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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 61527
It doesn't lie. So who are you?' 2 question everything 1 hr ago 33 min ago 12 250
World-first supercomputer discovers invisible flaw in all jet engines that no human had spotted 12 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 17 2 hrs ago 17 1170
Flood Control Monitoring, Homeless People, and Covid Virus Mutant Spike Protein. 0 NNadir 4 hrs ago 4 hrs ago 2 186
Nasa astronauts' moon mission likely to be delayed due to rocket issue 1 muriel_volestrangler Feb 20 7 hrs ago 5 305
Astronomers Wake Up to 800,000 Notifications From a Vera Rubin 8 usonian Thursday 12 hrs ago 28 618
How a one-eyed creature gave rise to our modern eyes 4 erronis Wednesday Thursday 16 411
Paediatricians' blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds 1 muriel_volestrangler Wednesday Wednesday 10 410
Too Late to Apologize! James Webb Telescope New study just made the "crisis in cosmology" WORSE... 43 Sancho Tuesday Wednesday 74 3108
The Human Cost of Trump's War on Science 3 douglas9 Monday Tuesday 9 452
How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? -- Quanta Magazine 7 erronis Monday Tuesday 13 426
Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought 0 Uncle Joe Sunday Sunday 16 530
Soil Restoration Experiments in Australia using Sheep's Wool... 7 electric_blue68 Feb 17 Sunday 8 484
This cutting-edge exoskeleton got me up a mountain I had no chance of climbing alone 2 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 9 595
An 'astonishingly' large new dinosaur species has been discovered in the Sahara 4 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 15 589
Saturn's North Pole 9 BootinUp Sunday Sunday 41 959
The Effect of Dibutyl Phthalate on Proliferation of Breast Cancer Cells Studied by Mass Spec Imaging. 0 NNadir Saturday Saturday 9 444
Renowned Cal Tech scientist who studied distant planets fatally shot at his home near LA 1 BlueWaveNeverEnd Saturday Saturday 14 504
Deepest-Ever Rock Core From Beneath Antarctica's Ice. It Holds Clues About the Earth's Past--and Future 1 Judi Lynn Saturday Saturday 14 328
Scientists May Have Found The Key Cellular Process Behind Aging in Animals 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 20 Feb 20 6 484
Carl Sagan - Protons and Neutrons 2 BootinUp Feb 19 Feb 19 2 378
We need more papers showing stuff that doesn't work: Extraction of Actinides into Molten Zn Fails to Separate... 2 NNadir Feb 18 Feb 19 5 386
Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive and will be for more than a millennium. 12 NNadir Feb 7 Feb 18 35 1479
A bacterium's built-in compass, explained: Single-cell magnetometry confirms Earth-field alignment 2 erronis Feb 17 Feb 17 7 347
A 25-year study found an unexpected link between cheese and dementia 41 multigraincracker Feb 9 Feb 17 81 4057
Astrophysics turned upside down by unique 'inside out' planetary system 0 Judi Lynn Feb 16 Feb 16 9 572
Brain worm hell: The CDC hepatitis B study is unethical and must never be published 6 NNadir Feb 15 Feb 15 24 986
As a paleontologist, I had never expected to see paleontologists names pop up in the Epstein Files. I was naive. 4 generalbetrayus Feb 15 Feb 15 7 589
China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct 2 NNadir Feb 15 Feb 15 7 387
Plot twist! The Andromeda-Milky Way Merger has begun. 5 GreenWave Feb 14 Feb 15 29 1060

Science Continued...

