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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 61517
Too Late to Apologize! James Webb Telescope New study just made the "crisis in cosmology" WORSE... 42 Sancho 20 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 71 2780
The Human Cost of Trump's War on Science 3 douglas9 Monday 14 hrs ago 9 378
How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? -- Quanta Magazine 7 erronis Monday 17 hrs ago 12 358
Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought 0 Uncle Joe Sunday Sunday 16 486
Soil Restoration Experiments in Australia using Sheep's Wool... 7 electric_blue68 Feb 17 Sunday 8 441
This cutting-edge exoskeleton got me up a mountain I had no chance of climbing alone 2 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 9 536
An 'astonishingly' large new dinosaur species has been discovered in the Sahara 4 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 15 529
Saturn's North Pole 9 BootinUp Sunday Sunday 41 888
The Effect of Dibutyl Phthalate on Proliferation of Breast Cancer Cells Studied by Mass Spec Imaging. 0 NNadir Saturday Saturday 9 384
Renowned Cal Tech scientist who studied distant planets fatally shot at his home near LA 1 BlueWaveNeverEnd Saturday Saturday 14 487
Deepest-Ever Rock Core From Beneath Antarctica's Ice. It Holds Clues About the Earth's Past--and Future 1 Judi Lynn Saturday Saturday 14 312
Scientists May Have Found The Key Cellular Process Behind Aging in Animals 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday Friday 6 439
Nasa astronauts' moon mission likely to be delayed due to rocket issue 0 muriel_volestrangler Friday Friday 5 275
Carl Sagan - Protons and Neutrons 2 BootinUp Thursday Thursday 2 361
We need more papers showing stuff that doesn't work: Extraction of Actinides into Molten Zn Fails to Separate... 2 NNadir Wednesday Thursday 5 365
World-first supercomputer discovers invisible flaw in all jet engines that no human had spotted 11 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 17 Wednesday 17 1108
Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive and will be for more than a millennium. 12 NNadir Feb 7 Wednesday 35 1433
A bacterium's built-in compass, explained: Single-cell magnetometry confirms Earth-field alignment 2 erronis Feb 17 Feb 17 7 331
A 25-year study found an unexpected link between cheese and dementia 41 multigraincracker Feb 9 Feb 17 81 3991
Astrophysics turned upside down by unique 'inside out' planetary system 0 Judi Lynn Feb 16 Feb 16 9 560
Brain worm hell: The CDC hepatitis B study is unethical and must never be published 6 NNadir Feb 15 Feb 15 24 953
As a paleontologist, I had never expected to see paleontologists names pop up in the Epstein Files. I was naive. 4 generalbetrayus Feb 15 Feb 15 7 566
China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct 2 NNadir Feb 15 Feb 15 7 364
Plot twist! The Andromeda-Milky Way Merger has begun. 5 GreenWave Feb 14 Feb 15 29 1046
Massive Pyroclastic Flow Descends Entire Slope of Mount Semeru Volcano (Feb 13, 2026) 3 catbyte Feb 13 Feb 13 12 671
Stargazing Buddy A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment (free, online) 1 usonian Feb 13 Feb 13 6 334
New study tells us what's up with what's going down with the sinking Chesapeake Bay 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 10 Feb 13 12 609
Jupiter Is Not The Size And Shape We've Long Thought It Was 2 Judi Lynn Feb 13 Feb 13 9 556
Happy Darwin Day, everybody! 6 Lionel Mandrake Feb 12 Feb 12 14 567

Science Continued...

