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Our solar system map may need an update -- the Kuiper belt could be way bigger 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1129
"Ohhhh. Living on Mars would be cool!" Nope. Don't think so. 6 SarahD Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 1781
James Webb Space Telescope finds neutron star mergers forge gold in the cosmos: 'It was thrilling' 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 15 981
IM-1 Lunar Landing Official NASA Broadcast (landing at approx. 5:24 CST) 2 xocetaceans Feb 2024 Feb 2024 5 1015
'Scent therapy' helps unlock memories in people with depression, trial finds 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 1061
British company pioneers new nuclear welding technique 0 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 4 963
Bizarre Fossils Are Neither Plant Nor Animal, But a 'Weird Fusion' of Life 6 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 28 1877
A 1959 Comment on Engineering Education 10 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 11 2171
NASA Satellite Reveals How Much Saharan Dust Feeds Amazon's Plants 5 BootinUp Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1424
Star-killing 'black hole wind' spotted in a distant galaxy could explain a major mystery at the Milky Way's center 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1104
The lowest point wants to tell us how great nuclear is and how bad renewables are. 6 Eko Feb 2024 Feb 2024 1 1736
Astronomers find what may be the universe's brightest object with a black hole devouring a sun a day 1 Eugene Feb 2024 Feb 2024 9 1026
Recovering Lanthanides (Rare Earths) From Acid Mine Drainage. 0 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 899
Geologists signal start of hydrogen energy 'gold rush'. Natural sources of the gas are more abundant than expected 9 Caribbeans Feb 2024 Feb 2024 3 1787
Astronomers Have Found a Super-Earth Near The Habitable Zone of Its Star 2 Judi Lynn May 2022 Feb 2024 15 2091
Researchers Have Finally Recorded Plants "Talking" On Camera And Warning Each Other About Attacking Insects 15 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 48 4236
There may be a 'dark mirror' universe within ours where atoms failed to form, new study suggests 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 19 1431
Females Dominate Males in Many Primate Species 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 15 1251
The Case for Risk Based Environmental Analysis of Floating Solar Cells. 0 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 4 854
Dark matter detected dangling from the cosmic web for 1st time 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 12 1179
Quantitation of Heavy Metal Release in Urban/Wilderness Interface Fires. 2 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 962
Early Carboniferous Tree Species Had Unique Crown Shape 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 11 1422
Scientists Detect Water on the Surface of Asteroids for the First Time Ever 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 864
Osiris-Rex: NASA's final tally shows spacecraft returned double the amount of asteroid rubble 1 Eugene Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1252
Watch hypnotizing footage of mysterious deep-sea worm 'dance like nobody's watching' 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 10 1309
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 757
Scientists may have accidentally found mystery magma reservoir in volcanoless region of Alaska 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 9 951
Ten years ago today, February 15, 2013, a meteor put on a show over Chelyabinsk, Russia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2024 5 1481
On this day, February 15, 2013, a meteor put on a show over Chelyabinsk, Russia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2024 Feb 2024 3 852
'Runaway' black hole the size of 20 million suns found speeding through space with a trail of newbor 31 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2024 52 8041

Science Continued...

