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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 61258

Dogs with a Large Vocabulary of Object Labels Learn New Labels by Overhearing Like 1.5-Year-Old Infants 13 GreatGazoo Friday Yesterday 8 490

NASA crew to make rare early return after medical issue in space (CNN) 3 eppur_se_muova Thursday Friday 3 369

There Is Something Faster Than Light 9 Uncle Joe Dec 24 Friday 7 1005

WHY DINOSAURS? AN AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DINOSAURS AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM 0 eppur_se_muova Thursday Thursday 3 266

A bison's hump helps it plow through snow with ease 4 littlemissmartypants Thursday Thursday 5 444

Psychological traits that may fuel conspiracy theorist mindset identified 10 erronis Monday Thursday 6 456

The Shocking Speed at Which Pandemics Take Over Cities 2 erronis Monday Tuesday 16 445

Flu Is Relentless. Crispr Might Be Able to Shut It Down 4 LiberalArkie Tuesday Tuesday 11 520

Is President Jeffries in 2027 More Probable Than the Universe that Exists? 7 NNadir Dec 21 Tuesday 12 657

Scientists Teach the Brain To Read Light as a New Sense 9 erronis Dec 11 Tuesday 3 571

Has anyone 3 Rebl2 Monday Monday 3 413

The wolf supermoon will kick off 2026 with a celestial bang. Here's when and how to see it. 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 1 Sunday 11 512

My wife noted something about the "Science on Saturday" series we attend every winter. 5 NNadir Jan 1 Jan 1 62 1604

These giant sea reptiles lived in freshwater rivers, too (earthsky.org) 8 eppur_se_muova Dec 31 Dec 31 8 604

Hiroshima and the Development of Anticlotting Drugs (A Wikipedia Reference Only.) 0 NNadir Dec 31 Dec 31 3 311

short video of a flying fish 9 BootinUp Dec 29 Dec 29 9 524

Moonship, December 1972 3 SorellaLaBefana Dec 27 Dec 27 10 441

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 1476

Turtle Patrol Volunteer 4 surfered Dec 21 Dec 25 11 420

A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue 10 erronis Dec 16 Dec 25 47 1409

Panning across the Cosmic Seagull 0 BootinUp Dec 23 Dec 23 7 378

Doctor's orders? 'Belly laugh at least two to five days a week' 0 erronis Dec 21 Dec 21 7 414

60 edges, 38 faces, and 24 vertices, Supramolecular Snub Cubes 3 NNadir Dec 20 Dec 20 7 562

Good listeners connect more easily with strangers, study finds 4 erronis Dec 18 Dec 19 5 424

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Sean Carroll Discuss Controversies in Quantum Mechanics 0 BootinUp Dec 18 Dec 18 9 441

FRET in biochemistry, not guitars. 2 NNadir Dec 17 Dec 18 3 348

The Iberian Peninsula is rotating clockwise, scientists report 0 cbabe Dec 17 Dec 17 18 486

ADHD Isn't Just a Deficit: New Study Reveals Powerful Psychological Strengths 6 erronis Dec 15 Dec 15 15 4640

Gray hair may have evolved as a protection against cancer 4 Bayard Dec 11 Dec 15 8 925

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a capella science: VSEPR 1 QED Dec 14 Dec 14 7 424

How Ramanujan's formulae for pi connect to modern high energy physics 3 erronis Dec 3 Dec 13 6 508

Formation of an Unusually Stable Crystal Found in the Ashes of a 1963 Nuclear Weapons Test in Australia. 0 NNadir Dec 12 Dec 12 9 661

World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black 4 eppur_se_muova Dec 7 Dec 12 15 761

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 9 536

How a simple slipknot can help surgeons tie the perfect suture 2 erronis Dec 11 Dec 11 7 517

excerpt from: The Penicillin Myth - Asimov Press 2 BootinUp Dec 8 Dec 9 9 622

Africa Is Splitting Into Two Continents 18 IronLionZion Nov 21 Dec 8 60 3160

Time may be a psychological projection, philosopher argues 5 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 8 9 672

