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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 60161

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations -- Retraction Watch 0 erronis 4 hrs ago 4 hrs ago 3 208

Common farm fungicide may be contributing to 'insect apocalypse' 1 erronis 5 hrs ago 5 hrs ago 2 297

The Oldest Rocks on Earth Are in Canada, and They're 4.16 Billion Years Old 1 Judi Lynn 17 hrs ago 14 hrs ago 16 470

MIT's high-tech 'bubble wrap' turns air into safe drinking water -- even in Death Valley 2 Judi Lynn 17 hrs ago 14 hrs ago 11 536

Physicists Catch Light in 'Imaginary Time' in Scientific First 0 Judi Lynn 17 hrs ago 17 hrs ago 5 339

The Skull Nebula 0 BootinUp Yesterday Yesterday 10 333

Ignorance Squad Strikes Again: US Cancels Nature Springer Journal Subscriptions 4 NNadir Saturday Yesterday 10 409

X-Posted from Australia group 2 canetoad Saturday Saturday 1 333

Galpagos Tomatoes Quietly Reversing Evolution 5 milestogo Tuesday Saturday 10 527

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveils the first images of the sky obtained with the world's largest camera 2 Judi Lynn Saturday Saturday 15 444

How gut bacteria change after exposure to pesticides 3 Wicked Blue Friday Friday 4 445

Physicist Solves 120-Year-Old Thermodynamics Puzzle and Corrects Einstein 6 erronis Friday Friday 8 533

Clair Patterson: The Caltech Scientist Who Exposed Lead Poisoning and Changed the World 4 BootinUp Friday Friday 4 300

What Is Thimerosal? Why Most Vaccines Don't Contain Mercury Anymore 2 LiberalArkie Friday Friday 6 360

I have a great YouTube channel to rec...Dr. Becky Smethurst is an Oxford U. astrophysicist and is really fun... 1 wcmagumba Thursday Thursday 4 396

Swarms of tiny nose robots could clear infected sinuses, researchers say 7 Wicked Blue Wednesday Thursday 5 401

These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth 1 erronis Thursday Thursday 9 409

Alaska Brown Bear Has Shiny New Smile After Getting A Huge Metal Crown 1 Wicked Blue Thursday Thursday 6 363

Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch 2 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 3 311

Doctors Detected a Mysterious Antibody in a French Woman's Body. It Turned Out to Be a Brand New Blood Type 8 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 43 1241

Australian Moths Are the First Known Insects to Navigate by the Stars, Revealing a Migratory Superpower 2 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 9 309

These Lizards Mysteriously Survived the Asteroid Strike That Killed the Dinosaurs--and Their Descendants Are Still Alive 2 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 9 966

For first time, Webb telescope discovers an alien planet 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 13 503

Physicists recreate forgotten experiment observing fusion -- Los Alamos National Laboratory 0 erronis Wednesday Wednesday 2 331

Overconfident conspiracy theorists: Many unaware their beliefs are on the fringe 5 erronis Tuesday Tuesday 12 460

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Change Astronomy Forever 6 Gaugamela Tuesday Tuesday 13 609

Scientists use bacteria to convert plastic into paracetamol 2 cbabe Tuesday Tuesday 9 427

First images from world's largest digital camera features stunning shots of the universe 7 Jilly_in_VA Monday Tuesday 19 720

Smooth trends in fermium charge radii and the impact of shell effects 1 NNadir Jun 22 Jun 22 1 298

Science Continued...

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Advanced AI models generate up to 50 times more CO₂ emissions than more common LLMs when answering the same questions 2 littlemissmartypants Jun 21 Jun 21 5 314

New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect 7 erronis Jun 21 Jun 21 14 821

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'RFK Jr is a disaster': Staff describe chaos in 'anti-science' regime 3 douglas9 Jun 21 Jun 21 16 664

Flesh-Eating 'Screwworm' Parasites Are Headed to the U.S. 5 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 19 16 875

Astronomers find universe's "missing" matter after long search 2 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 12 614

The Way You Breathe Is Unique to You, Like a Fingerprint, New Study Suggests - Smithsonian Magazine 2 Rhiannon12866 Jun 16 Jun 16 7 473

