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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 61942

I successfully used crispr to edit mosquitoes! 12 mr715 Friday Yesterday 4 374

What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting. (Quanta, 5/6) 2 highplainsdem Friday Yesterday 6 401

How Hantavirus Kills - Medical Lecture 0 GreatGazoo Friday Friday 6 440

1/5 -Ted Turner Interviews Carl Sagan 1989 2 BootinUp Wednesday Friday 8 349

While patients lay unconscious under anesthesia, their brains kept decoding stories and preparing for what came next 8 erronis Wednesday Wednesday 16 865

Well, this is fun. An LLM trained only on pre-1931 text. 4 harumph Monday Wednesday 5 676

Watch as NASA's Curiosity Rover frees its drill from a rock 0 erronis Tuesday Tuesday 7 441

Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we've ever built 4 IronLionZion May 2 Monday 3 547

On the nature of intelligence: can the process of evolution be thought to show a form of intelligence? 1 Girard442 Sunday Sunday 1 245

Hidden plant molecules show up to 25 times stronger activity against Ebola and COVID-19 0 erronis May 2 May 2 11 468

Increased Colorectal Cancer Rates among Adults under Fifty Are Causally Linked to Increased Screening 3 BootinUp May 1 May 2 6 562

I've learned something interesting about brachiopods -- most have no anus. 1 eppur_se_muova May 2 May 2 3 421

Rise in Colon Cancer In Young Adults Tied to E.Coli Exposure in First 10 Yrs of Life 0 GreatGazoo May 1 May 1 3 426

Scientists restore memory by blocking a single Alzheimer's protein 9 Bayard Apr 30 May 1 41 1186

Millions Take This Popular Supplement - Scientists Discover a Concerning Link to Heart Failure 4 Bayard Apr 30 May 1 21 987

NPR story on a huge advance in testing for tuberculosis, + the NEJM article published today 0 highplainsdem Apr 29 Apr 29 4 422

City Birds Appear to be More Afraid of Women Than Men, Scientists Don't Know Why 6 GreatGazoo Apr 29 Apr 29 6 614

Giant sinkholes discovered containing untouched ancient forests 17 Judi Lynn Apr 25 Apr 26 74 2791

These eight coastal cities sit on America's flood front line, and AI shows why 4 erronis Apr 23 Apr 25 15 960

One blue whale song unlocks oceans of data 0 erronis Apr 24 Apr 24 16 578

Soundtrack of the sea: divers use underwater speakers to help dying coral reefs 0 erronis Apr 24 Apr 24 10 462

In Eastern Africa, the cradle of humankind is tearing apart 0 erronis Apr 23 Apr 23 19 627

How birds survived the dinosaurs' doomsday 4 usonian Apr 19 Apr 21 12 601

World's largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems now available to everyone 1 Jim__ Apr 20 Apr 20 9 1495

Cementing a more sustainable alternative to concrete - CBS Sunday norning 4 question everything Apr 19 Apr 20 18 954

I love Dr. Becky Smethurst...She's smart and funny too... 3 wcmagumba Apr 19 Apr 19 8 962

People with dark personality traits are naturally inclined towards leadership roles, finds new study 5 erronis Apr 18 Apr 19 8 834

NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating 3 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 18 Apr 18 16 711

From Endless Frontier to Enemy of the People: The Assault on Public Science -- Lawfare 0 erronis Apr 17 Apr 17 5 450

Science Continued...

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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 13 509

This message was self-deleted by its author 15 YoshidaYui Apr 14 Apr 15 33 2825

Could Humanity Really Build a Starship? The Time, Cost, and Truth EXPLAINED 4 YoshidaYui Apr 12 Apr 14 4 823

Spectacular fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals 6 erronis Apr 2 Apr 14 31 1019

Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know - Part 1 3 littlemissmartypants Apr 14 Apr 14 3 707

Astronomer, astrophotographer and writer Annie Russell Maunder was born #OnThisDay in 1868. 2 littlemissmartypants Apr 14 Apr 14 7 469

Neil degrasse Tyson goes Hollywood (if he wasn't already.) 3 NNadir Apr 13 Apr 14 6 804

The human body isn't a masterpiece of design. It's a patchwork of evolutionary compromise 10 erronis Apr 11 Apr 13 16 959

Scientists Engineered Tobacco Plants to Produce Five Mind-Altering Psychedelic Compounds 4 Judi Lynn Apr 9 Apr 13 4 875

