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NASA rover discovers liquid water 'ripples' carved into Mars rock -- and it could rewrite the Red Planet's history 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 455
On February 15, 2013, a meteor crossed the sky over Chelyabinsk, Russia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 356
Watch robot dog and drone locked in fierce battle -- blasting fireworks at each other in future warfare demo 6 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 808
Win a heart contest: Comment on These Equations to Explain Why Musk's Car and His Powerwalls Were Never "Green." 12 NNadir Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 999
Hubble spots 'bullseye' galaxy with 9 rings 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 11 443
Euclid telescope spots rare 'Einstein ring' hiding near Earth -- and an ancient, unnamed galaxy behind it 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 659
Dancing Baby Sea Turtles Help Researchers Unravel the Mysteries of Their Navigational Superpowers 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 385
Many birds-of-paradise species emit light through their plumage, study finds 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 16 635
Scientists Confirm Endangered Bats Are Migrating in Arizona for the First Time, Using DNA Clues Found in the Environment 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 5 344
12 strange reasons humans haven't found alien life yet 4 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 11 1015
Supermassive Black Hole Heading Towards The Milky Way Galaxy 7 GreenWave Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 706
Meta unveils AI models that convert brain activity into text with unmatched accuracy 5 Wicked Blue Feb 2025 Feb 2025 5 559
'It explains why our ability to focus has gone to hell' 1 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 621
A strange triangle will appear in the zodiac this month. How to see rare 'zodiacal light,' before it disappears. 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 9 634
Scientists record never-before-seen 'ice quakes' deep inside Greenland's frozen rivers 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 564
Experts Discover Ancient Life Locked Inside a 2.5 Billion-Year-Old Ruby as a Residue 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 11 791
High-energy cosmic neutrino detected under Mediterranean Sea 2 Wicked Blue Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 499
James Hansen and Pushker Kharecha: Global Warming Has Accelerated. Why? What Are the Consequences? 0 OKIsItJustMe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 0 395
JAMA Psychiatry: Departure. 1 NNadir Feb 2025 Feb 2025 11 569
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Eko Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 186
a step away from politics... 17 markie Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 1230
Astronomers catch black holes 'cooking' their own meals in bizarre, endless feeding cycle 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 443
If any AI became 'misaligned' then the system would hide it just long enough to cause harm -- controlling it is a fallacy 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 484
Class emerges as a key factor in who gets sent to prison 0 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 15 501
Several Psychiatric Disorders Share The Same Root Cause, Study Reveals 19 ShazzieB Feb 2025 Feb 2025 69 3275
Telescopes spy a monster radio jet streaming from a bright and early object in the universe 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 463
800-mile-long 'DUNE' experiment could reveal the hidden dimensions of the universe 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 9 614
Archaeologists uncover 1.5-million-year-old hand axes in Iraqi desert 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 12 593
String theory could be real? A bootstrap model reveals solid hint 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 10 9545
Stunning, rainbow-colored object spotted by James Webb telescope could be an alien solar system in the making 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 22 1247

Science Continued...

