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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 62054

NASA's Curiosity rover has found organic molecules on Mars that may be billions of years old 1 Bayard 22 min ago 2 min ago 1 106

A physicist made this cool sculpture of an astronaut. 3 BootinUp 6 hrs ago 1 hr ago 7 365

'Never seen anything like it.' Scientists discover brand new species of octopus. 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 2 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 6 395

Monkey see, monkey do: Study sheds light on cooperative decision-making 0 erronis 4 hrs ago 4 hrs ago 3 168

Nasa unveils next steps to build permanent Moon base 9 Eugene Tuesday 23 hrs ago 2 368

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 Friday Sunday 15 556

Physicists confirm 'negative time' is real by asking the atoms themselves 2 Judi Lynn Thursday Saturday 11 477

WATCH LIVE: SpaceX launching powerful new Starship V3 for 1st time ever 3 Judi Lynn Friday Friday 4 474

Saki Monkey Chloe Needs A Companion Season 11 Episode 15 Full Episode Monkey Life 2 BootinUp Friday Friday 1 329

An ancient solar storm left clues in tree rings and a famous poet's diary: 'Red lights in the northern sky' 0 Judi Lynn Friday Friday 8 338

Chicks Hatch From World's First Artificial Eggs--A Breakthrough Key to Bringing Giant Birds Back From Extinction 1 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 5 434

Sadly Peter Neumann has passed away 3 dickthegrouch May 20 Thursday 17 683

Inge Lehmann Discovered Earth's Inner Core In Her Free Time 2 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 5 478

"Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity." 14 Ocelot II May 20 May 20 34 1280

Rainforest foragers intensified plant use long before agriculture 2 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 3 355

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 5 406

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 11 648

An interesting read: Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove 4 NNadir May 18 May 19 6 460

I successfully used crispr to edit mosquitoes! 17 mr715 May 8 May 16 5 818

NASA Fires Up Powerful Lithium-Fed Thruster for Trips to Mars 16 OKIsItJustMe May 15 May 16 7 1048

AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers 2 littlemissmartypants May 13 May 16 10 574

What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting. (Quanta, 5/6) 3 highplainsdem May 8 May 16 7 580

(Pivot to AI) arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers 0 xocetaceans May 15 May 15 4 372

Despotic primate societies rarely play as adults, analysis of 37 species reveals 2 erronis May 12 May 13 12 508

How Hantavirus Kills - Medical Lecture 0 GreatGazoo May 8 May 8 6 588

1/5 -Ted Turner Interviews Carl Sagan 1989 2 BootinUp May 6 May 8 8 502

While patients lay unconscious under anesthesia, their brains kept decoding stories and preparing for what came next 8 erronis May 6 May 6 16 1211

Well, this is fun. An LLM trained only on pre-1931 text. 4 harumph May 4 May 6 5 866

Watch as NASA's Curiosity Rover frees its drill from a rock 0 erronis May 5 May 5 7 563

Science Continued...

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Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we've ever built 4 IronLionZion May 2 May 4 3 698

On the nature of intelligence: can the process of evolution be thought to show a form of intelligence? 1 Girard442 May 3 May 3 1 364

Hidden plant molecules show up to 25 times stronger activity against Ebola and COVID-19 0 erronis May 2 May 2 12 560

Increased Colorectal Cancer Rates among Adults under Fifty Are Causally Linked to Increased Screening 3 BootinUp May 1 May 2 6 728

I've learned something interesting about brachiopods -- most have no anus. 1 eppur_se_muova May 2 May 2 3 525

Rise in Colon Cancer In Young Adults Tied to E.Coli Exposure in First 10 Yrs of Life 0 GreatGazoo May 1 May 1 3 523

Scientists restore memory by blocking a single Alzheimer's protein 9 Bayard Apr 30 May 1 41 1528

Millions Take This Popular Supplement - Scientists Discover a Concerning Link to Heart Failure 4 Bayard Apr 30 May 1 21 1179

NPR story on a huge advance in testing for tuberculosis, + the NEJM article published today 0 highplainsdem Apr 29 Apr 29 4 503

City Birds Appear to be More Afraid of Women Than Men, Scientists Don't Know Why 6 GreatGazoo Apr 29 Apr 29 6 828

Giant sinkholes discovered containing untouched ancient forests 17 Judi Lynn Apr 25 Apr 26 74 3321

These eight coastal cities sit on America's flood front line, and AI shows why 4 erronis Apr 23 Apr 25 16 1103

