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Astronomers say we may live at the center of a cosmic void 2 billion light-years wide that defies the laws of cosmology 18 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 44 3622
James Webb telescope spots 2 monster black holes merging at the dawn of time, challenging our understanding of the unive 5 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 16 1277
The Effect of Heat Stress on Damage to Internal Organs, Especially Among the Elderly. 2 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 2 1051
Scientists prove 'quantum theory' that could lead to ultrafast magnetic computing 1 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 10 957
Researchers call for a new measurement of time for tunneling particles 2 BootinUp May 2024 May 2024 2 873
How Do Elephants Say Hello? Reunions Lead to Ear Flapping, Rumbling and Trunk Swinging in Greeting 1 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 5 855
Controlled failure: The building designed to limit catastrophe 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 9 1331
AI may be to blame for our failure to make contact with alien civilisations 2 LudwigPastorius May 2024 May 2024 0 1104
Oldest Known Human Viruses Discovered In 50,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones 6 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 5 1215
Watch a Möbius strip robot move and climb when hit by light (Youtube video) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 6 1000
Project Hephaistos - II. Dyson sphere candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE 0 Sancho May 2024 May 2024 4 919
GPS Jamming & Spoofing - How Does It Work, And Who's Doing It? 0 Ptah May 2024 May 2024 4 972
The Science of Reducing Prejudice in Kids 2 DBoon May 2024 May 2024 10 878
You joined the DOE from academia. What caused you to accept the job? 0 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 6 855
Post-irradiation testing of high-burnup fuel under way at ORNL 0 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 4 872
"We have no evidence, but if we did..." 4 SarahD May 2024 May 2024 5 1489
Sperm Whale "Phonetic Alphabet" Surprisingly Similar In Structure To Human Language 16 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 61 3263
Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail 7 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 35 2324
500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks (paywall) 3 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 32 2303
Newfound 'altermagnets' shatter the magnetic status quo 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 May 2024 7 1260
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Platinum Group Elements with 103Rh Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy 0 eppur_se_muova May 2024 May 2024 4 843
Coral restoration in the Red Sea 0 Tetrachloride May 2024 May 2024 4 802
New NASA Black Hole Visualization Plunges Viewers Into the Event Horizon 0 erronis May 2024 May 2024 7 1260
Empowering social media users to assess content helps fight misinformation 4 BootinUp Mar 2024 May 2024 3 1270
China launches Chang'e 6 sample-return mission to moon's far side (video) 1 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 2 851
Fusion Breakthrough: 6 Minutes of Plasma Sets New Reactor Record 7 Warpy May 2024 May 2024 12 1581
Hunger on campus: why US PhD students are fighting over food 4 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 5 1325
Most Dementia Patients 'Return' Before Death And It's Unclear Why 9 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 35 2284
The Chandra X-ray spacecraft may soon go dark, threatening a great deal of astronomy 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 May 2024 8 1429
Today begins "Black Hole Week" at NASA: 5 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 4 1133

Science Continued...

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Alternative Medicine An Orangutan Healed Himself With Medicinal Plant 4 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 17 1401
The most horrifying planets in the universe 4 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 9 1731
Dinosaurs from first to last 2 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 4 1550
The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths 1 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 25 1630
The Largest Single Cause of Death Among African American Youth Is Firearms. 0 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 3 1075
James Webb telescope spots wind blowing faster than a bullet on '2-faced planet' with eternal night 4 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 10 1275
Interesting: A Scientist for President? (Mexico). 2 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 5 1158
Another Victory for Fear And Ignorance Over the World's Poorest. 1 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 6 1228
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 0 679
Scientists Reveal 'Major' New Factor in Bumblebee Decline 11 Sewa May 2024 May 2024 12 2226
Video of sun's surface shows solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss 3 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 4 1211
The Jurassic Period 0 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 3 1629
99 Dinosaur sounds based on Scientific data 5 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 5 1490
Eta Aquarid meteor shower peak could spawn over 100 'shooting stars' per hour this weekend 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 3 999
These Are The Avalanches To Worry About - Veritasium 0 TexasTowelie May 2024 May 2024 1 1277
Scientists reveal Southern Ring Nebula's unexpected structure: 'We were amazed' 3 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 6 1130
Dusty 'Cat's Paw Nebula' contains a type of molecule never seen in space -- and it's one of the largest ever found 4 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 24 1988
The Math That Predicted Black Holes Predicts Even Stranger Objects - Veritasium 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1538
On this day, April 30, 1916, mathematician, electrical engineer, and computer scientist Claude Shannon was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1060
Foxes' skulls are specially adapted for diving into snow 3 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 12487
'Is it aliens?': how a mysterious star could help the search for extraterrestrial life 2 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1427
These Hardy Plants Have Figured Out How to 'Farm' Microbes in Their Soil 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 1137
Horsehead Nebula rears its head in gorgeous new James Webb Space Telescope images (video) 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 49 2430
Chickens Can Blush When They're Feeling Emotional, And We Should Pay Attention 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 7 1302
China releases world's most detailed moon atlas (video) 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 877
'Tiger stripes' on Saturn's moon Enceladus could reveal if its oceans are habitable 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 988
Why dangerous bird flu is spreading faster and farther than first thought... 5 littlemissmartypants Apr 2024 Apr 2024 29 1803
A New Record Concentration for CO2, 427.98 ppm Has Been Set for the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory's Weekly Average. 4 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1780
NASA discovered a planet twice as big as Earth with a gas that is 'only produced by life' 15 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 68 4283
Rare dinosaur tracks are longest continuous set of sauropod footprints (EarthSky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Apr 2024 Apr 2024 24 1465

Science Continued...

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New CO2 Concentration Record Set, 428.59 ppm, at the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory. 1 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1086
Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1622
There's a mysterious ecosystem underneath the driest desert on Earth 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 42 2544
The Effect of Climate Change on Nuclear Reactor Cooling Will Be Studied at Argonne National Lab. 0 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1083
Judge dismisses superconductivity physicist's lawsuit against university 1 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1069
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Stumbled On A Glistening Lava Lake On Jupiter's Moon Io 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 15 1536
Algorithm ranks peer reviewers by reputation -- but critics warn of bias 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 811
Scientists create 'toxic AI' that is rewarded for thinking up the worst possible questions we could imagine 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1422
4 solar flares erupt in exceptionally rare, "quadruple" solar flare from the sun in rare 'super' explosion 5 LastLiberal in PalmSprings Apr 2024 Apr 2024 9 1494
Cosmic fountain is polluting intergalactic space with 50 million suns' worth of material 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1263
Restoring sight is possible now with optogenetics 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 11 1293
It's Official: Scientists Finally Confirmed What's Inside The Moon 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 12 1659
NASA veteran's propellantless propulsion drive defies laws of physics 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1479
For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism 4 WestMichRad Apr 2024 Apr 2024 30 1585
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 872
NASA's Voyager 1 resumes sending engineering updates to Earth 6 erronis Apr 2024 Apr 2024 22 1563
In my lifetime, space exploration has gone from Sputnik to multiple launches each week. 6 Ptah Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1266
An Interesting Experiment in Trying to Involve Journalists in Reporting Real Science Correctly. 1 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1181
Jupiter's Moon Io has been volcanically active for 4.5 billion years 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1040
Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient 13 BootinUp Apr 2024 Apr 2024 27 2349
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