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An Illuminating Error in My Recent Terrifying Mauna Loa Post. 4 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 13 1780
Genetics journal retracts 17 papers from China due to human rights concerns 0 Eugene Feb 2024 Feb 2024 1 840
It takes two ... or does it? Charlotte the single stingray pregnant with pups 1 cbabe Feb 2024 Feb 2024 3 1024
Breakthrough in predicting chaotic outcomes in three-body systems 7 erronis Feb 2024 Feb 2024 4 1665
Life on Mars could have thrived near active volcanoes and an ancient mile-deep lake 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 839
The Vision Pro's scary side effect 8 sarchasm Feb 2024 Feb 2024 10 2338
In a First, a Prosthetic Limb Can Sense Temperature Like a Living Hand 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 11 803
Anti-abortion group's studies retracted before Supreme Court mifepristone case 2 BootinUp Feb 2024 Feb 2024 10 1196
When Whales Could Walk Full Documentary NOVA PBS 3 Uncle Joe Feb 2024 Feb 2024 10 1308
'Universal memory' breakthrough brings the next generation of computers 1 step closer to major speed boost 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1181
At the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory, a Terrifying, Startling Week and Month, New Records Everywhere. 4 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 18 1684
Scientists Reverse Alzheimer's Memory Loss by Repairing Damaged Synapses 14 JudyM Feb 2024 Feb 2024 81 4076
Are We about to Discover a New Planet in Our Solar System?- Youtube video. 1 Eko Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1189
Hubble Space Telescope tells a starry 'tail' of 12 mingling galaxies 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 6 1099
Stabilizing 3D Printing of Metallic Titanium Alloys. 0 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 892
How Earth's new Rubin Observatory will usher in the next era of asteroid space missions 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 5 758
Scientists have 3D bioprinted functioning human brain tissue 3 Jilly_in_VA Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1223
Better start building that wormhole. 3 SarahD Feb 2024 Feb 2024 6 1297
MadRadar hack can make self-driving cars 'hallucinate' imaginary vehicles and veer dangerously off course 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 9 962
How the Large Hadron Collider's successor will hunt for the dark universe 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 4 749
Did monster black holes or galaxies come first? The James Webb Space Telescope may have a surprise answer 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 8 911
Colossal underwater canyon discovered near seamount deep in the Mediterranean Sea 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 10 946
Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas may have an ocean scientists never believed could exist 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 8 887
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 618
Icelandic eye candy, new eruption 1 Warpy Feb 2024 Feb 2024 8 1005
"Win a heart" science contest. Explain the difference between Faradaic efficiency and Thermodynamic efficiency. 7 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 3 1772
Functional traits--not nativeness--shape the effects of large mammalian herbivores on plant communities 0 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 5 1036
Evolution question 9 JustFiveMoreMinutes Feb 2024 Feb 2024 4 2381
Scientists Transformed Pure Water Into a Metal - And There's Video 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 18 1488
Antarctica's Denman Glacier is one of the most remote places on Earth. This is what it's like to work there 4 BootinUp Feb 2024 Feb 2024 14 1357

Science Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Could our Universe be a simulation? How would we even tell? 8 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 10 1869
Can copper be "green?" 4 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 1 1640
Aldabra rail: The bird that came back from the dead by evolving twice 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 8 1299
MOST EXTREME Weather Events Caught On Video 3 YoshidaYui Feb 2024 Feb 2024 11 1750
From a Science Editorial...Earning Respect and Trust. 1 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 3 1111
Sustainability limits needed for CO2 removal: Science Policy Forum. 0 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 974
Rare Fossils Reveal 'Absolutely Unique' Tree From 350 Million Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 12 995
Space photo of the week: Ancient 'labyrinth of night' on Mars, one of the biggest mazes in the solar system 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Feb 2024 7 1675
2023's Average CO2 Concentrations Released at the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory. The correct descriptive word is "ugly." 0 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 4 7034
Biologists Discover Four New Octopus Species in the Deep Ocean Off Costa Rica 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1258
Tax dollar giveaway time. Small modular reactors. 2 SarahD Feb 2024 Feb 2024 1 1016
IAEA Report on Tritiated Water Releases at Fukushima. 0 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 3 1263
Space shuttle Endeavour gets new out-of-this-world display 3 Ptah Jan 2024 Feb 2024 11 1299
New Discovery May Rewrite Textbooks On How We Measure Star's Age 0 BootinUp Feb 2024 Feb 2024 5 1074
Lack of dementia in ancient Greece and Rome suggests contemporary causes to diseases like Alzheimer's 7 BootinUp Jan 2024 Jan 2024 11 2096
Photographer snaps extremely rare 'aurora curls' after magnetic wave rings Earth's atmosphere 'like a bell' 17 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 65 4310
Daily Telescope: Webb telescope reveals breathtaking structure of galaxies 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 13 1301
Are they exomoons or not? Scientists debate existence of 1st moons seen beyond our solar system 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 933
This tiny radioactive battery can last 50 years without recharging -- and it's coming in 2025 2 Mosby Jan 2024 Jan 2024 6 1398
Embryo Development Linked to a 500-Million-Year-Old Viral Infection 1 Warpy Jan 2024 Jan 2024 12 1093
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