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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 61225

Dogs with a Large Vocabulary of Object Labels Learn New Labels by Overhearing Like 1.5-Year-Old Infants 1 GreatGazoo 22 min ago 5 min ago 5 116

NASA crew to make rare early return after medical issue in space (CNN) 3 eppur_se_muova 21 hrs ago 31 min ago 3 311

There Is Something Faster Than Light 9 Uncle Joe Dec 24 14 hrs ago 7 968

WHY DINOSAURS? AN AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DINOSAURS AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM 0 eppur_se_muova 19 hrs ago 19 hrs ago 3 229

A bison's hump helps it plow through snow with ease 4 littlemissmartypants Yesterday 20 hrs ago 5 406

Psychological traits that may fuel conspiracy theorist mindset identified 10 erronis Monday 22 hrs ago 6 420

The Shocking Speed at Which Pandemics Take Over Cities 2 erronis Monday Tuesday 16 421

Flu Is Relentless. Crispr Might Be Able to Shut It Down 4 LiberalArkie Tuesday Tuesday 11 480

Is President Jeffries in 2027 More Probable Than the Universe that Exists? 7 NNadir Dec 21 Tuesday 12 624

Scientists Teach the Brain To Read Light as a New Sense 9 erronis Dec 11 Tuesday 3 554

Has anyone 3 Rebl2 Monday Monday 3 392

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 11 493

My wife noted something about the "Science on Saturday" series we attend every winter. 5 NNadir Jan 1 Jan 1 62 1570

These giant sea reptiles lived in freshwater rivers, too (earthsky.org) 8 eppur_se_muova Dec 31 Dec 31 8 583

Hiroshima and the Development of Anticlotting Drugs (A Wikipedia Reference Only.) 0 NNadir Dec 31 Dec 31 3 297

short video of a flying fish 9 BootinUp Dec 29 Dec 29 9 503

Moonship, December 1972 3 SorellaLaBefana Dec 27 Dec 27 10 422

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 1464

Turtle Patrol Volunteer 4 surfered Dec 21 Dec 25 11 401

A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue 10 erronis Dec 16 Dec 25 47 1385

Panning across the Cosmic Seagull 0 BootinUp Dec 23 Dec 23 7 365

Doctor's orders? 'Belly laugh at least two to five days a week' 0 erronis Dec 21 Dec 21 7 396

60 edges, 38 faces, and 24 vertices, Supramolecular Snub Cubes 3 NNadir Dec 20 Dec 20 7 545

Good listeners connect more easily with strangers, study finds 4 erronis Dec 18 Dec 19 5 411

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Sean Carroll Discuss Controversies in Quantum Mechanics 0 BootinUp Dec 18 Dec 18 9 429

FRET in biochemistry, not guitars. 2 NNadir Dec 17 Dec 18 3 332

The Iberian Peninsula is rotating clockwise, scientists report 0 cbabe Dec 17 Dec 17 18 474

ADHD Isn't Just a Deficit: New Study Reveals Powerful Psychological Strengths 6 erronis Dec 15 Dec 15 15 4625

Gray hair may have evolved as a protection against cancer 4 Bayard Dec 11 Dec 15 8 907

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a capella science: VSEPR 1 QED Dec 14 Dec 14 7 409

How Ramanujan's formulae for pi connect to modern high energy physics 3 erronis Dec 3 Dec 13 6 500

Formation of an Unusually Stable Crystal Found in the Ashes of a 1963 Nuclear Weapons Test in Australia. 0 NNadir Dec 12 Dec 12 9 653

World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black 4 eppur_se_muova Dec 7 Dec 12 15 749

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 9 522

How a simple slipknot can help surgeons tie the perfect suture 2 erronis Dec 11 Dec 11 7 505

excerpt from: The Penicillin Myth - Asimov Press 2 BootinUp Dec 8 Dec 9 9 612

Africa Is Splitting Into Two Continents 18 IronLionZion Nov 21 Dec 8 60 3138

Time may be a psychological projection, philosopher argues 5 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 8 9 662

