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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 61410
Cascadia quake may create 'emergency situation' in other West Coast fault zone, study warns 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 644
"Amaterasu" particle: a new cosmic mystery 0 sl8 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 9 932
"Ant-Like" Robot Swarms Lift Heavy Objects With Herculean Strength 2 erronis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 14 1475
"Brightest Object In Known Universe" Puffs Itself Up To Look 15 Times Its Actual Size 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 14 2824
"Evidence is growing that humans are not drinking alone," 5 BootinUp Oct 2024 Oct 2024 16 1779
"Extraordinary" Slow-Spinning Neutron Star Shakes Astrophysics 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 794
"Godfather of Artificial Intelligence" Geoffrey Hinton on the promise, risks of advanced AI 0 Swede Nov 2024 Nov 2024 3 905
"Hey kids! Pile into the station wagon. We're going to Mars!" 3 SarahD May 2024 May 2024 5 1261
"I can assure you that the misuse of the word 'national' by our rulers has thoroughly broken me of the habit... 3 NNadir Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 1335
"It's A Remarkable Thing, To Be A Human Being" - Prof. Brian Cox 2 BootinUp Nov 25 Nov 26 13 761
"Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis. University research delivers." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 15 Jan 15 57 1827
"Ohhhh. Living on Mars would be cool!" Nope. Don't think so. 6 SarahD Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 1430
"Three Gorges Dam In Space": China Reveals Plans To Build Giant Power Station In Earth's Orbit 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 977
"Truly Incredible" - Princeton Researchers Have Discovered a New Method To Reshape the Fabric of Life 7 Judi Lynn Sep 2024 Sep 2024 13 1603
"We have no evidence, but if we did..." 4 SarahD May 2024 May 2024 5 1591
"We've Got a New Mystery on Our Hands": Scientists Stumped by Unexplained Motion in Titan's Atmosphere 2 Judi Lynn May 2025 May 2025 10 1059
"Win a heart" science contest. Explain the difference between Faradaic efficiency and Thermodynamic efficiency. 7 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 3 1363
'A genuine surprise': Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu once had 'flowing water' that transformed its insides 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 672
'A paradigm change': black hole spotted that may have been created moments after big bang 2 muriel_volestrangler Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 793
'A political division, not a physical one, determined who got measles and who didn't' 4 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 34 1909
'A single magma ocean' once covered the moon, data from India's Chandrayaan-3 mission suggests 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2024 Aug 2024 7 819
'Awakening' of a black hole witnessed for the first time 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 893
'Beauty' particle discovered at world's largest atom smasher could unlock new physics 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 715
'Beauty' particle discovered at world's largest atom smasher could unlock new physics 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 587
'Big boy' spider becomes Australia's largest and deadliest arachnid after surprise discovery 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 14 1568
'Big One' coupled with rising ocean could leave many in Northwest living in flood zones, study finds 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2025 May 2025 4 795
'Bored aliens': has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth? 9 hunter Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 833
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 0 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 598
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 717

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'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 697
'Contagious' peeing may have deep evolutionary roots, chimp study suggests 3 milestogo Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 1039
'Cosmic Horseshoe' may contain black hole the size of 36 billion suns -- one of the largest ever detected 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1055
'Cosmic whisper' observed in the search for dark matter 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1377
'Could become a death spiral': scientists discover what's driving record die-offs of US honeybees 5 turbinetree Jul 2025 Jul 2025 17 1289
'Dyson spheres' were theorized as a way to detect alien life. Scientists say they've found potential evidence. 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 10 1289
'E's got 'UUGE sharrp... It can leap abou--... LOOK AT THE BONES!!!" 2 Montauk6 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 988
'Einstein ring' snapped by James Webb Space Telescope is most distant gravitationally lensed object 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2023 Sep 2023 27 2171
'Fantastic' particle could be most energetic neutrino ever detected 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 864
'Finally, we have the evidence': James Webb telescope spots neutron star hiding in wreckage of famous 1987 supernova 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 16 1365
'God of Chaos' asteroid Apophis could still hit Earth in 2029, study hints -- but we won't know for 3 more years. 3 Cattledog Sep 2024 Sep 2024 6 1164
