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'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 4 445
A submersible finds sea creatures thriving in the deepest parts of the ocean 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 30 Jul 31 10 583
The fungus among us: Study shows fungi form living bridges to share water between neighboring plants 1 erronis Jul 30 Jul 30 2 476
What Can a Cell Remember? -- Quanta Magazine 2 erronis Jul 30 Jul 30 5 457
Congo Basin's Peatlands are More Than 42,000 Years Old, New Study Reveals 0 milestogo Jul 30 Jul 30 2 351
Fascinating documentary on PBS about the search for "twin primes" 0 erronis Jul 29 Jul 29 6 584
Wasps may hold the secret to slowing down the aging process 6 erronis Jul 29 Jul 29 8 726
Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials 3 erronis Jul 28 Jul 28 8 625
New play in the chemical-reaction playbook uncovered 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 28 Jul 28 10 546
Why the Key to a Mathematical Life is Collaboration -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jul 28 Jul 28 5 435
Phase Change Materials you can make at home... 1 ret5hd Jul 26 Jul 27 3 701
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 ret5hd Jul 26 Jul 26 0 371
Executive function may stem from schooling rather than innate cognition 4 erronis Jul 23 Jul 25 5 785
About 700m years ago, the Earth froze over entirely - now we may know why 4 muriel_volestrangler Jul 23 Jul 23 16 937
The Cells That Breathe Two Ways -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jul 23 Jul 23 6 515
Arctic Melting in Mid-Winter 0 SorellaLaBefana Jul 23 Jul 23 3 609
NASA Shares How to Save Camera 370-Million-Miles Away Near Jupiter (nasa.gov) 3 usonian Jul 22 Jul 23 7 449
'E's got 'UUGE sharrp... It can leap abou--... LOOK AT THE BONES!!!" 2 Montauk6 Jul 22 Jul 22 12 707
Companion for Betelgeuse confirmed! Beloved red star has a blue-white buddy (earthsky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Jul 22 Jul 22 4 399
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 usonian Jul 22 Jul 22 1 302
Playing an Instrument Could Protect Against Cognitive Aging, Study Reveals 10 erronis Jul 19 Jul 22 12 714
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 usonian Jul 22 Jul 22 0 336
The Smoot - How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement -- The Register 5 erronis Jul 18 Jul 22 13 659
Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 22 Jul 22 11 721
Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained 13 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 21 11 997
Electron microscope image of a white blood cell 5 BootinUp Jul 20 Jul 20 43 1459
The Apollo Moon Landing - Journey to American Democracy - Heather Cox Richardson 4 Rhiannon12866 Jul 20 Jul 20 2 490
This Ancient Practice Beats Pills for Sleep - And Science Backs It 3 erronis Jul 19 Jul 19 17 1156
The Most Interesting Email I Ever Received: Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles 0 erronis Jul 18 Jul 18 8 1009

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8-hour time-lapse shows Earth rotating while capturing the Milky Way. 8 edbermac Jul 16 Jul 17 42 1566
Flying with hands: The evolution of bat wings 0 erronis Jul 16 Jul 16 5 421
Giant space 'boulders' unleashed by NASA's DART mission aren't behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflectin 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 16 Jul 16 8 640
Infrared photo of the Horsehead Nebula 0 BootinUp Jul 16 Jul 16 15 617
Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality Anil Seth TED 4 Uncle Joe Jul 12 Jul 14 19 1011
New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We're still learning from it 7 usonian Jul 11 Jul 12 11 793
The Caltech Experiment That Proved How Life Copies Itself - California Curated substack 2 BootinUp Jul 11 Jul 11 5 574
Should Adults in ICU have gene testing? Recent study (possibly) suggests YES 4 SorellaLaBefana Jul 11 Jul 11 2 756
'Could become a death spiral': scientists discover what's driving record die-offs of US honeybees 5 turbinetree Jul 10 Jul 11 17 953
Scientists discover 200-million-year-old flying reptile species 3 Judi Lynn Jul 10 Jul 10 18 866
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 turbinetree Jul 10 Jul 10 1 320
