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Moon, Stars and Magic: La Bella Luna and the Seven Sisters Bring a Moment of Peace and Serenity (APOD) 5 SorellaLaBefana Apr 8 Apr 10 11 584
Titanic scan reveals ground-breaking details of ship's final hours 14 k_buddy762 Apr 9 Apr 9 46 2191
An Advance in Brain Research That Was Once Considered Impossible 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 9 Apr 9 14 846
4,000 Meters Below Sea Level, Scientists Have Found the Spectacular 'Dark Oxygen' 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 7 Apr 7 14 605
New Clues to Consciousness: Scientists Discover the Brain's Hidden Gatekeeper 0 erronis Apr 6 Apr 6 10 677
Pinatubo : NOBODY Thought This VOLCANO Would Explode 1 YoshidaYui Apr 5 Apr 6 5 634
A Nice Discussion by Indonesian Scientists on Aspects of Proliferation Resistant Plutonium. 2 NNadir Apr 5 Apr 6 1 425
JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 times more massive than Milky Way -- scientists call it 'Big Wheel' 0 Judi Lynn Apr 6 Apr 6 5 517
Where Have All the Butterflies Gone? "Shocking" Nationwide Decline Sparks Alarm 4 erronis Mar 12 Apr 5 10 610
The unique genetic change that turned horses into athletic powerhouses 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 4 Apr 5 8 581
The extraordinary reason why scientists are collecting sea turtle tears 2 douglas9 Apr 5 Apr 5 14 747
NOAA Websites Set to Go Dark in Continued Assault on Scientific Research 1 douglas9 Apr 5 Apr 5 8 479
How Lifting Weights Can Slow Brain Aging and Protect Against Alzheimer's Disease 11 erronis Apr 4 Apr 4 19 1013
Lost Worlds: the Forgotten Creatures of Prehistory 1 YoshidaYui Apr 4 Apr 4 4 584
Sea, Ice and Land: Different Perspective on the Top of the World 4 SorellaLaBefana Apr 4 Apr 4 5 458
Blaze Star: How To Prepare For The Biggest Sky Event For 79 Years 14 Judi Lynn Mar 27 Apr 4 49 2557
This 7,000-year-old mummy DNA has revealed a 'ghost' branch of humanity 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 3 Apr 3 32 983
Bonobos combine calls in similar ways to human language, study finds 2 erronis Apr 3 Apr 3 5 398
Scientists discover major differences in how humans and AI 'think' -- and the implications could be significant 0 milestogo Apr 2 Apr 2 10 654
Video: Is space debris a crisis? 2 Jim__ Apr 1 Apr 2 3 417
Airbus to test radical engine design for successor to A320 9 usonian Mar 25 Apr 1 1 803
ICK!!! Going through some old literature I came across a process with an obscenity as a name. 3 NNadir Apr 1 Apr 1 4 741
How cancer cells travel to new tissues and take hold 2 milestogo Apr 1 Apr 1 8 581
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Parker: The Solar System from Near the Sun 2 Ptah Mar 31 Apr 1 21 707
The Particle That Might Explain Why Anything Exists at All 2 erronis Apr 1 Apr 1 16 609
Scientists Just Discovered Quantum Signals Inside Life Itself 3 erronis Mar 31 Mar 31 11 888
We are finally beginning to understand how LLMs work 0 William Seger Mar 31 Mar 31 10 678
A Useful Tutorial on the Analysis of Polymers. 4 NNadir Mar 29 Mar 29 4 504
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 7 615
Project 2025 Tracker 1 littlemissmartypants Mar 28 Mar 28 10 533

Science Continued...

