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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 62205

A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading 1 littlemissmartypants 2 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 6 275

The Refracting Pool 3 LessAspin 8 hrs ago 6 hrs ago 8 558

A secretive Chinese probe has just arrived at one of Earth's 'quasi-moons' and will soon attempt a first-of-its-kind lan 5 Judi Lynn Wednesday Thursday 14 521

Ancient DNA provides evidence of earliest known plague outbreak 1 muriel_volestrangler Wednesday Wednesday 5 398

How eight beavers solved a Tube flooding problem engineers have been trying to fix for years (The Independent, 6/14/26) 23 highplainsdem Monday Wednesday 85 2239

A Bill Before Congress to Put the Last Nail in the Coffin of American Science: Write Your Congressperson. 31 NNadir Sunday Wednesday 80 2256

Update Further Remarks on the Administration's Efforts to Destroy American Science. Where to Comment. 5 NNadir Tuesday Wednesday 5 422

A submersible ride revealed a vast whale graveyard. And it holds more than just bones 5 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday Monday 54 1395

James Webb Space Telescope discovers 'galaxy-killing' wind that may explain why some early galaxies lived f... 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 12 Jun 12 3 501

Prenatal exposure to phthalates is associated with decreased anogenital distance and penile size in male newborns 4 littlemissmartypants Jun 11 Jun 12 12 618

Screwworm in Texas Was Announced June 3 But EUAs Began in August 2025 (?!) 5 GreatGazoo Jun 11 Jun 11 5 638

Welsh scientists create biodegradable plastic from seaweed. . . 2 Stargleamer Jun 7 Jun 11 8 530

Report of gene-edited human embryos sparks worries about the technology's future uses 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 11 Jun 11 2 345

First global map of mycorrhizal fungi reveals true scale of underground networks across the planet 4 erronis Jun 11 Jun 11 13 614

YouTube is a Research Library Here's How to Search It Like One 2 littlemissmartypants May 31 Jun 10 12 807

Federal science agencies facing a 'generational loss,' nonprofit says 7 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 10 Jun 10 16 865

Glucosamine Supplements May Speed Memory Loss from Alzheimer's New Research Suggests 4 GreatGazoo Jun 9 Jun 9 8 843

Science in a Totalitarian State: This has been tried, and failed, long before MAGA 1 SorellaLaBefana Jun 8 Jun 8 11 422

Science Astronomers are capturing video of a black hole for the first time 0 Jilly_in_VA Jun 7 Jun 7 12 561

Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found 2 Uncle Joe Jun 7 Jun 7 11 847

Scientists are creating a new nasal vaccine that may provide antiviral protection. . . 3 Stargleamer Jun 7 Jun 7 11 613

NASA lifts order for International Space Station astronauts to shelter in Dragon spacecraft amid ongoing air leaks 0 Dulcinea Jun 5 Jun 5 1 405

How to Clean Your House Like an Oncologist 4 littlemissmartypants Jun 4 Jun 5 20 909

'Severe' Northern Lights Alert For 23 States On Thursday And Friday 5 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 4 Jun 4 26 1553

'In an unrecoverable state': NASA confirms MAVEN spacecraft is officially dead after loss of signal behind Mars 6 Eugene Jun 3 Jun 4 8 725

Massive booms shook the East Coast for over 300 years. Scientists finally found the source of the sonic explosions. 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 3 Jun 3 20 1036

How a Richard Feynman formula could explain your dining habits in a new city 3 erronis Jun 2 Jun 2 6 709

Vaccine Shows Promise Against Aggressive Brain Cancer 3 Matthew28 May 30 Jun 2 11 700

Not only is this the first day of Hurricane Season, but it's also Sargassum weed season 3 surfered Jun 1 Jun 1 5 503

Science Continued...

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Neural correlates of hate 5 littlemissmartypants Jun 1 Jun 1 31 1239

Lets imagine using gene editing in the future in order to allow for the growth of wombs in all biological males. Just t 5 Matthew28 May 30 May 30 2 825

This Battery Doesn't Need Lithium and It Just Hit Mass Production 2 Uncle Joe May 30 May 30 18 1191

Breaking News: Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explodes during launch pad testBreaking News: Blue Origin New Glenn rocket e 6 Warpy May 28 May 29 7 787

NASA's Curiosity rover has found organic molecules on Mars that may be billions of years old 4 Bayard May 28 May 28 12 849

A physicist made this cool sculpture of an astronaut. 3 BootinUp May 27 May 27 7 673

'Never seen anything like it.' Scientists discover brand new species of octopus. 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 27 May 27 12 814

Monkey see, monkey do: Study sheds light on cooperative decision-making 0 erronis May 27 May 27 3 384

Nasa unveils next steps to build permanent Moon base 9 Eugene May 26 May 27 2 745

