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Cool science word: Euxinia. 2 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 863
NASA tested my chain theory in space - Steve Mould (video) 0 sl8 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 809
A laser pointer at 2 billion fps makes the speed of light look... kinda weird 2 LiberalArkie Oct 2025 Oct 2025 13 1205
American Heart Association reviewing award to rocket scientist with eight retractions 0 erronis Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 692
A gorgeous view of M51 - the Whirlpool Galaxy 8 BootinUp Oct 2025 Oct 2025 16 1244
Mosquitoes Have Started Appearing in One of The Last Places on Earth Without Them 0 littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 Oct 2025 15 912
Sad. Nobel laureate George Smoot, who researched the universe's origins at UC Berkeley, dies at 80 7 usonian Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 1039
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 usonian Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 385
Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of UAP 0 ThreeNoSeep Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 623
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 SamuelTheThird Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 504
Evidence suggests mRNA (Covid) vaccines prolong some cancer patients' lives. 16 Laffy Kat Oct 2025 Oct 2025 40 2354
Science saving whales: Scientists hope underwater fiber-optic cables can help save endangered orcas 4 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 791
An Iranian volcano appears to have woken up -- 700,000 years after its last eruption 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 899
How Afraid of the AI Apocalypse Should We Be? The Ezra Klein Show 1 YoshidaYui Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 722
The most accurate 3D map of stellar nurseries in the Milky Way (ESA) 3 usonian Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 843
Sam Altman Shows Me GPT 5... And What's Next 4 YoshidaYui Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 1014
Dinosaurs Were Weirder Than We Thought 3 YoshidaYui Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 1269
Why Gravity Is A Lie, explained in Zero G 1 YoshidaYui Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 949
'Bored aliens': has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth? 9 hunter Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 1214
Cascadia quake may create 'emergency situation' in other West Coast fault zone, study warns 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 832
The Small World Paradox 4 Uncle Joe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 1056
Playing with Tantalum. 2 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 840
Mysterious gullies on Mars appear to have been carved by burrowing CO₂ ice blocks 0 erronis Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 627
SpaceX successfully lands 11th test starship - FRANCE 24 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 663
In the wild, chimpanzees likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks every day 5 erronis Sep 2025 Oct 2025 5 1114
Satellite Technology Uncovers New Ancient Egyptian Cities And Pyramids 1 William Seger Sep 2025 Oct 2025 7 3470
Your iPhone Tracking You and Listening - TURN THIS OFF! 0 YoshidaYui Oct 2025 Oct 2025 16 1100
Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science 2 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 735
One of the largest great white sharks ever tagged pings in unusual spot 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 1177
How Europe's largest bat catches and eats birds mid-air 0 erronis Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 657

Science Continued...

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Annie Walker: The astronomer with an asteroid, but no known photographs 2 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 886
The "American" winner of the Nobel in Chemistry is Palestinian by birth. 6 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 1106
Success on my quest to make a mutant! 2 mr715 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 808
What Does AI Think of Star Trek's Data (& SciFi AI)? 0 YoshidaYui Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 671
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Joe Rogan discuss the cherry picking of Science...12 min vid 2 mitch96 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 977
Rogue planet's record growth spurt of 6 billion tonnes per second 3 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 875
Elephants know when we're looking at them 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 1208
Why Do Women Outlive Men? WaPo: Redundancy of XX vs XY Genetics 14 GreatGazoo Oct 2025 Oct 2025 20 1937
APOD: "Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website." 4 SorellaLaBefana Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 1260
Scientists Develop Robots That Literally Walk on Water 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 791
Generations of Bearded Vultures Stashed Humans' Treasures, Including a 650-Year-Old Sandal, in These Bird Nests 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 19 1110
ESA inaugurates new deep space antenna in Australia 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 569
String Theory - ScienceClic 6 BootinUp Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 1146
Sputnik Starts Space Race (APOD Redux from 2000) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 704
What if the Universe Remembers Everything? New Theory Rewrites the Rules of Physics 12 erronis Oct 2025 Oct 2025 27 2030
Another Comet, from another time (From the APOD files) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 852
Bizarre ankylosaur with spikes is unlike any known dinosaur (earthsky.org) 3 eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 2598
'Wholesale destruction': Government shutdown or not, critical science programs are at risk 0 douglas9 Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2167
Paleontologists Discover Megaraptor Fossil With a Crocodilian's Leg Still in Its Mouth 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 2780
These Ancient Footprints Rewrite Human History 5 Ptah Sep 2025 Sep 2025 17 3403
Giant Stars With Black Holes Inside Them May Have Been Detected For The First Time 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 2037
"Brightest Object In Known Universe" Puffs Itself Up To Look 15 Times Its Actual Size 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 14 2998
The First Black Hole We Ever Saw Is Doing Something Never Seen Before 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 17 2379
Perplexing diamonds from South Africa mine contain 'almost impossible' chemistry 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 14 1745
Chimps regularly consume alcohol, study finds 0 milestogo Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 947
Physics-informed AI learns local rules behind flocking and collective motion behaviors 3 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 883
A picture of IBM's Quantum System 2 5 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 1324
New Math Revives Geometry's Oldest Problems -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 2646
Mount Sinai study supports evidence that prenatal acetaminophen use may be linked to increased risk of autism and ADHD 2 Wicked Blue Aug 2025 Sep 2025 8 1247
Did you know brown pelicans are protected by lots of miniature airbags in their skin, like BubbleWrap ? 4 eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 2119

Science Continued...

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Brian Cox explains why time travels in one direction - BBC (2 videos) 10 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 4752
Will glaciers ever come back after they've melted away? 5 MrWowWow Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 4464
Cold snap in Florida made Burmese python puke up a whole deer 1 Bayard Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 3010
Offending the Analyst, the view "if you need to use statistics, then you have not designed your experiment very well". 7 NNadir Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 3023
2025 Ig Physics Nobel Prize goes to perfect pasta sauce 5 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 3429
Identifying Links between Alzheimer's Disease and Type 2 Diabetes through Proteomics 2 NNadir Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1167
People with conservative political leanings more likely to believe in health disinformation, study finds 6 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1508
There are 32 different ways AI can go rogue, scientists say -- from hallucinating answers to a complete misalignment with 5 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Sep 2025 7 1369
Are 'little red dots' seen by the James Webb Space Telescope actually elusive 'black hole stars'? 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 2762
'A genuine surprise': Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu once had 'flowing water' that transformed its insides 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 826
A 'crescent sunrise' solar eclipse is coming this weekend. Here's where to see it. 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 785
Skyscraper-size asteroid previously predicted to hit us in 60 years will zoom past Earth on Thursday (Sept. 18) -- and yo 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 1110
'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 8 872
New 'quasi-moon' discovered in Earth orbit may have been hiding there for decades 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 16 982
Scientists Just Found a Way to Simulate the Universe on a Laptop 1 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 784
Engineers Create Mini Microscope for Real-Time Brain Imaging (UC Davis) 0 usonian Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 597
Carl Sagan was right--Brian Cox explains our first real steps into the cosmos 0 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1767
Family Fishing Trip Leads to "One-in-a-Million" Fossil Discovery (mcwane.org) 2 eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 2304
Trump budget cuts threaten groundbreaking gravity wave research 2 DBoon Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 3799
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