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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 60831

After distractions, rotating brain waves may help thought circle back to the task 4 erronis 10 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 6 224

Transmutation of Mercury into Gold. 7 NNadir Wednesday 11 hrs ago 12 414

Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation 2 Jim__ Yesterday 16 hrs ago 3 257

The International Space Station marks 25 years of nonstop human presence in orbit 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Thursday Thursday 5 124

Tool reveals how your dinner affects risk of 30,875 species land-dwelling animals going extinct 0 erronis Thursday Thursday 1 146

Galactical model of subquark particles 8 wise47 Oct 15 Thursday 2 461

Fishers' heartbeats align during collaborative hunts with dolphins, study reveals 0 erronis Thursday Thursday 2 178

My mother told me she had an eye on the back of her head. It appears she may have been right. 2 erronis Oct 22 Wednesday 20 605

World's Biomass Human vs ... 6 SorellaLaBefana Wednesday Wednesday 9 284

Have you ever been to a lecture where the speaker is so smart people are afraid to ask a question? 11 NNadir Sunday Wednesday 12 563

The long, deep dig: Collaboration unearths ancient city of Sardis 0 erronis Tuesday Tuesday 9 269

NBC covering breakthrough ufo paper 6 SamuelTheThird Sunday Monday 10 1160

If you had a healthy dollop of disposable income, would you pay 500 hundred bucks for this book? 9 NNadir Saturday Saturday 3 601

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment 2 erronis Saturday Saturday 11 324

Cool science word: Euxinia. 2 NNadir Saturday Saturday 7 365

NASA tested my chain theory in space - Steve Mould (video) 0 sl8 Oct 24 Oct 24 11 436

A laser pointer at 2 billion fps makes the speed of light look... kinda weird 2 LiberalArkie Oct 22 Oct 22 13 731

American Heart Association reviewing award to rocket scientist with eight retractions 0 erronis Oct 22 Oct 22 2 312

A gorgeous view of M51 - the Whirlpool Galaxy 8 BootinUp Oct 21 Oct 22 16 505

Mosquitoes Have Started Appearing in One of The Last Places on Earth Without Them 0 littlemissmartypants Oct 22 Oct 22 15 501

Sad. Nobel laureate George Smoot, who researched the universe's origins at UC Berkeley, dies at 80 7 usonian Oct 20 Oct 21 11 385

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Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of UAP 0 ThreeNoSeep Oct 20 Oct 20 1 276

This message was self-deleted by its author 1 SamuelTheThird Oct 20 Oct 20 2 146

Evidence suggests mRNA (Covid) vaccines prolong some cancer patients' lives. 16 Laffy Kat Oct 19 Oct 20 40 1214

Science saving whales: Scientists hope underwater fiber-optic cables can help save endangered orcas 4 cbabe Oct 19 Oct 19 8 296

New theory of evolution 0 wise47 Oct 19 Oct 19 3 551

An Iranian volcano appears to have woken up -- 700,000 years after its last eruption 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 17 Oct 19 7 424

How Afraid of the AI Apocalypse Should We Be? The Ezra Klein Show 1 YoshidaYui Oct 18 Oct 18 2 342

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Theory of everything (TOE), Quantum Gravity (QG) and theory of gravity 4 wise47 Oct 15 Oct 18 2 497

The most accurate 3D map of stellar nurseries in the Milky Way (ESA) 3 usonian Oct 16 Oct 17 7 346

Sam Altman Shows Me GPT 5... And What's Next 4 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 17 2 481

Dinosaurs Were Weirder Than We Thought 3 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 16 7 771

Why Gravity Is A Lie, explained in Zero G 1 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 16 7 568

'Bored aliens': has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth? 9 hunter Oct 15 Oct 15 8 484

Cascadia quake may create 'emergency situation' in other West Coast fault zone, study warns 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 15 Oct 15 5 362

The Small World Paradox 4 Uncle Joe Oct 8 Oct 15 5 576

Playing with Tantalum. 2 NNadir Oct 15 Oct 15 3 405

Mysterious gullies on Mars appear to have been carved by burrowing CO₂ ice blocks 0 erronis Oct 14 Oct 14 7 310

SpaceX successfully lands 11th test starship - FRANCE 24 0 TexasTowelie Oct 14 Oct 14 4 316

In the wild, chimpanzees likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks every day 5 erronis Sep 17 Oct 12 5 579