One of Neptune's 16 moons is not like the others, James Webb telescope finds -- and it could be key to fully understandin 4 Judi Lynn May 22 May 24 15 868

Physicists confirm 'negative time' is real by asking the atoms themselves 2 Judi Lynn May 21 May 23 11 695

WATCH LIVE: SpaceX launching powerful new Starship V3 for 1st time ever 3 Judi Lynn May 22 May 22 4 721

Saki Monkey Chloe Needs A Companion Season 11 Episode 15 Full Episode Monkey Life 2 BootinUp May 22 May 22 1 535

An ancient solar storm left clues in tree rings and a famous poet's diary: 'Red lights in the northern sky' 0 Judi Lynn May 22 May 22 8 551

Chicks Hatch From World's First Artificial Eggs--A Breakthrough Key to Bringing Giant Birds Back From Extinction 1 Judi Lynn May 21 May 21 5 635

Sadly Peter Neumann has passed away 3 dickthegrouch May 20 May 21 17 933

Inge Lehmann Discovered Earth's Inner Core In Her Free Time 2 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 5 715

"Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity." 14 Ocelot II May 20 May 20 34 1961

Rainforest foragers intensified plant use long before agriculture 2 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 3 567

Prescient I. Rabi to Bill Moyers "...I think our troubles may come when we forget our origins..." "..once we're a mob... 0 NNadir May 19 May 19 5 579

The Sun Blasted a Mysterious Radio Signal for 19 Straight Days. Here's What We Know (Gizmodo, 5/19/26 + study) 3 highplainsdem May 19 May 19 12 897

An interesting read: Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove 4 NNadir May 18 May 19 6 736

I successfully used crispr to edit mosquitoes! 17 mr715 May 8 May 16 5 1259

NASA Fires Up Powerful Lithium-Fed Thruster for Trips to Mars 16 OKIsItJustMe May 15 May 16 7 1565

AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers 2 littlemissmartypants May 13 May 16 10 800

What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting. (Quanta, 5/6) 3 highplainsdem May 8 May 16 7 826

(Pivot to AI) arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers 0 xocetaceans May 15 May 15 4 534

Despotic primate societies rarely play as adults, analysis of 37 species reveals 2 erronis May 12 May 13 12 730

How Hantavirus Kills - Medical Lecture 0 GreatGazoo May 8 May 8 6 759

1/5 -Ted Turner Interviews Carl Sagan 1989 2 BootinUp May 6 May 8 8 723

Science Continued...

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While patients lay unconscious under anesthesia, their brains kept decoding stories and preparing for what came next 8 erronis May 6 May 6 16 1552

Well, this is fun. An LLM trained only on pre-1931 text. 4 harumph May 4 May 6 5 1132

Watch as NASA's Curiosity Rover frees its drill from a rock 0 erronis May 5 May 5 7 730

Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we've ever built 4 IronLionZion May 2 May 4 3 924

On the nature of intelligence: can the process of evolution be thought to show a form of intelligence? 1 Girard442 May 3 May 3 1 542

Hidden plant molecules show up to 25 times stronger activity against Ebola and COVID-19 0 erronis May 2 May 2 12 732

Increased Colorectal Cancer Rates among Adults under Fifty Are Causally Linked to Increased Screening 3 BootinUp May 1 May 2 6 906

I've learned something interesting about brachiopods -- most have no anus. 1 eppur_se_muova May 2 May 2 3 694

Rise in Colon Cancer In Young Adults Tied to E.Coli Exposure in First 10 Yrs of Life 0 GreatGazoo May 1 May 1 3 691

Scientists restore memory by blocking a single Alzheimer's protein 9 Bayard Apr 30 May 1 41 1972

Millions Take This Popular Supplement - Scientists Discover a Concerning Link to Heart Failure 4 Bayard Apr 30 May 1 21 1454

NPR story on a huge advance in testing for tuberculosis, + the NEJM article published today 0 highplainsdem Apr 29 Apr 29 4 657

City Birds Appear to be More Afraid of Women Than Men, Scientists Don't Know Why 6 GreatGazoo Apr 29 Apr 29 6 1054

Giant sinkholes discovered containing untouched ancient forests 17 Judi Lynn Apr 25 Apr 26 74 3798

These eight coastal cities sit on America's flood front line, and AI shows why 4 erronis Apr 23 Apr 25 16 1346

One blue whale song unlocks oceans of data 0 erronis Apr 24 Apr 24 16 855

Soundtrack of the sea: divers use underwater speakers to help dying coral reefs 0 erronis Apr 24 Apr 24 10 715

In Eastern Africa, the cradle of humankind is tearing apart 0 erronis Apr 23 Apr 23 19 904

How birds survived the dinosaurs' doomsday 4 usonian Apr 19 Apr 21 12 976

World's largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems now available to everyone 1 Jim__ Apr 20 Apr 20 9 1768

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