One blue whale song unlocks oceans of data 0 erronis Apr 24 Apr 24 16 679

Soundtrack of the sea: divers use underwater speakers to help dying coral reefs 0 erronis Apr 24 Apr 24 10 565

In Eastern Africa, the cradle of humankind is tearing apart 0 erronis Apr 23 Apr 23 19 727

How birds survived the dinosaurs' doomsday 4 usonian Apr 19 Apr 21 12 754

World's largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems now available to everyone 1 Jim__ Apr 20 Apr 20 9 1598

Cementing a more sustainable alternative to concrete - CBS Sunday norning 4 question everything Apr 19 Apr 20 18 1108

I love Dr. Becky Smethurst...She's smart and funny too... 3 wcmagumba Apr 19 Apr 19 8 1107

People with dark personality traits are naturally inclined towards leadership roles, finds new study 5 erronis Apr 18 Apr 19 8 1003

NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 18 Apr 18 16 839

From Endless Frontier to Enemy of the People: The Assault on Public Science -- Lawfare 0 erronis Apr 17 Apr 17 6 534

Five seconds of free fall: Astronauts describe historic moon mission -- and nail-biting return to Earth 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 16 Apr 16 13 601

This message was self-deleted by its author 15 YoshidaYui Apr 14 Apr 15 33 3096

Could Humanity Really Build a Starship? The Time, Cost, and Truth EXPLAINED 4 YoshidaYui Apr 12 Apr 14 4 960

Spectacular fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals 6 erronis Apr 2 Apr 14 31 1197

Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know - Part 1 3 littlemissmartypants Apr 14 Apr 14 3 819

Astronomer, astrophotographer and writer Annie Russell Maunder was born #OnThisDay in 1868. 2 littlemissmartypants Apr 14 Apr 14 7 565

Neil degrasse Tyson goes Hollywood (if he wasn't already.) 3 NNadir Apr 13 Apr 14 6 932

The human body isn't a masterpiece of design. It's a patchwork of evolutionary compromise 10 erronis Apr 11 Apr 13 16 1197

Science Continued...

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Scientists Engineered Tobacco Plants to Produce Five Mind-Altering Psychedelic Compounds 4 Judi Lynn Apr 9 Apr 13 4 1000

'I Literally Don't Know a Word You're Saying': Anderson Cooper Mystified by Neil deGrasse Tyson 12 question everything Apr 11 Apr 13 11 1442

An interesting post in LBN reveals how Trumpworld is planning to bring more 'truthiness' to that boring sciencey stuff. 4 eppur_se_muova Apr 11 Apr 13 16 920

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Civil war among wild chimpanzees 3 Eugene Apr 9 Apr 11 5 741

An Interesting "Off Target" Inference for a Long Acting Monoclonal Antibody for Treatment of Elevated LDLs. 6 NNadir Apr 8 Apr 11 2 1151

Mammal ancestors laid eggs--and this 250-million-year-old fossil proves it 4 erronis Apr 9 Apr 11 13 858

FINALLY! Lots of fantastic images from the Artemis 2 astronauts! 7 Gaugamela Apr 8 Apr 10 23 1350

'We all pretty much broke down right there': Inside the Artemis 2 astronauts' emotional moment near the moon 7 Judi Lynn Apr 9 Apr 9 81 2368

Diabetes rates are lower in high-altitude environments & scientists may have discovered why 14 Judi Lynn Apr 6 Apr 6 55 2281

NASA's online Artemis II Tracker 2 cayugafalls Apr 6 Apr 6 8 917

NASA's Artemis II crew readies for Monday's lunar flyby. Here's what you need to know 3 Dulcinea Apr 6 Apr 6 12 893

What an underground oil reservoir looks like. 2 Emile Apr 6 Apr 6 6 1056

Surprising links between autism, Alzheimer's could change how we treat both 0 littlemissmartypants Apr 5 Apr 5 25 1240

Why Is CERN Making Antimatter? 0 Uncle Joe Apr 5 Apr 5 6 1105

Artemis astronauts glimpse Moon's 'Grand Canyon' ahead of historic lunar flyby 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 5 Apr 5 9 736

I Spent 32 Years Believing I Was Male. Then A Shocking Phone Call Exploded Everything I Knew. 9 Jilly_in_VA Apr 4 Apr 4 56 2528

How 0.7 Grams of Matter Destroyed Hiroshima 5 NNadir Apr 3 Apr 4 10 1231

Gambling Is Thousands of Years Older Than We Thought, Rewriting Human Evolution ( 404 Media, 4/4) 2 highplainsdem Apr 4 Apr 4 2 706

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