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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 62214

A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading 1 littlemissmartypants Yesterday Yesterday 15 475

The Refracting Pool 3 LessAspin Yesterday Yesterday 8 651

A secretive Chinese probe has just arrived at one of Earth's 'quasi-moons' and will soon attempt a first-of-its-kind lan 5 Judi Lynn Wednesday Thursday 13 563

Ancient DNA provides evidence of earliest known plague outbreak 1 muriel_volestrangler Wednesday Wednesday 5 444

How eight beavers solved a Tube flooding problem engineers have been trying to fix for years (The Independent, 6/14/26) 23 highplainsdem Monday Wednesday 85 2279

A Bill Before Congress to Put the Last Nail in the Coffin of American Science: Write Your Congressperson. 31 NNadir Sunday Wednesday 80 2499

Update Further Remarks on the Administration's Efforts to Destroy American Science. Where to Comment. 5 NNadir Tuesday Wednesday 5 457

A submersible ride revealed a vast whale graveyard. And it holds more than just bones 5 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday Monday 54 1412

James Webb Space Telescope discovers 'galaxy-killing' wind that may explain why some early galaxies lived f... 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 12 Jun 12 3 510

Prenatal exposure to phthalates is associated with decreased anogenital distance and penile size in male newborns 4 littlemissmartypants Jun 11 Jun 12 12 652

Screwworm in Texas Was Announced June 3 But EUAs Began in August 2025 (?!) 5 GreatGazoo Jun 11 Jun 11 5 663

Welsh scientists create biodegradable plastic from seaweed. . . 2 Stargleamer Jun 7 Jun 11 8 538

Report of gene-edited human embryos sparks worries about the technology's future uses 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 11 Jun 11 2 359

First global map of mycorrhizal fungi reveals true scale of underground networks across the planet 4 erronis Jun 11 Jun 11 13 626

YouTube is a Research Library Here's How to Search It Like One 2 littlemissmartypants May 31 Jun 10 12 818

Federal science agencies facing a 'generational loss,' nonprofit says 7 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 10 Jun 10 16 873

Glucosamine Supplements May Speed Memory Loss from Alzheimer's New Research Suggests 4 GreatGazoo Jun 9 Jun 9 8 858

Science in a Totalitarian State: This has been tried, and failed, long before MAGA 1 SorellaLaBefana Jun 8 Jun 8 11 434

Science Astronomers are capturing video of a black hole for the first time 0 Jilly_in_VA Jun 7 Jun 7 12 573

Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found 2 Uncle Joe Jun 7 Jun 7 11 857

Scientists are creating a new nasal vaccine that may provide antiviral protection. . . 3 Stargleamer Jun 7 Jun 7 11 621

NASA lifts order for International Space Station astronauts to shelter in Dragon spacecraft amid ongoing air leaks 0 Dulcinea Jun 5 Jun 5 1 411

How to Clean Your House Like an Oncologist 4 littlemissmartypants Jun 4 Jun 5 20 920

'Severe' Northern Lights Alert For 23 States On Thursday And Friday 5 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 4 Jun 4 26 1561

'In an unrecoverable state': NASA confirms MAVEN spacecraft is officially dead after loss of signal behind Mars 6 Eugene Jun 3 Jun 4 8 748

Massive booms shook the East Coast for over 300 years. Scientists finally found the source of the sonic explosions. 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 3 Jun 3 20 1047

How a Richard Feynman formula could explain your dining habits in a new city 3 erronis Jun 2 Jun 2 6 717

Vaccine Shows Promise Against Aggressive Brain Cancer 3 Matthew28 May 30 Jun 2 11 714

Not only is this the first day of Hurricane Season, but it's also Sargassum weed season 3 surfered Jun 1 Jun 1 5 511

Science Continued...

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Neural correlates of hate 5 littlemissmartypants Jun 1 Jun 1 31 1247

Lets imagine using gene editing in the future in order to allow for the growth of wombs in all biological males. Just t 5 Matthew28 May 30 May 30 2 845

This Battery Doesn't Need Lithium and It Just Hit Mass Production 2 Uncle Joe May 30 May 30 18 1204

Breaking News: Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explodes during launch pad testBreaking News: Blue Origin New Glenn rocket e 6 Warpy May 28 May 29 7 802

NASA's Curiosity rover has found organic molecules on Mars that may be billions of years old 4 Bayard May 28 May 28 12 859

A physicist made this cool sculpture of an astronaut. 3 BootinUp May 27 May 27 7 688

'Never seen anything like it.' Scientists discover brand new species of octopus. 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 27 May 27 12 825

Monkey see, monkey do: Study sheds light on cooperative decision-making 0 erronis May 27 May 27 3 401

Nasa unveils next steps to build permanent Moon base 9 Eugene May 26 May 27 2 766