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Hidden supermassive black hole revealed through hot gas 0 Judi Lynn Mar 28 Mar 28 5 358
Finding Clues in the Ruins of Ancient Dead Star with NASA's Chandra 0 Judi Lynn Mar 28 Mar 28 5 401
Nine New Tardigrade Species Discovered Thanks to the Efforts of Danish Schoolchildren 0 Judi Lynn Mar 27 Mar 27 7 432
African science leaders unite to amplify global voice 0 Judi Lynn Mar 27 Mar 27 3 283
Webb telescope captures weird auroras on Neptune for the first time 0 Judi Lynn Mar 27 Mar 27 8 450
Sharks Aren't Silent After All. This One Clicks Like a Castanet 1 Judi Lynn Mar 27 Mar 27 6 410
Scientists Just Built a Battery That Never Needs Charging 33 erronis Mar 26 Mar 27 39 2800
AI tools may weaken critical thinking skills by encouraging cognitive offloading, study suggests 6 erronis Mar 25 Mar 26 13 540
This One Cognitive Skill May Be a Better Predictor of Life Expectancy Than Health Habits 6 erronis Mar 26 Mar 26 11 978
An annually resolved 5700-year storm archive reveals drivers of Caribbean cyclone frequency 1 Sancho Mar 24 Mar 24 2 440
A French university is offering 'scientific asylum' for US talent. The brain drain has started 5 usonian Mar 24 Mar 24 10 601
India's Floating Solar Farms Can Be Seen From Space 0 erronis Mar 23 Mar 23 8 551
Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields 2 erronis Mar 22 Mar 22 2 546
Science is shattering our intuitions about consciousness Annaka Harris 17 Uncle Joe Mar 21 Mar 22 19 1332
Physicists Bend Time Inside a Diamond, Creating a Brand-New Phase of Matter 3 Judi Lynn Mar 22 Mar 22 23 976
Scientists Uncover a Hidden Brain Plumbing System That Restores Memory 2 erronis Mar 21 Mar 21 11 699
A transition point in romantic relationships may signal the beginning of their end 0 erronis Mar 21 Mar 21 10 702
Mysterious Ancestors: Scientists Just Uncovered a Shocking Secret About Human Origins 2 erronis Mar 21 Mar 21 12 747
Scientists Trick the Brain With a Fake Hand - And Pain Disappears 0 erronis Mar 21 Mar 21 5 421
The Hidden Logic Behind Poland's Stunningly Striped Fields 0 erronis Mar 20 Mar 20 10 627
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 10 599
Hubble Telescope spies star-forming cocoons in neighboring galaxy (photo) 0 Judi Lynn Mar 20 Mar 20 7 451
Scientists Detect Silent "Scream" of Skin Cells for the First Time 2 erronis Mar 19 Mar 19 9 680
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 14 584
Not sure this is the group, but: "Glasses" That Transcribe Text To Audio. By an eighth grade student. 2 usonian Mar 19 Mar 19 5 443
The Independent: Mutant snake with three sharp fangs 'might be most dangerous death adder' ever found 0 Dennis Donovan Mar 19 Mar 19 13 520
Tiny 'microlightning' flashes inside water droplets may have sparked life on Earth 0 highplainsdem Mar 19 Mar 19 8 281
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 14 521
Welcome to the New, Ad-Free Universe Today, Brought to You By 3,000 Space Fans 0 usonian Mar 17 Mar 17 7 396
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants 2 douglas9 Mar 17 Mar 17 4 287

Science Continued...

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Young scientists see career pathways vanish as schools adapt to federal funding cuts 4 Eugene Mar 16 Mar 17 5 303
122 devil rays joined in a wild mating ritual that lasted for hours 2 milestogo Mar 16 Mar 16 10 492
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 2 403
Why does nature love spirals? The link to entropy 0 erronis Mar 15 Mar 15 6 499
Bullseye! Astronomers discover a giant galaxy with nine rings 2 Judi Lynn Feb 24 Mar 13 7 487
'A political division, not a physical one, determined who got measles and who didn't' 4 littlemissmartypants Mar 13 Mar 13 34 1364
Beyond Earthrise: Blue Ghost's Chilling New Perspective From the Moon 0 erronis Mar 13 Mar 13 9 543
Superb lyrebirds have an unexpected new skill 1 Judi Lynn Mar 12 Mar 13 15 579
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Installs LSST Camera on Telescope 1 Ptah Mar 12 Mar 13 3 410
Black holes: Not endings, but beginnings? Theoretical study delves into 'white holes' 3 erronis Mar 12 Mar 12 4 472
The 'Silent' X Chromosome Gives the Aging Female Brain a Boost 5 WestMichRad Mar 12 Mar 12 16 635
NASA's newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies 2 Judi Lynn Mar 12 Mar 12 7 502
Water's Hidden Side Revealed - It Can Exist in Two Liquid Forms at Once 0 Judi Lynn Mar 12 Mar 12 12 560
Building Blocks of Life Discovered on Distant Asteroid NOVA PBS 2 Uncle Joe Mar 11 Mar 12 9 547
Mystery at heart of Milky Way galaxy linked to new type of dark matter 1 Judi Lynn Mar 12 Mar 12 7 616
New Palladium Catalyst Cuts Hydrogen Production Costs by 90% Nanosheet structure reduces need for precious metals by 90% 0 Caribbeans Mar 11 Mar 11 6 439
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research 2 douglas9 Mar 11 Mar 11 7 473
Highly Efficient Plutonium Extraction Using a Phosphonium Phosphinate Task-Specific Ionic Liquid 0 NNadir Mar 10 Mar 10 1 217
Secret commands found in Bluetooth chip used in a billion devices 6 littlemissmartypants Mar 10 Mar 10 19 700
Webb exposes complex atmosphere of starless super-Jupiter 1 Judi Lynn Mar 10 Mar 10 7 427
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