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Clair Patterson: The Caltech Scientist Who Exposed Lead Poisoning and Changed the World 4 BootinUp Jun 27 Jun 27 4 535

What Is Thimerosal? Why Most Vaccines Don't Contain Mercury Anymore 2 LiberalArkie Jun 27 Jun 27 6 551

I have a great YouTube channel to rec...Dr. Becky Smethurst is an Oxford U. astrophysicist and is really fun... 1 wcmagumba Jun 26 Jun 26 5 600

These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth 1 erronis Jun 26 Jun 26 9 593

Alaska Brown Bear Has Shiny New Smile After Getting A Huge Metal Crown 1 Wicked Blue Jun 26 Jun 26 6 553

Doctors Detected a Mysterious Antibody in a French Woman's Body. It Turned Out to Be a Brand New Blood Type 8 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jun 26 43 1609

Australian Moths Are the First Known Insects to Navigate by the Stars, Revealing a Migratory Superpower 2 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jun 26 9 502

For first time, Webb telescope discovers an alien planet 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 25 Jun 25 13 764

Physicists recreate forgotten experiment observing fusion -- Los Alamos National Laboratory 0 erronis Jun 25 Jun 25 2 490

Overconfident conspiracy theorists: Many unaware their beliefs are on the fringe 5 erronis Jun 24 Jun 24 12 737

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Change Astronomy Forever 6 Gaugamela Jun 24 Jun 24 13 925

Scientists use bacteria to convert plastic into paracetamol 2 cbabe Jun 24 Jun 24 9 635

First images from world's largest digital camera features stunning shots of the universe 7 Jilly_in_VA Jun 23 Jun 24 19 1056

Smooth trends in fermium charge radii and the impact of shell effects 1 NNadir Jun 22 Jun 22 1 466

Advanced AI models generate up to 50 times more CO₂ emissions than more common LLMs when answering the same questions 2 littlemissmartypants Jun 21 Jun 21 5 488

New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect 7 erronis Jun 21 Jun 21 14 1119

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'RFK Jr is a disaster': Staff describe chaos in 'anti-science' regime 3 douglas9 Jun 21 Jun 21 16 855

Flesh-Eating 'Screwworm' Parasites Are Headed to the U.S. 5 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 19 16 1118

Astronomers find universe's "missing" matter after long search 2 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 12 805

The Way You Breathe Is Unique to You, Like a Fingerprint, New Study Suggests - Smithsonian Magazine 2 Rhiannon12866 Jun 16 Jun 16 7 660

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Lab-Grown Salmon Hits the Menu at an Oregon Restaurant as the FDA Greenlights the Cell-Cultured Product 1 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 16 4 553

Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves 2 LiberalArkie Jun 15 Jun 15 13 1085

It's NOT just Here in Amerika: 'Scienticide' in Argentina sparks huge protest 2 SorellaLaBefana Jun 2 Jun 15 8 1478

How Much Power Can a Gum Wrapper Handle? 0 BootinUp Jun 14 Jun 14 4 661

Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints -- Cell.com - Current Biology 5 erronis Jun 12 Jun 13 1 776

Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look. -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jun 13 Jun 13 10 823

Science Continued...

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First view of the Sun's south pole filmed by spacecraft 1 nitpicked Jun 11 Jun 12 2 460

High-performance water electrolysis without platinum brings hydrogen economy closer 1 Caribbeans Jun 11 Jun 12 4 593

Lost Worlds: the Forgotten Creatures of Prehistory 2 YoshidaYui Apr 2025 Jun 12 4 922

Epic Effort to Ground Physics in Math Opens Up the Secrets of Time -- Quanta Magazine 2 erronis Jun 11 Jun 11 9 686

NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts -- The Register 2 erronis Jun 11 Jun 11 4 597

First view of the Sun's south pole filmed by spacecraft 0 nitpicked Jun 11 Jun 11 9 589

First view of the Sun's south pole filmed by spacecraft 0 nitpicked Jun 11 Jun 11 1 415

Across 50 countries, female faces consistently rank higher in attractiveness than male faces 1 erronis Jun 11 Jun 11 2 537

Accidental find in planetarium show could shift scientists' understanding of our solar system 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 11 Jun 11 20 799

Scientists Make World's Smallest Violin 4 littlemissmartypants Jun 9 Jun 11 8 854

