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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 4 577

Immigration Research Shows Stephen Miller Wrong About American Science 5 douglas9 Jun 2 Jun 2 14 847

Warning after millions of bees escape overturned truck in US 2 k_buddy762 Jun 1 Jun 2 5 731

Scientists discover water source in outer space three times greater than Earth's oceans 6 Judi Lynn Jun 1 Jun 1 30 5522

Astronauts in space for nine months didn't know if they would 'be able to make it back' 1 k_buddy762 Jun 1 Jun 1 8 661

The Swiss village wiped off the map by a glacier 2 k_buddy762 Jun 1 Jun 1 7 651

Major Flare Could Spark Severe Geomagnetic Storm Sunday Night, June 1st 1 Judi Lynn Jun 1 Jun 1 6 652

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Why it's Impossible to Throw a Perfect Spiral (ft. Tom Brady) 0 YoshidaYui Jun 1 Jun 1 1 600

A Single Gene Shaped the Deadly History of Plague 3 NNadir May 31 May 31 15 884

Japanese...Australian...Chinese...Chinese...Chinese...Iranian...Chinese...Chinese...British (Japanese Name)... 3 NNadir May 31 May 31 6 642

The pushback against state interference in science: how Lysenkoism tried to suppress Genetics &... was eventually defeat 0 littlemissmartypants May 31 May 31 4 379

A meta-analytic review of anger management activities that increase or decrease arousal: What fuels or douses rage? 4 littlemissmartypants May 30 May 30 5 3905

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A note from an HPLC column supplier on why they can't import a steel column weighing about 10 or 20 grams. 3 NNadir May 29 May 30 5 602

Kai Bird at the Institute of Advanced Study Interviewed About of his Book on Oppenheimer 0 NNadir May 29 May 29 3 367

Hybrid termite colonies confirmed in Florida, raising concerns over spread and damage 4 DBoon May 29 May 29 8 678

RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals 7 douglas9 May 28 May 29 15 999

A wireless forehead e-tattoo for mental workload estimation -- Cell Press / Device 8 erronis May 29 May 29 4 653

Spiral Galaxy UGC 10214 1 BootinUp May 28 May 29 11 545

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How Paradoxical Questions and Simple Wonder Lead to Great Science 1 erronis May 28 May 28 5 456

In nature's math, freedoms are fundamental 0 erronis May 28 May 28 6 401

Bedbugs may have been one of the first urban pests 0 Onthefly May 28 May 28 4 409

Astronomers discover strange new celestial object in our Milky Way galaxy 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 28 May 28 9 685

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The Chemistry of Antihydrogen. 2 NNadir May 27 May 28 5 590

'Raindrops in the sun's corona': New adaptive optics shows stunning details of our star's atmosphere 1 erronis May 27 May 27 10 632

The Dark Universe: Why we're about to solve the biggest mystery in science 1 Judi Lynn May 26 May 26 11 595

The Dark Universe: Why we're about to solve the biggest mystery in science 2 Judi Lynn May 26 May 26 3 455

An Important Force of the Universe Appears to Be Changing, Scientists Find 1 Judi Lynn May 26 May 26 20 923

"We've Got a New Mystery on Our Hands": Scientists Stumped by Unexplained Motion in Titan's Atmosphere 2 Judi Lynn May 26 May 26 10 699

Scientists Develop Infrared Contacts That Enable Sci-Fi-Style Night Vision--Even With Eyes Closed 1 Judi Lynn May 26 May 26 2 464

Expert urges calm over mosquito disease found in UK 0 Judi Lynn May 26 May 26 3 442

The Joys of Being Wrong, the diligence of DUer "SunSeeker", and the Elimination of the Penny 4 Bernardo de La Paz May 26 May 26 5 711

Ants vs. Humans: Putting Group Smarts to the Test 3 sl8 May 25 May 26 8 537

'Very odd' 40-foot-long marine reptile stalked prehistoric Canada 0 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 9 569

Forests "Talk" Before a Solar Eclipse: Study Reveals Mysterious Electrical Communication 4 erronis May 25 May 25 24 826

