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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 61520
How a one-eyed creature gave rise to our modern eyes 3 erronis 13 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 15 343
Paediatricians' blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds 1 muriel_volestrangler 18 hrs ago 6 hrs ago 10 376
Too Late to Apologize! James Webb Telescope New study just made the "crisis in cosmology" WORSE... 43 Sancho Tuesday 18 hrs ago 74 2915
The Human Cost of Trump's War on Science 3 douglas9 Monday Tuesday 9 404
How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? -- Quanta Magazine 7 erronis Monday Tuesday 13 383
Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought 0 Uncle Joe Sunday Sunday 16 505
Soil Restoration Experiments in Australia using Sheep's Wool... 7 electric_blue68 Feb 17 Sunday 8 450
This cutting-edge exoskeleton got me up a mountain I had no chance of climbing alone 2 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 9 559
An 'astonishingly' large new dinosaur species has been discovered in the Sahara 4 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 15 556
Saturn's North Pole 9 BootinUp Sunday Sunday 41 908
The Effect of Dibutyl Phthalate on Proliferation of Breast Cancer Cells Studied by Mass Spec Imaging. 0 NNadir Saturday Saturday 9 408
Renowned Cal Tech scientist who studied distant planets fatally shot at his home near LA 1 BlueWaveNeverEnd Saturday Saturday 14 497
Deepest-Ever Rock Core From Beneath Antarctica's Ice. It Holds Clues About the Earth's Past--and Future 1 Judi Lynn Saturday Saturday 14 317
Scientists May Have Found The Key Cellular Process Behind Aging in Animals 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday Friday 6 454
Nasa astronauts' moon mission likely to be delayed due to rocket issue 0 muriel_volestrangler Friday Friday 5 288
Carl Sagan - Protons and Neutrons 2 BootinUp Thursday Thursday 2 366
We need more papers showing stuff that doesn't work: Extraction of Actinides into Molten Zn Fails to Separate... 2 NNadir Feb 18 Thursday 5 370
World-first supercomputer discovers invisible flaw in all jet engines that no human had spotted 11 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 17 Feb 18 17 1123
Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive and will be for more than a millennium. 12 NNadir Feb 7 Feb 18 35 1445
A bacterium's built-in compass, explained: Single-cell magnetometry confirms Earth-field alignment 2 erronis Feb 17 Feb 17 7 336
A 25-year study found an unexpected link between cheese and dementia 41 multigraincracker Feb 9 Feb 17 81 4001
Astrophysics turned upside down by unique 'inside out' planetary system 0 Judi Lynn Feb 16 Feb 16 9 564
Brain worm hell: The CDC hepatitis B study is unethical and must never be published 6 NNadir Feb 15 Feb 15 24 962
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 7 573
China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct 2 NNadir Feb 15 Feb 15 7 373
Plot twist! The Andromeda-Milky Way Merger has begun. 5 GreenWave Feb 14 Feb 15 29 1050
Massive Pyroclastic Flow Descends Entire Slope of Mount Semeru Volcano (Feb 13, 2026) 3 catbyte Feb 13 Feb 13 12 676
Stargazing Buddy A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment (free, online) 1 usonian Feb 13 Feb 13 6 344
New study tells us what's up with what's going down with the sinking Chesapeake Bay 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 10 Feb 13 12 613

Science Continued...

