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Einstein Telescope could launch a new era in astronomy 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 14 685
'Awakening' of a black hole witnessed for the first time 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 527
James Webb Space Telescope spies never-before-seen star behavior in distant nebula (video, photo) 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 16 818
Magnetic vortices may help feed supermassive black holes. Here's how 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 494
Sick chimpanzees seek out medicinal plants to self-medicate, study reveals 4 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 18 515
Neutron Stars May Contain Matter That 'Does Not Exist Anywhere Else' 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 593
China and France launch satellite to better understand the universe 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 332
Could astronauts grow plants on the Moon? One experiment is heading to the lunar surface to find out 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 373
Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus 2 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 10473
Asteroid headed toward Earth? NASA simulation explores how the nation might respond 2 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 542
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks' tail visible in the Southern Hemisphere sky, captured over Chile's Atacama Desert 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 384
Glassy gel is hard as plastic and stretches 7 times its length 2 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 9 798
Sensory secrets of penis and clitoris unlocked after more than 150 years 3 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 17 1159
Not all 'open source' AI models are actually open: here's a ranking 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 414
Cargo from 'most ancient' shipwreck found off Israel 0 muriel_volestrangler Jun 2024 Jun 2024 13 715
James Webb telescope reveals long-studied baby star is actually 'twins' -- and they're throwing identical tantrums 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 478
Daycares in Finland Grew Forests, And It Changed Kids' Immune Systems 11 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 69 2198
A Study Suggests Black Holes Can Create Space Lasers--Just Like Einstein Thought 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 590
Harnessing Maxwell's demon to establish a macroscale concentration gradient 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 398
Supermassive black hole roars to life as astronomers watch in real time 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 14 709
Evidence That Your Mind is NOT Just In Your Brain - Rupert Sheldrake 20 Uncle Joe Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 1868
Kitchen spices such as turmeric and black pepper could revolutionise wound dressings 23 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 57 2920
'Dyson spheres' were theorized as a way to detect alien life. Scientists say they've found potential evidence. 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 10 813
Purple Planets Could Be The Signs of Alien Life We've Been Looking For 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 559
Researcher suggests that gravity can exist without mass, mitigating the need for hypothetical dark matter 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 380
Mysterious Martian Hole Puzzles Scientists: An Enigma Underground on The Red Planet : ScienceAlert 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 503
New Type Ia supernova discovered 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 391
DARPA's military-grade 'quantum laser' will use entangled photons to outshine conventional laser beams 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 378
Edward Stone, who guided NASA's Voyager to distant planets, dies at 88 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 318
Mars Was Hit With a Solar Storm Days After Earth's Aurora Light Show, NASA Says 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 330

Science Continued...

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Meet the 'Echidnapus,' an Extinct Creature That Resembles Both the Echidna and Platypus of Today 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 385
A Giant Interstellar Cloud May Have Once Enveloped Earth, Potentially Causing Ice Ages 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 368
Researchers leverage shadows to model 3D scenes, including objects blocked from view 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 402
Rocket company develops massive catapult to launch satellites into space without using jet fuel 11 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 16 1097
Neanderthal DNA Exists in Humans, But One Piece Is Mysteriously Missing 7 BootinUp Jun 2024 Jun 2024 29 1637
The GOP's war on science is suicidal -- Sabrina Haake 3 erronis Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 499
Webb Detects Giant Collision in Beta Pictoris System 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 12 733
Astronomers Spot Parallel Jets and Circumstellar Disks in Nearby Multistar System 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 445
Wild New Study Suggests Gravity Can Exist Without Mass 2 Warpy Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 680
Future evolution: from looks to brains and personality, how will humans change in the next 10,000 years? 3 erronis Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 488
Study confirms the rotation of Earth's inner core has slowed 8 Jim__ Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 776
Why scientists fear a second Trump term, and what they are doing about it 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 569
Elite researchers in China say they had 'no choice' but to commit misconduct 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 9553
AI & robotics briefing: The year machines will run out of data (Nature) 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 446
Study: African Elephants Address Each Other With Name-Like Calls 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 22 647
Water Frost Deposits Spotted on Tropical Martian Volcanoes 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 541
A telescope on Earth just took an unbelievable image of Jupiter's moon 12 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 51 2069
In Wyoming, Bill Gates moves ahead with nuclear project aimed at revolutionizing power generation 7 BootinUp Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 818
George Mason University Announces Its First NASA Space Mission Which Seeks to Uncover the Secrets of Dark Energy 0 nitpicked Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 340
All Human Existence May Have Begun in a Black Hole, Some Scientists Believe 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 9623
A Biologist Reveals How To Avoid Deadly Bites From South America's Most Feared Snake 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 663
Researchers made ultra-thin night-vision lenses that fit regular glasses 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 559
Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 501
A Herpetologist Reveals The World's Most Venomous Snake--Shockingly, It Has Never Killed Anyone 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 950
Scientists Have Discovered a New Way to Look Inside Crystals 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 450
Ed Dwight, first African American candidate for space travel, takes off 60 years later 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 376
Peering Through Cosmic Dust: James Webb Telescope Is on the Hunt for Newborn Planets 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 348
First Detection of Magnetism in Massive Stars Beyond Our Galaxy 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 343
"Extraordinary" Slow-Spinning Neutron Star Shakes Astrophysics 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 425
Giant viruses discovered in Greenland could slow ice melt 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 474

Science Continued...

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New model suggests partner anti-universe could explain accelerated expansion without the need for dark energy 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 566
Bornean clouded leopard family filmed in wild for 1st time ever 8 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 63 1668
FBI asks scientists for trust in taking anti-Asian bias seriously 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 618
More Than a Century Ago, Flamingos Disappeared From Florida. Now, They're Coming Home 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 1348
The Man Who Took the Historic "Earthrise" Picture Was a Nuclear Engineer. 1 NNadir Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 612
Take a Tour of Pandora's Cluster - NASA 0 BootinUp Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 402
Prehistoric mini-ape discovered in Germany the smallest to ever live 0 Eugene Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 544
Researchers map meerkat chit-chat 6 BootinUp Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 682
World's first wooden satellite could herald era of greener space exploration 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 454
Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 562
Gene therapy: kids hear for the first time 0 cbabe Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 445
New discovery questions theory that earth was covered by ocean four billion years ago 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 9 667
Pre-historic discovery: Scientists find complete skull of 230 kg 'giant goose' in Australia 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 8611
Boing Starliner expected to launch 1 June 6 RussBLib Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 610
Boeing Starliner 1st astronaut flight: Live updates 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 535
MUSE Spots Bizarre Stellar Object with Illuminated Protoplanetary Disk 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 494
Hubble will change how it points, but NASA says 'great science' will continue 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 424
Hubble Looks at Face-On Barred Spiral Galaxy 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 13 726
Australian Marsupials Fear Humans Far More Than Any Other Predator, New Study Shows 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 9 572
Extinct North American Porcupine Had Long, Prehensile Tail 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 9 423
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