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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 61441

Scientists create 'smart underwear' to measure human flatulence 3 erronis 42 min ago 6 min ago 1 147

New study tells us what's up with what's going down with the sinking Chesapeake Bay 0 mahatmakanejeeves 3 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 7 309

A 25-year study found an unexpected link between cheese and dementia 37 multigraincracker Yesterday 14 hrs ago 75 2933

A hidden Aloe vera compound takes aim at Alzheimer's 2 multigraincracker Yesterday Yesterday 15 446

Eli Lilly ad focusing on the Scientific Method 4 QED Sunday 4 hrs ago 16 395

'Textbooks will need to be updated': Jupiter is smaller and flatter than we thought, Juno spacecraft reveals 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Saturday Yesterday 7 449

A Really Fabulous Lecture We Saw Today on the Topic of AI, Computer Vision, Language and Robotics: Deep Learning. 2 NNadir Saturday Saturday 4 364

Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive and will be for more than a millennium. 10 NNadir Saturday Saturday 34 1083

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 Friday Friday 3 350

Dream engineering can help solve 'puzzling' questions: Study offers insights to optimizing sleep 1 erronis Thursday Friday 10 342

Is NASA about to blow up Artemis? 2 Bmoboy Wednesday Sunday 6 586

Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick 0 littlemissmartypants Wednesday Wednesday 6 423

Does Pregnancy Result in a Hankering for Prime Numbers? 9 NNadir Wednesday Wednesday 7 531

The spark of the Super: Teller-Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb--rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years 7 NNadir Wednesday Sunday 4 504

OpenAI's New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace 'Prism' Raises Fears Of Vibe-Coded Academic AISlop 3 littlemissmartypants Wednesday Wednesday 3 316

Genetic analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique lineage in the Balkans 0 erronis Wednesday Wednesday 6 315

AI model OpenScholar synthesizes scientific research and cites sources as accurately as human experts 2 erronis Wednesday Wednesday 1 351

Artemis II launch has been delayed until March. 0 llmart Tuesday Tuesday 5 341

Reproduction in space, an environment hostile to human biology 7 erronis Tuesday Wednesday 5 491

Stellar nursery bursts with newborn stars in hauntingly beautiful Hubble telescope image -- 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Sunday 14 430

'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 20 621

Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory--here's how 5 erronis Feb 1 Feb 1 15 555

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 13 723

Former NASA scientists warn of possible Artemis II spacecraft safety issue - ABC News 9 TexasTowelie Jan 30 Sunday 8 603

Saturn has more moons than any other planet in our solar system 2 BootinUp Jan 29 Jan 29 4 408

Anti-vaccine sentiment pushes Moderna away from new late-stage infectious disease trials 3 NNadir Jan 29 Jan 29 9 497

16 years of brain scans reveal the cerebellum's crucial role in human language 2 erronis Jan 27 Feb 1 8 410

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office 1 douglas9 Jan 27 Jan 27 14 457

How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926) 5 usonian Jan 26 Jan 27 8 476

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Scientists identify a brain region that differs between male and female mice and may influence social behavior 10 erronis Jan 26 Jan 26 10 764

Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 26 Jan 26 10 429

Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jan 23 Jan 23 9 576

Image of Barnard 59, in the Pipe Nebula 3 BootinUp Jan 22 Jan 23 11 518

Pilot captures historic northern lights show from 37,000 feet (photos) 19 milestogo Jan 22 Jan 26 71 2032

What If You Keep Slowing Down? 3 Uncle Joe Jan 21 Jan 22 10 845

Why do some people get 'hangry' more quickly than others? 1 erronis Jan 19 Jan 19 20 738

OFFS -- AI can FU anything (bogus illustration). 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 17 Jan 17 2 498

Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane 3 highplainsdem Jan 17 Jan 17 6 605

NASA's Artemis moon mission one step closer to liftoff - NBC News 2 TexasTowelie Jan 16 Jan 17 3 537

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 2333

Scientists uncover Antarctica's hidden landscape beneath ice sheet for first time 0 highplainsdem Jan 16 Jan 16 10 498

