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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 60547
The Thought That Led to General Relativity 2 BootinUp 11 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 9 1663
Using only reported COVID-19 deaths, the same model yielded 14.4 million deaths averted by vaccines. 3 BootinUp Yesterday 12 hrs ago 12 3830
Nuclear power plants rely on other forms of energy, sometimes energy from high pollution sources to operate. 0 Eko Yesterday Yesterday 0 1538
Spiral Galaxy IC 342 located roughly 11 million light-years from Earth. 0 BootinUp Yesterday Yesterday 7 3471
How Much Can a Giant Waterlily Hold? See One Carry 183 Pounds Before Sinking, Winning a Social Media Contest 2 Judi Lynn Saturday Yesterday 9 335
How Sunflower Remove Radioactive Waste From Soil 1 YoshidaYui Yesterday Yesterday 4 448
Amazing Sunflower Facts To Brighten Your Day 2 YoshidaYui Yesterday Yesterday 8 2118
Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics Workbooks (HELM) Free college level workbooks. CC-Licensed. 1 usonian Wednesday Wednesday 5 384
NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures Mars Vista As Clear As Day 2 turbinetree Tuesday Wednesday 6 394
'A paradigm change': black hole spotted that may have been created moments after big bang 2 muriel_volestrangler Tuesday Tuesday 8 415
UK, Japan, South Korea endure hottest summer on record 1 struggle4progress Tuesday Tuesday 4 329
New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA's Webb Telescope (NASA) 0 eppur_se_muova Tuesday Tuesday 8 286
There are 32 different ways AI can go rogue, scientists say -- from hallucinating answers to a complete misalignment with 3 Judi Lynn Sunday Monday 7 351
Scientists find evidence of parallel universes 14 Bayard Saturday Monday 22 866
Scientists Discovered A New Mineral On Mars, Here's What That Means 0 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 19 584
Researchers Create Rechargeable, Glow-in-the-Dark Succulents 3 Judi Lynn Saturday Sunday 4 316
Exposing Fake Honey Using Carbon-13 1 struggle4progress Sunday Sunday 15 560
Astronomers Spot a Rare Quadruple Star System in the Milky Way, Shedding Light on Mysterious Brown Dwarfs 1 Judi Lynn Saturday Saturday 9 266
Testosterone shifts political preferences in weakly affiliated Democratic men, study finds 8 Bayard Saturday Saturday 4 597
I rather admire, on some level, this retraction. 1 NNadir Friday Saturday 6 438
This AI model simulates 1,000 years of the current climate in just one day 2 erronis Aug 25 Aug 28 2 985
What the heck is a time crystal, and why are physicists obsessed with them? 1 Jilly_in_VA Aug 26 Aug 26 10 608
Braided magnetic flux ropes found at both human and light year scales 2 erronis Aug 25 Aug 25 4 827
'Cosmic whisper' observed in the search for dark matter 0 Judi Lynn Aug 25 Aug 25 9 1090
Plants steer the way rivers meander across the landscape 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 6 862
Scientists Have Identified the Origin of an Extraordinarily Powerful Outer Space Radio Wave 8 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 27 1082
Black holes that transform matter into dark energy could solve 'cosmic hiccups' mystery 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 6 820
Longest canyon in the solar system reveals new secrets -- Space photo of the week 2 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 9 831
NASA prepares for its next year-long simulated Mars habitat mission 2 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 1 301

Science Continued...

