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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 61546
Did Life Hitch a Ride to Earth? Scientists Smashed the Living Crap Out of Microbes to Find Out 4 highplainsdem 12 hrs ago 10 hrs ago 5 296
Galileo's Handwritten Notes Found in Ancient Astronomy Text 4 GreatGazoo Monday 11 hrs ago 19 526
Late scientist's notebooks help finish study of rare 55-million-year-old tarpon fossil 0 erronis 11 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 9 252
NASA has 'cancelled' the Artemis III moon landing. Here's why 4 nitpicked 17 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 11 674
Questions asked by 13 and 14 year old kids at a science lecture yesterday. 7 NNadir Sunday Monday 75 2466
Foundation AI model uses MRI data to predict multiple brain disorders 3 erronis Sunday Sunday 4 310
It doesn't lie. So who are you?' 3 question everything Friday Saturday 29 830
World-first supercomputer discovers invisible flaw in all jet engines that no human had spotted 12 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 17 Friday 17 1307
Flood Control Monitoring, Homeless People, and Covid Virus Mutant Spike Protein. 0 NNadir Friday Friday 4 312
Nasa astronauts' moon mission likely to be delayed due to rocket issue 1 muriel_volestrangler Feb 20 Friday 5 345
Astronomers Wake Up to 800,000 Notifications From a Vera Rubin 8 usonian Thursday Friday 28 763
How a one-eyed creature gave rise to our modern eyes 4 erronis Wednesday Thursday 16 508
Paediatricians' blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds 1 muriel_volestrangler Wednesday Wednesday 10 459
Too Late to Apologize! James Webb Telescope New study just made the "crisis in cosmology" WORSE... 43 Sancho Feb 24 Wednesday 74 3379
The Human Cost of Trump's War on Science 3 douglas9 Feb 23 Feb 24 9 514
How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? -- Quanta Magazine 7 erronis Feb 23 Feb 24 13 487
Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought 0 Uncle Joe Feb 22 Feb 22 16 579
Soil Restoration Experiments in Australia using Sheep's Wool... 7 electric_blue68 Feb 17 Feb 22 8 538
This cutting-edge exoskeleton got me up a mountain I had no chance of climbing alone 2 Judi Lynn Feb 22 Feb 22 9 646
An 'astonishingly' large new dinosaur species has been discovered in the Sahara 4 Judi Lynn Feb 22 Feb 22 15 648
Saturn's North Pole 9 BootinUp Feb 22 Feb 22 40 1027
The Effect of Dibutyl Phthalate on Proliferation of Breast Cancer Cells Studied by Mass Spec Imaging. 0 NNadir Feb 21 Feb 21 9 481
Renowned Cal Tech scientist who studied distant planets fatally shot at his home near LA 1 BlueWaveNeverEnd Feb 21 Feb 21 14 537
Deepest-Ever Rock Core From Beneath Antarctica's Ice. It Holds Clues About the Earth's Past--and Future 1 Judi Lynn Feb 21 Feb 21 14 355
Scientists May Have Found The Key Cellular Process Behind Aging in Animals 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 20 Feb 20 6 512
Carl Sagan - Protons and Neutrons 2 BootinUp Feb 19 Feb 19 2 417
We need more papers showing stuff that doesn't work: Extraction of Actinides into Molten Zn Fails to Separate... 2 NNadir Feb 18 Feb 19 5 416
Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive and will be for more than a millennium. 12 NNadir Feb 7 Feb 18 35 1520
A bacterium's built-in compass, explained: Single-cell magnetometry confirms Earth-field alignment 2 erronis Feb 17 Feb 17 7 376

Science Continued...

