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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 61507
The Effect of Dibutyl Phthalate on Proliferation of Breast Cancer Cells Studied by Mass Spec Imaging. 0 NNadir 15 hrs ago 15 hrs ago 9 279
Renowned Cal Tech scientist who studied distant planets fatally shot at his home near LA 1 BlueWaveNeverEnd 16 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 14 404
Deepest-Ever Rock Core From Beneath Antarctica's Ice. It Holds Clues About the Earth's Past--and Future 1 Judi Lynn Yesterday Yesterday 14 261
Scientists May Have Found The Key Cellular Process Behind Aging in Animals 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday Friday 6 376
Nasa astronauts' moon mission likely to be delayed due to rocket issue 0 muriel_volestrangler Friday Friday 5 219
Carl Sagan - Protons and Neutrons 2 BootinUp Thursday Thursday 2 326
We need more papers showing stuff that doesn't work: Extraction of Actinides into Molten Zn Fails to Separate... 2 NNadir Wednesday Thursday 5 329
World-first supercomputer discovers invisible flaw in all jet engines that no human had spotted 11 mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday Wednesday 17 996
Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive and will be for more than a millennium. 12 NNadir Feb 7 Wednesday 35 1379
Soil Restoration Experiments in Australia using Sheep's Wool... 5 electric_blue68 Tuesday Tuesday 8 398
A bacterium's built-in compass, explained: Single-cell magnetometry confirms Earth-field alignment 2 erronis Tuesday Tuesday 7 302
A 25-year study found an unexpected link between cheese and dementia 41 multigraincracker Feb 9 Tuesday 81 3849
Astrophysics turned upside down by unique 'inside out' planetary system 0 Judi Lynn Monday Monday 9 543
Brain worm hell: The CDC hepatitis B study is unethical and must never be published 6 NNadir Sunday Sunday 24 908
As a paleontologist, I had never expected to see paleontologists names pop up in the Epstein Files. I was naive. 4 generalbetrayus Sunday Sunday 7 539
China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct 2 NNadir Sunday Sunday 7 342
Plot twist! The Andromeda-Milky Way Merger has begun. 5 GreenWave Feb 14 Sunday 29 1012
Massive Pyroclastic Flow Descends Entire Slope of Mount Semeru Volcano (Feb 13, 2026) 3 catbyte Feb 13 Feb 13 12 637
Stargazing Buddy A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment (free, online) 1 usonian Feb 13 Feb 13 5 316
New study tells us what's up with what's going down with the sinking Chesapeake Bay 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 10 Feb 13 12 583
Jupiter Is Not The Size And Shape We've Long Thought It Was 2 Judi Lynn Feb 13 Feb 13 9 524
Happy Darwin Day, everybody! 6 Lionel Mandrake Feb 12 Feb 12 14 528
Scientists create 'smart underwear' to measure human flatulence 15 erronis Feb 10 Feb 11 6 878
Dream engineering can help solve 'puzzling' questions: Study offers insights to optimizing sleep 3 erronis Feb 5 Feb 10 11 590
Is NASA about to blow up Artemis? 3 Bmoboy Feb 4 Feb 10 7 707
Eli Lilly ad focusing on the Scientific Method 4 QED Feb 8 Feb 10 16 536
A hidden Aloe vera compound takes aim at Alzheimer's 2 multigraincracker Feb 9 Feb 9 15 584
'Textbooks will need to be updated': Jupiter is smaller and flatter than we thought, Juno spacecraft reveals 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 7 Feb 9 7 623
Former NASA scientists warn of possible Artemis II spacecraft safety issue - ABC News 9 TexasTowelie Jan 30 Feb 8 8 769

Science Continued...