One of Neptune's 16 moons is not like the others, James Webb telescope finds -- and it could be key to fully understandin 4 Judi Lynn May 22 May 24 15 885

Physicists confirm 'negative time' is real by asking the atoms themselves 2 Judi Lynn May 21 May 23 11 712

WATCH LIVE: SpaceX launching powerful new Starship V3 for 1st time ever 3 Judi Lynn May 22 May 22 4 736

Saki Monkey Chloe Needs A Companion Season 11 Episode 15 Full Episode Monkey Life 2 BootinUp May 22 May 22 1 545

An ancient solar storm left clues in tree rings and a famous poet's diary: 'Red lights in the northern sky' 0 Judi Lynn May 22 May 22 8 560

Chicks Hatch From World's First Artificial Eggs--A Breakthrough Key to Bringing Giant Birds Back From Extinction 1 Judi Lynn May 21 May 21 5 645

Sadly Peter Neumann has passed away 3 dickthegrouch May 20 May 21 17 949

Inge Lehmann Discovered Earth's Inner Core In Her Free Time 2 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 5 727

"Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity." 14 Ocelot II May 20 May 20 34 1989

Rainforest foragers intensified plant use long before agriculture 2 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 3 582

Prescient I. Rabi to Bill Moyers "...I think our troubles may come when we forget our origins..." "..once we're a mob... 0 NNadir May 19 May 19 5 588

The Sun Blasted a Mysterious Radio Signal for 19 Straight Days. Here's What We Know (Gizmodo, 5/19/26 + study) 3 highplainsdem May 19 May 19 12 915

An interesting read: Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove 4 NNadir May 18 May 19 6 747

I successfully used crispr to edit mosquitoes! 17 mr715 May 8 May 16 5 1284

NASA Fires Up Powerful Lithium-Fed Thruster for Trips to Mars 16 OKIsItJustMe May 15 May 16 7 1583

AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers 2 littlemissmartypants May 13 May 16 10 808

What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting. (Quanta, 5/6) 3 highplainsdem May 8 May 16 7 836

(Pivot to AI) arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers 0 xocetaceans May 15 May 15 4 541

Despotic primate societies rarely play as adults, analysis of 37 species reveals 2 erronis May 12 May 13 12 739

How Hantavirus Kills - Medical Lecture 0 GreatGazoo May 8 May 8 6 767

1/5 -Ted Turner Interviews Carl Sagan 1989 2 BootinUp May 6 May 8 8 732

Science Continued...

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While patients lay unconscious under anesthesia, their brains kept decoding stories and preparing for what came next 8 erronis May 6 May 6 16 1564

Well, this is fun. An LLM trained only on pre-1931 text. 4 harumph May 4 May 6 5 1143

Watch as NASA's Curiosity Rover frees its drill from a rock 0 erronis May 5 May 5 7 736

Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we've ever built 4 IronLionZion May 2 May 4 3 932

On the nature of intelligence: can the process of evolution be thought to show a form of intelligence? 1 Girard442 May 3 May 3 1 549

Hidden plant molecules show up to 25 times stronger activity against Ebola and COVID-19 0 erronis May 2 May 2 12 740

Increased Colorectal Cancer Rates among Adults under Fifty Are Causally Linked to Increased Screening 3 BootinUp May 1 May 2 6 922

I've learned something interesting about brachiopods -- most have no anus. 1 eppur_se_muova May 2 May 2 3 720

Rise in Colon Cancer In Young Adults Tied to E.Coli Exposure in First 10 Yrs of Life 0 GreatGazoo May 1 May 1 3 699

Scientists restore memory by blocking a single Alzheimer's protein 9 Bayard Apr 30 May 1 41 1989

Millions Take This Popular Supplement - Scientists Discover a Concerning Link to Heart Failure 4 Bayard Apr 30 May 1 21 1464

NPR story on a huge advance in testing for tuberculosis, + the NEJM article published today 0 highplainsdem Apr 29 Apr 29 4 664

City Birds Appear to be More Afraid of Women Than Men, Scientists Don't Know Why 6 GreatGazoo Apr 29 Apr 29 6 1068

Giant sinkholes discovered containing untouched ancient forests 17 Judi Lynn Apr 25 Apr 26 74 3820

These eight coastal cities sit on America's flood front line, and AI shows why 4 erronis Apr 23 Apr 25 16 1360

One blue whale song unlocks oceans of data 0 erronis Apr 24 Apr 24 16 862

Soundtrack of the sea: divers use underwater speakers to help dying coral reefs 0 erronis Apr 24 Apr 24 10 725

In Eastern Africa, the cradle of humankind is tearing apart 0 erronis Apr 23 Apr 23 19 911

How birds survived the dinosaurs' doomsday 4 usonian Apr 19 Apr 21 12 986

World's largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems now available to everyone 1 Jim__ Apr 20 Apr 20 9 1774

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