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How a mushroom coral goes for a walk without legs 0 Onthefly Feb 18 Feb 18 3 333
The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done 3 intrepidity Feb 17 Feb 17 5 610
Older AI models show signs of cognitive decline, study shows 4 Judi Lynn Feb 17 Feb 17 8 958
First Direct Image of the Cosmic Web Reveals the Universe's Hidden Highways 4 SheltieLover Feb 17 Feb 17 9 543
How to Get PFAS Out of Drinking Water--and Keep It Out 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 17 Feb 17 6 354
NASA rover discovers liquid water 'ripples' carved into Mars rock -- and it could rewrite the Red Planet's history 0 Judi Lynn Feb 17 Feb 17 7 401
On February 15, 2013, a meteor crossed the sky over Chelyabinsk, Russia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 16 Feb 16 3 298
Watch robot dog and drone locked in fierce battle -- blasting fireworks at each other in future warfare demo 6 Bayard Feb 15 Feb 16 3 653
Win a heart contest: Comment on These Equations to Explain Why Musk's Car and His Powerwalls Were Never "Green." 12 NNadir Feb 9 Feb 15 3 802
Hubble spots 'bullseye' galaxy with 9 rings 2 Judi Lynn Feb 15 Feb 15 11 391
Euclid telescope spots rare 'Einstein ring' hiding near Earth -- and an ancient, unnamed galaxy behind it 1 Judi Lynn Feb 13 Feb 15 6 592
Dancing Baby Sea Turtles Help Researchers Unravel the Mysteries of Their Navigational Superpowers 1 Judi Lynn Feb 15 Feb 15 7 336
Many birds-of-paradise species emit light through their plumage, study finds 3 Judi Lynn Feb 12 Feb 15 16 541
Scientists Confirm Endangered Bats Are Migrating in Arizona for the First Time, Using DNA Clues Found in the Environment 0 Judi Lynn Feb 15 Feb 15 5 304
12 strange reasons humans haven't found alien life yet 4 Bayard Feb 15 Feb 15 11 872
Supermassive Black Hole Heading Towards The Milky Way Galaxy 7 GreenWave Feb 14 Feb 15 8 583
Meta unveils AI models that convert brain activity into text with unmatched accuracy 5 Wicked Blue Feb 14 Feb 14 5 433
'It explains why our ability to focus has gone to hell' 1 Bayard Feb 13 Feb 13 8 515
A strange triangle will appear in the zodiac this month. How to see rare 'zodiacal light,' before it disappears. 3 Judi Lynn Feb 13 Feb 13 9 547
Scientists record never-before-seen 'ice quakes' deep inside Greenland's frozen rivers 2 Judi Lynn Feb 13 Feb 13 8 483
Experts Discover Ancient Life Locked Inside a 2.5 Billion-Year-Old Ruby as a Residue 5 Judi Lynn Feb 8 Feb 12 11 666
High-energy cosmic neutrino detected under Mediterranean Sea 2 Wicked Blue Feb 12 Feb 12 6 404
James Hansen and Pushker Kharecha: Global Warming Has Accelerated. Why? What Are the Consequences? 0 OKIsItJustMe Feb 12 Feb 12 0 332
JAMA Psychiatry: Departure. 1 NNadir Feb 12 Feb 12 11 494
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Eko Feb 11 Feb 11 1 135
a step away from politics... 17 markie Feb 4 Feb 11 3 890
Astronomers catch black holes 'cooking' their own meals in bizarre, endless feeding cycle 2 Judi Lynn Feb 11 Feb 11 2 358
If any AI became 'misaligned' then the system would hide it just long enough to cause harm -- controlling it is a fallacy 2 Judi Lynn Feb 11 Feb 11 7 404
Class emerges as a key factor in who gets sent to prison 0 erronis Feb 10 Feb 10 15 431
Several Psychiatric Disorders Share The Same Root Cause, Study Reveals 19 ShazzieB Feb 10 Feb 10 69 2850