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Stellar nursery bursts with newborn stars in hauntingly beautiful Hubble telescope image -- 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 8 14 523
The spark of the Super: Teller-Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb--rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years 7 NNadir Feb 4 Feb 8 4 648
A Really Fabulous Lecture We Saw Today on the Topic of AI, Computer Vision, Language and Robotics: Deep Learning. 2 NNadir Feb 7 Feb 7 4 485
If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn't write it disappears from a journal's website with no notice... 1 NNadir Feb 6 Feb 6 3 490
Does Pregnancy Result in a Hankering for Prime Numbers? 9 NNadir Feb 4 Feb 4 7 691
Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 6 486
OpenAI's New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace 'Prism' Raises Fears Of Vibe-Coded Academic AISlop 3 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 3 466
AI model OpenScholar synthesizes scientific research and cites sources as accurately as human experts 2 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 1 444
Genetic analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique lineage in the Balkans 0 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 6 417
Reproduction in space, an environment hostile to human biology 7 erronis Feb 3 Feb 4 5 619
Artemis II launch has been delayed until March. 0 llmart Feb 3 Feb 3 5 413
'They've probably been untouched for 49 million years': The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 2 20 698
At the scientific lecture I attended today, the speaker rephrased the term "AI" in a way I appreciated and admired. 5 NNadir Jan 31 Feb 2 13 838
Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory--here's how 5 erronis Feb 1 Feb 1 15 675
16 years of brain scans reveal the cerebellum's crucial role in human language 2 erronis Jan 27 Feb 1 8 481
Saturn has more moons than any other planet in our solar system 2 BootinUp Jan 29 Jan 29 4 472
Anti-vaccine sentiment pushes Moderna away from new late-stage infectious disease trials 3 NNadir Jan 29 Jan 29 9 612
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office 1 douglas9 Jan 27 Jan 27 14 522
How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926) 5 usonian Jan 26 Jan 27 8 555
Scientists identify a brain region that differs between male and female mice and may influence social behavior 10 erronis Jan 26 Jan 26 10 893
Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 26 Jan 26 10 503
Pilot captures historic northern lights show from 37,000 feet (photos) 19 milestogo Jan 22 Jan 26 71 2153
Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jan 23 Jan 23 9 665
Image of Barnard 59, in the Pipe Nebula 3 BootinUp Jan 22 Jan 23 11 585
What If You Keep Slowing Down? 3 Uncle Joe Jan 21 Jan 22 10 922
Why do some people get 'hangry' more quickly than others? 1 erronis Jan 19 Jan 19 20 804
There Is Something Faster Than Light 10 Uncle Joe Dec 24 Jan 18 7 1437
OFFS -- AI can FU anything (bogus illustration). 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 17 Jan 17 2 564
Study finds Tyrannosaurus rex did not reach full size until age 40 2 Jilly_in_VA Jan 15 Jan 17 4 617
The Southern Ocean current reverses for the first time, signaling a risk of climate system collapse 23 Bayard Jan 15 Jan 17 82 3218

Science Continued...

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Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane 3 highplainsdem Jan 17 Jan 17 6 680
NASA's Artemis moon mission one step closer to liftoff - NBC News 2 TexasTowelie Jan 16 Jan 17 3 597
NASA's Voyager Just Crossed the Edge of the Solar System -- and Found Something Wild 10 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 16 Jan 16 52 2457
Scientists uncover Antarctica's hidden landscape beneath ice sheet for first time 0 highplainsdem Jan 16 Jan 16 10 559
NASA SpaceX Crew-11 Splashes Down Off Coast of California - C-SPAN 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 16 Jan 16 3 419
"Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis. University research delivers." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 15 Jan 15 57 1945
Never-before-seen footage captures moment scientists find new, giant anaconda species in Amazon 4 milestogo Jan 12 Jan 12 18 955
Dogs with a Large Vocabulary of Object Labels Learn New Labels by Overhearing Like 1.5-Year-Old Infants 13 GreatGazoo Jan 9 Jan 10 13 1290
NASA crew to make rare early return after medical issue in space (CNN) 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 8 Jan 9 4 673
WHY DINOSAURS? AN AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DINOSAURS AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM 0 eppur_se_muova Jan 8 Jan 8 5 508
A bison's hump helps it plow through snow with ease 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 8 Jan 8 5 758
Psychological traits that may fuel conspiracy theorist mindset identified 10 erronis Jan 5 Jan 8 6 854
The Shocking Speed at Which Pandemics Take Over Cities 2 erronis Jan 5 Jan 6 16 683
Flu Is Relentless. Crispr Might Be Able to Shut It Down 4 LiberalArkie Jan 6 Jan 6 11 819
Is President Jeffries in 2027 More Probable Than the Universe that Exists? 7 NNadir Dec 21 Jan 6 12 990
Scientists Teach the Brain To Read Light as a New Sense 9 erronis Dec 11 Jan 6 3 887
Has anyone 3 Rebl2 Jan 5 Jan 5 3 670
The wolf supermoon will kick off 2026 with a celestial bang. Here's when and how to see it. 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 1 Jan 4 11 756
My wife noted something about the "Science on Saturday" series we attend every winter. 5 NNadir Jan 1 Jan 1 62 1902
These giant sea reptiles lived in freshwater rivers, too (earthsky.org) 8 eppur_se_muova Dec 31 Dec 31 8 935
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