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An Iranian volcano appears to have woken up -- 700,000 years after its last eruption 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 880
How Afraid of the AI Apocalypse Should We Be? The Ezra Klein Show 1 YoshidaYui Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 710
The most accurate 3D map of stellar nurseries in the Milky Way (ESA) 3 usonian Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 810
Sam Altman Shows Me GPT 5... And What's Next 4 YoshidaYui Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 988
Dinosaurs Were Weirder Than We Thought 3 YoshidaYui Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 1251
Why Gravity Is A Lie, explained in Zero G 1 YoshidaYui Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 935
'Bored aliens': has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth? 9 hunter Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 1175
Cascadia quake may create 'emergency situation' in other West Coast fault zone, study warns 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 814
The Small World Paradox 4 Uncle Joe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 1037
Playing with Tantalum. 2 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 819
Mysterious gullies on Mars appear to have been carved by burrowing CO₂ ice blocks 0 erronis Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 616
SpaceX successfully lands 11th test starship - FRANCE 24 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 654
In the wild, chimpanzees likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks every day 5 erronis Sep 2025 Oct 2025 5 1089
Satellite Technology Uncovers New Ancient Egyptian Cities And Pyramids 1 William Seger Sep 2025 Oct 2025 7 3456
Your iPhone Tracking You and Listening - TURN THIS OFF! 0 YoshidaYui Oct 2025 Oct 2025 16 1088
Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science 2 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 719
One of the largest great white sharks ever tagged pings in unusual spot 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 1146
How Europe's largest bat catches and eats birds mid-air 0 erronis Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 639
Annie Walker: The astronomer with an asteroid, but no known photographs 2 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 866
The "American" winner of the Nobel in Chemistry is Palestinian by birth. 6 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 1074
Success on my quest to make a mutant! 2 mr715 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 796
What Does AI Think of Star Trek's Data (& SciFi AI)? 0 YoshidaYui Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 661
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Joe Rogan discuss the cherry picking of Science...12 min vid 2 mitch96 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 965
Rogue planet's record growth spurt of 6 billion tonnes per second 3 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 847
Elephants know when we're looking at them 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 1180
Why Do Women Outlive Men? WaPo: Redundancy of XX vs XY Genetics 14 GreatGazoo Oct 2025 Oct 2025 20 1861
APOD: "Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website." 4 SorellaLaBefana Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 1222
Scientists Develop Robots That Literally Walk on Water 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 774
Generations of Bearded Vultures Stashed Humans' Treasures, Including a 650-Year-Old Sandal, in These Bird Nests 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 19 1092
ESA inaugurates new deep space antenna in Australia 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 556

Science Continued...