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Quantum breakthrough: Scientists created antimatter from light 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 426
Astronomers discover 'Quipu', the single largest structure in the known universe 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 520
Disturbing Discovery: Human Brains Are Filling Up With Microplastics, and It May Be Causing Dementia 9 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 18 970
Hubble's Photomosaic of Andromeda Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars 6 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Feb 2025 6 741
Gaia Just Found Two Massive Objects That Shouldn't Exist - And Astronomers Are Stunned 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 39 1623
The framing of the shrew: California students photograph mammal never caught on film 1 erronis Jan 2025 Feb 2025 13 624
Scientists stunned to find corals that 'walk' towards light 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Feb 2025 4 618
Whale poop contains iron that may have helped fertilize past oceans 1 Wicked Blue Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 422
James Hansen et al: Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Well-Informed? 1 OKIsItJustMe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 5 541
Donald Trump viewed as higher in Dark Tetrad traits than Joe Biden, study finds 8 Wicked Blue Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1065
DNA Confirms Orcas Prey Upon One of Australia's Deadliest Marine Predators 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 14 666
Quantum mechanics was born 100 years ago. Physicists are celebrating 6 usonian Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 672
Why even physicists still don't understand quantum theory 100 years on 7 usonian Feb 2025 Feb 2025 9 968
How Do Polar Bears Keep Ice Off Their Fur? New Study Reveals the Secret--and It Could Improve Technology 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 636
CDC orders pullback of new scientific papers involving its researchers, source says 3 Eugene Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 593
Brian Cox: "Something Terrifying Exists Outside The Universe" 5 YoshidaYui Feb 2025 Feb 2025 14 1814
Astronomers discover 196-foot asteroid with 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 10 nitpicked Jan 2025 Feb 2025 5 1007
Neil deGrasse Tyson ROASTS MAGA Moron Patrick Bet David In Debate 2 YoshidaYui Jan 2025 Jan 2025 11 950
Nurse dies from Ebola in Uganda as country declares first virus outbreak since 2022, health ministry says 3 milestogo Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 512
A very high temperature thermocouple for measuring temperatures in nuclear fuel pellets. 2 NNadir Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 557
Are we all aliens? NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2025 Jan 2025 9 584
New water splitting catalyst makes green hydrogen without expensive metals 3 Caribbeans Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 682
The Deadliest Tsunamis Of All Time Mega Disaster Earth Stories 0 YoshidaYui Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 660
'Super pod' of 1,500 dolphins captured on drone video as they cavort off California's coast 2 erronis Jan 2025 Jan 2025 11 663
Scientists Unearthed an Unknown Creature with 24 Eyes While Checking the Quality of the Water in a Nature Reserve 11 milestogo Jan 2025 Jan 2025 11 1213
Trump Abruptly Cancels Crucial Science Reviews at NIH, World's Largest Public Funder of Biomedical Research 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 669
Scientists discover new, 3rd form of magnetism that may be the 'missing link' in the quest for superconductivity 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 592
A Gas Giant 500 Light-Years Away Has the Fastest Winds Ever Recorded: A Staggering 33,000 km/h 4 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 662
Caltech Scientists Discover the Surprising Speed Limit of Human Thought - Just 10 Bits per Second 0 erronis Jan 2025 Jan 2025 8 585
Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform 0 sl8 Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 625

Science Continued...

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Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 485
Astronomers Capture Mysterious 'Chorus Waves' Emerging From Deep Space 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 543
Butterfly-inspired robot wings move without batteries or electronics 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 8 519
Meet The 4 Longest Venomous Snakes. Hint: Mamba And Bushmaster No Longer In Top 3 Due To These 'New' Giants 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 759
AI can now replicate itself -- a milestone that has experts terrified 6 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 959
A New Space Telescope is Giving Us New Insights Into Gamma Ray Bursts 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 364
Scientists Document Rich Biodiversity Along Underexplored Chilean Coastline 1 Onthefly Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 523
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Detect Millions of Exploding Stars 1 Ptah Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 436
How to make oxygen on the moon 2 muriel_volestrangler Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 596
Current Comet over Chile: *Actually* Visible to Unaided eyes in the Southern Hemisphere 0 SorellaLaBefana Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 616
Trump administration's abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings prompts confusion, concern 7 douglas9 Jan 2025 Jan 2025 9 953
A Bacterial Protein Can Transport Heavy Highly Radioactive Actinides. 2 NNadir Dec 2023 Jan 2025 4 1258
'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 1 727
Repeating Fast Radio Burst Traced to Outskirts of Quiescent Elliptical Galaxy 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 609
Earth's History in a few moments 1 YoshidaYui Jan 2025 Jan 2025 9 646
Finland becomes 53rd country to join the Artemis Accords for moon exploration 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 413
One hundred years ago, a solar eclipse line of totality cut through NYC. 1 John1956PA Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 541
'Contagious' peeing may have deep evolutionary roots, chimp study suggests 3 milestogo Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 606
'Big boy' spider becomes Australia's largest and deadliest arachnid after surprise discovery 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 14 1005
Astronomers find hundreds of 'hidden' black holes -- and there may be billions or even trillions more 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 9 559
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