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Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought 0 Uncle Joe Feb 22 Feb 22 16 890
Soil Restoration Experiments in Australia using Sheep's Wool... 7 electric_blue68 Feb 2026 Feb 22 8 1029
This cutting-edge exoskeleton got me up a mountain I had no chance of climbing alone 2 Judi Lynn Feb 22 Feb 22 9 1026
An 'astonishingly' large new dinosaur species has been discovered in the Sahara 4 Judi Lynn Feb 22 Feb 22 15 1171
Saturn's North Pole 9 BootinUp Feb 22 Feb 22 40 1749
The Effect of Dibutyl Phthalate on Proliferation of Breast Cancer Cells Studied by Mass Spec Imaging. 0 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 762
Renowned Cal Tech scientist who studied distant planets fatally shot at his home near LA 1 BlueWaveNeverEnd Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 845
Deepest-Ever Rock Core From Beneath Antarctica's Ice. It Holds Clues About the Earth's Past--and Future 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 642
Scientists May Have Found The Key Cellular Process Behind Aging in Animals 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 831
Carl Sagan - Protons and Neutrons 2 BootinUp Feb 2026 Feb 2026 2 743
We need more papers showing stuff that doesn't work: Extraction of Actinides into Molten Zn Fails to Separate... 2 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 774
Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive and will be for more than a millennium. 12 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 35 2302
A bacterium's built-in compass, explained: Single-cell magnetometry confirms Earth-field alignment 2 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 696
A 25-year study found an unexpected link between cheese and dementia 41 multigraincracker Feb 2026 Feb 2026 81 6345
Astrophysics turned upside down by unique 'inside out' planetary system 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 906
Brain worm hell: The CDC hepatitis B study is unethical and must never be published 6 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 24 1508
As a paleontologist, I had never expected to see paleontologists names pop up in the Epstein Files. I was naive. 4 generalbetrayus Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 1045
China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct 2 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 729
Plot twist! The Andromeda-Milky Way Merger has begun. 5 GreenWave Feb 2026 Feb 2026 29 1592
Massive Pyroclastic Flow Descends Entire Slope of Mount Semeru Volcano (Feb 13, 2026) 3 catbyte Feb 2026 Feb 2026 12 1106
Stargazing Buddy A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment (free, online) 1 usonian Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 658
New study tells us what's up with what's going down with the sinking Chesapeake Bay 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 12 1003
Jupiter Is Not The Size And Shape We've Long Thought It Was 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 977
Happy Darwin Day, everybody! 6 Lionel Mandrake Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 1166
Scientists create 'smart underwear' to measure human flatulence 15 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 1785
Dream engineering can help solve 'puzzling' questions: Study offers insights to optimizing sleep 3 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 11 1012
Is NASA about to blow up Artemis? 3 Bmoboy Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 1152
Eli Lilly ad focusing on the Scientific Method 4 QED Feb 2026 Feb 2026 16 1027
A hidden Aloe vera compound takes aim at Alzheimer's 2 multigraincracker Feb 2026 Feb 2026 15 1030
'Textbooks will need to be updated': Jupiter is smaller and flatter than we thought, Juno spacecraft reveals 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 1078

Science Continued...

