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Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus 2 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 10792
Asteroid headed toward Earth? NASA simulation explores how the nation might respond 2 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 862
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks' tail visible in the Southern Hemisphere sky, captured over Chile's Atacama Desert 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 605
Glassy gel is hard as plastic and stretches 7 times its length 2 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 9 1144
Sensory secrets of penis and clitoris unlocked after more than 150 years 3 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 17 1518
Not all 'open source' AI models are actually open: here's a ranking 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 642
Cargo from 'most ancient' shipwreck found off Israel 0 muriel_volestrangler Jun 2024 Jun 2024 13 951
James Webb telescope reveals long-studied baby star is actually 'twins' -- and they're throwing identical tantrums 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 787
Daycares in Finland Grew Forests, And It Changed Kids' Immune Systems 11 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 69 2972
A Study Suggests Black Holes Can Create Space Lasers--Just Like Einstein Thought 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 915
Harnessing Maxwell's demon to establish a macroscale concentration gradient 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 645
Supermassive black hole roars to life as astronomers watch in real time 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 14 932
Evidence That Your Mind is NOT Just In Your Brain - Rupert Sheldrake 20 Uncle Joe Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 3273
Kitchen spices such as turmeric and black pepper could revolutionise wound dressings 23 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 57 4510
'Dyson spheres' were theorized as a way to detect alien life. Scientists say they've found potential evidence. 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 10 1259
Purple Planets Could Be The Signs of Alien Life We've Been Looking For 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 853
Researcher suggests that gravity can exist without mass, mitigating the need for hypothetical dark matter 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 648
Mysterious Martian Hole Puzzles Scientists: An Enigma Underground on The Red Planet : ScienceAlert 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 819
New Type Ia supernova discovered 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 657
DARPA's military-grade 'quantum laser' will use entangled photons to outshine conventional laser beams 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 627
Edward Stone, who guided NASA's Voyager to distant planets, dies at 88 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 564
Mars Was Hit With a Solar Storm Days After Earth's Aurora Light Show, NASA Says 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 586
Meet the 'Echidnapus,' an Extinct Creature That Resembles Both the Echidna and Platypus of Today 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 626
A Giant Interstellar Cloud May Have Once Enveloped Earth, Potentially Causing Ice Ages 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 571
Researchers leverage shadows to model 3D scenes, including objects blocked from view 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 703
Rocket company develops massive catapult to launch satellites into space without using jet fuel 11 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 16 1870
Neanderthal DNA Exists in Humans, But One Piece Is Mysteriously Missing 7 BootinUp Jun 2024 Jun 2024 29 2213
The GOP's war on science is suicidal -- Sabrina Haake 3 erronis Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 871
Webb Detects Giant Collision in Beta Pictoris System 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 12 1029
Astronomers Spot Parallel Jets and Circumstellar Disks in Nearby Multistar System 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 674

Science Continued...

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Wild New Study Suggests Gravity Can Exist Without Mass 2 Warpy Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 1070
Future evolution: from looks to brains and personality, how will humans change in the next 10,000 years? 3 erronis Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 857
Study confirms the rotation of Earth's inner core has slowed 8 Jim__ Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 1492
Why scientists fear a second Trump term, and what they are doing about it 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 850
Elite researchers in China say they had 'no choice' but to commit misconduct 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 10047
AI & robotics briefing: The year machines will run out of data (Nature) 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 699
Study: African Elephants Address Each Other With Name-Like Calls 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 22 1002
Water Frost Deposits Spotted on Tropical Martian Volcanoes 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 804
A telescope on Earth just took an unbelievable image of Jupiter's moon 12 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 51 2866
In Wyoming, Bill Gates moves ahead with nuclear project aimed at revolutionizing power generation 7 BootinUp Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 1678
George Mason University Announces Its First NASA Space Mission Which Seeks to Uncover the Secrets of Dark Energy 0 nitpicked Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 574
All Human Existence May Have Begun in a Black Hole, Some Scientists Believe 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 10139
A Biologist Reveals How To Avoid Deadly Bites From South America's Most Feared Snake 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 1155
Researchers made ultra-thin night-vision lenses that fit regular glasses 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 822
Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 857
A Herpetologist Reveals The World's Most Venomous Snake--Shockingly, It Has Never Killed Anyone 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 1308
Scientists Have Discovered a New Way to Look Inside Crystals 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 678
Ed Dwight, first African American candidate for space travel, takes off 60 years later 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 587
Peering Through Cosmic Dust: James Webb Telescope Is on the Hunt for Newborn Planets 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 531
First Detection of Magnetism in Massive Stars Beyond Our Galaxy 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 545
"Extraordinary" Slow-Spinning Neutron Star Shakes Astrophysics 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 776
Giant viruses discovered in Greenland could slow ice melt 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 715
New model suggests partner anti-universe could explain accelerated expansion without the need for dark energy 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 1061
Bornean clouded leopard family filmed in wild for 1st time ever 8 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 63 2307
FBI asks scientists for trust in taking anti-Asian bias seriously 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 882
More Than a Century Ago, Flamingos Disappeared From Florida. Now, They're Coming Home 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 1647
The Man Who Took the Historic "Earthrise" Picture Was a Nuclear Engineer. 1 NNadir Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 914
Take a Tour of Pandora's Cluster - NASA 0 BootinUp Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 644
Prehistoric mini-ape discovered in Germany the smallest to ever live 0 Eugene Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 762
Researchers map meerkat chit-chat 6 BootinUp Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 1269

Science Continued...

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World's first wooden satellite could herald era of greener space exploration 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 713
Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 839
Gene therapy: kids hear for the first time 0 cbabe Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 690
New discovery questions theory that earth was covered by ocean four billion years ago 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 9 951
Pre-historic discovery: Scientists find complete skull of 230 kg 'giant goose' in Australia 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 8864
Boing Starliner expected to launch 1 June 6 RussBLib Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 1260
Boeing Starliner 1st astronaut flight: Live updates 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 758
MUSE Spots Bizarre Stellar Object with Illuminated Protoplanetary Disk 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 840
Hubble will change how it points, but NASA says 'great science' will continue 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 642
Hubble Looks at Face-On Barred Spiral Galaxy 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 13 1045
Australian Marsupials Fear Humans Far More Than Any Other Predator, New Study Shows 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 9 859
Extinct North American Porcupine Had Long, Prehensile Tail 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 9 651
Scientists make 'huge' $540 billion discovery at the bottom of a giant lake 16 NJCher Jun 2024 Jun 2024 42 3784
From Stethoscopes to Reactors, a leftist doctor speaks on energy. 1 NNadir Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 859
Semeru Eruption This Week in Volcano News; Damaging Iceland Eruption, Krakatau Could Erupt 5 catbyte Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 985
Energy Developer to Trash 1000s of Endangered Joshua Trees and Desert Turtle Habitat. 7 NNadir Jun 2024 Jun 2024 16 1376
China says its spacecraft lands on Moon's far side 3 Eugene Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 800
Biomedical paper retractions have quadrupled in 20 years -- why? 3 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 921
What would we see at the speed of light? 5 Uncle Joe May 2024 May 2024 12 1174
Biggest genome ever found belongs to this odd little plant 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 6 836
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