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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 61482
Astrophysics turned upside down by unique 'inside out' planetary system 0 Judi Lynn Yesterday Yesterday 9 426
Brain worm hell: The CDC hepatitis B study is unethical and must never be published 6 NNadir Sunday Sunday 24 762
As a paleontologist, I had never expected to see paleontologists names pop up in the Epstein Files. I was naive. 4 generalbetrayus Sunday Sunday 7 467
China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct 2 NNadir Sunday Sunday 7 276
Plot twist! The Andromeda-Milky Way Merger has begun. 5 GreenWave Saturday Sunday 29 898
Massive Pyroclastic Flow Descends Entire Slope of Mount Semeru Volcano (Feb 13, 2026) 3 catbyte Friday Friday 12 585
Stargazing Buddy A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment (free, online) 1 usonian Friday Friday 5 284
A 25-year study found an unexpected link between cheese and dementia 40 multigraincracker Feb 9 Friday 81 3584
New study tells us what's up with what's going down with the sinking Chesapeake Bay 2 mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday Friday 12 542
Jupiter Is Not The Size And Shape We've Long Thought It Was 2 Judi Lynn Friday Friday 9 471
Happy Darwin Day, everybody! 6 Lionel Mandrake Thursday Thursday 14 458
Scientists create 'smart underwear' to measure human flatulence 15 erronis Tuesday Wednesday 6 816
Dream engineering can help solve 'puzzling' questions: Study offers insights to optimizing sleep 3 erronis Feb 5 Tuesday 11 557
Is NASA about to blow up Artemis? 3 Bmoboy Feb 4 Tuesday 7 670
Eli Lilly ad focusing on the Scientific Method 4 QED Feb 8 Tuesday 16 496
A hidden Aloe vera compound takes aim at Alzheimer's 2 multigraincracker Feb 9 Feb 9 15 542
'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 7 570
Former NASA scientists warn of possible Artemis II spacecraft safety issue - ABC News 9 TexasTowelie Jan 30 Feb 8 8 705
Stellar nursery bursts with newborn stars in hauntingly beautiful Hubble telescope image -- 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 8 14 487
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 4 607
Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive and will be for more than a millennium. 10 NNadir Feb 7 Feb 7 34 1244
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 4 446
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 3 454
Does Pregnancy Result in a Hankering for Prime Numbers? 9 NNadir Feb 4 Feb 4 7 636
Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 6 455
OpenAI's New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace 'Prism' Raises Fears Of Vibe-Coded Academic AISlop 3 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 3 427
AI model OpenScholar synthesizes scientific research and cites sources as accurately as human experts 2 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 1 404
Genetic analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique lineage in the Balkans 0 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 6 373
Reproduction in space, an environment hostile to human biology 7 erronis Feb 3 Feb 4 5 574

Science Continued...

