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Strange spiral in the night sky was a rocket fuel dump (earthsky.org) 2 eppur_se_muova Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 888
Nightmares linked to faster biological ageing and early death 8 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1127
Toothpaste made from hair could help repair teeth 3 Goonch Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 1059
Discovery Plateau Hypothesis 2 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 734
First antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning "cleans" blood in minutes 0 Wicked Blue Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 833
The World Is Running Out of Freshwater Faster Than Anyone Expected 9 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 16 1557
Electron microscope image of the penicillin fungus 6 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 16 1252
'It seems that size really does matter': Males of 4 never-before-seen tarantula species have record-long genitalia 1 WestMichRad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 797
New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 939
Mercury reaches elongation 8/19/25, shares morning sky w/Venus and Jupiter ... 0 eppur_se_muova Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 622
Demonstration of polarity in a stream of water 1 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 764
World's Most Powerful Telescope Just Spotted a Visitor From Another Star System--10 Days Before Anyone Else 1 muriel_volestrangler Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 903
Andromeda and Ghost. Today's spectacular and surprising APOD 4 SorellaLaBefana Aug 2025 Aug 2025 17 950
Scientists Just Found a Shocking Link Between Dirty Air and Dementia 0 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 18 911
Chemistry at the Beginning: How Molecular Reactions Influenced the Formation of the First Stars 5 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 896
A volcano in Russia's Far East erupts for the first time in centuries 3 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2025 Aug 2025 12 801
Judge allows the National Science Foundation to withhold hundreds of millions of research dollars 0 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 665
Virginia opossums: The American marsupials that have barely changed since the time of the dinosaurs 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 796
Scientists Have Discovered a "Sixth Sense" That Links the Gut and Brain in Real Time 0 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 18 921
Skyscraper-size spikes of methane ice may surround Pluto's equator 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 616
Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double black hole system ever found, crooked jet suggests 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 610
New theory to understand the origins of the Universe 3 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 18 1024
At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery -- Quanta Magazine 2 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 15 1117
WMO certifies megaflash lightning record in USA -- World Meteorlogical Association 5 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 927
New 40cm-long species of stick insect suspected to be the heaviest insect in Australia 2 muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 Jul 2025 16 1022
Chicago pianist 'grateful' to make music again after life-changing brain surgery 4 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 894
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 749
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 0 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 627
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 739
A submersible finds sea creatures thriving in the deepest parts of the ocean 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 852

Science Continued...

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The fungus among us: Study shows fungi form living bridges to share water between neighboring plants 1 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 694
What Can a Cell Remember? -- Quanta Magazine 2 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 738
Congo Basin's Peatlands are More Than 42,000 Years Old, New Study Reveals 0 milestogo Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 557
Fascinating documentary on PBS about the search for "twin primes" 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 790
Wasps may hold the secret to slowing down the aging process 6 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1105
Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials 3 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 943
New play in the chemical-reaction playbook uncovered 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 746
Why the Key to a Mathematical Life is Collaboration -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 678
Phase Change Materials you can make at home... 1 ret5hd Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 972
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 ret5hd Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 566
Executive function may stem from schooling rather than innate cognition 4 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1130
About 700m years ago, the Earth froze over entirely - now we may know why 4 muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 Jul 2025 16 1274
The Cells That Breathe Two Ways -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 736
Arctic Melting in Mid-Winter 0 SorellaLaBefana Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 848
NASA Shares How to Save Camera 370-Million-Miles Away Near Jupiter (nasa.gov) 3 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 750
'E's got 'UUGE sharrp... It can leap abou--... LOOK AT THE BONES!!!" 2 Montauk6 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 1045
Companion for Betelgeuse confirmed! Beloved red star has a blue-white buddy (earthsky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 625
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 502
Playing an Instrument Could Protect Against Cognitive Aging, Study Reveals 10 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 1222
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 508
The Smoot - How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement -- The Register 5 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 13 962
Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1054
Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained 13 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1529
Electron microscope image of a white blood cell 5 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 43 1820
The Apollo Moon Landing - Journey to American Democracy - Heather Cox Richardson 4 Rhiannon12866 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 771
This Ancient Practice Beats Pills for Sleep - And Science Backs It 3 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 17 1470
The Most Interesting Email I Ever Received: Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1259
8-hour time-lapse shows Earth rotating while capturing the Milky Way. 8 edbermac Jul 2025 Jul 2025 42 2169
Flying with hands: The evolution of bat wings 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 635
Giant space 'boulders' unleashed by NASA's DART mission aren't behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflectin 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 951

Science Continued...

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Infrared photo of the Horsehead Nebula 0 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 15 815
Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality Anil Seth TED 4 Uncle Joe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 19 1285
New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We're still learning from it 7 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1191
The Caltech Experiment That Proved How Life Copies Itself - California Curated substack 2 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 814
Should Adults in ICU have gene testing? Recent study (possibly) suggests YES 4 SorellaLaBefana Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 1135
'Could become a death spiral': scientists discover what's driving record die-offs of US honeybees 5 turbinetree Jul 2025 Jul 2025 17 1338
Scientists discover 200-million-year-old flying reptile species 3 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 18 1170
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 turbinetree Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 473
July 10, 1925, the beginning of the Scopes trial 3 question everything Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 818
Scientists discover Burmese pythons have never-before-seen cells that help them digest entire skeletons 3 milestogo Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 908
World's Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos -- KFF Health News 3 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 909
How much energy do fish expend when floating "effortlessly" in the water column? 0 SorellaLaBefana Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 2115
Moon in Saturn's rings leaving ripples 8 Ptah Jul 2025 Jul 2025 48 1562
A Formula to Keep the Science Flame Burning by James Hansen 3 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 832
What did dinosaurs sound like? 7 cbabe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 1093
Killer Whales Fashion Tools from Kelp and Use Them for Grooming 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 676
On this day, July 7, 1959, Venus occulted Regulus. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 690
Longevity Medicine Breakthrough 2 DanBaron Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1004
Astronomers Track Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 851
America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 689
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