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Andromeda and Ghost. Today's spectacular and surprising APOD 4 SorellaLaBefana Aug 4 Aug 5 17 596
Scientists Just Found a Shocking Link Between Dirty Air and Dementia 0 erronis Aug 4 Aug 4 18 679
Chemistry at the Beginning: How Molecular Reactions Influenced the Formation of the First Stars 5 OKIsItJustMe Aug 4 Aug 4 8 554
A volcano in Russia's Far East erupts for the first time in centuries 3 Jilly_in_VA Aug 3 Aug 3 12 531
Judge allows the National Science Foundation to withhold hundreds of millions of research dollars 0 Eugene Aug 3 Aug 3 5 480
Virginia opossums: The American marsupials that have barely changed since the time of the dinosaurs 3 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 7 494
Scientists Have Discovered a "Sixth Sense" That Links the Gut and Brain in Real Time 0 erronis Aug 3 Aug 3 18 697
Skyscraper-size spikes of methane ice may surround Pluto's equator 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 3 417
Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double black hole system ever found, crooked jet suggests 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 8 417
New theory to understand the origins of the Universe 3 OKIsItJustMe Aug 1 Aug 2 18 739
At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery -- Quanta Magazine 2 erronis Aug 1 Aug 1 15 784
WMO certifies megaflash lightning record in USA -- World Meteorlogical Association 5 erronis Jul 31 Jul 31 9 567
New 40cm-long species of stick insect suspected to be the heaviest insect in Australia 2 muriel_volestrangler Jul 31 Jul 31 16 757
Chicago pianist 'grateful' to make music again after life-changing brain surgery 4 Jilly_in_VA Jul 31 Jul 31 9 561
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 31 Jul 31 2 505
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 0 Jilly_in_VA Jul 31 Jul 31 0 414
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 31 Jul 31 4 461
A submersible finds sea creatures thriving in the deepest parts of the ocean 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 30 Jul 31 10 601
The fungus among us: Study shows fungi form living bridges to share water between neighboring plants 1 erronis Jul 30 Jul 30 2 488
What Can a Cell Remember? -- Quanta Magazine 2 erronis Jul 30 Jul 30 5 476
Congo Basin's Peatlands are More Than 42,000 Years Old, New Study Reveals 0 milestogo Jul 30 Jul 30 2 361
Fascinating documentary on PBS about the search for "twin primes" 0 erronis Jul 29 Jul 29 6 594
Wasps may hold the secret to slowing down the aging process 6 erronis Jul 29 Jul 29 8 755
Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials 3 erronis Jul 28 Jul 28 8 643
New play in the chemical-reaction playbook uncovered 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 28 Jul 28 10 558
Why the Key to a Mathematical Life is Collaboration -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jul 28 Jul 28 5 448
Phase Change Materials you can make at home... 1 ret5hd Jul 26 Jul 27 3 719
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Executive function may stem from schooling rather than innate cognition 4 erronis Jul 23 Jul 25 5 812
About 700m years ago, the Earth froze over entirely - now we may know why 4 muriel_volestrangler Jul 23 Jul 23 16 956

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The Cells That Breathe Two Ways -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jul 23 Jul 23 6 526
Arctic Melting in Mid-Winter 0 SorellaLaBefana Jul 23 Jul 23 3 624
NASA Shares How to Save Camera 370-Million-Miles Away Near Jupiter (nasa.gov) 3 usonian Jul 22 Jul 23 7 466
'E's got 'UUGE sharrp... It can leap abou--... LOOK AT THE BONES!!!" 2 Montauk6 Jul 22 Jul 22 12 727
Companion for Betelgeuse confirmed! Beloved red star has a blue-white buddy (earthsky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Jul 22 Jul 22 4 410
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 usonian Jul 22 Jul 22 1 313
Playing an Instrument Could Protect Against Cognitive Aging, Study Reveals 10 erronis Jul 19 Jul 22 12 748
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The Smoot - How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement -- The Register 5 erronis Jul 18 Jul 22 13 681
Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 22 Jul 22 11 735
Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained 13 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 21 11 1041
Electron microscope image of a white blood cell 5 BootinUp Jul 20 Jul 20 43 1481
The Apollo Moon Landing - Journey to American Democracy - Heather Cox Richardson 4 Rhiannon12866 Jul 20 Jul 20 2 499
This Ancient Practice Beats Pills for Sleep - And Science Backs It 3 erronis Jul 19 Jul 19 17 1176
The Most Interesting Email I Ever Received: Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles 0 erronis Jul 18 Jul 18 8 1026
8-hour time-lapse shows Earth rotating while capturing the Milky Way. 8 edbermac Jul 16 Jul 17 42 1614
Flying with hands: The evolution of bat wings 0 erronis Jul 16 Jul 16 5 430
Giant space 'boulders' unleashed by NASA's DART mission aren't behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflectin 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 16 Jul 16 8 656
Infrared photo of the Horsehead Nebula 0 BootinUp Jul 16 Jul 16 15 624
Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality Anil Seth TED 4 Uncle Joe Jul 12 Jul 14 19 1025
New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We're still learning from it 7 usonian Jul 11 Jul 12 11 822
The Caltech Experiment That Proved How Life Copies Itself - California Curated substack 2 BootinUp Jul 11 Jul 11 5 585
Should Adults in ICU have gene testing? Recent study (possibly) suggests YES 4 SorellaLaBefana Jul 11 Jul 11 2 779
'Could become a death spiral': scientists discover what's driving record die-offs of US honeybees 5 turbinetree Jul 10 Jul 11 17 964
Scientists discover 200-million-year-old flying reptile species 3 Judi Lynn Jul 10 Jul 10 18 882
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 turbinetree Jul 10 Jul 10 1 331
July 10, 1925, the beginning of the Scopes trial 3 question everything Jul 10 Jul 10 4 588
Scientists discover Burmese pythons have never-before-seen cells that help them digest entire skeletons 3 milestogo Jul 9 Jul 9 7 643
World's Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos -- KFF Health News 3 erronis Jul 9 Jul 9 11 680
How much energy do fish expend when floating "effortlessly" in the water column? 0 SorellaLaBefana Jul 9 Jul 9 4 1875

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Moon in Saturn's rings leaving ripples 8 Ptah Jul 8 Jul 9 48 1230
A Formula to Keep the Science Flame Burning by James Hansen 3 OKIsItJustMe Jul 8 Jul 8 5 566
What did dinosaurs sound like? 7 cbabe Jul 8 Jul 8 6 709
Killer Whales Fashion Tools from Kelp and Use Them for Grooming 1 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 8 6 495
On this day, July 7, 1959, Venus occulted Regulus. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 7 Jul 7 3 456
Longevity Medicine Breakthrough 2 DanBaron Jul 6 Jul 7 8 771
Astronomers Track Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS 1 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 6 9 608
America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 5 Jul 5 1 512
Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? 8 Uncle Joe Jul 4 Jul 4 7 979
This Giant Telescope Will Map the Universe in Unbelievable Detail NOVA PBS 0 Uncle Joe Jul 4 Jul 4 9 621
PBS Terra: Wait...The Worst Possible US Disaster Just Got EVEN WORSE?!? (Cascadia Megaquake) 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 3 Jul 4 9 1146
The truth about life on other planets - and what it means for humans 6 k_buddy762 Jun 2025 Jul 3 16 1305
These Lizards Mysteriously Survived the Asteroid Strike That Killed the Dinosaurs--and Their Descendants Are Still Alive 4 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jul 3 10 1404
Swarms of tiny nose robots could clear infected sinuses, researchers say 8 Wicked Blue Jun 25 Jul 3 5 899
Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch 3 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jul 3 3 656
Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2 Jul 3 6 579
US to breed billions of flies and dump them out of aircraft in bid to fight flesh-eating maggot -- The Guardian 2 erronis Jul 2 Jul 2 9 776
Dentist may have solved 500-year-old mystery in da Vinci's iconic Vitruvian Man 0 erronis Jul 2 Jul 2 12 820
Earth About to Experience Shortest Day Since the 1970s as Rotation Gains Record Speed 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 1 Jul 2 9 662
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