Scientists discover dinosaur 'mummies' with hoofs like a horse (CBC Radio - As It Happens) 1 eppur_se_muova Dec 7 Dec 7 16 733

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 eppur_se_muova Dec 7 Dec 7 0 186

Something Weird Happens When E-mc 2 Uncle Joe Dec 6 Dec 6 9 791

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 14 614

Last Lunar Walkabout December 1972 2 SorellaLaBefana Dec 6 Dec 6 4 408

18,000 dinosaur tracks discovered along ancient Bolivian coastline -- and they set a new record 11 Judi Lynn Dec 5 Dec 5 38 1287

The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Dec 5 Dec 5 2 391

Private com-sat companies are planning to launch so many satellites that even SPACE telescopes will be compromised 2 SorellaLaBefana Dec 5 Dec 5 10 473

Skin-to-brain signal explains why warm hugs make us feel so good about ourselves 0 erronis Dec 4 Dec 4 4 508

For the 1st time ever, 8 spacecraft are docked to the International Space Station 2 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 5 506

Video-call glitches can have serious consequences 0 erronis Dec 3 Dec 3 6 581

New Algorithm Lets Architects Design Stunning Curved Structures in Minutes 0 erronis Dec 3 Dec 3 4 483

Tiny Bullet Fragments in Hunted Meat Pose Lead Poisoning Risk 1 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 5 476

James Webb telescope spots strange 'super-puff' planet frantically chasing its own atmosphere through space 0 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 6 497

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 2 377

Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon 4 littlemissmartypants Nov 28 Dec 2 4 580

When Americans migrate from violent states, the risk of future violence follows them 1 erronis Dec 2 Dec 2 8 728

Seismic Mystery Solved: Scientists Find a New State of Matter at Earth's Center 1 Judi Lynn Dec 1 Dec 1 17 660

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 13 663

Consciousness as the foundation: New theory addresses nature of reality 13 erronis Nov 25 Dec 1 13 1369

Textbooks Were Wrong: 249-Million-Year-Old Fossil Discovery Upends Timeline of Evolution 15 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Dec 1 36 2006

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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 8 613

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 16 948

Your Brain Quietly Rewrites Reality Depending on Your State of Mind 4 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 14 874

Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years 3 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 6 5616

Living microbes found in a meteorite crater may offer clues to life on Mars 0 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 6 477

This message was self-deleted by its author 1 littlemissmartypants Nov 28 Nov 28 1 391

"It's A Remarkable Thing, To Be A Human Being" - Prof. Brian Cox 2 BootinUp Nov 25 Nov 26 13 655

Astrophysicist's latest 3I/ATLAS theory: It's interested in Jupiter 6 Jilly_in_VA Nov 24 Nov 24 11 784

Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy 3 Jilly_in_VA Nov 24 Nov 24 31 870

The Uncanny Gmail Clone That Drops You Straight Into Epstein's Inbox 2 littlemissmartypants Nov 24 Nov 24 6 585

Mosquito proboscis repurposed as a fine nozzle for 3D printing 2 cbabe Nov 21 Nov 21 11 681

Why Some People Feel Nothing From Music: Scientists Uncover Rare Brain Disconnect 14 erronis Nov 20 Nov 21 8 1079

No need to ask for directions: Loggerhead sea turtles rely on two senses for migration 0 douglas9 Nov 21 Nov 21 9 538

New Psychoactive Substances in Wastewater from Rest Areas and Commercial Weigh Stations along Interstate Highways 8 NNadir Nov 20 Nov 21 15 1127

Humans are evolved for nature, not cities, say anthropologists 14 erronis Nov 18 Nov 19 18 1160

How language shapes the way we think Lera Boroditsky TED 2 Uncle Joe Nov 18 Nov 18 13 657

The State of Napa Valley College's Ground Breaking $7.5 million Solar Facility Built in 2009. 4 NNadir Nov 18 Nov 18 3 607

Research integrity conference hit with AI-generated abstracts 0 erronis Nov 18 Nov 18 3 496

NBC covering breakthrough ufo paper 7 SamuelTheThird Oct 26 Nov 18 10 6539

A whopper of a retraction. 5 NNadir Nov 12 Nov 17 13 1251

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