'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 1237

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 16 781

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 YoshidaYui Apr 13 Apr 13 0 395

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 YoshidaYui Apr 12 Apr 12 0 305

Civil war among wild chimpanzees 3 Eugene Apr 9 Apr 11 5 639

An Interesting "Off Target" Inference for a Long Acting Monoclonal Antibody for Treatment of Elevated LDLs. 6 NNadir Apr 8 Apr 11 2 877

Mammal ancestors laid eggs--and this 250-million-year-old fossil proves it 4 erronis Apr 9 Apr 11 13 741

FINALLY! Lots of fantastic images from the Artemis 2 astronauts! 7 Gaugamela Apr 8 Apr 10 23 1167

'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 2193

Diabetes rates are lower in high-altitude environments & scientists may have discovered why 14 Judi Lynn Apr 6 Apr 6 55 2018

NASA's online Artemis II Tracker 2 cayugafalls Apr 6 Apr 6 8 798

NASA's Artemis II crew readies for Monday's lunar flyby. Here's what you need to know 3 Dulcinea Apr 6 Apr 6 12 778

What an underground oil reservoir looks like. 2 Emile Apr 6 Apr 6 6 946

Surprising links between autism, Alzheimer's could change how we treat both 0 littlemissmartypants Apr 5 Apr 5 25 1158

Why Is CERN Making Antimatter? 0 Uncle Joe Apr 5 Apr 5 6 1000

Artemis astronauts glimpse Moon's 'Grand Canyon' ahead of historic lunar flyby 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 5 Apr 5 9 651

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 2237

How 0.7 Grams of Matter Destroyed Hiroshima 5 NNadir Apr 3 Apr 4 10 1069

Gambling Is Thousands of Years Older Than We Thought, Rewriting Human Evolution ( 404 Media, 4/4) 2 highplainsdem Apr 4 Apr 4 2 586

The Missions Bringing Us Back to the Moon - StarTalk 2 BootinUp Apr 4 Apr 4 5 727

Artemis II crew to launch to the moon on 43 years of shuttle parts 5 BootinUp Apr 3 Apr 4 9 966

Science Continued...

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Can brain cells run computers? This startup powers data centre using human neurons 0 littlemissmartypants Apr 4 Apr 4 2 450

Artemis crew eating 4:00 , exercising 3:00 and shammy bathing 7:00 in very tight quarters 0 BlueWaveNeverEnd Apr 3 Apr 3 8 692

How the human brain builds our sense of time 6 erronis Apr 3 Apr 3 9 931

The Universe has changed by the time you finish this sentence. 0 BootinUp Apr 3 Apr 3 7 690

PBS Terra: The Cascadia Megaquake Is Inevitable. And It Will Reshape America Forever 1 catbyte Apr 3 Apr 3 32 2229

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 11 813

Watch Unprecedented Footage of Sperm Whales Helping a Newborn Calf Take Its First Breaths 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 14 621

Stunning new James Webb Space Telescope images reveal 'hidden' stars being born 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 11 694

In a First, an Astronomer May Have Witnessed a Comet Stop Its Spin--Then Reverse Its Rotation 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 8 654

'Magic mushroom' may boost brain flexibility for weeks 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 17 886

Thirty previously unpublished verses by Empedocles discovered on a papyrus from Cairo 6 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 52 1944

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 14 785

NASA Artemis II Launch (9min video) - And off to the Moon!! 3 KelleyKramer Apr 1 Apr 1 8 665

Link to NASA feed of Artemis II launch 2 QED Apr 1 Apr 1 9 708

This star-forming galaxy is blowing out powerful winds topping 2 million mph 11 Judi Lynn Apr 1 Apr 1 15 980

We're about to send people to the moon! 7 lastlib Apr 1 Apr 1 9 859

Scientists Create Plant That Produces Ayahuasca, Shrooms, and Toad Psychedelics All At Once 5 erronis Apr 1 Apr 1 13 855

Who built the Artemis II vehicle? Bezos? 2 question everything Apr 1 Apr 1 0 716

Your WiFi Can See You. Here's How. 0 Uncle Joe Apr 1 Apr 1 14 850

Giant Dragonflies With 2-Foot Wingspans Ruled the Skies 300 Million Years Ago -- But Oxygen May Not Explain Why(Discover) 1 eppur_se_muova Apr 1 Apr 1 4 630

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