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Jupiter Is Not The Size And Shape We've Long Thought It Was 2 Judi Lynn Feb 13 Feb 13 9 570
Happy Darwin Day, everybody! 6 Lionel Mandrake Feb 12 Feb 12 14 575
Scientists create 'smart underwear' to measure human flatulence 15 erronis Feb 10 Feb 11 6 922
Dream engineering can help solve 'puzzling' questions: Study offers insights to optimizing sleep 3 erronis Feb 5 Feb 10 11 612
Is NASA about to blow up Artemis? 3 Bmoboy Feb 4 Feb 10 7 734
Eli Lilly ad focusing on the Scientific Method 4 QED Feb 8 Feb 10 16 596
A hidden Aloe vera compound takes aim at Alzheimer's 2 multigraincracker Feb 9 Feb 9 15 616
'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 7 653
Former NASA scientists warn of possible Artemis II spacecraft safety issue - ABC News 9 TexasTowelie Jan 30 Feb 8 8 801
Stellar nursery bursts with newborn stars in hauntingly beautiful Hubble telescope image -- 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 8 14 543
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 4 678
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 4 519
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 3 519
Does Pregnancy Result in a Hankering for Prime Numbers? 9 NNadir Feb 4 Feb 4 7 725
Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 6 510
OpenAI's New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace 'Prism' Raises Fears Of Vibe-Coded Academic AISlop 3 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 3 506
AI model OpenScholar synthesizes scientific research and cites sources as accurately as human experts 2 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 1 472
Genetic analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique lineage in the Balkans 0 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 6 451
Reproduction in space, an environment hostile to human biology 7 erronis Feb 3 Feb 4 5 655
Artemis II launch has been delayed until March. 0 llmart Feb 3 Feb 3 5 436
'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 20 727
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 13 877
Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory--here's how 5 erronis Feb 1 Feb 1 15 714
16 years of brain scans reveal the cerebellum's crucial role in human language 2 erronis Jan 27 Feb 1 8 508
Saturn has more moons than any other planet in our solar system 2 BootinUp Jan 29 Jan 29 4 499
Anti-vaccine sentiment pushes Moderna away from new late-stage infectious disease trials 3 NNadir Jan 29 Jan 29 9 645
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office 1 douglas9 Jan 27 Jan 27 14 548
How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926) 5 usonian Jan 26 Jan 27 8 583
Scientists identify a brain region that differs between male and female mice and may influence social behavior 10 erronis Jan 26 Jan 26 10 937
Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 26 Jan 26 10 533

Science Continued...

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Pilot captures historic northern lights show from 37,000 feet (photos) 19 milestogo Jan 22 Jan 26 71 2189
Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jan 23 Jan 23 9 692
Image of Barnard 59, in the Pipe Nebula 3 BootinUp Jan 22 Jan 23 11 615
What If You Keep Slowing Down? 3 Uncle Joe Jan 21 Jan 22 10 952
Why do some people get 'hangry' more quickly than others? 1 erronis Jan 19 Jan 19 20 840
There Is Something Faster Than Light 10 Uncle Joe Dec 24 Jan 18 7 1458
OFFS -- AI can FU anything (bogus illustration). 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 17 Jan 17 2 593
Study finds Tyrannosaurus rex did not reach full size until age 40 2 Jilly_in_VA Jan 15 Jan 17 4 640
The Southern Ocean current reverses for the first time, signaling a risk of climate system collapse 23 Bayard Jan 15 Jan 17 82 3266
Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane 3 highplainsdem Jan 17 Jan 17 6 710
NASA's Artemis moon mission one step closer to liftoff - NBC News 2 TexasTowelie Jan 16 Jan 17 3 620
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 2508
Scientists uncover Antarctica's hidden landscape beneath ice sheet for first time 0 highplainsdem Jan 16 Jan 16 10 581
NASA SpaceX Crew-11 Splashes Down Off Coast of California - C-SPAN 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 16 Jan 16 3 444
"Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis. University research delivers." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 15 Jan 15 57 1972
Never-before-seen footage captures moment scientists find new, giant anaconda species in Amazon 4 milestogo Jan 12 Jan 12 18 981
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 1325
NASA crew to make rare early return after medical issue in space (CNN) 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 8 Jan 9 4 695
WHY DINOSAURS? AN AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DINOSAURS AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM 0 eppur_se_muova Jan 8 Jan 8 5 525
A bison's hump helps it plow through snow with ease 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 8 Jan 8 5 778
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