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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 62024

Chicks Hatch From World's First Artificial Eggs--A Breakthrough Key to Bringing Giant Birds Back From Extinction 1 Judi Lynn 8 hrs ago 8 hrs ago 3 333

Physicists confirm 'negative time' is real by asking the atoms themselves 1 Judi Lynn 17 hrs ago 15 hrs ago 10 379

Sadly Peter Neumann has passed away 3 dickthegrouch Wednesday 21 hrs ago 17 577

Inge Lehmann Discovered Earth's Inner Core In Her Free Time 2 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 5 384

"Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity." 14 Ocelot II Wednesday Wednesday 34 926

Rainforest foragers intensified plant use long before agriculture 2 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 3 275

Prescient I. Rabi to Bill Moyers "...I think our troubles may come when we forget our origins..." "..once we're a mob... 0 NNadir Tuesday Tuesday 5 351

The Sun Blasted a Mysterious Radio Signal for 19 Straight Days. Here's What We Know (Gizmodo, 5/19/26 + study) 3 highplainsdem Tuesday Tuesday 11 542

An interesting read: Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove 4 NNadir Monday Tuesday 6 379

I successfully used crispr to edit mosquitoes! 17 mr715 May 8 Saturday 5 730

NASA Fires Up Powerful Lithium-Fed Thruster for Trips to Mars 16 OKIsItJustMe Friday Saturday 7 859

AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers 2 littlemissmartypants May 13 Saturday 10 524

What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting. (Quanta, 5/6) 3 highplainsdem May 8 Saturday 7 548

(Pivot to AI) arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers 0 xocetaceans Friday Friday 4 339

Despotic primate societies rarely play as adults, analysis of 37 species reveals 2 erronis May 12 May 13 12 470

How Hantavirus Kills - Medical Lecture 0 GreatGazoo May 8 May 8 6 564

1/5 -Ted Turner Interviews Carl Sagan 1989 2 BootinUp May 6 May 8 8 459

While patients lay unconscious under anesthesia, their brains kept decoding stories and preparing for what came next 8 erronis May 6 May 6 16 1148

Well, this is fun. An LLM trained only on pre-1931 text. 4 harumph May 4 May 6 5 830

Watch as NASA's Curiosity Rover frees its drill from a rock 0 erronis May 5 May 5 7 541

Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we've ever built 4 IronLionZion May 2 May 4 3 665

On the nature of intelligence: can the process of evolution be thought to show a form of intelligence? 1 Girard442 May 3 May 3 1 342

Hidden plant molecules show up to 25 times stronger activity against Ebola and COVID-19 0 erronis May 2 May 2 12 539

Increased Colorectal Cancer Rates among Adults under Fifty Are Causally Linked to Increased Screening 3 BootinUp May 1 May 2 6 703

I've learned something interesting about brachiopods -- most have no anus. 1 eppur_se_muova May 2 May 2 3 501

Rise in Colon Cancer In Young Adults Tied to E.Coli Exposure in First 10 Yrs of Life 0 GreatGazoo May 1 May 1 3 500

Scientists restore memory by blocking a single Alzheimer's protein 9 Bayard Apr 30 May 1 41 1438

Millions Take This Popular Supplement - Scientists Discover a Concerning Link to Heart Failure 4 Bayard Apr 30 May 1 21 1140

NPR story on a huge advance in testing for tuberculosis, + the NEJM article published today 0 highplainsdem Apr 29 Apr 29 4 483

Science Continued...

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City Birds Appear to be More Afraid of Women Than Men, Scientists Don't Know Why 6 GreatGazoo Apr 29 Apr 29 6 797

Giant sinkholes discovered containing untouched ancient forests 17 Judi Lynn Apr 25 Apr 26 74 3226

These eight coastal cities sit on America's flood front line, and AI shows why 4 erronis Apr 23 Apr 25 16 1063

One blue whale song unlocks oceans of data 0 erronis Apr 24 Apr 24 16 652

Soundtrack of the sea: divers use underwater speakers to help dying coral reefs 0 erronis Apr 24 Apr 24 10 535

In Eastern Africa, the cradle of humankind is tearing apart 0 erronis Apr 23 Apr 23 19 698

How birds survived the dinosaurs' doomsday 4 usonian Apr 19 Apr 21 12 723

World's largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems now available to everyone 1 Jim__ Apr 20 Apr 20 9 1571