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Former NASA scientists warn of possible Artemis II spacecraft safety issue - ABC News 9 TexasTowelie Jan 2026 Feb 2026 8 1401
Stellar nursery bursts with newborn stars in hauntingly beautiful Hubble telescope image -- 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 834
The spark of the Super: Teller-Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb--rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years 7 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 1228
A Really Fabulous Lecture We Saw Today on the Topic of AI, Computer Vision, Language and Robotics: Deep Learning. 2 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 854
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 2026 Feb 2026 3 799
Does Pregnancy Result in a Hankering for Prime Numbers? 9 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 1303
Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 744
OpenAI's New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace 'Prism' Raises Fears Of Vibe-Coded Academic AISlop 3 littlemissmartypants Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 862
AI model OpenScholar synthesizes scientific research and cites sources as accurately as human experts 2 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 1 829
Genetic analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique lineage in the Balkans 0 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 713
Reproduction in space, an environment hostile to human biology 7 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 1092
Artemis II launch has been delayed until March. 0 llmart Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 633
'They've probably been untouched for 49 million years': The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 20 1001
At the scientific lecture I attended today, the speaker rephrased the term "AI" in a way I appreciated and admired. 5 NNadir Jan 2026 Feb 2026 13 1243
Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory--here's how 5 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 15 1104
16 years of brain scans reveal the cerebellum's crucial role in human language 2 erronis Jan 2026 Feb 2026 8 757
Saturn has more moons than any other planet in our solar system 2 BootinUp Jan 2026 Jan 2026 4 754
Anti-vaccine sentiment pushes Moderna away from new late-stage infectious disease trials 3 NNadir Jan 2026 Jan 2026 9 916
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office 1 douglas9 Jan 2026 Jan 2026 14 774
How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926) 5 usonian Jan 2026 Jan 2026 9 892
Scientists identify a brain region that differs between male and female mice and may influence social behavior 10 erronis Jan 2026 Jan 2026 10 1484
Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 2026 Jan 2026 10 815
Pilot captures historic northern lights show from 37,000 feet (photos) 19 milestogo Jan 2026 Jan 2026 71 3005
Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jan 2026 Jan 2026 9 872
Image of Barnard 59, in the Pipe Nebula 3 BootinUp Jan 2026 Jan 2026 11 913
What If You Keep Slowing Down? 3 Uncle Joe Jan 2026 Jan 2026 10 1206
Why do some people get 'hangry' more quickly than others? 1 erronis Jan 2026 Jan 2026 20 1043
There Is Something Faster Than Light 10 Uncle Joe Dec 2025 Jan 2026 7 1876
OFFS -- AI can FU anything (bogus illustration). 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 2026 Jan 2026 2 816
Study finds Tyrannosaurus rex did not reach full size until age 40 2 Jilly_in_VA Jan 2026 Jan 2026 4 850

Science Continued...

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The Southern Ocean current reverses for the first time, signaling a risk of climate system collapse 23 Bayard Jan 2026 Jan 2026 82 4182
Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane 3 highplainsdem Jan 2026 Jan 2026 6 990
NASA's Artemis moon mission one step closer to liftoff - NBC News 2 TexasTowelie Jan 2026 Jan 2026 3 852
NASA's Voyager Just Crossed the Edge of the Solar System -- and Found Something Wild 10 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2026 Jan 2026 52 3045
Scientists uncover Antarctica's hidden landscape beneath ice sheet for first time 0 highplainsdem Jan 2026 Jan 2026 10 734
NASA SpaceX Crew-11 Splashes Down Off Coast of California - C-SPAN 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 2026 Jan 2026 3 562
"Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis. University research delivers." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 57 2269
Never-before-seen footage captures moment scientists find new, giant anaconda species in Amazon 4 milestogo Jan 2026 Jan 2026 18 1216
Dogs with a Large Vocabulary of Object Labels Learn New Labels by Overhearing Like 1.5-Year-Old Infants 13 GreatGazoo Jan 2026 Jan 2026 13 1826
NASA crew to make rare early return after medical issue in space (CNN) 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 2026 Jan 2026 4 899
WHY DINOSAURS? AN AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DINOSAURS AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM 0 eppur_se_muova Jan 2026 Jan 2026 5 640
A bison's hump helps it plow through snow with ease 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 2026 Jan 2026 5 1019
Psychological traits that may fuel conspiracy theorist mindset identified 10 erronis Jan 2026 Jan 2026 6 1276
The Shocking Speed at Which Pandemics Take Over Cities 2 erronis Jan 2026 Jan 2026 16 863
Flu Is Relentless. Crispr Might Be Able to Shut It Down 4 LiberalArkie Jan 2026 Jan 2026 11 1060
Is President Jeffries in 2027 More Probable Than the Universe that Exists? 7 NNadir Dec 2025 Jan 2026 12 1342
Scientists Teach the Brain To Read Light as a New Sense 9 erronis Dec 2025 Jan 2026 3 1355
Has anyone 3 Rebl2 Jan 2026 Jan 2026 3 874
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 2026 Jan 2026 11 951
My wife noted something about the "Science on Saturday" series we attend every winter. 5 NNadir Jan 2026 Jan 2026 62 2215
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