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A Nice Discussion by Indonesian Scientists on Aspects of Proliferation Resistant Plutonium. 2 NNadir Apr 2025 Apr 2025 1 1116
JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 times more massive than Milky Way -- scientists call it 'Big Wheel' 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 997
Where Have All the Butterflies Gone? "Shocking" Nationwide Decline Sparks Alarm 4 erronis Mar 2025 Apr 2025 10 1413
The unique genetic change that turned horses into athletic powerhouses 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1474
The extraordinary reason why scientists are collecting sea turtle tears 2 douglas9 Apr 2025 Apr 2025 14 1503
NOAA Websites Set to Go Dark in Continued Assault on Scientific Research 1 douglas9 Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1057
How Lifting Weights Can Slow Brain Aging and Protect Against Alzheimer's Disease 11 erronis Apr 2025 Apr 2025 19 2585
Sea, Ice and Land: Different Perspective on the Top of the World 4 SorellaLaBefana Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 1352
Blaze Star: How To Prepare For The Biggest Sky Event For 79 Years 14 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Apr 2025 49 4633
This 7,000-year-old mummy DNA has revealed a 'ghost' branch of humanity 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 Apr 2025 32 1701
Bonobos combine calls in similar ways to human language, study finds 2 erronis Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 1196
Scientists discover major differences in how humans and AI 'think' -- and the implications could be significant 0 milestogo Apr 2025 Apr 2025 10 1126
Video: Is space debris a crisis? 2 Jim__ Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 980
Airbus to test radical engine design for successor to A320 9 usonian Mar 2025 Apr 2025 1 2336
ICK!!! Going through some old literature I came across a process with an obscenity as a name. 3 NNadir Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 1520
How cancer cells travel to new tissues and take hold 2 milestogo Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1157
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Parker: The Solar System from Near the Sun 2 Ptah Mar 2025 Apr 2025 21 1537
The Particle That Might Explain Why Anything Exists at All 2 erronis Apr 2025 Apr 2025 16 1227
Scientists Just Discovered Quantum Signals Inside Life Itself 3 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 11 1645
We are finally beginning to understand how LLMs work 0 William Seger Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1183
A Useful Tutorial on the Analysis of Polymers. 4 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1399
A partial solar eclipse will stun in the sky this Saturday. Here's how and where you'll be able to see it. 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1251
Project 2025 Tracker 1 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1430
Hidden supermassive black hole revealed through hot gas 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 909
Finding Clues in the Ruins of Ancient Dead Star with NASA's Chandra 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1258
Nine New Tardigrade Species Discovered Thanks to the Efforts of Danish Schoolchildren 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 987
African science leaders unite to amplify global voice 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 706
Webb telescope captures weird auroras on Neptune for the first time 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 985
Sharks Aren't Silent After All. This One Clicks Like a Castanet 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 904
Scientists Just Built a Battery That Never Needs Charging 33 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 39 7755

Science Continued...

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AI tools may weaken critical thinking skills by encouraging cognitive offloading, study suggests 6 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 13 1635
This One Cognitive Skill May Be a Better Predictor of Life Expectancy Than Health Habits 6 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 11 2218
An annually resolved 5700-year storm archive reveals drivers of Caribbean cyclone frequency 1 Sancho Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1055
A French university is offering 'scientific asylum' for US talent. The brain drain has started 5 usonian Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1534
India's Floating Solar Farms Can Be Seen From Space 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1149
Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields 2 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1154
Science is shattering our intuitions about consciousness Annaka Harris 17 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 19 3534
Physicists Bend Time Inside a Diamond, Creating a Brand-New Phase of Matter 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 23 1849
Scientists Uncover a Hidden Brain Plumbing System That Restores Memory 2 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 11 1402
A transition point in romantic relationships may signal the beginning of their end 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1393
Mysterious Ancestors: Scientists Just Uncovered a Shocking Secret About Human Origins 2 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 1393
Scientists Trick the Brain With a Fake Hand - And Pain Disappears 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 895
The Hidden Logic Behind Poland's Stunningly Striped Fields 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1106
Scientists find evidence of 'supernova graveyard' at the bottom of the sea -- and possibly on the surface of the moon 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1114
Hubble Telescope spies star-forming cocoons in neighboring galaxy (photo) 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 879
Scientists Detect Silent "Scream" of Skin Cells for the First Time 2 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1286
Oh Dear God. Realize am late to the party but: MAGA now may be going to halt mRNA research !?! 2 SorellaLaBefana Mar 2025 Mar 2025 14 1329
Not sure this is the group, but: "Glasses" That Transcribe Text To Audio. By an eighth grade student. 2 usonian Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1100
The Independent: Mutant snake with three sharp fangs 'might be most dangerous death adder' ever found 0 Dennis Donovan Mar 2025 Mar 2025 13 999
Tiny 'microlightning' flashes inside water droplets may have sparked life on Earth 0 highplainsdem Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 748
AI's research blunder: How a mistake sparked a chain of flawed scientific papers. Can artificial intelligence be trusted 1 eppur_se_muova Mar 2025 Mar 2025 14 1280
Welcome to the New, Ad-Free Universe Today, Brought to You By 3,000 Space Fans 0 usonian Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 878
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants 2 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 913
Young scientists see career pathways vanish as schools adapt to federal funding cuts 4 Eugene Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1182
122 devil rays joined in a wild mating ritual that lasted for hours 2 milestogo Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1123
H5N1 bird flu virus is infectious in raw milk cheese for months, posing risk to public health, study shows 0 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 842
Why does nature love spirals? The link to entropy 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 961
Bullseye! Astronomers discover a giant galaxy with nine rings 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Mar 2025 7 1085
'A political division, not a physical one, determined who got measles and who didn't' 4 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 34 2177
Beyond Earthrise: Blue Ghost's Chilling New Perspective From the Moon 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1021

Science Continued...

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Superb lyrebirds have an unexpected new skill 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 15 1124
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Installs LSST Camera on Telescope 1 Ptah Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 934
Black holes: Not endings, but beginnings? Theoretical study delves into 'white holes' 3 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1139
The 'Silent' X Chromosome Gives the Aging Female Brain a Boost 5 WestMichRad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 16 1486
NASA's newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1065
Water's Hidden Side Revealed - It Can Exist in Two Liquid Forms at Once 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 1010
Building Blocks of Life Discovered on Distant Asteroid NOVA PBS 2 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1183
Mystery at heart of Milky Way galaxy linked to new type of dark matter 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1151
New Palladium Catalyst Cuts Hydrogen Production Costs by 90% Nanosheet structure reduces need for precious metals by 90% 0 Caribbeans Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1152
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research 2 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1048
Highly Efficient Plutonium Extraction Using a Phosphonium Phosphinate Task-Specific Ionic Liquid 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 693
Secret commands found in Bluetooth chip used in a billion devices 6 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 19 1542
Webb exposes complex atmosphere of starless super-Jupiter 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1015
Private lunar lander Athena may have fallen over while touching down near the moon's south pole 9 Eugene Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1835
The Startling Truth About What Happens to Your Eyes While You Sleep 1 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 21 1419
Listen To The Loudest Humpback Whale Yapping We've Ever Heard Off Hawaii 6 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1511
This Map Lets You Plug in Your Address to See How It's Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 22 1277
How to photograph the moon: Tips on camera gear, settings and composition 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1316
Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover 4 DBoon Mar 2025 Mar 2025 22 6356
Powerful 'equinox auroras' may arrive soon: Why changing seasons can bring the best northern lights 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 788
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