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Scientists create 'smart underwear' to measure human flatulence 15 erronis Feb 10 Feb 11 6 918
Dream engineering can help solve 'puzzling' questions: Study offers insights to optimizing sleep 3 erronis Feb 5 Feb 10 11 608
Is NASA about to blow up Artemis? 3 Bmoboy Feb 4 Feb 10 7 729
Eli Lilly ad focusing on the Scientific Method 4 QED Feb 8 Feb 10 16 569
A hidden Aloe vera compound takes aim at Alzheimer's 2 multigraincracker Feb 9 Feb 9 15 611
'Textbooks will need to be updated': Jupiter is smaller and flatter than we thought, Juno spacecraft reveals 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 7 Feb 9 7 649
Former NASA scientists warn of possible Artemis II spacecraft safety issue - ABC News 9 TexasTowelie Jan 30 Feb 8 8 797
Stellar nursery bursts with newborn stars in hauntingly beautiful Hubble telescope image -- 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 8 14 539
The spark of the Super: Teller-Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb--rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years 7 NNadir Feb 4 Feb 8 4 672
A Really Fabulous Lecture We Saw Today on the Topic of AI, Computer Vision, Language and Robotics: Deep Learning. 2 NNadir Feb 7 Feb 7 4 513
If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn't write it disappears from a journal's website with no notice... 1 NNadir Feb 6 Feb 6 3 515
Does Pregnancy Result in a Hankering for Prime Numbers? 9 NNadir Feb 4 Feb 4 7 717
Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 6 505
OpenAI's New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace 'Prism' Raises Fears Of Vibe-Coded Academic AISlop 3 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 3 498
AI model OpenScholar synthesizes scientific research and cites sources as accurately as human experts 2 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 1 465
Genetic analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique lineage in the Balkans 0 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 6 445
Reproduction in space, an environment hostile to human biology 7 erronis Feb 3 Feb 4 5 651
Artemis II launch has been delayed until March. 0 llmart Feb 3 Feb 3 5 432
'They've probably been untouched for 49 million years': The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 2 20 722
At the scientific lecture I attended today, the speaker rephrased the term "AI" in a way I appreciated and admired. 5 NNadir Jan 31 Feb 2 13 873
Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory--here's how 5 erronis Feb 1 Feb 1 15 709
16 years of brain scans reveal the cerebellum's crucial role in human language 2 erronis Jan 27 Feb 1 8 502
Saturn has more moons than any other planet in our solar system 2 BootinUp Jan 29 Jan 29 4 493
Anti-vaccine sentiment pushes Moderna away from new late-stage infectious disease trials 3 NNadir Jan 29 Jan 29 9 639
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office 1 douglas9 Jan 27 Jan 27 14 544
How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926) 5 usonian Jan 26 Jan 27 8 579
Scientists identify a brain region that differs between male and female mice and may influence social behavior 10 erronis Jan 26 Jan 26 10 931
Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 26 Jan 26 10 528
Pilot captures historic northern lights show from 37,000 feet (photos) 19 milestogo Jan 22 Jan 26 71 2182
Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jan 23 Jan 23 9 686

Science Continued...

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Image of Barnard 59, in the Pipe Nebula 3 BootinUp Jan 22 Jan 23 11 604
What If You Keep Slowing Down? 3 Uncle Joe Jan 21 Jan 22 10 942
Why do some people get 'hangry' more quickly than others? 1 erronis Jan 19 Jan 19 20 833
There Is Something Faster Than Light 10 Uncle Joe Dec 24 Jan 18 7 1453
OFFS -- AI can FU anything (bogus illustration). 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 17 Jan 17 2 588
Study finds Tyrannosaurus rex did not reach full size until age 40 2 Jilly_in_VA Jan 15 Jan 17 4 636
The Southern Ocean current reverses for the first time, signaling a risk of climate system collapse 23 Bayard Jan 15 Jan 17 82 3262
Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane 3 highplainsdem Jan 17 Jan 17 6 698
NASA's Artemis moon mission one step closer to liftoff - NBC News 2 TexasTowelie Jan 16 Jan 17 3 614
NASA's Voyager Just Crossed the Edge of the Solar System -- and Found Something Wild 10 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 16 Jan 16 52 2487
Scientists uncover Antarctica's hidden landscape beneath ice sheet for first time 0 highplainsdem Jan 16 Jan 16 10 577
NASA SpaceX Crew-11 Splashes Down Off Coast of California - C-SPAN 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 16 Jan 16 3 439
"Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis. University research delivers." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 15 Jan 15 57 1966
Never-before-seen footage captures moment scientists find new, giant anaconda species in Amazon 4 milestogo Jan 12 Jan 12 18 977
Dogs with a Large Vocabulary of Object Labels Learn New Labels by Overhearing Like 1.5-Year-Old Infants 13 GreatGazoo Jan 9 Jan 10 13 1320
NASA crew to make rare early return after medical issue in space (CNN) 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 8 Jan 9 4 691
WHY DINOSAURS? AN AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DINOSAURS AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM 0 eppur_se_muova Jan 8 Jan 8 5 521
A bison's hump helps it plow through snow with ease 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 8 Jan 8 5 774
Psychological traits that may fuel conspiracy theorist mindset identified 10 erronis Jan 5 Jan 8 6 871
The Shocking Speed at Which Pandemics Take Over Cities 2 erronis Jan 5 Jan 6 16 696
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