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Telescopes spy a monster radio jet streaming from a bright and early object in the universe 0 Judi Lynn Feb 9 Feb 9 6 397
800-mile-long 'DUNE' experiment could reveal the hidden dimensions of the universe 2 Judi Lynn Feb 8 Feb 9 9 526
Archaeologists uncover 1.5-million-year-old hand axes in Iraqi desert 2 Judi Lynn Feb 8 Feb 8 12 507
String theory could be real? A bootstrap model reveals solid hint 1 Judi Lynn Feb 8 Feb 8 10 9474
Stunning, rainbow-colored object spotted by James Webb telescope could be an alien solar system in the making 4 Judi Lynn Feb 8 Feb 8 22 1126
Quantum breakthrough: Scientists created antimatter from light 0 Judi Lynn Feb 8 Feb 8 6 372
Astronomers discover 'Quipu', the single largest structure in the known universe 0 Judi Lynn Feb 8 Feb 8 6 443
Disturbing Discovery: Human Brains Are Filling Up With Microplastics, and It May Be Causing Dementia 9 erronis Feb 6 Feb 8 18 739
Hubble's Photomosaic of Andromeda Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars 6 Judi Lynn Jan 23 Feb 7 6 629
Gaia Just Found Two Massive Objects That Shouldn't Exist - And Astronomers Are Stunned 2 Judi Lynn Feb 7 Feb 7 39 1548
The framing of the shrew: California students photograph mammal never caught on film 1 erronis Jan 26 Feb 7 13 537
Scientists stunned to find corals that 'walk' towards light 2 Judi Lynn Jan 27 Feb 7 4 533
Whale poop contains iron that may have helped fertilize past oceans 1 Wicked Blue Feb 7 Feb 7 4 341
James Hansen et al: Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Well-Informed? 1 OKIsItJustMe Feb 4 Feb 6 5 448
Donald Trump viewed as higher in Dark Tetrad traits than Joe Biden, study finds 8 Wicked Blue Feb 5 Feb 6 4 841
DNA Confirms Orcas Prey Upon One of Australia's Deadliest Marine Predators 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 5 Feb 5 14 585
Quantum mechanics was born 100 years ago. Physicists are celebrating 6 usonian Feb 4 Feb 4 4 522
Why even physicists still don't understand quantum theory 100 years on 7 usonian Feb 4 Feb 4 9 800
How Do Polar Bears Keep Ice Off Their Fur? New Study Reveals the Secret--and It Could Improve Technology 3 Judi Lynn Feb 3 Feb 4 6 544
CDC orders pullback of new scientific papers involving its researchers, source says 3 Eugene Feb 3 Feb 3 8 476
Brian Cox: "Something Terrifying Exists Outside The Universe" 5 YoshidaYui Feb 2 Feb 2 14 1661
Astronomers discover 196-foot asteroid with 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 10 nitpicked Jan 28 Feb 1 5 830
Neil deGrasse Tyson ROASTS MAGA Moron Patrick Bet David In Debate 2 YoshidaYui Jan 31 Jan 31 11 847
Nurse dies from Ebola in Uganda as country declares first virus outbreak since 2022, health ministry says 3 milestogo Jan 30 Jan 31 3 421
A very high temperature thermocouple for measuring temperatures in nuclear fuel pellets. 2 NNadir Jan 29 Jan 30 5 415
Are we all aliens? NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 29 Jan 30 9 500
New water splitting catalyst makes green hydrogen without expensive metals 3 Caribbeans Jan 28 Jan 29 5 561
The Deadliest Tsunamis Of All Time Mega Disaster Earth Stories 0 YoshidaYui Jan 28 Jan 28 2 563
'Super pod' of 1,500 dolphins captured on drone video as they cavort off California's coast 2 erronis Jan 28 Jan 28 11 517
Scientists Unearthed an Unknown Creature with 24 Eyes While Checking the Quality of the Water in a Nature Reserve 11 milestogo Jan 26 Jan 26 11 1046

Science Continued...

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Trump Abruptly Cancels Crucial Science Reviews at NIH, World's Largest Public Funder of Biomedical Research 3 Judi Lynn Jan 25 Jan 26 5 572
Scientists discover new, 3rd form of magnetism that may be the 'missing link' in the quest for superconductivity 1 Judi Lynn Jan 23 Jan 26 5 519
A Gas Giant 500 Light-Years Away Has the Fastest Winds Ever Recorded: A Staggering 33,000 km/h 4 Judi Lynn Jan 25 Jan 26 4 508
Caltech Scientists Discover the Surprising Speed Limit of Human Thought - Just 10 Bits per Second 0 erronis Jan 26 Jan 26 8 504
Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform 0 sl8 Jan 26 Jan 26 13 551
Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising 3 Judi Lynn Jan 25 Jan 25 7 391
Astronomers Capture Mysterious 'Chorus Waves' Emerging From Deep Space 0 Judi Lynn Jan 25 Jan 25 7 474
Butterfly-inspired robot wings move without batteries or electronics 1 Judi Lynn Jan 25 Jan 25 8 426
Meet The 4 Longest Venomous Snakes. Hint: Mamba And Bushmaster No Longer In Top 3 Due To These 'New' Giants 3 Judi Lynn Jan 25 Jan 25 7 644
AI can now replicate itself -- a milestone that has experts terrified 6 Judi Lynn Jan 25 Jan 25 4 785
A Mother Says an AI Startup's Chatbot Drove Her Son to Suicide. Its Response: the First Amendment Protects "Speech Alleg 2 Judi Lynn Jan 25 Jan 25 3 491
A New Space Telescope is Giving Us New Insights Into Gamma Ray Bursts 0 Judi Lynn Jan 25 Jan 25 3 310
Scientists Document Rich Biodiversity Along Underexplored Chilean Coastline 1 Onthefly Jan 24 Jan 24 4 422
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Detect Millions of Exploding Stars 1 Ptah Jan 24 Jan 24 2 364
How to make oxygen on the moon 2 muriel_volestrangler Jan 24 Jan 24 4 501
Current Comet over Chile: *Actually* Visible to Unaided eyes in the Southern Hemisphere 0 SorellaLaBefana Jan 24 Jan 24 13 527
Trump administration's abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings prompts confusion, concern 7 douglas9 Jan 23 Jan 23 9 815
A Bacterial Protein Can Transport Heavy Highly Radioactive Actinides. 2 NNadir Dec 2023 Jan 23 4 1174
'We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars.' President Trump wants astronauts to raise the American flag on Mar 10 Judi Lynn Jan 23 Jan 23 1 544
Repeating Fast Radio Burst Traced to Outskirts of Quiescent Elliptical Galaxy 0 Judi Lynn Jan 23 Jan 23 10 520
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