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APOD: "Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website." 4 SorellaLaBefana Oct 2 Oct 6 9 834

Scientists Develop Robots That Literally Walk on Water 1 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 3 580

Generations of Bearded Vultures Stashed Humans' Treasures, Including a 650-Year-Old Sandal, in These Bird Nests 1 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 19 874

ESA inaugurates new deep space antenna in Australia 0 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 2 377

String Theory - ScienceClic 6 BootinUp Oct 3 Oct 5 9 691

Sputnik Starts Space Race (APOD Redux from 2000) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 4 Oct 4 4 438

What if the Universe Remembers Everything? New Theory Rewrites the Rules of Physics 12 erronis Oct 3 Oct 3 27 1432

Another Comet, from another time (From the APOD files) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 3 Oct 3 3 591

Bizarre ankylosaur with spikes is unlike any known dinosaur (earthsky.org) 3 eppur_se_muova Sep 30 Sep 30 10 2244

'Wholesale destruction': Government shutdown or not, critical science programs are at risk 0 douglas9 Sep 30 Sep 30 6 1971

Paleontologists Discover Megaraptor Fossil With a Crocodilian's Leg Still in Its Mouth 1 Judi Lynn Sep 29 Sep 30 12 2548

These Ancient Footprints Rewrite Human History 5 Ptah Sep 29 Sep 29 17 2990

Giant Stars With Black Holes Inside Them May Have Been Detected For The First Time 1 Judi Lynn Sep 27 Sep 29 8 1808

"Brightest Object In Known Universe" Puffs Itself Up To Look 15 Times Its Actual Size 1 Judi Lynn Sep 28 Sep 28 14 2727

The First Black Hole We Ever Saw Is Doing Something Never Seen Before 0 Judi Lynn Sep 27 Sep 27 17 2180

Perplexing diamonds from South Africa mine contain 'almost impossible' chemistry 2 Judi Lynn Sep 27 Sep 27 14 1504

Chimps regularly consume alcohol, study finds 0 milestogo Sep 27 Sep 27 3 776

Physics-informed AI learns local rules behind flocking and collective motion behaviors 3 erronis Sep 26 Sep 26 2 595

A picture of IBM's Quantum System 2 5 BootinUp Sep 26 Sep 26 1 933

New Math Revives Geometry's Oldest Problems -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Sep 26 Sep 26 7 2447

Mount Sinai study supports evidence that prenatal acetaminophen use may be linked to increased risk of autism and ADHD 2 Wicked Blue Aug 2025 Sep 26 8 942

Did you know brown pelicans are protected by lots of miniature airbags in their skin, like BubbleWrap ? 4 eppur_se_muova Sep 25 Sep 25 10 1800

Brian Cox explains why time travels in one direction - BBC (2 videos) 10 BootinUp Sep 21 Sep 23 6 4088

Will glaciers ever come back after they've melted away? 5 MrWowWow Sep 19 Sep 23 8 4062

Cold snap in Florida made Burmese python puke up a whole deer 1 Bayard Sep 22 Sep 23 8 2730

Offending the Analyst, the view "if you need to use statistics, then you have not designed your experiment very well". 7 NNadir Sep 19 Sep 22 4 2568

2025 Ig Physics Nobel Prize goes to perfect pasta sauce 5 erronis Sep 19 Sep 19 6 2973

Identifying Links between Alzheimer's Disease and Type 2 Diabetes through Proteomics 2 NNadir Sep 18 Sep 19 3 877

People with conservative political leanings more likely to believe in health disinformation, study finds 6 erronis Sep 18 Sep 18 4 1108

There are 32 different ways AI can go rogue, scientists say -- from hallucinating answers to a complete misalignment with 5 Judi Lynn Aug 31 Sep 18 7 865

Science Continued...

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Are 'little red dots' seen by the James Webb Space Telescope actually elusive 'black hole stars'? 4 Judi Lynn Sep 16 Sep 17 7 2426

'A genuine surprise': Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu once had 'flowing water' that transformed its insides 1 Judi Lynn Sep 17 Sep 17 10 601

A 'crescent sunrise' solar eclipse is coming this weekend. Here's where to see it. 0 Judi Lynn Sep 17 Sep 17 8 592

Skyscraper-size asteroid previously predicted to hit us in 60 years will zoom past Earth on Thursday (Sept. 18) -- and yo 2 Judi Lynn Sep 17 Sep 17 10 838

'Totally unexpected': Stunning new imagery shows big changes in the 1st black hole ever captured by humanity (photo, vid 0 Judi Lynn Sep 17 Sep 17 8 656

New 'quasi-moon' discovered in Earth orbit may have been hiding there for decades 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 16 Sep 16 16 786

Scientists Just Found a Way to Simulate the Universe on a Laptop 1 erronis Sep 16 Sep 16 8 543

Engineers Create Mini Microscope for Real-Time Brain Imaging (UC Davis) 0 usonian Sep 16 Sep 16 4 403

Carl Sagan was right--Brian Cox explains our first real steps into the cosmos 0 BootinUp Sep 15 Sep 15 2 1602

