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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 61217

Psychological traits that may fuel conspiracy theorist mindset identified 10 erronis Monday 51 min ago 6 406

A bison's hump helps it plow through snow with ease 2 littlemissmartypants 2 hrs ago 1 hr ago 3 305

The Shocking Speed at Which Pandemics Take Over Cities 2 erronis Monday Tuesday 16 411

There Is Something Faster Than Light 8 Uncle Joe Dec 24 Tuesday 7 948

Flu Is Relentless. Crispr Might Be Able to Shut It Down 4 LiberalArkie Tuesday Tuesday 11 463

Is President Jeffries in 2027 More Probable Than the Universe that Exists? 7 NNadir Dec 21 Tuesday 12 611

Scientists Teach the Brain To Read Light as a New Sense 9 erronis Dec 11 Tuesday 3 549

Has anyone 3 Rebl2 Monday Monday 3 382

The wolf supermoon will kick off 2026 with a celestial bang. Here's when and how to see it. 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Thursday Sunday 11 486

My wife noted something about the "Science on Saturday" series we attend every winter. 5 NNadir Thursday Thursday 62 1550

These giant sea reptiles lived in freshwater rivers, too (earthsky.org) 8 eppur_se_muova Dec 31 Dec 31 8 579

Hiroshima and the Development of Anticlotting Drugs (A Wikipedia Reference Only.) 0 NNadir Dec 31 Dec 31 3 289

short video of a flying fish 9 BootinUp Dec 29 Dec 29 9 494

Moonship, December 1972 3 SorellaLaBefana Dec 27 Dec 27 10 416

A 'Third State' Exists Between Life and Death--And That Suggests Your Cells Are Conscious, Some Scientists Say 7 Judi Lynn Dec 25 Dec 26 32 1457

Turtle Patrol Volunteer 4 surfered Dec 21 Dec 25 11 394

A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue 10 erronis Dec 16 Dec 25 47 1373

Panning across the Cosmic Seagull 0 BootinUp Dec 23 Dec 23 7 361

Doctor's orders? 'Belly laugh at least two to five days a week' 0 erronis Dec 21 Dec 21 7 391

60 edges, 38 faces, and 24 vertices, Supramolecular Snub Cubes 3 NNadir Dec 20 Dec 20 7 538

Good listeners connect more easily with strangers, study finds 4 erronis Dec 18 Dec 19 5 405

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Sean Carroll Discuss Controversies in Quantum Mechanics 0 BootinUp Dec 18 Dec 18 9 425

FRET in biochemistry, not guitars. 2 NNadir Dec 17 Dec 18 3 326

The Iberian Peninsula is rotating clockwise, scientists report 0 cbabe Dec 17 Dec 17 18 470

ADHD Isn't Just a Deficit: New Study Reveals Powerful Psychological Strengths 6 erronis Dec 15 Dec 15 15 4614

Gray hair may have evolved as a protection against cancer 4 Bayard Dec 11 Dec 15 8 897

a capella science: VSEPR 1 QED Dec 14 Dec 14 7 404

How Ramanujan's formulae for pi connect to modern high energy physics 3 erronis Dec 3 Dec 13 6 495

Formation of an Unusually Stable Crystal Found in the Ashes of a 1963 Nuclear Weapons Test in Australia. 0 NNadir Dec 12 Dec 12 9 649

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World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black 4 eppur_se_muova Dec 7 Dec 12 15 744

Mysterious X-ray signal from deep space may be the scream of a star ripped apart by two black holes 1 Bayard Dec 11 Dec 11 9 516

How a simple slipknot can help surgeons tie the perfect suture 2 erronis Dec 11 Dec 11 7 498

excerpt from: The Penicillin Myth - Asimov Press 2 BootinUp Dec 8 Dec 9 9 607

Africa Is Splitting Into Two Continents 18 IronLionZion Nov 21 Dec 8 60 3128

Time may be a psychological projection, philosopher argues 5 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 8 9 653

Scientists discover dinosaur 'mummies' with hoofs like a horse (CBC Radio - As It Happens) 1 eppur_se_muova Dec 7 Dec 7 16 729

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 eppur_se_muova Dec 7 Dec 7 0 181

Something Weird Happens When E-mc 2 Uncle Joe Dec 6 Dec 6 9 782

One of the programs the University of Nebraska at Lincoln regents voted to drop is earth and atmospheric sciences. 3 generalbetrayus Dec 6 Dec 6 14 609

Last Lunar Walkabout December 1972 2 SorellaLaBefana Dec 6 Dec 6 4 402

18,000 dinosaur tracks discovered along ancient Bolivian coastline -- and they set a new record 11 Judi Lynn Dec 5 Dec 5 38 1282