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Massive Pyroclastic Flow Descends Entire Slope of Mount Semeru Volcano (Feb 13, 2026) 3 catbyte Feb 13 Feb 13 12 687
Stargazing Buddy A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment (free, online) 1 usonian Feb 13 Feb 13 6 350
New study tells us what's up with what's going down with the sinking Chesapeake Bay 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 10 Feb 13 12 622
Jupiter Is Not The Size And Shape We've Long Thought It Was 2 Judi Lynn Feb 13 Feb 13 9 586
Happy Darwin Day, everybody! 6 Lionel Mandrake Feb 12 Feb 12 14 592
Scientists create 'smart underwear' to measure human flatulence 15 erronis Feb 10 Feb 11 6 936
Dream engineering can help solve 'puzzling' questions: Study offers insights to optimizing sleep 3 erronis Feb 5 Feb 10 11 626
Is NASA about to blow up Artemis? 3 Bmoboy Feb 4 Feb 10 7 752
Eli Lilly ad focusing on the Scientific Method 4 QED Feb 8 Feb 10 16 609
A hidden Aloe vera compound takes aim at Alzheimer's 2 multigraincracker Feb 9 Feb 9 15 635
'Textbooks will need to be updated': Jupiter is smaller and flatter than we thought, Juno spacecraft reveals 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 7 Feb 9 7 675
Former NASA scientists warn of possible Artemis II spacecraft safety issue - ABC News 9 TexasTowelie Jan 30 Feb 8 8 812
Stellar nursery bursts with newborn stars in hauntingly beautiful Hubble telescope image -- 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 8 14 550
The spark of the Super: Teller-Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb--rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years 7 NNadir Feb 4 Feb 8 4 702
A Really Fabulous Lecture We Saw Today on the Topic of AI, Computer Vision, Language and Robotics: Deep Learning. 2 NNadir Feb 7 Feb 7 4 528
If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn't write it disappears from a journal's website with no notice... 1 NNadir Feb 6 Feb 6 3 529
Does Pregnancy Result in a Hankering for Prime Numbers? 9 NNadir Feb 4 Feb 4 7 757
Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 6 516
OpenAI's New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace 'Prism' Raises Fears Of Vibe-Coded Academic AISlop 3 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 3 520
AI model OpenScholar synthesizes scientific research and cites sources as accurately as human experts 2 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 1 486
Genetic analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique lineage in the Balkans 0 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 6 465
Reproduction in space, an environment hostile to human biology 7 erronis Feb 3 Feb 4 5 666
Artemis II launch has been delayed until March. 0 llmart Feb 3 Feb 3 5 443
'They've probably been untouched for 49 million years': The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 2 20 738
At the scientific lecture I attended today, the speaker rephrased the term "AI" in a way I appreciated and admired. 5 NNadir Jan 31 Feb 2 13 894
Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory--here's how 5 erronis Feb 1 Feb 1 15 731
16 years of brain scans reveal the cerebellum's crucial role in human language 2 erronis Jan 27 Feb 1 8 518
Saturn has more moons than any other planet in our solar system 2 BootinUp Jan 29 Jan 29 4 509
Anti-vaccine sentiment pushes Moderna away from new late-stage infectious disease trials 3 NNadir Jan 29 Jan 29 9 654
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office 1 douglas9 Jan 27 Jan 27 14 557

Science Continued...

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How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926) 5 usonian Jan 26 Jan 27 8 596
Scientists identify a brain region that differs between male and female mice and may influence social behavior 10 erronis Jan 26 Jan 26 10 952
Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 26 Jan 26 10 543
Pilot captures historic northern lights show from 37,000 feet (photos) 19 milestogo Jan 22 Jan 26 71 2207
Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jan 23 Jan 23 9 702
Image of Barnard 59, in the Pipe Nebula 3 BootinUp Jan 22 Jan 23 11 627
What If You Keep Slowing Down? 3 Uncle Joe Jan 21 Jan 22 10 960
Why do some people get 'hangry' more quickly than others? 1 erronis Jan 19 Jan 19 20 851
There Is Something Faster Than Light 10 Uncle Joe Dec 24 Jan 18 7 1470
OFFS -- AI can FU anything (bogus illustration). 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 17 Jan 17 2 602
Study finds Tyrannosaurus rex did not reach full size until age 40 2 Jilly_in_VA Jan 15 Jan 17 4 647
The Southern Ocean current reverses for the first time, signaling a risk of climate system collapse 23 Bayard Jan 15 Jan 17 82 3288
Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane 3 highplainsdem Jan 17 Jan 17 6 724
NASA's Artemis moon mission one step closer to liftoff - NBC News 2 TexasTowelie Jan 16 Jan 17 3 631
NASA's Voyager Just Crossed the Edge of the Solar System -- and Found Something Wild 10 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 16 Jan 16 52 2527
Scientists uncover Antarctica's hidden landscape beneath ice sheet for first time 0 highplainsdem Jan 16 Jan 16 10 592
NASA SpaceX Crew-11 Splashes Down Off Coast of California - C-SPAN 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 16 Jan 16 3 453
"Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis. University research delivers." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 15 Jan 15 57 1987
Never-before-seen footage captures moment scientists find new, giant anaconda species in Amazon 4 milestogo Jan 12 Jan 12 18 989
Dogs with a Large Vocabulary of Object Labels Learn New Labels by Overhearing Like 1.5-Year-Old Infants 13 GreatGazoo Jan 9 Jan 10 13 1343
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