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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 60582
Happy 100th birthday, quantum mechanics! 6 usonian Aug 9 21 hrs ago 10 466
Magic mushrooms rewind aging in mice--could they do the same for humans? 4 DBoon Jul 22 Yesterday 12 705
Beer drinkers are mosquito magnets, according to a festival study 3 DBoon Tuesday Yesterday 14 1327
NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures Mars Vista As Clear As Day 3 turbinetree Sep 2 Yesterday 7 459
There are 32 different ways AI can go rogue, scientists say -- from hallucinating answers to a complete misalignment with 4 Judi Lynn Aug 31 Tuesday 7 413
Ibex defies gravity and climbs a dam Forces of Nature with Brian Cox - BBC 6 BootinUp Sunday Monday 15 1709
How Much Can a Giant Waterlily Hold? See One Carry 183 Pounds Before Sinking, Winning a Social Media Contest 3 Judi Lynn Aug 30 Sunday 10 388
The Biological Rulebook Was Just Rewritten--by Ants 10 erronis Saturday Sunday 45 2946
Chinese submersible explores previously unknown giant craters at the bottom of the Pacific -- and they're teeming with li 6 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 12 1367
Watch today's blood moon total lunar eclipse free online with these livestreams (video) 1 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 9 1272
Innovative Supramolecular Crystals Unlock High-Capacity Hydrogen Storage 1 Caribbeans Saturday Sunday 4 513
The universe's first magnetic fields were 'comparable' to the human brain -- and still linger within the 'cosmic web' 0 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 10 1228
Rare Chi Cygnids {meteors} are active! Maybe. Observing info here (earthsky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Saturday Saturday 3 580
Nuclear power plants rely on other forms of energy, sometimes energy from high pollution sources to operate. 1 Eko Thursday Saturday 0 1601
The Thought That Led to General Relativity 2 BootinUp Friday Friday 9 2449
Using only reported COVID-19 deaths, the same model yielded 14.4 million deaths averted by vaccines. 3 BootinUp Thursday Friday 12 3903
Spiral Galaxy IC 342 located roughly 11 million light-years from Earth. 0 BootinUp Thursday Thursday 8 3532
How Sunflower Remove Radioactive Waste From Soil 1 YoshidaYui Thursday Thursday 4 582
Amazing Sunflower Facts To Brighten Your Day 2 YoshidaYui Thursday Thursday 8 2214
Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics Workbooks (HELM) Free college level workbooks. CC-Licensed. 1 usonian Sep 3 Sep 3 5 440
'A paradigm change': black hole spotted that may have been created moments after big bang 2 muriel_volestrangler Sep 2 Sep 2 8 463
UK, Japan, South Korea endure hottest summer on record 1 struggle4progress Sep 2 Sep 2 4 371
New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA's Webb Telescope (NASA) 0 eppur_se_muova Sep 2 Sep 2 8 333
Scientists find evidence of parallel universes 14 Bayard Aug 30 Sep 1 22 997
Scientists Discovered A New Mineral On Mars, Here's What That Means 0 Judi Lynn Aug 31 Aug 31 19 625
Researchers Create Rechargeable, Glow-in-the-Dark Succulents 3 Judi Lynn Aug 30 Aug 31 4 360
Exposing Fake Honey Using Carbon-13 1 struggle4progress Aug 31 Aug 31 15 607
Astronomers Spot a Rare Quadruple Star System in the Milky Way, Shedding Light on Mysterious Brown Dwarfs 1 Judi Lynn Aug 30 Aug 30 9 306
Testosterone shifts political preferences in weakly affiliated Democratic men, study finds 8 Bayard Aug 30 Aug 30 4 688

Science Continued...

