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Pinatubo : NOBODY Thought This VOLCANO Would Explode 1 YoshidaYui Apr 5 Apr 6 5 658
A Nice Discussion by Indonesian Scientists on Aspects of Proliferation Resistant Plutonium. 2 NNadir Apr 5 Apr 6 1 463
JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 times more massive than Milky Way -- scientists call it 'Big Wheel' 0 Judi Lynn Apr 6 Apr 6 5 534
Where Have All the Butterflies Gone? "Shocking" Nationwide Decline Sparks Alarm 4 erronis Mar 2025 Apr 5 10 655
The unique genetic change that turned horses into athletic powerhouses 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 4 Apr 5 8 622
The extraordinary reason why scientists are collecting sea turtle tears 2 douglas9 Apr 5 Apr 5 14 776
NOAA Websites Set to Go Dark in Continued Assault on Scientific Research 1 douglas9 Apr 5 Apr 5 8 508
How Lifting Weights Can Slow Brain Aging and Protect Against Alzheimer's Disease 11 erronis Apr 4 Apr 4 19 1116
Lost Worlds: the Forgotten Creatures of Prehistory 1 YoshidaYui Apr 4 Apr 4 4 618
Sea, Ice and Land: Different Perspective on the Top of the World 4 SorellaLaBefana Apr 4 Apr 4 5 504
Blaze Star: How To Prepare For The Biggest Sky Event For 79 Years 14 Judi Lynn Mar 27 Apr 4 49 2742
This 7,000-year-old mummy DNA has revealed a 'ghost' branch of humanity 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 3 Apr 3 32 1017
Bonobos combine calls in similar ways to human language, study finds 2 erronis Apr 3 Apr 3 5 426
Scientists discover major differences in how humans and AI 'think' -- and the implications could be significant 0 milestogo Apr 2 Apr 2 10 678
Video: Is space debris a crisis? 2 Jim__ Apr 1 Apr 2 3 451
Airbus to test radical engine design for successor to A320 9 usonian Mar 25 Apr 1 1 888
ICK!!! Going through some old literature I came across a process with an obscenity as a name. 3 NNadir Apr 1 Apr 1 4 792
How cancer cells travel to new tissues and take hold 2 milestogo Apr 1 Apr 1 8 611
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Parker: The Solar System from Near the Sun 2 Ptah Mar 31 Apr 1 21 735
The Particle That Might Explain Why Anything Exists at All 2 erronis Apr 1 Apr 1 16 654
Scientists Just Discovered Quantum Signals Inside Life Itself 3 erronis Mar 31 Mar 31 11 939
We are finally beginning to understand how LLMs work 0 William Seger Mar 31 Mar 31 10 703
A Useful Tutorial on the Analysis of Polymers. 4 NNadir Mar 29 Mar 29 4 556
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 7 650
Project 2025 Tracker 1 littlemissmartypants Mar 28 Mar 28 10 589
Hidden supermassive black hole revealed through hot gas 0 Judi Lynn Mar 28 Mar 28 5 388
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 7 455
African science leaders unite to amplify global voice 0 Judi Lynn Mar 27 Mar 27 3 304
Webb telescope captures weird auroras on Neptune for the first time 0 Judi Lynn Mar 27 Mar 27 8 471

Science Continued...

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Sharks Aren't Silent After All. This One Clicks Like a Castanet 1 Judi Lynn Mar 27 Mar 27 6 440
Scientists Just Built a Battery That Never Needs Charging 33 erronis Mar 26 Mar 27 39 3158
AI tools may weaken critical thinking skills by encouraging cognitive offloading, study suggests 6 erronis Mar 25 Mar 26 13 626
This One Cognitive Skill May Be a Better Predictor of Life Expectancy Than Health Habits 6 erronis Mar 26 Mar 26 11 1046
An annually resolved 5700-year storm archive reveals drivers of Caribbean cyclone frequency 1 Sancho Mar 24 Mar 24 2 471
A French university is offering 'scientific asylum' for US talent. The brain drain has started 5 usonian Mar 24 Mar 24 10 659
India's Floating Solar Farms Can Be Seen From Space 0 erronis Mar 23 Mar 23 8 577
Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields 2 erronis Mar 22 Mar 22 2 574
Science is shattering our intuitions about consciousness Annaka Harris 17 Uncle Joe Mar 21 Mar 22 19 1455
Physicists Bend Time Inside a Diamond, Creating a Brand-New Phase of Matter 3 Judi Lynn Mar 22 Mar 22 23 1021
Scientists Uncover a Hidden Brain Plumbing System That Restores Memory 2 erronis Mar 21 Mar 21 11 740
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 12 792
Scientists Trick the Brain With a Fake Hand - And Pain Disappears 0 erronis Mar 21 Mar 21 5 440
The Hidden Logic Behind Poland's Stunningly Striped Fields 0 erronis Mar 20 Mar 20 10 649
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 10 624
Hubble Telescope spies star-forming cocoons in neighboring galaxy (photo) 0 Judi Lynn Mar 20 Mar 20 7 471
Scientists Detect Silent "Scream" of Skin Cells for the First Time 2 erronis Mar 19 Mar 19 9 716
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 14 615
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 13 540
Tiny 'microlightning' flashes inside water droplets may have sparked life on Earth 0 highplainsdem Mar 19 Mar 19 8 303
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 14 563
Welcome to the New, Ad-Free Universe Today, Brought to You By 3,000 Space Fans 0 usonian Mar 17 Mar 17 7 420
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants 2 douglas9 Mar 17 Mar 17 4 325
Young scientists see career pathways vanish as schools adapt to federal funding cuts 4 Eugene Mar 16 Mar 17 5 346
122 devil rays joined in a wild mating ritual that lasted for hours 2 milestogo Mar 16 Mar 16 10 531
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 6 527
Bullseye! Astronomers discover a giant galaxy with nine rings 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Mar 2025 7 528

Science Continued...

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'A political division, not a physical one, determined who got measles and who didn't' 4 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 34 1444
Beyond Earthrise: Blue Ghost's Chilling New Perspective From the Moon 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 561
Superb lyrebirds have an unexpected new skill 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 15 614
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Installs LSST Camera on Telescope 1 Ptah Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 441
Black holes: Not endings, but beginnings? Theoretical study delves into 'white holes' 3 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 510
The 'Silent' X Chromosome Gives the Aging Female Brain a Boost 5 WestMichRad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 16 707
NASA's newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 539
Water's Hidden Side Revealed - It Can Exist in Two Liquid Forms at Once 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 582
Building Blocks of Life Discovered on Distant Asteroid NOVA PBS 2 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 586
Mystery at heart of Milky Way galaxy linked to new type of dark matter 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 645
New Palladium Catalyst Cuts Hydrogen Production Costs by 90% Nanosheet structure reduces need for precious metals by 90% 0 Caribbeans Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 480
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research 2 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 509
Highly Efficient Plutonium Extraction Using a Phosphonium Phosphinate Task-Specific Ionic Liquid 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 247
Secret commands found in Bluetooth chip used in a billion devices 6 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 19 746
Webb exposes complex atmosphere of starless super-Jupiter 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 451
Private lunar lander Athena may have fallen over while touching down near the moon's south pole 9 Eugene Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 786
The Startling Truth About What Happens to Your Eyes While You Sleep 1 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 21 874
Listen To The Loudest Humpback Whale Yapping We've Ever Heard Off Hawaii 6 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 586
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 22 595
How to photograph the moon: Tips on camera gear, settings and composition 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 470
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