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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 61522
How a one-eyed creature gave rise to our modern eyes 4 erronis 23 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 16 369
Paediatricians' blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds 1 muriel_volestrangler Yesterday 16 hrs ago 10 382
Too Late to Apologize! James Webb Telescope New study just made the "crisis in cosmology" WORSE... 43 Sancho Tuesday Yesterday 74 2955
The Human Cost of Trump's War on Science 3 douglas9 Monday Tuesday 9 415
How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? -- Quanta Magazine 7 erronis Monday Tuesday 13 391
Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought 0 Uncle Joe Sunday Sunday 16 510
Soil Restoration Experiments in Australia using Sheep's Wool... 7 electric_blue68 Feb 17 Sunday 8 457
This cutting-edge exoskeleton got me up a mountain I had no chance of climbing alone 2 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 9 567
An 'astonishingly' large new dinosaur species has been discovered in the Sahara 4 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 15 562
Saturn's North Pole 9 BootinUp Sunday Sunday 41 914
The Effect of Dibutyl Phthalate on Proliferation of Breast Cancer Cells Studied by Mass Spec Imaging. 0 NNadir Saturday Saturday 9 417
Renowned Cal Tech scientist who studied distant planets fatally shot at his home near LA 1 BlueWaveNeverEnd Saturday Saturday 14 498
Deepest-Ever Rock Core From Beneath Antarctica's Ice. It Holds Clues About the Earth's Past--and Future 1 Judi Lynn Saturday Saturday 14 318
Scientists May Have Found The Key Cellular Process Behind Aging in Animals 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday Friday 6 460
Nasa astronauts' moon mission likely to be delayed due to rocket issue 0 muriel_volestrangler Friday Friday 5 290
Carl Sagan - Protons and Neutrons 2 BootinUp Thursday Thursday 2 367
We need more papers showing stuff that doesn't work: Extraction of Actinides into Molten Zn Fails to Separate... 2 NNadir Feb 18 Thursday 5 371
World-first supercomputer discovers invisible flaw in all jet engines that no human had spotted 11 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 17 Feb 18 17 1128
Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive and will be for more than a millennium. 12 NNadir Feb 7 Feb 18 35 1447
A bacterium's built-in compass, explained: Single-cell magnetometry confirms Earth-field alignment 2 erronis Feb 17 Feb 17 7 338
A 25-year study found an unexpected link between cheese and dementia 41 multigraincracker Feb 9 Feb 17 81 4007
Astrophysics turned upside down by unique 'inside out' planetary system 0 Judi Lynn Feb 16 Feb 16 9 566
Brain worm hell: The CDC hepatitis B study is unethical and must never be published 6 NNadir Feb 15 Feb 15 24 965
As a paleontologist, I had never expected to see paleontologists names pop up in the Epstein Files. I was naive. 4 generalbetrayus Feb 15 Feb 15 7 574
China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct 2 NNadir Feb 15 Feb 15 7 378
Plot twist! The Andromeda-Milky Way Merger has begun. 5 GreenWave Feb 14 Feb 15 29 1052
Massive Pyroclastic Flow Descends Entire Slope of Mount Semeru Volcano (Feb 13, 2026) 3 catbyte Feb 13 Feb 13 12 679
Stargazing Buddy A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment (free, online) 1 usonian Feb 13 Feb 13 6 345
New study tells us what's up with what's going down with the sinking Chesapeake Bay 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 10 Feb 13 12 615

Science Continued...