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Artemis II launch has been delayed until March. 0 llmart Feb 3 Feb 3 5 390
'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 20 656
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 13 795
Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory--here's how 5 erronis Feb 1 Feb 1 15 628
16 years of brain scans reveal the cerebellum's crucial role in human language 2 erronis Jan 27 Feb 1 8 458
Saturn has more moons than any other planet in our solar system 2 BootinUp Jan 29 Jan 29 4 447
Anti-vaccine sentiment pushes Moderna away from new late-stage infectious disease trials 3 NNadir Jan 29 Jan 29 9 575
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office 1 douglas9 Jan 27 Jan 27 14 492
How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926) 5 usonian Jan 26 Jan 27 8 530
Scientists identify a brain region that differs between male and female mice and may influence social behavior 10 erronis Jan 26 Jan 26 10 854
Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 26 Jan 26 10 469
Pilot captures historic northern lights show from 37,000 feet (photos) 19 milestogo Jan 22 Jan 26 71 2117
Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jan 23 Jan 23 9 628
Image of Barnard 59, in the Pipe Nebula 3 BootinUp Jan 22 Jan 23 11 562
What If You Keep Slowing Down? 3 Uncle Joe Jan 21 Jan 22 10 884
Why do some people get 'hangry' more quickly than others? 1 erronis Jan 19 Jan 19 20 775
There Is Something Faster Than Light 10 Uncle Joe Dec 24 Jan 18 7 1408
OFFS -- AI can FU anything (bogus illustration). 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 17 Jan 17 2 534
Study finds Tyrannosaurus rex did not reach full size until age 40 2 Jilly_in_VA Jan 15 Jan 17 4 587
The Southern Ocean current reverses for the first time, signaling a risk of climate system collapse 23 Bayard Jan 15 Jan 17 82 3175
Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane 3 highplainsdem Jan 17 Jan 17 6 656
NASA's Artemis moon mission one step closer to liftoff - NBC News 2 TexasTowelie Jan 16 Jan 17 3 571
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 2400
Scientists uncover Antarctica's hidden landscape beneath ice sheet for first time 0 highplainsdem Jan 16 Jan 16 10 530
NASA SpaceX Crew-11 Splashes Down Off Coast of California - C-SPAN 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 16 Jan 16 3 395
"Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis. University research delivers." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 15 Jan 15 57 1911
Never-before-seen footage captures moment scientists find new, giant anaconda species in Amazon 4 milestogo Jan 12 Jan 12 18 922
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 1217
NASA crew to make rare early return after medical issue in space (CNN) 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 8 Jan 9 4 641
WHY DINOSAURS? AN AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DINOSAURS AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM 0 eppur_se_muova Jan 8 Jan 8 5 486

Science Continued...

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A bison's hump helps it plow through snow with ease 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 8 Jan 8 5 728
Psychological traits that may fuel conspiracy theorist mindset identified 10 erronis Jan 5 Jan 8 6 821
The Shocking Speed at Which Pandemics Take Over Cities 2 erronis Jan 5 Jan 6 16 659
Flu Is Relentless. Crispr Might Be Able to Shut It Down 4 LiberalArkie Jan 6 Jan 6 11 790
Is President Jeffries in 2027 More Probable Than the Universe that Exists? 7 NNadir Dec 21 Jan 6 12 961
Scientists Teach the Brain To Read Light as a New Sense 9 erronis Dec 11 Jan 6 3 862
Has anyone 3 Rebl2 Jan 5 Jan 5 3 640
The wolf supermoon will kick off 2026 with a celestial bang. Here's when and how to see it. 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 1 Jan 4 11 724
My wife noted something about the "Science on Saturday" series we attend every winter. 5 NNadir Jan 1 Jan 1 62 1879
These giant sea reptiles lived in freshwater rivers, too (earthsky.org) 8 eppur_se_muova Dec 31 Dec 31 8 903
Hiroshima and the Development of Anticlotting Drugs (A Wikipedia Reference Only.) 0 NNadir Dec 31 Dec 31 3 502
short video of a flying fish 9 BootinUp Dec 29 Dec 29 9 833
Moonship, December 1972 3 SorellaLaBefana Dec 27 Dec 27 11 677
A 'Third State' Exists Between Life and Death--And That Suggests Your Cells Are Conscious, Some Scientists Say 7 Judi Lynn Dec 25 Dec 26 32 1744
Turtle Patrol Volunteer 4 surfered Dec 21 Dec 25 11 654
A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue 10 erronis Dec 16 Dec 25 47 1775
Panning across the Cosmic Seagull 0 BootinUp Dec 23 Dec 23 7 552
Doctor's orders? 'Belly laugh at least two to five days a week' 0 erronis Dec 21 Dec 21 7 599
60 edges, 38 faces, and 24 vertices, Supramolecular Snub Cubes 3 NNadir Dec 20 Dec 20 7 806
Good listeners connect more easily with strangers, study finds 4 erronis Dec 18 Dec 19 5 686
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