NASA SpaceX Crew-11 Splashes Down Off Coast of California - C-SPAN 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 16 Jan 16 3 361

The Southern Ocean current reverses for the first time, signaling a risk of climate system collapse 23 Bayard Jan 15 Jan 17 82 3055

Study finds Tyrannosaurus rex did not reach full size until age 40 2 Jilly_in_VA Jan 15 Jan 17 4 545

"Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis. University research delivers." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 15 Jan 15 57 1859

Never-before-seen footage captures moment scientists find new, giant anaconda species in Amazon 4 milestogo Jan 12 Jan 12 18 894

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 13 986

WHY DINOSAURS? AN AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DINOSAURS AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM 0 eppur_se_muova Jan 8 Jan 8 5 458

NASA crew to make rare early return after medical issue in space (CNN) 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 8 Jan 9 4 612

A bison's hump helps it plow through snow with ease 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 8 Jan 8 5 698

Flu Is Relentless. Crispr Might Be Able to Shut It Down 4 LiberalArkie Jan 6 Jan 6 11 757

The Shocking Speed at Which Pandemics Take Over Cities 2 erronis Jan 5 Jan 6 16 631

Has anyone 3 Rebl2 Jan 5 Jan 5 3 606

Psychological traits that may fuel conspiracy theorist mindset identified 10 erronis Jan 5 Jan 8 6 784

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 11 688

My wife noted something about the "Science on Saturday" series we attend every winter. 5 NNadir Jan 1 Jan 1 62 1833

Hiroshima and the Development of Anticlotting Drugs (A Wikipedia Reference Only.) 0 NNadir Dec 31 Dec 31 3 474

These giant sea reptiles lived in freshwater rivers, too (earthsky.org) 8 eppur_se_muova Dec 31 Dec 31 8 866

short video of a flying fish 9 BootinUp Dec 29 Dec 29 9 795

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Moonship, December 1972 3 SorellaLaBefana Dec 27 Dec 27 11 646

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 1702

There Is Something Faster Than Light 10 Uncle Joe Dec 24 Jan 18 7 1366

Panning across the Cosmic Seagull 0 BootinUp Dec 23 Dec 23 7 523

Turtle Patrol Volunteer 4 surfered Dec 21 Dec 25 11 608

Doctor's orders? 'Belly laugh at least two to five days a week' 0 erronis Dec 21 Dec 21 7 567

Is President Jeffries in 2027 More Probable Than the Universe that Exists? 7 NNadir Dec 21 Jan 6 12 928

60 edges, 38 faces, and 24 vertices, Supramolecular Snub Cubes 3 NNadir Dec 20 Dec 20 7 770

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Sean Carroll Discuss Controversies in Quantum Mechanics 0 BootinUp Dec 18 Dec 18 9 616

Good listeners connect more easily with strangers, study finds 4 erronis Dec 18 Dec 19 5 649

FRET in biochemistry, not guitars. 2 NNadir Dec 17 Dec 18 3 522

The Iberian Peninsula is rotating clockwise, scientists report 0 cbabe Dec 17 Dec 17 18 638

A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue 10 erronis Dec 16 Dec 25 47 1715

ADHD Isn't Just a Deficit: New Study Reveals Powerful Psychological Strengths 6 erronis Dec 15 Dec 15 15 4928

a capella science: VSEPR 1 QED Dec 14 Dec 14 7 595

Formation of an Unusually Stable Crystal Found in the Ashes of a 1963 Nuclear Weapons Test in Australia. 0 NNadir Dec 12 Dec 12 9 808

Gray hair may have evolved as a protection against cancer 4 Bayard Dec 11 Dec 15 8 1118

Mysterious X-ray signal from deep space may be the scream of a star ripped apart by two black holes 1 Bayard Dec 11 Dec 11 9 704

Scientists Teach the Brain To Read Light as a New Sense 9 erronis Dec 11 Jan 6 3 826

How a simple slipknot can help surgeons tie the perfect suture 2 erronis Dec 11 Dec 11 7 694

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