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Jupiter Is Not The Size And Shape We've Long Thought It Was 2 Judi Lynn Feb 13 Feb 13 9 573
Happy Darwin Day, everybody! 6 Lionel Mandrake Feb 12 Feb 12 14 577
Scientists create 'smart underwear' to measure human flatulence 15 erronis Feb 10 Feb 11 6 926
Dream engineering can help solve 'puzzling' questions: Study offers insights to optimizing sleep 3 erronis Feb 5 Feb 10 11 613
Is NASA about to blow up Artemis? 3 Bmoboy Feb 4 Feb 10 7 737
Eli Lilly ad focusing on the Scientific Method 4 QED Feb 8 Feb 10 16 598
A hidden Aloe vera compound takes aim at Alzheimer's 2 multigraincracker Feb 9 Feb 9 15 618
'Textbooks will need to be updated': Jupiter is smaller and flatter than we thought, Juno spacecraft reveals 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 7 Feb 9 7 655
Former NASA scientists warn of possible Artemis II spacecraft safety issue - ABC News 9 TexasTowelie Jan 30 Feb 8 8 803
Stellar nursery bursts with newborn stars in hauntingly beautiful Hubble telescope image -- 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 8 14 544
The spark of the Super: Teller-Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb--rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years 7 NNadir Feb 4 Feb 8 4 679
A Really Fabulous Lecture We Saw Today on the Topic of AI, Computer Vision, Language and Robotics: Deep Learning. 2 NNadir Feb 7 Feb 7 4 521
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 6 Feb 6 3 521
Does Pregnancy Result in a Hankering for Prime Numbers? 9 NNadir Feb 4 Feb 4 7 727
Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 6 511
OpenAI's New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace 'Prism' Raises Fears Of Vibe-Coded Academic AISlop 3 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 3 511
AI model OpenScholar synthesizes scientific research and cites sources as accurately as human experts 2 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 1 473
Genetic analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique lineage in the Balkans 0 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 6 455
Reproduction in space, an environment hostile to human biology 7 erronis Feb 3 Feb 4 5 657
Artemis II launch has been delayed until March. 0 llmart Feb 3 Feb 3 5 437
'They've probably been untouched for 49 million years': The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 2 20 728
At the scientific lecture I attended today, the speaker rephrased the term "AI" in a way I appreciated and admired. 5 NNadir Jan 31 Feb 2 13 881
Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory--here's how 5 erronis Feb 1 Feb 1 15 718
16 years of brain scans reveal the cerebellum's crucial role in human language 2 erronis Jan 27 Feb 1 8 509
Saturn has more moons than any other planet in our solar system 2 BootinUp Jan 29 Jan 29 4 500
Anti-vaccine sentiment pushes Moderna away from new late-stage infectious disease trials 3 NNadir Jan 29 Jan 29 9 646
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office 1 douglas9 Jan 27 Jan 27 14 549
How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926) 5 usonian Jan 26 Jan 27 8 585
Scientists identify a brain region that differs between male and female mice and may influence social behavior 10 erronis Jan 26 Jan 26 10 938
Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 26 Jan 26 10 536

Science Continued...

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Pilot captures historic northern lights show from 37,000 feet (photos) 19 milestogo Jan 22 Jan 26 71 2193
Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jan 23 Jan 23 9 693
Image of Barnard 59, in the Pipe Nebula 3 BootinUp Jan 22 Jan 23 11 619
What If You Keep Slowing Down? 3 Uncle Joe Jan 21 Jan 22 10 953
Why do some people get 'hangry' more quickly than others? 1 erronis Jan 19 Jan 19 20 841
There Is Something Faster Than Light 10 Uncle Joe Dec 24 Jan 18 7 1461
OFFS -- AI can FU anything (bogus illustration). 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 17 Jan 17 2 594
Study finds Tyrannosaurus rex did not reach full size until age 40 2 Jilly_in_VA Jan 15 Jan 17 4 641
The Southern Ocean current reverses for the first time, signaling a risk of climate system collapse 23 Bayard Jan 15 Jan 17 82 3268
Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane 3 highplainsdem Jan 17 Jan 17 6 718
NASA's Artemis moon mission one step closer to liftoff - NBC News 2 TexasTowelie Jan 16 Jan 17 3 621
NASA's Voyager Just Crossed the Edge of the Solar System -- and Found Something Wild 10 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 16 Jan 16 52 2509
Scientists uncover Antarctica's hidden landscape beneath ice sheet for first time 0 highplainsdem Jan 16 Jan 16 10 582
NASA SpaceX Crew-11 Splashes Down Off Coast of California - C-SPAN 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 16 Jan 16 3 445
"Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis. University research delivers." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 15 Jan 15 57 1974
Never-before-seen footage captures moment scientists find new, giant anaconda species in Amazon 4 milestogo Jan 12 Jan 12 18 982
Dogs with a Large Vocabulary of Object Labels Learn New Labels by Overhearing Like 1.5-Year-Old Infants 13 GreatGazoo Jan 9 Jan 10 13 1328
NASA crew to make rare early return after medical issue in space (CNN) 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 8 Jan 9 4 697
WHY DINOSAURS? AN AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DINOSAURS AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM 0 eppur_se_muova Jan 8 Jan 8 5 527
A bison's hump helps it plow through snow with ease 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 8 Jan 8 5 781
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