The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Dec 5 Dec 5 2 386

Private com-sat companies are planning to launch so many satellites that even SPACE telescopes will be compromised 2 SorellaLaBefana Dec 5 Dec 5 10 469

Skin-to-brain signal explains why warm hugs make us feel so good about ourselves 0 erronis Dec 4 Dec 4 4 503

For the 1st time ever, 8 spacecraft are docked to the International Space Station 2 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 5 499

Video-call glitches can have serious consequences 0 erronis Dec 3 Dec 3 6 577

New Algorithm Lets Architects Design Stunning Curved Structures in Minutes 0 erronis Dec 3 Dec 3 4 479

Tiny Bullet Fragments in Hunted Meat Pose Lead Poisoning Risk 1 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 5 471

James Webb telescope spots strange 'super-puff' planet frantically chasing its own atmosphere through space 0 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 6 493

NASA's Perseverance Rover Hears the Crack of Martian Lightning, Providing the First Glimpse into the Red Planet's Atmosp 0 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 2 373

Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon 4 littlemissmartypants Nov 28 Dec 2 4 574

When Americans migrate from violent states, the risk of future violence follows them 1 erronis Dec 2 Dec 2 8 722

Seismic Mystery Solved: Scientists Find a New State of Matter at Earth's Center 1 Judi Lynn Dec 1 Dec 1 17 655

Birds Are Beeping and Booping like R2-D2. Their Mimicked Sounds Are Helping Unlock the Secrets of Avian Communication 1 Judi Lynn Dec 1 Dec 1 13 656

Consciousness as the foundation: New theory addresses nature of reality 13 erronis Nov 25 Dec 1 13 1354

Textbooks Were Wrong: 249-Million-Year-Old Fossil Discovery Upends Timeline of Evolution 15 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Dec 1 36 1994

A.I. Reveals Signs of Early Life in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks. Next, It Could Continue the Search in Space 0 Judi Lynn Dec 1 Dec 1 8 608

Scientists mapped the shape of a supernova for the first time ever - and it's not what we expected: Space photo of the w 4 Judi Lynn Nov 30 Nov 30 16 943

Your Brain Quietly Rewrites Reality Depending on Your State of Mind 4 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 14 867

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Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years 3 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 6 5606

Living microbes found in a meteorite crater may offer clues to life on Mars 0 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 6 472

This message was self-deleted by its author 1 littlemissmartypants Nov 28 Nov 28 1 384

"It's A Remarkable Thing, To Be A Human Being" - Prof. Brian Cox 2 BootinUp Nov 25 Nov 26 13 650

Astrophysicist's latest 3I/ATLAS theory: It's interested in Jupiter 6 Jilly_in_VA Nov 24 Nov 24 11 778

Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy 3 Jilly_in_VA Nov 24 Nov 24 31 866

The Uncanny Gmail Clone That Drops You Straight Into Epstein's Inbox 2 littlemissmartypants Nov 24 Nov 24 6 577

Mosquito proboscis repurposed as a fine nozzle for 3D printing 2 cbabe Nov 21 Nov 21 11 676

Why Some People Feel Nothing From Music: Scientists Uncover Rare Brain Disconnect 14 erronis Nov 20 Nov 21 8 1071

No need to ask for directions: Loggerhead sea turtles rely on two senses for migration 0 douglas9 Nov 21 Nov 21 9 534

New Psychoactive Substances in Wastewater from Rest Areas and Commercial Weigh Stations along Interstate Highways 8 NNadir Nov 20 Nov 21 15 1116

Humans are evolved for nature, not cities, say anthropologists 14 erronis Nov 18 Nov 19 18 1148

How language shapes the way we think Lera Boroditsky TED 2 Uncle Joe Nov 18 Nov 18 13 652

The State of Napa Valley College's Ground Breaking $7.5 million Solar Facility Built in 2009. 4 NNadir Nov 18 Nov 18 3 603

Research integrity conference hit with AI-generated abstracts 0 erronis Nov 18 Nov 18 3 492

NBC covering breakthrough ufo paper 7 SamuelTheThird Oct 26 Nov 18 10 6529

A whopper of a retraction. 5 NNadir Nov 12 Nov 17 13 1242

Tiny spiders that build giant 'puppet' decoys from disembodied prey discovered in Peru and Philippines 1 SamuelTheThird Nov 12 Nov 17 21 949

Scientists make jaw-dropping find after drilling more than 1,500 feet into Antarctic ice: 'We even discovered a school o 12 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 12 Nov 12 100 3885

G4 (SEVERE) WATCH IN EFFECT FOR 12 NOVEMBER. (Space weather) 3 usonian Nov 11 Nov 11 10 738

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