July 10, 1925, the beginning of the Scopes trial 3 question everything Jul 10 Jul 10 4 571
Scientists discover Burmese pythons have never-before-seen cells that help them digest entire skeletons 3 milestogo Jul 9 Jul 9 7 623
World's Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos -- KFF Health News 3 erronis Jul 9 Jul 9 11 666
How much energy do fish expend when floating "effortlessly" in the water column? 0 SorellaLaBefana Jul 9 Jul 9 4 1861
Moon in Saturn's rings leaving ripples 8 Ptah Jul 8 Jul 9 48 1203
A Formula to Keep the Science Flame Burning by James Hansen 3 OKIsItJustMe Jul 8 Jul 8 5 551
What did dinosaurs sound like? 7 cbabe Jul 8 Jul 8 6 687
Killer Whales Fashion Tools from Kelp and Use Them for Grooming 1 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 8 6 487
On this day, July 7, 1959, Venus occulted Regulus. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 7 Jul 7 3 445
Longevity Medicine Breakthrough 2 DanBaron Jul 6 Jul 7 8 760
Astronomers Track Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS 1 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 6 9 597
America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 5 Jul 5 1 502
Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? 8 Uncle Joe Jul 4 Jul 4 7 958
This Giant Telescope Will Map the Universe in Unbelievable Detail NOVA PBS 0 Uncle Joe Jul 4 Jul 4 9 611
PBS Terra: Wait...The Worst Possible US Disaster Just Got EVEN WORSE?!? (Cascadia Megaquake) 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 3 Jul 4 9 1132
The truth about life on other planets - and what it means for humans 6 k_buddy762 Jun 2025 Jul 3 16 1282
These Lizards Mysteriously Survived the Asteroid Strike That Killed the Dinosaurs--and Their Descendants Are Still Alive 4 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jul 3 10 1379
Swarms of tiny nose robots could clear infected sinuses, researchers say 8 Wicked Blue Jun 25 Jul 3 5 873
Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch 3 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jul 3 3 642

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Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2 Jul 3 6 568
US to breed billions of flies and dump them out of aircraft in bid to fight flesh-eating maggot -- The Guardian 2 erronis Jul 2 Jul 2 9 765
Dentist may have solved 500-year-old mystery in da Vinci's iconic Vitruvian Man 0 erronis Jul 2 Jul 2 12 810
Earth About to Experience Shortest Day Since the 1970s as Rotation Gains Record Speed 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 1 Jul 2 9 645
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 1 Jul 1 0 231
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 1 Jul 1 0 246
An example of Special relativity 8 BootinUp Jun 30 Jul 1 10 894
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations -- Retraction Watch 0 erronis Jun 30 Jun 30 5 559
Common farm fungicide may be contributing to 'insect apocalypse' 1 erronis Jun 30 Jun 30 2 598
The Oldest Rocks on Earth Are in Canada, and They're 4.16 Billion Years Old 1 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 16 775
MIT's high-tech 'bubble wrap' turns air into safe drinking water -- even in Death Valley 2 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 11 878
Physicists Catch Light in 'Imaginary Time' in Scientific First 0 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 5 608
The Skull Nebula 0 BootinUp Jun 29 Jun 29 10 576
Ignorance Squad Strikes Again: US Cancels Nature Springer Journal Subscriptions 4 NNadir Jun 28 Jun 29 10 833
X-Posted from Australia group 2 canetoad Jun 28 Jun 28 1 591
Galpagos Tomatoes Quietly Reversing Evolution 5 milestogo Jun 24 Jun 28 10 963
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveils the first images of the sky obtained with the world's largest camera 2 Judi Lynn Jun 28 Jun 28 15 720
How gut bacteria change after exposure to pesticides 3 Wicked Blue Jun 27 Jun 27 4 714
Physicist Solves 120-Year-Old Thermodynamics Puzzle and Corrects Einstein 6 erronis Jun 27 Jun 27 8 958
Clair Patterson: The Caltech Scientist Who Exposed Lead Poisoning and Changed the World 4 BootinUp Jun 27 Jun 27 4 606
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