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New 40cm-long species of stick insect suspected to be the heaviest insect in Australia 2 muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 Jul 2025 16 1162
Chicago pianist 'grateful' to make music again after life-changing brain surgery 4 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1088
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 857
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 0 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 733
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 868
A submersible finds sea creatures thriving in the deepest parts of the ocean 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 1012
The fungus among us: Study shows fungi form living bridges to share water between neighboring plants 1 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 817
What Can a Cell Remember? -- Quanta Magazine 2 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 883
Congo Basin's Peatlands are More Than 42,000 Years Old, New Study Reveals 0 milestogo Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 655
Fascinating documentary on PBS about the search for "twin primes" 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 890
Wasps may hold the secret to slowing down the aging process 6 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1407
Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials 3 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1129
New play in the chemical-reaction playbook uncovered 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 849
Why the Key to a Mathematical Life is Collaboration -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 794
Phase Change Materials you can make at home... 1 ret5hd Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 1111
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 ret5hd Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 656
Executive function may stem from schooling rather than innate cognition 4 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1284
About 700m years ago, the Earth froze over entirely - now we may know why 4 muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 Jul 2025 16 1444
The Cells That Breathe Two Ways -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 841
Arctic Melting in Mid-Winter 0 SorellaLaBefana Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 956
NASA Shares How to Save Camera 370-Million-Miles Away Near Jupiter (nasa.gov) 3 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 914
'E's got 'UUGE sharrp... It can leap abou--... LOOK AT THE BONES!!!" 2 Montauk6 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 1217
Companion for Betelgeuse confirmed! Beloved red star has a blue-white buddy (earthsky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 751
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 596
Playing an Instrument Could Protect Against Cognitive Aging, Study Reveals 10 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 1519
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 588
The Smoot - How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement -- The Register 5 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 13 1146
Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1254
Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained 13 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1944
Electron microscope image of a white blood cell 5 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 43 2041

Science Continued...

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The Apollo Moon Landing - Journey to American Democracy - Heather Cox Richardson 4 Rhiannon12866 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 942
This Ancient Practice Beats Pills for Sleep - And Science Backs It 3 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 17 1636
The Most Interesting Email I Ever Received: Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1364
8-hour time-lapse shows Earth rotating while capturing the Milky Way. 8 edbermac Jul 2025 Jul 2025 42 2519
Flying with hands: The evolution of bat wings 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 723
Giant space 'boulders' unleashed by NASA's DART mission aren't behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflectin 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1114
Infrared photo of the Horsehead Nebula 0 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 15 916
Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality Anil Seth TED 4 Uncle Joe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 19 1451
New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We're still learning from it 7 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1418
The Caltech Experiment That Proved How Life Copies Itself - California Curated substack 2 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 982
Should Adults in ICU have gene testing? Recent study (possibly) suggests YES 4 SorellaLaBefana Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 1307
'Could become a death spiral': scientists discover what's driving record die-offs of US honeybees 5 turbinetree Jul 2025 Jul 2025 17 1578
Scientists discover 200-million-year-old flying reptile species 3 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 18 1316
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 turbinetree Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 547
July 10, 1925, the beginning of the Scopes trial 3 question everything Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 952
Scientists discover Burmese pythons have never-before-seen cells that help them digest entire skeletons 3 milestogo Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1064
World's Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos -- KFF Health News 3 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1079
How much energy do fish expend when floating "effortlessly" in the water column? 0 SorellaLaBefana Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 2212
Moon in Saturn's rings leaving ripples 8 Ptah Jul 2025 Jul 2025 48 1810
A Formula to Keep the Science Flame Burning by James Hansen 3 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 994
What did dinosaurs sound like? 7 cbabe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 1312
Killer Whales Fashion Tools from Kelp and Use Them for Grooming 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 811
On this day, July 7, 1959, Venus occulted Regulus. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 795
Longevity Medicine Breakthrough 2 DanBaron Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1170
Astronomers Track Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 965
America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 785
Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? 8 Uncle Joe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1576
This Giant Telescope Will Map the Universe in Unbelievable Detail NOVA PBS 0 Uncle Joe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 900
PBS Terra: Wait...The Worst Possible US Disaster Just Got EVEN WORSE?!? (Cascadia Megaquake) 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1674
The truth about life on other planets - and what it means for humans 6 k_buddy762 Jun 2025 Jul 2025 16 1984

Science Continued...

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These Lizards Mysteriously Survived the Asteroid Strike That Killed the Dinosaurs--and Their Descendants Are Still Alive 4 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jul 2025 10 1872
Swarms of tiny nose robots could clear infected sinuses, researchers say 8 Wicked Blue Jun 2025 Jul 2025 5 1593
Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jul 2025 3 1132
Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 884
US to breed billions of flies and dump them out of aircraft in bid to fight flesh-eating maggot -- The Guardian 2 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1153
Dentist may have solved 500-year-old mystery in da Vinci's iconic Vitruvian Man 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 1089
Earth About to Experience Shortest Day Since the 1970s as Rotation Gains Record Speed 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1002
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This message was self-deleted by its author 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 479
An example of Special relativity 8 BootinUp Jun 2025 Jul 2025 10 1675
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations -- Retraction Watch 0 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 874
Common farm fungicide may be contributing to 'insect apocalypse' 1 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 945
The Oldest Rocks on Earth Are in Canada, and They're 4.16 Billion Years Old 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 16 1142
MIT's high-tech 'bubble wrap' turns air into safe drinking water -- even in Death Valley 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 11 1243
Physicists Catch Light in 'Imaginary Time' in Scientific First 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 878
The Skull Nebula 0 BootinUp Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 818
Ignorance Squad Strikes Again: US Cancels Nature Springer Journal Subscriptions 4 NNadir Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 1432
X-Posted from Australia group 2 canetoad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 1011
Galpagos Tomatoes Quietly Reversing Evolution 5 milestogo Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 1552
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveils the first images of the sky obtained with the world's largest camera 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 15 1106
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