Capuchins have started abducting newborn howler monkeys in bizarre, deadly fad 2 Bayard May 23 May 25 6 587

Forgotten Turing treasure trove rescued from attic goes under the hammer 3 erronis May 24 May 24 14 670

Niels helping Niels. 2 NNadir May 24 May 24 5 518

URGENT science need in Oklahoma 2 TheGreatConspiracy May 23 May 23 5 613

Hospital superbug can feed on medical plastic, first-of-its-kind study reveals 3 Bayard May 23 May 23 9 662

Welcome to the Spectrogram! 4 littlemissmartypants May 22 May 23 4 524

Infrared contact lenses allow people to see in the dark, even with their eyes closed 11 erronis May 22 May 23 27 1657

NASA has made it official - the James Webb Space Telescope has detected water outside of Earth 3 Bayard May 22 May 22 26 1191

Farewell to Koalas 3 Bayard May 22 May 22 19 897

Space photo of the week: Record-breaking James Webb telescope image captures 1,678 galaxy groups at once 4 Judi Lynn May 4 May 22 12 776

Giant 'white streak' appears over multiple US states as Chinese rocket dumps experimental fuel in space 3 milestogo May 22 May 22 13 806

China's Tiangong space station has some bacteria that are unknown to science 7 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 21 May 22 5 736

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Watch This Robot Solve a Rubik's Cube in 0.1 Seconds -- It's a Guinness World Record 2 erronis May 21 May 21 9 1041

This Tiny Robot Can Jump 10 Feet High - Without Legs 0 erronis May 21 May 21 6 536

A Mother Says an AI Startup's Chatbot Drove Her Son to Suicide. Its Response: the First Amendment Protects "Speech Alleg 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 May 21 3 747

Tropical forests destroyed at fastest recorded rate last year 1 k_buddy762 May 21 May 21 4 391

Favorite Neurotransmitter/Peptide (Poll) 12 mr715 May 20 May 20 4 979

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Celebrating the Birth Centenary of Quantum Mechanics: A Historical Perspective 2 NNadir May 18 May 19 5 595

14,000 years ago, the most powerful solar storm ever recorded hit Earth. 'This event establishes a new worst-case scenar 4 nitpicked May 19 May 19 8 774

Solving the mystery of a dinosaur mass grave at the 'River of Death' 5 nitpicked May 19 May 19 32 1395

Solving the mystery of a dinosaur mass grave at the 'River of Death' 0 nitpicked May 19 May 19 2 385

What scientists have learned from Mount St. Helens' devastating eruption, 45 years later 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 18 May 18 13 718

Your Brain: Who's in Control? Full Documentary NOVA PBS 2 Uncle Joe May 18 May 18 12 737

The film version of Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen" can be watched on line for free. 4 NNadir May 15 May 17 5 614

This 200-Year-Old Lighter Ignites Without a Spark 8 sl8 May 17 May 17 12 1242

Living beings emit a faint light that extinguishes upon death, according to a new study 5 erronis May 17 May 17 19 914

Mars: A Study in Blue (APOD) 0 SorellaLaBefana May 17 May 17 2 364

There's likely a test. Would you really want to know the result? 9 NNadir May 16 May 16 13 1116

Very different mammals follow the same rules of behavior: Research hints at an underlying architecture 6 erronis May 16 May 16 7 836

Will this woman be the first Briton to walk on the Moon? 1 k_buddy762 May 16 May 16 2 383

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Hmm...Anyone with enough chemistry kmowledge to guess why some scientists think Mars water broke down into.... 12 electric_blue68 May 15 May 16 2 1016

Scientists hail new 'industrially viable technology' that can squeeze hydrogen from seawater 9 Caribbeans May 15 May 15 2 738

Another view of our Home from Gaia: This from the Top Down (APOD) 2 SorellaLaBefana May 13 May 15 11 585

Will this woman be the first Briton to walk on the Moon? 1 Judi Lynn May 14 May 15 6 428

Have astronomers found Planet Nine? 2 William Seger May 15 May 15 12 739

Earliest-known 'reptile' footprints discovered by amateur fossil hunters in Victoria 0 canetoad May 14 May 14 7 497

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