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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 2587
Scientists uncover Antarctica's hidden landscape beneath ice sheet for first time 0 highplainsdem Jan 16 Jan 16 10 637
NASA SpaceX Crew-11 Splashes Down Off Coast of California - C-SPAN 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 16 Jan 16 3 476
"Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis. University research delivers." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 15 Jan 15 57 2015
Never-before-seen footage captures moment scientists find new, giant anaconda species in Amazon 4 milestogo Jan 12 Jan 12 18 1010
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 1377
NASA crew to make rare early return after medical issue in space (CNN) 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 8 Jan 9 4 721
WHY DINOSAURS? AN AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DINOSAURS AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM 0 eppur_se_muova Jan 8 Jan 8 5 542
A bison's hump helps it plow through snow with ease 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 8 Jan 8 5 796
Psychological traits that may fuel conspiracy theorist mindset identified 10 erronis Jan 5 Jan 8 6 907
The Shocking Speed at Which Pandemics Take Over Cities 2 erronis Jan 5 Jan 6 16 708
Flu Is Relentless. Crispr Might Be Able to Shut It Down 4 LiberalArkie Jan 6 Jan 6 11 854
Is President Jeffries in 2027 More Probable Than the Universe that Exists? 7 NNadir Dec 21 Jan 6 12 1029
Scientists Teach the Brain To Read Light as a New Sense 9 erronis Dec 11 Jan 6 3 927
Has anyone 3 Rebl2 Jan 5 Jan 5 3 686
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 11 771
My wife noted something about the "Science on Saturday" series we attend every winter. 5 NNadir Jan 1 Jan 1 62 1934
These giant sea reptiles lived in freshwater rivers, too (earthsky.org) 8 eppur_se_muova Dec 31 Dec 31 8 962
Hiroshima and the Development of Anticlotting Drugs (A Wikipedia Reference Only.) 0 NNadir Dec 31 Dec 31 3 544
short video of a flying fish 9 BootinUp Dec 29 Dec 29 9 910
Moonship, December 1972 3 SorellaLaBefana Dec 27 Dec 27 11 733
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 1795
Turtle Patrol Volunteer 4 surfered Dec 21 Dec 25 11 702
A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue 10 erronis Dec 16 Dec 25 47 1834
Panning across the Cosmic Seagull 0 BootinUp Dec 23 Dec 23 7 580
Doctor's orders? 'Belly laugh at least two to five days a week' 0 erronis Dec 21 Dec 21 7 634
60 edges, 38 faces, and 24 vertices, Supramolecular Snub Cubes 3 NNadir Dec 20 Dec 20 7 847
Good listeners connect more easily with strangers, study finds 4 erronis Dec 18 Dec 19 5 735
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Sean Carroll Discuss Controversies in Quantum Mechanics 0 BootinUp Dec 18 Dec 18 9 670
FRET in biochemistry, not guitars. 2 NNadir Dec 17 Dec 18 3 587

Science Continued...

