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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 61577
Raccoons solve puzzles for the fun of it, new study finds 1 erronis 9 hrs ago 8 hrs ago 11 404
Remote village where people walk on all fours 60 Minutes Australia 11 Uncle Joe Sunday 13 hrs ago 4 681
Spectacular fireball over Europe sends meteorite crashing through roof of German home 0 DBoon 16 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 14 445
What science reveals about polyamorous relationships 0 stopdiggin Sunday Sunday 0 327
Asteroid-Smashing NASA Mission Sped Up Space Rocks' Journey Around the Sun 3 reACTIONary Friday Saturday 5 356
Dead Reckoning - The Asimov Press 2 BootinUp Saturday Saturday 5 596
Transplanted neural stem cells help preserve vision in retinal degeneration 0 erronis Saturday Saturday 11 566
Predicting onset of symptomatic Alzheimerʼs disease with plasma p-tau217 clocks 0 BadgerKid Friday Friday 6 309
Questions asked by 13 and 14 year old kids at a science lecture yesterday. 8 NNadir Mar 1 Thursday 75 2705
Did Life Hitch a Ride to Earth? Scientists Smashed the Living Crap Out of Microbes to Find Out 4 highplainsdem Tuesday Tuesday 7 443
Galileo's Handwritten Notes Found in Ancient Astronomy Text 4 GreatGazoo Mar 2 Tuesday 19 636
Late scientist's notebooks help finish study of rare 55-million-year-old tarpon fossil 0 erronis Tuesday Tuesday 10 368
NASA has 'cancelled' the Artemis III moon landing. Here's why 4 nitpicked Tuesday Tuesday 11 872
Foundation AI model uses MRI data to predict multiple brain disorders 3 erronis Mar 1 Mar 1 4 415
It doesn't lie. So who are you?' 3 question everything Feb 27 Feb 28 29 922
World-first supercomputer discovers invisible flaw in all jet engines that no human had spotted 12 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 17 Feb 27 17 1407
Flood Control Monitoring, Homeless People, and Covid Virus Mutant Spike Protein. 0 NNadir Feb 27 Feb 27 4 366
Nasa astronauts' moon mission likely to be delayed due to rocket issue 1 muriel_volestrangler Feb 20 Feb 27 5 381
Astronomers Wake Up to 800,000 Notifications From a Vera Rubin 8 usonian Feb 27 Feb 27 28 825
How a one-eyed creature gave rise to our modern eyes 4 erronis Feb 25 Feb 26 16 569
Paediatricians' blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds 1 muriel_volestrangler Feb 25 Feb 25 10 520
Too Late to Apologize! James Webb Telescope New study just made the "crisis in cosmology" WORSE... 43 Sancho Feb 24 Feb 25 74 3657
The Human Cost of Trump's War on Science 3 douglas9 Feb 23 Feb 24 9 567
How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? -- Quanta Magazine 7 erronis Feb 23 Feb 24 13 541
Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought 0 Uncle Joe Feb 22 Feb 22 16 612
Soil Restoration Experiments in Australia using Sheep's Wool... 7 electric_blue68 Feb 17 Feb 22 8 588
This cutting-edge exoskeleton got me up a mountain I had no chance of climbing alone 2 Judi Lynn Feb 22 Feb 22 9 681
An 'astonishingly' large new dinosaur species has been discovered in the Sahara 4 Judi Lynn Feb 22 Feb 22 15 711
Saturn's North Pole 9 BootinUp Feb 22 Feb 22 40 1117

Science Continued...