Frontier supercomputer sets new bar for simulating the universe 0 BootinUp Jun 10 Jun 10 6 506

Digital twins reveal how math disabilities affect the brain 0 erronis Jun 10 Jun 10 2 474

When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it's time to rethink the hype 12 cbabe Jun 10 Jun 10 13 1218

A science video that moved me, and left me, at some points, in tears. 8 NNadir Jun 10 Jun 10 12 1201

Reddit AMA -- Ask Me Anything about the final result of the Muon g-2 experiment: June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CDT) 0 xocetaceans Jun 10 Jun 10 4 4013

Chicago Area Educator Alert: Free Lunch and Science at Argonne National Laboratory. 1 NNadir Jun 10 Jun 10 2 501

How AI technology gave Neale Daniher his voice back 1 canetoad Jun 9 Jun 9 4 497

NASA orbiter saw something astonishing peek through Martian clouds 4 Judi Lynn Jun 8 Jun 8 61 2436

Aussie cockatoos use their beaks and claws to turn on water fountains 1 Judi Lynn Jun 8 Jun 8 4 3932

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Zinc Fireworks Reveal When Human Egg is Fertilized 2 sl8 Jun 7 Jun 7 4 715

A residue of American Science will remain in the literature after its death. 3 NNadir Jun 7 Jun 7 8 894

A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogot Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history o 0 erronis Jun 7 Jun 7 9 580

Cats distinguish owner's smell from stranger's, study finds 2 k_buddy762 Jun 6 Jun 6 7 699

Soviet-era spacecraft 'likely' to have re-entered Earth's atmosphere 1 k_buddy762 Jun 6 Jun 6 5 626

Maternal blood iron level: For the first time, an external factor turns a male mammal into a female 6 cbabe Jun 5 Jun 6 6 902

Anglers catch fish for science and to save a species ... 0 Jilly_in_VA Jun 5 Jun 5 6 486

60 Years Ago, Edward White Went For A Walk..... 7 lastlib Jun 4 Jun 5 18 998

Science Continued...

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I think this is the right forum for this. 1 WinstonSmith4740 Jun 4 Jun 4 10 697

MIT Study shows making hydrogen with soda cans and seawater is scalable and sustainable 3 Caribbeans Jun 3 Jun 3 6 932

Milky Way's chance of colliding with galaxy billions of years from now? New study puts odds at 50-50 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2 Jun 2 4 651

Immigration Research Shows Stephen Miller Wrong About American Science 5 douglas9 Jun 2 Jun 2 14 991

Warning after millions of bees escape overturned truck in US 2 k_buddy762 Jun 1 Jun 2 5 794

Scientists discover water source in outer space three times greater than Earth's oceans 6 Judi Lynn Jun 1 Jun 1 30 5665

Astronauts in space for nine months didn't know if they would 'be able to make it back' 1 k_buddy762 Jun 1 Jun 1 8 718

The Swiss village wiped off the map by a glacier 2 k_buddy762 Jun 1 Jun 1 7 731

Major Flare Could Spark Severe Geomagnetic Storm Sunday Night, June 1st 1 Judi Lynn Jun 1 Jun 1 6 723

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Why it's Impossible to Throw a Perfect Spiral (ft. Tom Brady) 0 YoshidaYui Jun 1 Jun 1 1 641

A Single Gene Shaped the Deadly History of Plague 3 NNadir May 31 May 31 15 989

Japanese...Australian...Chinese...Chinese...Chinese...Iranian...Chinese...Chinese...British (Japanese Name)... 3 NNadir May 31 May 31 6 751

The pushback against state interference in science: how Lysenkoism tried to suppress Genetics &... was eventually defeat 0 littlemissmartypants May 31 May 31 4 423

A meta-analytic review of anger management activities that increase or decrease arousal: What fuels or douses rage? 4 littlemissmartypants May 30 May 30 5 3975

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A note from an HPLC column supplier on why they can't import a steel column weighing about 10 or 20 grams. 3 NNadir May 29 May 30 5 676

Kai Bird at the Institute of Advanced Study Interviewed About of his Book on Oppenheimer 0 NNadir May 29 May 29 3 411

Hybrid termite colonies confirmed in Florida, raising concerns over spread and damage 4 DBoon May 29 May 29 8 752

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