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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 62002

An interesting read: Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove 2 NNadir 11 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 5 276

I successfully used crispr to edit mosquitoes! 17 mr715 May 8 Saturday 5 658

NASA Fires Up Powerful Lithium-Fed Thruster for Trips to Mars 16 OKIsItJustMe Friday Saturday 8 701

AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers 2 littlemissmartypants Wednesday Saturday 10 477

What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting. (Quanta, 5/6) 3 highplainsdem May 8 Saturday 7 523

(Pivot to AI) arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers 0 xocetaceans Friday Friday 2 311

Despotic primate societies rarely play as adults, analysis of 37 species reveals 2 erronis Tuesday Wednesday 12 434

How Hantavirus Kills - Medical Lecture 0 GreatGazoo May 8 May 8 6 546

1/5 -Ted Turner Interviews Carl Sagan 1989 2 BootinUp May 6 May 8 8 444

While patients lay unconscious under anesthesia, their brains kept decoding stories and preparing for what came next 8 erronis May 6 May 6 16 1095

Well, this is fun. An LLM trained only on pre-1931 text. 4 harumph May 4 May 6 5 801

Watch as NASA's Curiosity Rover frees its drill from a rock 0 erronis May 5 May 5 7 531

Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we've ever built 4 IronLionZion May 2 May 4 3 648

On the nature of intelligence: can the process of evolution be thought to show a form of intelligence? 1 Girard442 May 3 May 3 1 328

Hidden plant molecules show up to 25 times stronger activity against Ebola and COVID-19 0 erronis May 2 May 2 12 521

Increased Colorectal Cancer Rates among Adults under Fifty Are Causally Linked to Increased Screening 3 BootinUp May 1 May 2 6 685

I've learned something interesting about brachiopods -- most have no anus. 1 eppur_se_muova May 2 May 2 3 486

Rise in Colon Cancer In Young Adults Tied to E.Coli Exposure in First 10 Yrs of Life 0 GreatGazoo May 1 May 1 3 490

Scientists restore memory by blocking a single Alzheimer's protein 9 Bayard Apr 30 May 1 41 1384

Millions Take This Popular Supplement - Scientists Discover a Concerning Link to Heart Failure 4 Bayard Apr 30 May 1 21 1109

NPR story on a huge advance in testing for tuberculosis, + the NEJM article published today 0 highplainsdem Apr 29 Apr 29 4 471

City Birds Appear to be More Afraid of Women Than Men, Scientists Don't Know Why 6 GreatGazoo Apr 29 Apr 29 6 763

Giant sinkholes discovered containing untouched ancient forests 17 Judi Lynn Apr 25 Apr 26 74 3101

These eight coastal cities sit on America's flood front line, and AI shows why 4 erronis Apr 23 Apr 25 15 1038

One blue whale song unlocks oceans of data 0 erronis Apr 24 Apr 24 16 641

Soundtrack of the sea: divers use underwater speakers to help dying coral reefs 0 erronis Apr 24 Apr 24 10 526

In Eastern Africa, the cradle of humankind is tearing apart 0 erronis Apr 23 Apr 23 19 686

How birds survived the dinosaurs' doomsday 4 usonian Apr 19 Apr 21 12 692

World's largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems now available to everyone 1 Jim__ Apr 20 Apr 20 9 1554

Science Continued...

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Cementing a more sustainable alternative to concrete - CBS Sunday norning 4 question everything Apr 19 Apr 20 18 1053

I love Dr. Becky Smethurst...She's smart and funny too... 3 wcmagumba Apr 19 Apr 19 8 1046

People with dark personality traits are naturally inclined towards leadership roles, finds new study 5 erronis Apr 18 Apr 19 8 928

NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 18 Apr 18 16 798

From Endless Frontier to Enemy of the People: The Assault on Public Science -- Lawfare 0 erronis Apr 17 Apr 17 6 502

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 13 560

This message was self-deleted by its author 15 YoshidaYui Apr 14 Apr 15 33 3005

Could Humanity Really Build a Starship? The Time, Cost, and Truth EXPLAINED 4 YoshidaYui Apr 12 Apr 14 4 909

Spectacular fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals 6 erronis Apr 2 Apr 14 31 1129

Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know - Part 1 3 littlemissmartypants Apr 14 Apr 14 3 777

Astronomer, astrophotographer and writer Annie Russell Maunder was born #OnThisDay in 1868. 2 littlemissmartypants Apr 14 Apr 14 7 525