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The Effect of Dibutyl Phthalate on Proliferation of Breast Cancer Cells Studied by Mass Spec Imaging. 0 NNadir Feb 21 Feb 21 9 511
Renowned Cal Tech scientist who studied distant planets fatally shot at his home near LA 1 BlueWaveNeverEnd Feb 21 Feb 21 14 568
Deepest-Ever Rock Core From Beneath Antarctica's Ice. It Holds Clues About the Earth's Past--and Future 1 Judi Lynn Feb 21 Feb 21 14 390
Scientists May Have Found The Key Cellular Process Behind Aging in Animals 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 20 Feb 20 6 550
Carl Sagan - Protons and Neutrons 2 BootinUp Feb 19 Feb 19 2 447
We need more papers showing stuff that doesn't work: Extraction of Actinides into Molten Zn Fails to Separate... 2 NNadir Feb 19 Feb 19 5 460
Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive and will be for more than a millennium. 12 NNadir Feb 7 Feb 18 35 1600
A bacterium's built-in compass, explained: Single-cell magnetometry confirms Earth-field alignment 2 erronis Feb 17 Feb 17 7 411
A 25-year study found an unexpected link between cheese and dementia 41 multigraincracker Feb 9 Feb 17 81 4465
Astrophysics turned upside down by unique 'inside out' planetary system 0 Judi Lynn Feb 16 Feb 16 9 657
Brain worm hell: The CDC hepatitis B study is unethical and must never be published 6 NNadir Feb 15 Feb 15 24 1107
As a paleontologist, I had never expected to see paleontologists names pop up in the Epstein Files. I was naive. 4 generalbetrayus Feb 15 Feb 15 7 677
China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct 2 NNadir Feb 15 Feb 15 7 453
Plot twist! The Andromeda-Milky Way Merger has begun. 5 GreenWave Feb 14 Feb 15 29 1150
Massive Pyroclastic Flow Descends Entire Slope of Mount Semeru Volcano (Feb 13, 2026) 3 catbyte Feb 13 Feb 14 12 753
Stargazing Buddy A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment (free, online) 1 usonian Feb 13 Feb 13 6 414
New study tells us what's up with what's going down with the sinking Chesapeake Bay 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 10 Feb 13 12 704
Jupiter Is Not The Size And Shape We've Long Thought It Was 2 Judi Lynn Feb 13 Feb 13 9 677
Happy Darwin Day, everybody! 6 Lionel Mandrake Feb 12 Feb 12 14 661
Scientists create 'smart underwear' to measure human flatulence 15 erronis Feb 10 Feb 11 6 1050
Dream engineering can help solve 'puzzling' questions: Study offers insights to optimizing sleep 3 erronis Feb 5 Feb 10 11 701
Is NASA about to blow up Artemis? 3 Bmoboy Feb 4 Feb 10 7 835
Eli Lilly ad focusing on the Scientific Method 4 QED Feb 8 Feb 10 16 695
A hidden Aloe vera compound takes aim at Alzheimer's 2 multigraincracker Feb 9 Feb 9 15 716
'Textbooks will need to be updated': Jupiter is smaller and flatter than we thought, Juno spacecraft reveals 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 7 Feb 9 7 768
Former NASA scientists warn of possible Artemis II spacecraft safety issue - ABC News 9 TexasTowelie Jan 31 Feb 9 8 906
Stellar nursery bursts with newborn stars in hauntingly beautiful Hubble telescope image -- 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 8 14 618
The spark of the Super: Teller-Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb--rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years 7 NNadir Feb 4 Feb 8 4 821
A Really Fabulous Lecture We Saw Today on the Topic of AI, Computer Vision, Language and Robotics: Deep Learning. 2 NNadir Feb 7 Feb 7 4 591
If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn't write it disappears from a journal's website with no notice... 1 NNadir Feb 6 Feb 6 3 587

Science Continued...

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Does Pregnancy Result in a Hankering for Prime Numbers? 9 NNadir Feb 4 Feb 4 7 853
Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 6 576
OpenAI's New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace 'Prism' Raises Fears Of Vibe-Coded Academic AISlop 3 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 3 592
AI model OpenScholar synthesizes scientific research and cites sources as accurately as human experts 2 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 1 551
Genetic analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique lineage in the Balkans 0 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 6 539
Reproduction in space, an environment hostile to human biology 7 erronis Feb 3 Feb 4 5 746
Artemis II launch has been delayed until March. 0 llmart Feb 3 Feb 3 5 492
'They've probably been untouched for 49 million years': The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 2 20 815
At the scientific lecture I attended today, the speaker rephrased the term "AI" in a way I appreciated and admired. 5 NNadir Jan 31 Feb 2 13 972
Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory--here's how 5 erronis Feb 1 Feb 1 15 802
16 years of brain scans reveal the cerebellum's crucial role in human language 2 erronis Jan 27 Feb 1 8 579
Saturn has more moons than any other planet in our solar system 2 BootinUp Jan 29 Jan 29 4 567
Anti-vaccine sentiment pushes Moderna away from new late-stage infectious disease trials 3 NNadir Jan 29 Jan 29 9 718
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office 1 douglas9 Jan 27 Jan 27 14 613
How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926) 5 usonian Jan 27 Jan 27 9 671
Scientists identify a brain region that differs between male and female mice and may influence social behavior 10 erronis Jan 26 Jan 26 10 1043
Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 26 Jan 26 10 611
Pilot captures historic northern lights show from 37,000 feet (photos) 19 milestogo Jan 22 Jan 26 71 2326
Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jan 23 Jan 23 9 761
Image of Barnard 59, in the Pipe Nebula 3 BootinUp Jan 23 Jan 23 11 690
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