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I rather admire, on some level, this retraction. 1 NNadir Aug 29 Aug 30 6 487
This AI model simulates 1,000 years of the current climate in just one day 2 erronis Aug 25 Aug 28 2 1030
What the heck is a time crystal, and why are physicists obsessed with them? 1 Jilly_in_VA Aug 26 Aug 26 10 648
Braided magnetic flux ropes found at both human and light year scales 2 erronis Aug 25 Aug 25 4 865
'Cosmic whisper' observed in the search for dark matter 0 Judi Lynn Aug 25 Aug 25 9 1121
Plants steer the way rivers meander across the landscape 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 6 891
Scientists Have Identified the Origin of an Extraordinarily Powerful Outer Space Radio Wave 8 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 28 1135
Black holes that transform matter into dark energy could solve 'cosmic hiccups' mystery 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 7 850
Longest canyon in the solar system reveals new secrets -- Space photo of the week 2 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 9 867
NASA prepares for its next year-long simulated Mars habitat mission 2 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 1 334
Pastel Pink Lobsters, Goofy-Looking Squid Among Deep-Sea Oddities Discovered in Ocean Abyss 2 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 27 906
Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis 5 Bayard Aug 24 Aug 24 42 1185
An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 11 489
New findings from UA's asteroid sample mission 0 Ptah Aug 23 Aug 23 11 438
IBM and Moderna have simulated the longest mRNA pattern without AI -- they used a quantum computer instead 6 BootinUp Aug 21 Aug 22 14 679
Nerve cell synapse artistic rendering. 0 BootinUp Aug 17 Aug 17 13 436
Green Hydrogen Goes Affordable: Rethinking Catalyst Design 1 Caribbeans Aug 15 Aug 15 5 416
Exceeding functional biosphere integrity limits: Study finds 60% of the world's land area is in a precarious state 4 erronis Aug 15 Aug 15 11 445
Moving up in the world: Rare catfish species filmed climbing waterfalls 0 erronis Aug 15 Aug 15 13 502
Scientists discover sex reversal in kookaburras and lorikeets with cause unknown 2 usonian Aug 13 Aug 15 5 435
Mount Sinai study supports evidence that prenatal acetaminophen use may be linked to increased risk of autism and ADHD 0 Wicked Blue Aug 14 Aug 14 7 575
Strange spiral in the night sky was a rocket fuel dump (earthsky.org) 2 eppur_se_muova Aug 14 Aug 14 7 573
Nightmares linked to faster biological ageing and early death 8 littlemissmartypants Aug 13 Aug 14 7 560
Toothpaste made from hair could help repair teeth 3 Goonch Aug 13 Aug 13 14 656
Discovery Plateau Hypothesis 2 BootinUp Aug 13 Aug 13 4 440
First antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning "cleans" blood in minutes 0 Wicked Blue Aug 13 Aug 13 11 592
The World Is Running Out of Freshwater Faster Than Anyone Expected 9 erronis Aug 9 Aug 10 16 1023
Electron microscope image of the penicillin fungus 6 BootinUp Aug 9 Aug 10 16 860
'It seems that size really does matter': Males of 4 never-before-seen tarantula species have record-long genitalia 1 WestMichRad Aug 9 Aug 9 4 529
New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Aug 6 Aug 6 8 641

Science Continued...

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Mercury reaches elongation 8/19/25, shares morning sky w/Venus and Jupiter ... 0 eppur_se_muova Aug 6 Aug 6 5 384
Demonstration of polarity in a stream of water 1 BootinUp Aug 6 Aug 6 5 496
World's Most Powerful Telescope Just Spotted a Visitor From Another Star System--10 Days Before Anyone Else 1 muriel_volestrangler Aug 4 Aug 5 11 641
Andromeda and Ghost. Today's spectacular and surprising APOD 4 SorellaLaBefana Aug 4 Aug 5 17 554
Scientists Just Found a Shocking Link Between Dirty Air and Dementia 0 erronis Aug 4 Aug 4 18 657
Chemistry at the Beginning: How Molecular Reactions Influenced the Formation of the First Stars 5 OKIsItJustMe Aug 4 Aug 4 8 512
A volcano in Russia's Far East erupts for the first time in centuries 3 Jilly_in_VA Aug 3 Aug 3 12 497
Judge allows the National Science Foundation to withhold hundreds of millions of research dollars 0 Eugene Aug 3 Aug 3 5 456
Virginia opossums: The American marsupials that have barely changed since the time of the dinosaurs 3 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 7 464
Scientists Have Discovered a "Sixth Sense" That Links the Gut and Brain in Real Time 0 erronis Aug 3 Aug 3 18 674
Skyscraper-size spikes of methane ice may surround Pluto's equator 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 3 388
Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double black hole system ever found, crooked jet suggests 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 8 393
New theory to understand the origins of the Universe 3 OKIsItJustMe Aug 1 Aug 2 18 715
At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery -- Quanta Magazine 2 erronis Aug 1 Aug 1 15 754
WMO certifies megaflash lightning record in USA -- World Meteorlogical Association 5 erronis Jul 31 Jul 31 9 548
New 40cm-long species of stick insect suspected to be the heaviest insect in Australia 2 muriel_volestrangler Jul 31 Jul 31 16 740
Chicago pianist 'grateful' to make music again after life-changing brain surgery 4 Jilly_in_VA Jul 31 Jul 31 9 538
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 31 Jul 31 2 488
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 0 Jilly_in_VA Jul 31 Jul 31 0 403
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 31 Jul 31 4 444
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