'Gold nuggets in night sky': Astronomers find 49 new galaxies in 3 hrs 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 10 1632
'Hawking radiation' may be erasing black holes. Watching it happen could reveal new physics. 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2024 Nov 2024 8 1003
'I want to see the first African woman in space': the Kenyan stargazer bringing astronomy to the peo 1 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2023 Sep 2023 3 1658
'I've never seen anything like this': Scientists hijack cancer genes to turn tumors against themselves 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 19 1186
'Imagine a lush tropical island slipping beneath the waves': Drowned island the size of Iceland found off Brazil 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 11 1188
'Iridescent' clouds on Mars captured in Martian twilight in stunning NASA rover images 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 704
'Is it aliens?': how a mysterious star could help the search for extraterrestrial life 2 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1497
'It explains why our ability to focus has gone to hell' 1 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 1009
'It seems that size really does matter': Males of 4 never-before-seen tarantula species have record-long genitalia 1 WestMichRad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 771
'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut 0 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 726
'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut 2 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1088
'Lost City' Deep in The Ocean Is Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen Before on Earth 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Nov 2023 30 1999
'Magical' abilities of water-striding insects could inspire new aquatic robots 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 1023
'Old smokers': Strange new type of star discovered in Milky Way 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 10 1141
'Once-in-a-lifetime' photo: Perseid meteors, northern lights and rare glowing arc shine over 11th-century castle 5 Judi Lynn Aug 2024 Aug 2024 43 2931
'Paraparticles' Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle 0 BlueMTexpat Apr 2025 Apr 2025 11 1076
'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life and minerals unseen on Earth, scientists rev 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 16 1216
'Publish or Perish' is now a card game -- not just an academic's life 0 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 889
'Quantum superchemistry' observed for the 1st time ever 4 Judi Lynn Aug 2023 Aug 2023 18 2152

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'Raindrops in the sun's corona': New adaptive optics shows stunning details of our star's atmosphere 1 erronis May 2025 May 2025 10 933
'RFK Jr is a disaster': Staff describe chaos in 'anti-science' regime 3 douglas9 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 16 1156
'Runaway' black hole the size of 20 million suns found speeding through space with a trail of newbor 31 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2024 52 6586
'Scent therapy' helps unlock memories in people with depression, trial finds 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 869
'Spooky' quantum entanglement discovered inside individual protons for 1st time ever 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 867
'Squared blunder': Google engineer withdraws preprint after getting called out for using AI 6 erronis Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 1425
'Super pod' of 1,500 dolphins captured on drone video as they cavort off California's coast 2 erronis Jan 2025 Jan 2025 11 1049
'Super-Jupiter': Giant gas planet discovered by space telescope 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 884
'That's weird': James Webb Space Telescope spies a strange galaxy outshining its stars 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2024 Sep 2024 11 1061
'The parasite was in the driver's seat' 7 Bayard May 2025 May 2025 9 1779
'They've probably been untouched for 49 million years': The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life 1 Judi Lynn Monday Monday 20 567
'This is a journey, not a destination': Stunning map of the Milky Way's center exposes new mysteries about our galaxy 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 10 1218
'Tiger stripes' on Saturn's moon Enceladus could reveal if its oceans are habitable 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1046
'Totally unexpected': Stunning new imagery shows big changes in the 1st black hole ever captured by humanity (photo, vid 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 735
'Truly primal': Burmese python swallow deer whole in Florida Everglades 3 Bayard Oct 2024 Oct 2024 7 1566
'Universal memory' breakthrough brings the next generation of computers 1 step closer to major speed boost 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1023
'Very odd' 40-foot-long marine reptile stalked prehistoric Canada 0 Judi Lynn May 2025 May 2025 9 820
'We learned so much that we didn't know': Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander mission was full of surprises 1 muriel_volestrangler Apr 2025 Apr 2025 7 982
'We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars.' President Trump wants astronauts to raise the American flag on Mar 10 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 1310
'Wholesale destruction': Government shutdown or not, critical science programs are at risk 0 douglas9 Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2057
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