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The Iberian Peninsula is rotating clockwise, scientists report 0 cbabe Dec 17 Dec 17 18 707
ADHD Isn't Just a Deficit: New Study Reveals Powerful Psychological Strengths 6 erronis Dec 15 Dec 15 15 4996
Gray hair may have evolved as a protection against cancer 4 Bayard Dec 11 Dec 15 8 1208
a capella science: VSEPR 1 QED Dec 14 Dec 14 7 654
How Ramanujan's formulae for pi connect to modern high energy physics 3 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 13 6 757
Formation of an Unusually Stable Crystal Found in the Ashes of a 1963 Nuclear Weapons Test in Australia. 0 NNadir Dec 12 Dec 12 9 858
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black 4 eppur_se_muova Dec 7 Dec 12 15 1013
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 9 737
How a simple slipknot can help surgeons tie the perfect suture 2 erronis Dec 11 Dec 11 7 728
excerpt from: The Penicillin Myth - Asimov Press 2 BootinUp Dec 8 Dec 9 9 821
Africa Is Splitting Into Two Continents 18 IronLionZion Nov 2025 Dec 8 60 3796
Time may be a psychological projection, philosopher argues 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 8 9 984
Scientists discover dinosaur 'mummies' with hoofs like a horse (CBC Radio - As It Happens) 1 eppur_se_muova Dec 7 Dec 7 16 919
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 eppur_se_muova Dec 7 Dec 7 0 354
Something Weird Happens When E-mc 2 Uncle Joe Dec 6 Dec 6 9 1041
One of the programs the University of Nebraska at Lincoln regents voted to drop is earth and atmospheric sciences. 3 generalbetrayus Dec 6 Dec 6 14 813
Last Lunar Walkabout December 1972 2 SorellaLaBefana Dec 6 Dec 6 4 596
18,000 dinosaur tracks discovered along ancient Bolivian coastline -- and they set a new record 11 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 38 1700
The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 2025 2 540
Private com-sat companies are planning to launch so many satellites that even SPACE telescopes will be compromised 2 SorellaLaBefana Dec 2025 Dec 2025 10 660
Skin-to-brain signal explains why warm hugs make us feel so good about ourselves 0 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 2025 4 666
For the 1st time ever, 8 spacecraft are docked to the International Space Station 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 6 740
Video-call glitches can have serious consequences 0 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 2025 6 740
New Algorithm Lets Architects Design Stunning Curved Structures in Minutes 0 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 2025 4 655
Tiny Bullet Fragments in Hunted Meat Pose Lead Poisoning Risk 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 677
James Webb telescope spots strange 'super-puff' planet frantically chasing its own atmosphere through space 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 6 673
NASA's Perseverance Rover Hears the Crack of Martian Lightning, Providing the First Glimpse into the Red Planet's Atmosp 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 2 522
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon 4 littlemissmartypants Nov 2025 Dec 2025 4 796
When Americans migrate from violent states, the risk of future violence follows them 1 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 2025 8 893
Seismic Mystery Solved: Scientists Find a New State of Matter at Earth's Center 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 17 867

Science Continued...

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Birds Are Beeping and Booping like R2-D2. Their Mimicked Sounds Are Helping Unlock the Secrets of Avian Communication 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 13 854
Consciousness as the foundation: New theory addresses nature of reality 13 erronis Nov 2025 Dec 2025 13 1808
Textbooks Were Wrong: 249-Million-Year-Old Fossil Discovery Upends Timeline of Evolution 15 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Dec 2025 36 2423
A.I. Reveals Signs of Early Life in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks. Next, It Could Continue the Search in Space 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 8 762
Scientists mapped the shape of a supernova for the first time ever - and it's not what we expected: Space photo of the w 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 16 1146
Your Brain Quietly Rewrites Reality Depending on Your State of Mind 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 1061
Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 5809
Living microbes found in a meteorite crater may offer clues to life on Mars 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 613
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 littlemissmartypants Nov 2025 Nov 2025 1 522
"It's A Remarkable Thing, To Be A Human Being" - Prof. Brian Cox 2 BootinUp Nov 2025 Nov 2025 13 823
Astrophysicist's latest 3I/ATLAS theory: It's interested in Jupiter 6 Jilly_in_VA Nov 2025 Nov 2025 11 991
Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy 3 Jilly_in_VA Nov 2025 Nov 2025 31 1067
The Uncanny Gmail Clone That Drops You Straight Into Epstein's Inbox 2 littlemissmartypants Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 737
Mosquito proboscis repurposed as a fine nozzle for 3D printing 2 cbabe Nov 2025 Nov 2025 11 820
Why Some People Feel Nothing From Music: Scientists Uncover Rare Brain Disconnect 14 erronis Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 1440
No need to ask for directions: Loggerhead sea turtles rely on two senses for migration 0 douglas9 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 9 630
New Psychoactive Substances in Wastewater from Rest Areas and Commercial Weigh Stations along Interstate Highways 8 NNadir Nov 2025 Nov 2025 15 1347
Humans are evolved for nature, not cities, say anthropologists 14 erronis Nov 2025 Nov 2025 18 1496
How language shapes the way we think Lera Boroditsky TED 2 Uncle Joe Nov 2025 Nov 2025 13 808
The State of Napa Valley College's Ground Breaking $7.5 million Solar Facility Built in 2009. 4 NNadir Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 767
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