mar 12 Mar 12 12 581
Building Blocks of Life Discovered on Distant Asteroid NOVA PBS 2 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 12 9 581

Science Continued...

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Mystery at heart of Milky Way galaxy linked to new type of dark matter 1 Judi Lynn Mar 12 Mar 12 7 642
New Palladium Catalyst Cuts Hydrogen Production Costs by 90% Nanosheet structure reduces need for precious metals by 90% 0 Caribbeans Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 476
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research 2 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 506
Highly Efficient Plutonium Extraction Using a Phosphonium Phosphinate Task-Specific Ionic Liquid 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 244
Secret commands found in Bluetooth chip used in a billion devices 6 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 19 745
Webb exposes complex atmosphere of starless super-Jupiter 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 450
Private lunar lander Athena may have fallen over while touching down near the moon's south pole 9 Eugene Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 783
The Startling Truth About What Happens to Your Eyes While You Sleep 1 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 21 872
Listen To The Loudest Humpback Whale Yapping We've Ever Heard Off Hawaii 6 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 577
This Map Lets You Plug in Your Address to See How It's Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 22 594
How to photograph the moon: Tips on camera gear, settings and composition 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 465
Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover 4 DBoon Mar 2025 Mar 2025 22 5539
Powerful 'equinox auroras' may arrive soon: Why changing seasons can bring the best northern lights 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 344
James Webb Unveils a Mysterious Planet Unlike Anything in Our Solar System 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 642
Astronomers Just Found a Star System That Shouldn't Exist Near a Supermassive Black Hole 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 402
Study warns of deadly future marine heat waves in East Coast estuaries 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 359
Unproven Einstein theory of 'gravitational memory' may be real after all, new study hints 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 725
NASA's Webb Exposes Complex Atmosphere of Starless Super-Jupiter 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 494
Men are getting bigger than women. 2 surfered Jan 2025 Mar 2025 6 901
Interstellar tunnel discovered: Could it be the cosmic gateway to new stars? 4 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 796
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