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A 25-year study found an unexpected link between cheese and dementia 41 multigraincracker Feb 9 Feb 17 81 4186
Astrophysics turned upside down by unique 'inside out' planetary system 0 Judi Lynn Feb 16 Feb 16 9 599
Brain worm hell: The CDC hepatitis B study is unethical and must never be published 6 NNadir Feb 15 Feb 15 24 1050
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 7 632
China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct 2 NNadir Feb 15 Feb 15 7 422
Plot twist! The Andromeda-Milky Way Merger has begun. 5 GreenWave Feb 14 Feb 15 29 1097
Massive Pyroclastic Flow Descends Entire Slope of Mount Semeru Volcano (Feb 13, 2026) 3 catbyte Feb 13 Feb 13 12 714
Stargazing Buddy A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment (free, online) 1 usonian Feb 13 Feb 13 6 379
New study tells us what's up with what's going down with the sinking Chesapeake Bay 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 10 Feb 13 12 662
Jupiter Is Not The Size And Shape We've Long Thought It Was 2 Judi Lynn Feb 13 Feb 13 9 626
Happy Darwin Day, everybody! 6 Lionel Mandrake Feb 12 Feb 12 14 619
Scientists create 'smart underwear' to measure human flatulence 15 erronis Feb 10 Feb 11 6 978
Dream engineering can help solve 'puzzling' questions: Study offers insights to optimizing sleep 3 erronis Feb 5 Feb 10 11 665
Is NASA about to blow up Artemis? 3 Bmoboy Feb 4 Feb 10 7 784
Eli Lilly ad focusing on the Scientific Method 4 QED Feb 8 Feb 10 16 638
A hidden Aloe vera compound takes aim at Alzheimer's 2 multigraincracker Feb 9 Feb 9 15 672
'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 7 717
Former NASA scientists warn of possible Artemis II spacecraft safety issue - ABC News 9 TexasTowelie Jan 30 Feb 8 8 844
Stellar nursery bursts with newborn stars in hauntingly beautiful Hubble telescope image -- 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 8 14 580
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 4 733
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 4 557
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 3 553
Does Pregnancy Result in a Hankering for Prime Numbers? 9 NNadir Feb 4 Feb 4 7 803
Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 6 541
OpenAI's New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace 'Prism' Raises Fears Of Vibe-Coded Academic AISlop 3 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 3 550
AI model OpenScholar synthesizes scientific research and cites sources as accurately as human experts 2 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 1 513
Genetic analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique lineage in the Balkans 0 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 6 500
Reproduction in space, an environment hostile to human biology 7 erronis Feb 3 Feb 4 5 696
Artemis II launch has been delayed until March. 0 llmart Feb 3 Feb 3 5 466
'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 20 780

Science Continued...

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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 13 926
Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory--here's how 5 erronis Feb 1 Feb 1 15 764
16 years of brain scans reveal the cerebellum's crucial role in human language 2 erronis Jan 27 Feb 1 8 544
Saturn has more moons than any other planet in our solar system 2 BootinUp Jan 29 Jan 29 4 533
Anti-vaccine sentiment pushes Moderna away from new late-stage infectious disease trials 3 NNadir Jan 29 Jan 29 9 679
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office 1 douglas9 Jan 27 Jan 27 14 582
How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926) 5 usonian Jan 26 Jan 27 9 622
Scientists identify a brain region that differs between male and female mice and may influence social behavior 10 erronis Jan 26 Jan 26 10 979
Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 26 Jan 26 10 569
Pilot captures historic northern lights show from 37,000 feet (photos) 19 milestogo Jan 22 Jan 26 71 2248
Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jan 23 Jan 23 9 726
Image of Barnard 59, in the Pipe Nebula 3 BootinUp Jan 22 Jan 23 11 651
What If You Keep Slowing Down? 3 Uncle Joe Jan 21 Jan 22 10 985
Why do some people get 'hangry' more quickly than others? 1 erronis Jan 19 Jan 19 20 880
There Is Something Faster Than Light 10 Uncle Joe Dec 24 Jan 18 7 1505
OFFS -- AI can FU anything (bogus illustration). 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 17 Jan 17 2 629
Study finds Tyrannosaurus rex did not reach full size until age 40 2 Jilly_in_VA Jan 15 Jan 17 4 671
The Southern Ocean current reverses for the first time, signaling a risk of climate system collapse 23 Bayard Jan 15 Jan 17 82 3343
Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane 3 highplainsdem Jan 17 Jan 17 6 749
NASA's Artemis moon mission one step closer to liftoff - NBC News 2 TexasTowelie Jan 16 Jan 17 3 657
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