Scientists discover dinosaur 'mummies' with hoofs like a horse (CBC Radio - As It Happens) 1 eppur_se_muova Dec 7 Dec 7 16 745

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 eppur_se_muova Dec 7 Dec 7 0 195

Something Weird Happens When E-mc 2 Uncle Joe Dec 6 Dec 6 9 810

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 14 626

Last Lunar Walkabout December 1972 2 SorellaLaBefana Dec 6 Dec 6 4 419

18,000 dinosaur tracks discovered along ancient Bolivian coastline -- and they set a new record 11 Judi Lynn Dec 5 Dec 5 38 1301

The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Dec 5 Dec 5 2 402

Private com-sat companies are planning to launch so many satellites that even SPACE telescopes will be compromised 2 SorellaLaBefana Dec 5 Dec 5 10 485

Skin-to-brain signal explains why warm hugs make us feel so good about ourselves 0 erronis Dec 4 Dec 4 4 518

For the 1st time ever, 8 spacecraft are docked to the International Space Station 2 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 5 517

Video-call glitches can have serious consequences 0 erronis Dec 3 Dec 3 6 591

New Algorithm Lets Architects Design Stunning Curved Structures in Minutes 0 erronis Dec 3 Dec 3 4 493

Tiny Bullet Fragments in Hunted Meat Pose Lead Poisoning Risk 1 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 5 489

James Webb telescope spots strange 'super-puff' planet frantically chasing its own atmosphere through space 0 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 6 508

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 2 386

Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon 4 littlemissmartypants Nov 28 Dec 2 4 591

When Americans migrate from violent states, the risk of future violence follows them 1 erronis Dec 2 Dec 2 8 739

Seismic Mystery Solved: Scientists Find a New State of Matter at Earth's Center 1 Judi Lynn Dec 1 Dec 1 17 670

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 13 673

Consciousness as the foundation: New theory addresses nature of reality 13 erronis Nov 25 Dec 1 13 1397

Textbooks Were Wrong: 249-Million-Year-Old Fossil Discovery Upends Timeline of Evolution 15 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Dec 1 36 2035

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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 8 621

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 16 957

Your Brain Quietly Rewrites Reality Depending on Your State of Mind 4 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 14 886

Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years 3 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 6 5624

Living microbes found in a meteorite crater may offer clues to life on Mars 0 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 6 485

This message was self-deleted by its author 1 littlemissmartypants Nov 28 Nov 28 1 400

"It's A Remarkable Thing, To Be A Human Being" - Prof. Brian Cox 2 BootinUp Nov 25 Nov 26 13 662

Astrophysicist's latest 3I/ATLAS theory: It's interested in Jupiter 6 Jilly_in_VA Nov 24 Nov 24 11 796

Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy 3 Jilly_in_VA Nov 24 Nov 24 31 880

The Uncanny Gmail Clone That Drops You Straight Into Epstein's Inbox 2 littlemissmartypants Nov 24 Nov 24 6 596

Mosquito proboscis repurposed as a fine nozzle for 3D printing 2 cbabe Nov 21 Nov 21 11 694

Why Some People Feel Nothing From Music: Scientists Uncover Rare Brain Disconnect 14 erronis Nov 20 Nov 21 8 1100

No need to ask for directions: Loggerhead sea turtles rely on two senses for migration 0 douglas9 Nov 21 Nov 21 9 549

New Psychoactive Substances in Wastewater from Rest Areas and Commercial Weigh Stations along Interstate Highways 8 NNadir Nov 20 Nov 21 15 1142

Humans are evolved for nature, not cities, say anthropologists 14 erronis Nov 18 Nov 19 18 1178

How language shapes the way we think Lera Boroditsky TED 2 Uncle Joe Nov 18 Nov 18 13 673

The State of Napa Valley College's Ground Breaking $7.5 million Solar Facility Built in 2009. 4 NNadir Nov 18 Nov 18 3 618

Research integrity conference hit with AI-generated abstracts 0 erronis Nov 18 Nov 18 3 507

NBC covering breakthrough ufo paper 7 SamuelTheThird Oct 26 Nov 18 10 6561

A whopper of a retraction. 5 NNadir Nov 12 Nov 17 13 1268

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