Cementing a more sustainable alternative to concrete - CBS Sunday norning 4 question everything Apr 19 Apr 20 18 1076

I love Dr. Becky Smethurst...She's smart and funny too... 3 wcmagumba Apr 19 Apr 19 8 1066

People with dark personality traits are naturally inclined towards leadership roles, finds new study 5 erronis Apr 18 Apr 19 8 966

NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 18 Apr 18 16 818

From Endless Frontier to Enemy of the People: The Assault on Public Science -- Lawfare 0 erronis Apr 17 Apr 17 6 511

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 13 577

This message was self-deleted by its author 15 YoshidaYui Apr 14 Apr 15 33 3051

Could Humanity Really Build a Starship? The Time, Cost, and Truth EXPLAINED 4 YoshidaYui Apr 12 Apr 14 4 934

Spectacular fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals 6 erronis Apr 2 Apr 14 31 1158

Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know - Part 1 3 littlemissmartypants Apr 14 Apr 14 3 795

Astronomer, astrophotographer and writer Annie Russell Maunder was born #OnThisDay in 1868. 2 littlemissmartypants Apr 14 Apr 14 7 540

Neil degrasse Tyson goes Hollywood (if he wasn't already.) 3 NNadir Apr 13 Apr 14 6 898

The human body isn't a masterpiece of design. It's a patchwork of evolutionary compromise 10 erronis Apr 11 Apr 13 16 1148

Scientists Engineered Tobacco Plants to Produce Five Mind-Altering Psychedelic Compounds 4 Judi Lynn Apr 9 Apr 13 4 968

'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 1388

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 16 880

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Civil war among wild chimpanzees 3 Eugene Apr 9 Apr 11 5 719

An Interesting "Off Target" Inference for a Long Acting Monoclonal Antibody for Treatment of Elevated LDLs. 6 NNadir Apr 8 Apr 11 2 1067

Mammal ancestors laid eggs--and this 250-million-year-old fossil proves it 4 erronis Apr 9 Apr 11 13 829

FINALLY! Lots of fantastic images from the Artemis 2 astronauts! 7 Gaugamela Apr 8 Apr 10 23 1299

Science Continued...

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'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 2313

Diabetes rates are lower in high-altitude environments & scientists may have discovered why 14 Judi Lynn Apr 6 Apr 6 55 2217

NASA's online Artemis II Tracker 2 cayugafalls Apr 6 Apr 6 8 881

NASA's Artemis II crew readies for Monday's lunar flyby. Here's what you need to know 3 Dulcinea Apr 6 Apr 6 12 864

What an underground oil reservoir looks like. 2 Emile Apr 6 Apr 6 6 1028

Surprising links between autism, Alzheimer's could change how we treat both 0 littlemissmartypants Apr 5 Apr 5 25 1217

Why Is CERN Making Antimatter? 0 Uncle Joe Apr 5 Apr 5 6 1073

Artemis astronauts glimpse Moon's 'Grand Canyon' ahead of historic lunar flyby 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 5 Apr 5 9 710

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 2419

How 0.7 Grams of Matter Destroyed Hiroshima 5 NNadir Apr 3 Apr 4 10 1171

Gambling Is Thousands of Years Older Than We Thought, Rewriting Human Evolution ( 404 Media, 4/4) 2 highplainsdem Apr 4 Apr 4 2 680

The Missions Bringing Us Back to the Moon - StarTalk 2 BootinUp Apr 4 Apr 4 5 808

Artemis II crew to launch to the moon on 43 years of shuttle parts 5 BootinUp Apr 3 Apr 4 9 1062

Can brain cells run computers? This startup powers data centre using human neurons 0 littlemissmartypants Apr 4 Apr 4 2 500

Artemis crew eating 4:00 , exercising 3:00 and shammy bathing 7:00 in very tight quarters 0 BlueWaveNeverEnd Apr 3 Apr 3 8 768

How the human brain builds our sense of time 6 erronis Apr 3 Apr 3 9 1028

The Universe has changed by the time you finish this sentence. 0 BootinUp Apr 3 Apr 3 7 764

PBS Terra: The Cascadia Megaquake Is Inevitable. And It Will Reshape America Forever 1 catbyte Apr 3 Apr 3 32 2311

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 11 908

Watch Unprecedented Footage of Sperm Whales Helping a Newborn Calf Take Its First Breaths 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 14 686

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