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World's oldest juniper shrub discovered in Finland--annual rings suggest it's 1,647 years old 0 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 12 815
A Rare Alignment of 7 Planets Is Taking Place in The Sky This Week 6 SheltieLover Feb 2025 Feb 2025 16 1759
A good explanation of the JWST and Cosmological Crisis (if you think it is a "crisis") 2 Sancho Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1136
Rare fresco discovered in Pompeii shows type of woman who 'breaks free from male order to dance freely, 2 milestogo Feb 2025 Feb 2025 13 1132
A Black Fungus Is Thriving In Chernobyl By Feeding On Radiation--could It Help Humanity? 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 955
Radiophobia: Useful concept, or ostracising term? 0 NNadir Feb 2025 Feb 2025 0 861
Popular Weight Loss Drugs Linked to Blindness, New Study Finds 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1118
Colorado Plateau's dramatic canyons: How rivers' ancient pauses and rapid cuts shaped them 0 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 701
Ancient Beaches Found on Mars Reveal The Red Planet Once Had Oceans 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 10 1189
Phys.org: How Roman society integrated people who altered their bodies and defied gender norms 1 DBoon Feb 2025 Feb 2025 9 940
NASA Has Some Good News About The Asteroid That Could Hit Earth 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 1193
Eight things scientists can do right now to stand up to the Trump administration's attacks on research, public health, 0 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 691
NASA's 'SPHEREx' infrared space telescope is launching this week. Here's why it's a big deal 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 683
AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years 12 LiberalArkie Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1778
A Perfect 'Einstein Ring' Is Helping Scientists Unlock Dark Matter 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 632
NASA astronomers find the fastest exoplanet system at 1.2 million miles per hour 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 603
Nokia Is Building a 4G Cell Network on the Moon and It's Just the Beginning 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 594
Labord's chameleon: The color-changing lizard that drops dead in 4 months 1 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1047
Free ebook uploaded by author at the archive: Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty -- CC License. 2 usonian Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 861
Hydrogen becomes a superfluid at nanoscale, confirming 50-year-old prediction - UBC 1 Caribbeans Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 817
'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut 2 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1045
The janitor who changed science. Great short video. 0 Eko Feb 2025 Feb 2025 9 878
The butts of these blowfly larvae mimic termite faces 2 Onthefly Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 933
This Strange Motion Keeps Appearing Everywhere - Even in High-Energy Collisions 3 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1236
'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut 0 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 694
Drylands under pressure: Science and solutions for global stability 0 NNadir Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 624
Will An Asteroid Hit Earth in 2032? 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 950
When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds 4 JT99 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1227
Largest superstructure in the nearby universe discovered 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 12 1079
World's glaciers melting faster than ever recorded 0 Wicked Blue Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 679

Science Continued...

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Welcome To Tylos, A Planet 'Out Of Science Fiction,' Scientists Say 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 10 927
'Iridescent' clouds on Mars captured in Martian twilight in stunning NASA rover images 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 682
Breakthrough quantum chip that harnesses new state of matter could set us on the path to quantum supremacy 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 710
mRNA vaccines show promise in pancreatic cancer in early trial 2 Wicked Blue Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 794
National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues 2 douglas9 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 9 802
Nokia is Putting the First Cellular Network On the Moon 3 LiberalArkie Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 838
T**** Tracker at Science Magazine 1 usonian Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 953
Long video: James Webb Telescope SHOCKS Us With Gliese 504b's CLEAREST Image Yet! 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 11 1134
How a mushroom coral goes for a walk without legs 0 Onthefly Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 671
The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done 3 intrepidity Feb 2025 Feb 2025 5 1046
Older AI models show signs of cognitive decline, study shows 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 1404
First Direct Image of the Cosmic Web Reveals the Universe's Hidden Highways 4 SheltieLover Feb 2025 Feb 2025 9 1150
How to Get PFAS Out of Drinking Water--and Keep It Out 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 651
NASA rover discovers liquid water 'ripples' carved into Mars rock -- and it could rewrite the Red Planet's history 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 684
On February 15, 2013, a meteor crossed the sky over Chelyabinsk, Russia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 595
Watch robot dog and drone locked in fierce battle -- blasting fireworks at each other in future warfare demo 6 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 1337
Win a heart contest: Comment on These Equations to Explain Why Musk's Car and His Powerwalls Were Never "Green." 12 NNadir Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 1640
Hubble spots 'bullseye' galaxy with 9 rings 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 11 710
Euclid telescope spots rare 'Einstein ring' hiding near Earth -- and an ancient, unnamed galaxy behind it 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 912
Dancing Baby Sea Turtles Help Researchers Unravel the Mysteries of Their Navigational Superpowers 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 826
Many birds-of-paradise species emit light through their plumage, study finds 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 16 1125
Scientists Confirm Endangered Bats Are Migrating in Arizona for the First Time, Using DNA Clues Found in the Environment 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 5 550
12 strange reasons humans haven't found alien life yet 4 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 11 1494
Supermassive Black Hole Heading Towards The Milky Way Galaxy 7 GreenWave Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 1153
Meta unveils AI models that convert brain activity into text with unmatched accuracy 5 Wicked Blue Feb 2025 Feb 2025 5 936
'It explains why our ability to focus has gone to hell' 1 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 977
A strange triangle will appear in the zodiac this month. How to see rare 'zodiacal light,' before it disappears. 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 9 1005
Scientists record never-before-seen 'ice quakes' deep inside Greenland's frozen rivers 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 847
Experts Discover Ancient Life Locked Inside a 2.5 Billion-Year-Old Ruby as a Residue 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 11 1299
High-energy cosmic neutrino detected under Mediterranean Sea 2 Wicked Blue Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 820

Science Continued...

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James Hansen and Pushker Kharecha: Global Warming Has Accelerated. Why? What Are the Consequences? 0 OKIsItJustMe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 0 569
JAMA Psychiatry: Departure. 1 NNadir Feb 2025 Feb 2025 11 872
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Eko Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 346
a step away from politics... 17 markie Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 2157
Astronomers catch black holes 'cooking' their own meals in bizarre, endless feeding cycle 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 725
If any AI became 'misaligned' then the system would hide it just long enough to cause harm -- controlling it is a fallacy 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 757
Class emerges as a key factor in who gets sent to prison 0 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 15 685
Several Psychiatric Disorders Share The Same Root Cause, Study Reveals 19 ShazzieB Feb 2025 Feb 2025 69 4480
Telescopes spy a monster radio jet streaming from a bright and early object in the universe 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 690
800-mile-long 'DUNE' experiment could reveal the hidden dimensions of the universe 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 9 1012
Archaeologists uncover 1.5-million-year-old hand axes in Iraqi desert 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 12 864
String theory could be real? A bootstrap model reveals solid hint 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 10 9783
Stunning, rainbow-colored object spotted by James Webb telescope could be an alien solar system in the making 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 22 1601
Quantum breakthrough: Scientists created antimatter from light 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 634
Astronomers discover 'Quipu', the single largest structure in the known universe 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 765
Disturbing Discovery: Human Brains Are Filling Up With Microplastics, and It May Be Causing Dementia 9 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 18 1581
Hubble's Photomosaic of Andromeda Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars 6 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Feb 2025 6 1143
Gaia Just Found Two Massive Objects That Shouldn't Exist - And Astronomers Are Stunned 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 39 1959
The framing of the shrew: California students photograph mammal never caught on film 1 erronis Jan 2025 Feb 2025 13 882
Scientists stunned to find corals that 'walk' towards light 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Feb 2025 4 879
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