Satellite Technology Uncovers New Ancient Egyptian Cities And Pyramids 1 William Seger Sep 19 Oct 12 7 3068

Your iPhone Tracking You and Listening - TURN THIS OFF! 0 YoshidaYui Oct 11 Oct 11 16 775

Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science 2 douglas9 Oct 11 Oct 11 8 322

One of the largest great white sharks ever tagged pings in unusual spot 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 10 Oct 11 12 725

How Europe's largest bat catches and eats birds mid-air 0 erronis Oct 9 Oct 9 6 350

Annie Walker: The astronomer with an asteroid, but no known photographs 2 cbabe Oct 9 Oct 9 9 428

The "American" winner of the Nobel in Chemistry is Palestinian by birth. 6 NNadir Oct 8 Oct 9 10 481

Success on my quest to make a mutant! 2 mr715 Oct 9 Oct 9 2 413

What Does AI Think of Star Trek's Data (& SciFi AI)? 0 YoshidaYui Oct 8 Oct 8 2 362

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Joe Rogan discuss the cherry picking of Science...12 min vid 2 mitch96 Oct 6 Oct 6 6 599

Rogue planet's record growth spurt of 6 billion tonnes per second 3 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 4 388

Elephants know when we're looking at them 2 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 10 813

Why Do Women Outlive Men? WaPo: Redundancy of XX vs XY Genetics 14 GreatGazoo Oct 5 Oct 6 20 1042

APOD: "Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website." 4 SorellaLaBefana Oct 2 Oct 6 9 715

Scientists Develop Robots That Literally Walk on Water 1 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 3 483

Generations of Bearded Vultures Stashed Humans' Treasures, Including a 650-Year-Old Sandal, in These Bird Nests 1 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 19 768

ESA inaugurates new deep space antenna in Australia 0 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 2 301

String Theory - ScienceClic 6 BootinUp Oct 3 Oct 5 9 565

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Sputnik Starts Space Race (APOD Redux from 2000) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 4 Oct 4 4 349

What if the Universe Remembers Everything? New Theory Rewrites the Rules of Physics 12 erronis Oct 3 Oct 3 27 1253

Another Comet, from another time (From the APOD files) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 3 Oct 3 3 509

Bizarre ankylosaur with spikes is unlike any known dinosaur (earthsky.org) 3 eppur_se_muova Sep 30 Sep 30 10 2148

'Wholesale destruction': Government shutdown or not, critical science programs are at risk 0 douglas9 Sep 30 Sep 30 6 1901

Paleontologists Discover Megaraptor Fossil With a Crocodilian's Leg Still in Its Mouth 1 Judi Lynn Sep 29 Sep 30 12 2463

These Ancient Footprints Rewrite Human History 5 Ptah Sep 29 Sep 29 17 2887

Giant Stars With Black Holes Inside Them May Have Been Detected For The First Time 1 Judi Lynn Sep 28 Sep 29 8 1749

"Brightest Object In Known Universe" Puffs Itself Up To Look 15 Times Its Actual Size 1 Judi Lynn Sep 28 Sep 28 14 2671

The First Black Hole We Ever Saw Is Doing Something Never Seen Before 0 Judi Lynn Sep 28 Sep 28 17 2126

Perplexing diamonds from South Africa mine contain 'almost impossible' chemistry 2 Judi Lynn Sep 27 Sep 27 14 1425

Chimps regularly consume alcohol, study finds 0 milestogo Sep 27 Sep 27 3 723

Physics-informed AI learns local rules behind flocking and collective motion behaviors 3 erronis Sep 26 Sep 26 2 530

A picture of IBM's Quantum System 2 5 BootinUp Sep 26 Sep 26 1 858

New Math Revives Geometry's Oldest Problems -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Sep 26 Sep 26 7 2405

Mount Sinai study supports evidence that prenatal acetaminophen use may be linked to increased risk of autism and ADHD 2 Wicked Blue Aug 14 Sep 26 8 878

Did you know brown pelicans are protected by lots of miniature airbags in their skin, like BubbleWrap ? 4 eppur_se_muova Sep 25 Sep 25 10 1753

Brian Cox explains why time travels in one direction - BBC (2 videos) 10 BootinUp Sep 21 Sep 23 6 4018

Will glaciers ever come back after they've melted away? 5 MrWowWow Sep 19 Sep 23 8 4015

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