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Moon Standard Time? Nasa to create lunar-centric time reference system 3 cbabe Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 823
Vincent van Gecko: Colorful new lizard species named after the famous painter 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 12 1026
Black-Capped Chickadees Are Masters of Memory--and Scientists Are Finding Out Why 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 12 1169
NASA Announces We May Have a Chance to See a Star Explosion With the Naked Eye This Year 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 918
NASA is Planning to Shut Down One of the Great Observatories to Save Money 7 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 22 1436
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Detailed View of a Solar Eclipse Corona 2 Ptah Apr 2024 Apr 2024 15 1141
Teaching to support religious ignorance in public schools legalized in West Virginia. 0 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 7 991
Underwater Robot Discovers More Than 100 New Species in Chile 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 758
Why NASA is launching 3 rockets into the solar eclipse next week 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 840
Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals 1 Eugene Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 1185
Meanwhile, in *Other* News: Critical Ocean Current Likely in Collapse from Our Warming Planet 14 SorellaLaBefana Mar 2024 Apr 2024 61 3385
William Shatner has questions for Neil Degrasse Tyson 1 YoshidaYui Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1213
Astrophysicist explains science behind once-in-a-lifetime nova outburst that will light up the sky this year 8 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 26 1492
A cosmic 'speed camera' just revealed the staggering speed of neutron star jets in a world first 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 808
A cosmic 'speed camera' just revealed the staggering speed of neutron star jets in a world first 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 700
Amidst misinformation, critical thinking needs a 21st century upgrade 6 BootinUp Mar 2024 Mar 2024 27 1328
'Gold nuggets in night sky': Astronomers find 49 new galaxies in 3 hrs 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 10 1097
The surprising key to magpie intelligence: it's not genetic 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 15 1213
Ancient Ocean Water Discovered in Himalayan Mineral Deposits Unlocks Earth's Past Secrets 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 854
How are extreme "blue supergiant" stars born? Astronomers may finally know 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 783
Physicists make record-breaking 'quantum vortex' to study the mysteries of black holes 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 779
Enormous explosions may be visible on the sun during the April 8 solar eclipse 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 862
Giant Terror Birds Were Apex Predators of Eocene-Period Antarctica 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 819
Canada Is Bizarrely Shaking--and It Might Be Creating a New Ocean Crust 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 17 1090
AI's Future is Similar to that of Star Trek's Borg, Scientists Say 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 834
Gaia Space Telescope Discovers Ancient Stellar Streams 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 711
MIT scientists have just figured out how to make the most popular AI image generators 30 times faster 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 720
Drilling for water ice on Mars: How close are we to making it happen? 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 737
Scientists Ignited a Thermonuclear Explosion Inside a Supercomputer 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 9 1026
UArizona's Biosphere 2: A look at three decades of climate research 3 Ptah Mar 2024 Mar 2024 9 963

Science Continued...

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UPDATE -- Severe solar storm will generate auroras as far south as Alabama 5 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 21 1537
Eclipse seasons: Why the lunar eclipse on March 25 occurs 2 weeks before the total solar eclipse on April 8 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 878
Gale Crater on Mars seems to have recently had a lot of water 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 8 891
The holographic secret of black holes 7 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 29 2118
The holographic secret of black holes 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 9 832
Nova Documentary on Domestic Cats 4 YoshidaYui Mar 2024 Mar 2024 15 1904
Amazing photos of 'horned' comet 12P/Pons-Brooks from around the world 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 8 920
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 YoshidaYui Mar 2024 Mar 2024 0 585
Scientists Spotted 'Massless' Electrons Moving in 4 Dimensions 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 862
Physicists Reveal a Strange Form of Crystal Where Electrons Can't Move 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 8 850
Astronomers call for radio silence on the far side of the moon 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 13 902
Russian Soyuz rocket suffers rare last-minute abort during launch of 3 astronauts to ISS 2 WestMichRad Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 823
NASA's DART mission hammered its target asteroid into a new shape. Here's how 2 WestMichRad Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 819
DARPA picks Northrop Grumman to develop 'lunar raiload' concept 16 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1160
On this day, March 21, 1768, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 671
Scientists find galaxy supercluster as massive as 26 quadrillion suns 5 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 14 833
Deep-space astronomy sensor peers into the heart of an atom 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 8 695
Mathematicians have finally proved that Bach was a great composer 9 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 10 1062
'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life and minerals unseen on Earth, scientists rev 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 16 955
'This is a journey, not a destination': Stunning map of the Milky Way's center exposes new mysteries about our galaxy 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 10 969
Beluga whales appear to change the shape of their melon heads to communicate, scientists discover 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 816
Giant sequoias: There are less than 80,000 of these redwoods left in California, 19 speak easy Mar 2024 Mar 2024 8 1864
Betelgeuse's mysterious spin could be a cosmic illusion caused by its enormous 'boiling' surface 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 834
Ireland was once home to deer with massive 12-foot antlers 4 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 16 962
What happens when you send cancer into space? - BBC News 1 TexasTowelie Mar 2024 Mar 2024 12 1008
2024's Unprecedented Terror At the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory Continues. 1 NNadir Mar 2024 Mar 2024 12 1331
The Piranha Infested Waters Of The Amazon WILD 24 Real Wild 0 YoshidaYui Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 1111
The worst prediction in physics: what energy is in empty space? 8 Sancho Mar 2024 Mar 2024 12 1836
Which dinosaurs survived? The ones that shrank the fastest. 3 tblue37 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 9 954
Extensive Research Reveals 32 Health Risks Linked to Ultra-Processed Foods 4 erronis Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 909

Science Continued...

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Astronomers reveal one of the most detailed pictures of an exploded star ever taken 11 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 46 2215
Found: new vine snake species after a gap 113 years 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 611
A SINGLE ASTEROID CAUSED TWO BILLION CRATERS ON MARS, SCIENTISTS CLAIM 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 718
Webb discovered Ethanol and other icy ingredients around two protostars 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 583
'Imagine a lush tropical island slipping beneath the waves': Drowned island the size of Iceland found off Brazil 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 11 913
Massive volcano "hiding in plain sight" on Mars 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 8 669
Evidence of Unusual Atmospheric Changes Due to Ancient Pandemics (Video 11:49) 0 BootinUp Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 748
NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures a Martian Day, From Dawn to Dusk 0 turbinetree Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 701
Scientists discover 100 new species off the coast of New Zealand - WION 1 TexasTowelie Mar 2024 Mar 2024 10 791
Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble 8 TexasTowelie Mar 2024 Mar 2024 44 2785
Watch the exploding green 'devil comet' zoom past the Andromeda Galaxy in a stunning livestream this week 9 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 14 1016
Conspiracy crap thrives because the media give it plausibility. 5 SarahD Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 642
Japanese rocket explodes shortly after its first launch - Reuters 0 TexasTowelie Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 708
Superconductivity scandal: the inside story of deception in a rising star's physics lab 6 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 960
The Meteorite That Buried Michigan The Sudbury Impact 4 catbyte Mar 2024 Mar 2024 15 1228
Mercury slammed by gargantuan eruption from the sun's hidden far side, possibly triggering 'X-ray auroras' 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 9 690
French Reactor Running on Uranium Recycled from Used Nuclear Fuel. 4 NNadir Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1021
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 349
Annoying Peeve: Naming substances after the institution at which they are discovered sucks. 7 NNadir Dec 2021 Mar 2024 1 1531
France sets out long-term used nuclear fuel recycling plans 2 NNadir Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 595
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