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String Theory - ScienceClic 6 BootinUp Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 1108
Sputnik Starts Space Race (APOD Redux from 2000) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 692
What if the Universe Remembers Everything? New Theory Rewrites the Rules of Physics 12 erronis Oct 2025 Oct 2025 27 1988
Another Comet, from another time (From the APOD files) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 836
Bizarre ankylosaur with spikes is unlike any known dinosaur (earthsky.org) 3 eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 2575
'Wholesale destruction': Government shutdown or not, critical science programs are at risk 0 douglas9 Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2158
Paleontologists Discover Megaraptor Fossil With a Crocodilian's Leg Still in Its Mouth 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 2751
These Ancient Footprints Rewrite Human History 5 Ptah Sep 2025 Sep 2025 17 3358
Giant Stars With Black Holes Inside Them May Have Been Detected For The First Time 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 2020
"Brightest Object In Known Universe" Puffs Itself Up To Look 15 Times Its Actual Size 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 14 2974
The First Black Hole We Ever Saw Is Doing Something Never Seen Before 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 17 2362
Perplexing diamonds from South Africa mine contain 'almost impossible' chemistry 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 14 1725
Chimps regularly consume alcohol, study finds 0 milestogo Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 940
Physics-informed AI learns local rules behind flocking and collective motion behaviors 3 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 869
A picture of IBM's Quantum System 2 5 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 1300
New Math Revives Geometry's Oldest Problems -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 2629
Mount Sinai study supports evidence that prenatal acetaminophen use may be linked to increased risk of autism and ADHD 2 Wicked Blue Aug 2025 Sep 2025 8 1233
Did you know brown pelicans are protected by lots of miniature airbags in their skin, like BubbleWrap ? 4 eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 2096
Brian Cox explains why time travels in one direction - BBC (2 videos) 10 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 4694
Will glaciers ever come back after they've melted away? 5 MrWowWow Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 4418
Cold snap in Florida made Burmese python puke up a whole deer 1 Bayard Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 2976
Offending the Analyst, the view "if you need to use statistics, then you have not designed your experiment very well". 7 NNadir Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 2990
2025 Ig Physics Nobel Prize goes to perfect pasta sauce 5 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 3384
Identifying Links between Alzheimer's Disease and Type 2 Diabetes through Proteomics 2 NNadir Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1139
People with conservative political leanings more likely to believe in health disinformation, study finds 6 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1467
There are 32 different ways AI can go rogue, scientists say -- from hallucinating answers to a complete misalignment with 5 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Sep 2025 7 1343
Are 'little red dots' seen by the James Webb Space Telescope actually elusive 'black hole stars'? 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 2742
'A genuine surprise': Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu once had 'flowing water' that transformed its insides 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 805
A 'crescent sunrise' solar eclipse is coming this weekend. Here's where to see it. 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 772
Skyscraper-size asteroid previously predicted to hit us in 60 years will zoom past Earth on Thursday (Sept. 18) -- and yo 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 1092

Science Continued...

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'Totally unexpected': Stunning new imagery shows big changes in the 1st black hole ever captured by humanity (photo, vid 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 858
New 'quasi-moon' discovered in Earth orbit may have been hiding there for decades 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 16 957
Scientists Just Found a Way to Simulate the Universe on a Laptop 1 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 769
Engineers Create Mini Microscope for Real-Time Brain Imaging (UC Davis) 0 usonian Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 590
Carl Sagan was right--Brian Cox explains our first real steps into the cosmos 0 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1757
Family Fishing Trip Leads to "One-in-a-Million" Fossil Discovery (mcwane.org) 2 eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 2282
Trump budget cuts threaten groundbreaking gravity wave research 2 DBoon Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 3772
Physicist Brian Cox explains quantum physics in 22 minutes 2 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 919
Has NASA Found 3 Billion Year Old Dead Martians? Why A Green Crystal Could Be A Biosignature! Scott Manley 3 Ptah Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1038
A Single, 'Naked' Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe (Warning! Naked Black Holes in space) 0 usonian Sep 2025 Sep 2025 11 862
For the First Time in 40 Years, Panama's Ocean Lifeline Has Vanished 2 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 17 1045
New findings by NASA Mars rover provide strongest hints yet of potential signs of ancient life 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 666
Happy 100th birthday, quantum mechanics! 6 usonian Aug 2025 Sep 2025 11 1201
Magic mushrooms rewind aging in mice--could they do the same for humans? 4 DBoon Jul 2025 Sep 2025 12 1329
Beer drinkers are mosquito magnets, according to a festival study 3 DBoon Sep 2025 Sep 2025 14 3625
NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures Mars Vista As Clear As Day 3 turbinetree Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 1072
Ibex defies gravity and climbs a dam Forces of Nature with Brian Cox - BBC 6 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 15 2543
How Much Can a Giant Waterlily Hold? See One Carry 183 Pounds Before Sinking, Winning a Social Media Contest 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Sep 2025 10 973
The Biological Rulebook Was Just Rewritten--by Ants 10 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 45 4061
Chinese submersible explores previously unknown giant craters at the bottom of the Pacific -- and they're teeming with li 6 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 2129
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