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Lab-Grown Salmon Hits the Menu at an Oregon Restaurant as the FDA Greenlights the Cell-Cultured Product 1 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 16 4 417

Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves 2 LiberalArkie Jun 15 Jun 15 13 920

It's NOT just Here in Amerika: 'Scienticide' in Argentina sparks huge protest 2 SorellaLaBefana Jun 2 Jun 15 8 1299

How Much Power Can a Gum Wrapper Handle? 0 BootinUp Jun 14 Jun 14 4 536

Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints -- Cell.com - Current Biology 5 erronis Jun 12 Jun 13 1 512

Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look. -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jun 13 Jun 13 10 676

First view of the Sun's south pole filmed by spacecraft 1 nitpicked Jun 11 Jun 12 2 327

High-performance water electrolysis without platinum brings hydrogen economy closer 1 Caribbeans Jun 11 Jun 12 4 468

Lost Worlds: the Forgotten Creatures of Prehistory 2 YoshidaYui Apr 4 Jun 12 4 791

Epic Effort to Ground Physics in Math Opens Up the Secrets of Time -- Quanta Magazine 2 erronis Jun 11 Jun 11 9 528

NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts -- The Register 2 erronis Jun 11 Jun 11 4 490

First view of the Sun's south pole filmed by spacecraft 0 nitpicked Jun 11 Jun 11 8 486

First view of the Sun's south pole filmed by spacecraft 0 nitpicked Jun 11 Jun 11 1 311

Across 50 countries, female faces consistently rank higher in attractiveness than male faces 1 erronis Jun 11 Jun 11 2 415

Accidental find in planetarium show could shift scientists' understanding of our solar system 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 11 Jun 11 20 684

Scientists Make World's Smallest Violin 4 littlemissmartypants Jun 9 Jun 11 8 685

Frontier supercomputer sets new bar for simulating the universe 0 BootinUp Jun 10 Jun 10 6 402

Digital twins reveal how math disabilities affect the brain 0 erronis Jun 10 Jun 10 2 378

When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it's time to rethink the hype 12 cbabe Jun 10 Jun 10 12 831

A science video that moved me, and left me, at some points, in tears. 8 NNadir Jun 10 Jun 10 12 878

Science Continued...

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Reddit AMA -- Ask Me Anything about the final result of the Muon g-2 experiment: June 11, 2025, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CDT) 0 xocetaceans Jun 10 Jun 10 4 2917

Chicago Area Educator Alert: Free Lunch and Science at Argonne National Laboratory. 1 NNadir Jun 10 Jun 10 2 383

How AI technology gave Neale Daniher his voice back 1 canetoad Jun 9 Jun 9 4 396

NASA orbiter saw something astonishing peek through Martian clouds 4 Judi Lynn Jun 8 Jun 8 61 2251

Aussie cockatoos use their beaks and claws to turn on water fountains 1 Judi Lynn Jun 8 Jun 8 4 3057

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Zinc Fireworks Reveal When Human Egg is Fertilized 2 sl8 Jun 7 Jun 7 4 613

A residue of American Science will remain in the literature after its death. 3 NNadir Jun 7 Jun 7 8 758

A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogot Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history o 0 erronis Jun 7 Jun 7 9 487

The truth about life on other planets - and what it means for humans 5 k_buddy762 Jun 6 Jun 6 15 851

Cats distinguish owner's smell from stranger's, study finds 2 k_buddy762 Jun 6 Jun 6 7 576

Soviet-era spacecraft 'likely' to have re-entered Earth's atmosphere 1 k_buddy762 Jun 6 Jun 6 5 538

Maternal blood iron level: For the first time, an external factor turns a male mammal into a female 6 cbabe Jun 5 Jun 6 6 744

Anglers catch fish for science and to save a species ... 0 Jilly_in_VA Jun 5 Jun 5 6 427

60 Years Ago, Edward White Went For A Walk..... 7 lastlib Jun 4 Jun 5 18 845

I think this is the right forum for this. 1 WinstonSmith4740 Jun 4 Jun 4 10 643

MIT Study shows making hydrogen with soda cans and seawater is scalable and sustainable 3 Caribbeans Jun 3 Jun 3 6 821

Milky Way's chance of colliding with galaxy billions of years from now? New study puts odds at 50-50 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2 Jun 2 4 575

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