Neil degrasse Tyson goes Hollywood (if he wasn't already.) 3 NNadir Apr 13 Apr 14 6 883

The human body isn't a masterpiece of design. It's a patchwork of evolutionary compromise 10 erronis Apr 11 Apr 13 16 1089

Scientists Engineered Tobacco Plants to Produce Five Mind-Altering Psychedelic Compounds 4 Judi Lynn Apr 9 Apr 13 4 947

'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 1364

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 16 855

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 YoshidaYui Apr 13 Apr 13 0 444

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 YoshidaYui Apr 12 Apr 12 0 356

Civil war among wild chimpanzees 3 Eugene Apr 9 Apr 11 5 702

An Interesting "Off Target" Inference for a Long Acting Monoclonal Antibody for Treatment of Elevated LDLs. 6 NNadir Apr 8 Apr 11 2 1024

Mammal ancestors laid eggs--and this 250-million-year-old fossil proves it 4 erronis Apr 9 Apr 11 13 804

FINALLY! Lots of fantastic images from the Artemis 2 astronauts! 7 Gaugamela Apr 8 Apr 10 23 1261

'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 2287

Diabetes rates are lower in high-altitude environments & scientists may have discovered why 14 Judi Lynn Apr 6 Apr 6 55 2167

NASA's online Artemis II Tracker 2 cayugafalls Apr 6 Apr 6 8 869

NASA's Artemis II crew readies for Monday's lunar flyby. Here's what you need to know 3 Dulcinea Apr 6 Apr 6 12 847

What an underground oil reservoir looks like. 2 Emile Apr 6 Apr 6 6 1013

Surprising links between autism, Alzheimer's could change how we treat both 0 littlemissmartypants Apr 5 Apr 5 25 1207

Why Is CERN Making Antimatter? 0 Uncle Joe Apr 5 Apr 5 6 1056

Artemis astronauts glimpse Moon's 'Grand Canyon' ahead of historic lunar flyby 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 5 Apr 5 9 701

Science Continued...

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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 2380

How 0.7 Grams of Matter Destroyed Hiroshima 5 NNadir Apr 3 Apr 4 10 1147

Gambling Is Thousands of Years Older Than We Thought, Rewriting Human Evolution ( 404 Media, 4/4) 2 highplainsdem Apr 4 Apr 4 2 667

The Missions Bringing Us Back to the Moon - StarTalk 2 BootinUp Apr 4 Apr 4 5 793

Artemis II crew to launch to the moon on 43 years of shuttle parts 5 BootinUp Apr 3 Apr 4 9 1045

Can brain cells run computers? This startup powers data centre using human neurons 0 littlemissmartypants Apr 4 Apr 4 2 490

Artemis crew eating 4:00 , exercising 3:00 and shammy bathing 7:00 in very tight quarters 0 BlueWaveNeverEnd Apr 3 Apr 3 8 751

How the human brain builds our sense of time 6 erronis Apr 3 Apr 3 9 1008

The Universe has changed by the time you finish this sentence. 0 BootinUp Apr 3 Apr 3 7 748

PBS Terra: The Cascadia Megaquake Is Inevitable. And It Will Reshape America Forever 1 catbyte Apr 3 Apr 3 32 2300

How Do Snakes 'Stand' Upright Nearly Stick-Straight? New Research Points to How They Pull Off the Gravity-Defying Feat 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 11 894

Watch Unprecedented Footage of Sperm Whales Helping a Newborn Calf Take Its First Breaths 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 14 675

Stunning new James Webb Space Telescope images reveal 'hidden' stars being born 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 11 743

In a First, an Astronomer May Have Witnessed a Comet Stop Its Spin--Then Reverse Its Rotation 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 8 709

'Magic mushroom' may boost brain flexibility for weeks 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 17 957

Thirty previously unpublished verses by Empedocles discovered on a papyrus from Cairo 6 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 52 2038

South Africa's MeerKAT telescope is mapping previously invisible spaces between galaxies - and it's found 60 new cosmic 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 14 860

NASA Artemis II Launch (9min video) - And off to the Moon!! 3 KelleyKramer Apr 1 Apr 1 8 730

Link to NASA feed of Artemis II launch 2 QED Apr 1 Apr 1 9 769

This star-forming galaxy is blowing out powerful winds topping 2 million mph 11 Judi Lynn Apr 1 Apr 1 15 1089

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