Family Fishing Trip Leads to "One-in-a-Million" Fossil Discovery (mcwane.org) 2 eppur_se_muova Sep 13 Sep 15 12 2026

Trump budget cuts threaten groundbreaking gravity wave research 2 DBoon Sep 11 Sep 13 6 3556

Physicist Brian Cox explains quantum physics in 22 minutes 2 BootinUp Sep 12 Sep 13 7 670

Has NASA Found 3 Billion Year Old Dead Martians? Why A Green Crystal Could Be A Biosignature! Scott Manley 3 Ptah Sep 12 Sep 12 3 734

A Single, 'Naked' Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe (Warning! Naked Black Holes in space) 0 usonian Sep 12 Sep 12 11 672

For the First Time in 40 Years, Panama's Ocean Lifeline Has Vanished 2 erronis Sep 12 Sep 12 17 784

New findings by NASA Mars rover provide strongest hints yet of potential signs of ancient life 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 11 Sep 11 3 459

Happy 100th birthday, quantum mechanics! 6 usonian Aug 2025 Sep 10 11 797

Magic mushrooms rewind aging in mice--could they do the same for humans? 4 DBoon Jul 2025 Sep 10 12 1020

Beer drinkers are mosquito magnets, according to a festival study 3 DBoon Sep 9 Sep 10 14 3310

NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures Mars Vista As Clear As Day 3 turbinetree Sep 2 Sep 9 8 742

Ibex defies gravity and climbs a dam Forces of Nature with Brian Cox - BBC 6 BootinUp Sep 7 Sep 8 15 2094

How Much Can a Giant Waterlily Hold? See One Carry 183 Pounds Before Sinking, Winning a Social Media Contest 3 Judi Lynn Aug 30 Sep 7 10 663

The Biological Rulebook Was Just Rewritten--by Ants 10 erronis Sep 6 Sep 7 45 3374

Chinese submersible explores previously unknown giant craters at the bottom of the Pacific -- and they're teeming with li 6 Judi Lynn Sep 7 Sep 7 12 1708

Watch today's blood moon total lunar eclipse free online with these livestreams (video) 1 Judi Lynn Sep 7 Sep 7 9 1509

Innovative Supramolecular Crystals Unlock High-Capacity Hydrogen Storage 1 Caribbeans Sep 6 Sep 7 4 815

The universe's first magnetic fields were 'comparable' to the human brain -- and still linger within the 'cosmic web' 0 Judi Lynn Sep 7 Sep 7 10 1425

Rare Chi Cygnids {meteors} are active! Maybe. Observing info here (earthsky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Sep 6 Sep 6 3 801

Nuclear power plants rely on other forms of energy, sometimes energy from high pollution sources to operate. 1 Eko Sep 4 Sep 6 0 1799

The Thought That Led to General Relativity 2 BootinUp Sep 5 Sep 5 9 2685

Science Continued...

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Using only reported COVID-19 deaths, the same model yielded 14.4 million deaths averted by vaccines. 3 BootinUp Sep 4 Sep 5 12 4141

Spiral Galaxy IC 342 located roughly 11 million light-years from Earth. 0 BootinUp Sep 4 Sep 4 8 3714

How Sunflower Remove Radioactive Waste From Soil 1 YoshidaYui Sep 4 Sep 4 5 910

Amazing Sunflower Facts To Brighten Your Day 2 YoshidaYui Sep 4 Sep 4 8 2483

Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics Workbooks (HELM) Free college level workbooks. CC-Licensed. 1 usonian Sep 3 Sep 3 5 683

'A paradigm change': black hole spotted that may have been created moments after big bang 2 muriel_volestrangler Sep 2 Sep 2 8 700

UK, Japan, South Korea endure hottest summer on record 1 struggle4progress Sep 1 Sep 2 4 575

New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA's Webb Telescope (NASA) 0 eppur_se_muova Sep 2 Sep 2 8 576

Scientists find evidence of parallel universes 14 Bayard Aug 30 Sep 1 23 1457

Scientists Discovered A New Mineral On Mars, Here's What That Means 0 Judi Lynn Aug 31 Aug 31 20 801

Researchers Create Rechargeable, Glow-in-the-Dark Succulents 3 Judi Lynn Aug 30 Aug 31 4 578

Exposing Fake Honey Using Carbon-13 1 struggle4progress Aug 31 Aug 31 15 808

Astronomers Spot a Rare Quadruple Star System in the Milky Way, Shedding Light on Mysterious Brown Dwarfs 1 Judi Lynn Aug 30 Aug 30 10 503

Testosterone shifts political preferences in weakly affiliated Democratic men, study finds 8 Bayard Aug 30 Aug 30 4 1025

I rather admire, on some level, this retraction. 1 NNadir Aug 29 Aug 30 6 681

This AI model simulates 1,000 years of the current climate in just one day 2 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 28 2 1271

What the heck is a time crystal, and why are physicists obsessed with them? 1 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 855

Braided magnetic flux ropes found at both human and light year scales 2 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 1064

'Cosmic whisper' observed in the search for dark matter 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1298

Plants steer the way rivers meander across the landscape 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 1072

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