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Pastel Pink Lobsters, Goofy-Looking Squid Among Deep-Sea Oddities Discovered in Ocean Abyss 2 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 27 859
Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis 5 Bayard Aug 24 Aug 24 42 1130
An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 11 458
New findings from UA's asteroid sample mission 0 Ptah Aug 23 Aug 23 11 407
IBM and Moderna have simulated the longest mRNA pattern without AI -- they used a quantum computer instead 6 BootinUp Aug 21 Aug 22 14 646
Nerve cell synapse artistic rendering. 0 BootinUp Aug 17 Aug 17 13 402
Green Hydrogen Goes Affordable: Rethinking Catalyst Design 1 Caribbeans Aug 15 Aug 15 5 378
Exceeding functional biosphere integrity limits: Study finds 60% of the world's land area is in a precarious state 4 erronis Aug 15 Aug 15 11 409
Moving up in the world: Rare catfish species filmed climbing waterfalls 0 erronis Aug 15 Aug 15 13 471
Scientists discover sex reversal in kookaburras and lorikeets with cause unknown 2 usonian Aug 13 Aug 15 5 407
Mount Sinai study supports evidence that prenatal acetaminophen use may be linked to increased risk of autism and ADHD 0 Wicked Blue Aug 14 Aug 14 7 544
Strange spiral in the night sky was a rocket fuel dump (earthsky.org) 2 eppur_se_muova Aug 14 Aug 14 7 542
Nightmares linked to faster biological ageing and early death 8 littlemissmartypants Aug 13 Aug 14 7 512
Toothpaste made from hair could help repair teeth 3 Goonch Aug 13 Aug 13 14 611
Discovery Plateau Hypothesis 2 BootinUp Aug 13 Aug 13 4 404
First antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning "cleans" blood in minutes 0 Wicked Blue Aug 13 Aug 13 11 560
The World Is Running Out of Freshwater Faster Than Anyone Expected 9 erronis Aug 9 Aug 10 16 981
Electron microscope image of the penicillin fungus 6 BootinUp Aug 9 Aug 10 16 815
'It seems that size really does matter': Males of 4 never-before-seen tarantula species have record-long genitalia 1 WestMichRad Aug 9 Aug 9 4 498
Happy 100th birthday, quantum mechanics! 2 usonian Aug 9 Aug 9 8 414
New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Aug 6 Aug 6 8 614
Mercury reaches elongation 8/19/25, shares morning sky w/Venus and Jupiter ... 0 eppur_se_muova Aug 6 Aug 6 5 351
Demonstration of polarity in a stream of water 1 BootinUp Aug 6 Aug 6 5 465
World's Most Powerful Telescope Just Spotted a Visitor From Another Star System--10 Days Before Anyone Else 1 muriel_volestrangler Aug 4 Aug 5 11 609
Andromeda and Ghost. Today's spectacular and surprising APOD 4 SorellaLaBefana Aug 4 Aug 5 17 522
Scientists Just Found a Shocking Link Between Dirty Air and Dementia 0 erronis Aug 4 Aug 4 18 626
Chemistry at the Beginning: How Molecular Reactions Influenced the Formation of the First Stars 5 OKIsItJustMe Aug 4 Aug 4 8 472
A volcano in Russia's Far East erupts for the first time in centuries 3 Jilly_in_VA Aug 3 Aug 3 12 459
Judge allows the National Science Foundation to withhold hundreds of millions of research dollars 0 Eugene Aug 3 Aug 3 5 427
Virginia opossums: The American marsupials that have barely changed since the time of the dinosaurs 3 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 7 429

Science Continued...

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Scientists Have Discovered a "Sixth Sense" That Links the Gut and Brain in Real Time 0 erronis Aug 3 Aug 3 18 624
Skyscraper-size spikes of methane ice may surround Pluto's equator 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 3 354
Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double black hole system ever found, crooked jet suggests 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 8 358
New theory to understand the origins of the Universe 3 OKIsItJustMe Aug 1 Aug 2 18 678
At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery -- Quanta Magazine 2 erronis Aug 1 Aug 1 15 721
WMO certifies megaflash lightning record in USA -- World Meteorlogical Association 5 erronis Jul 31 Jul 31 9 519
New 40cm-long species of stick insect suspected to be the heaviest insect in Australia 2 muriel_volestrangler Jul 31 Jul 31 16 701
Chicago pianist 'grateful' to make music again after life-changing brain surgery 4 Jilly_in_VA Jul 31 Jul 31 9 499
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 31 Jul 31 2 455
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 0 Jilly_in_VA Jul 31 Jul 31 0 368
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 31 Jul 31 4 408
A submersible finds sea creatures thriving in the deepest parts of the ocean 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 30 Jul 31 10 550
The fungus among us: Study shows fungi form living bridges to share water between neighboring plants 1 erronis Jul 30 Jul 30 2 444
What Can a Cell Remember? -- Quanta Magazine 2 erronis Jul 30 Jul 30 5 436
Congo Basin's Peatlands are More Than 42,000 Years Old, New Study Reveals 0 milestogo Jul 30 Jul 30 2 338
Fascinating documentary on PBS about the search for "twin primes" 0 erronis Jul 29 Jul 29 6 570
Wasps may hold the secret to slowing down the aging process 6 erronis Jul 29 Jul 29 8 698
Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials 3 erronis Jul 28 Jul 28 8 608
New play in the chemical-reaction playbook uncovered 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 28 Jul 28 10 536
Why the Key to a Mathematical Life is Collaboration -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jul 28 Jul 28 5 424
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