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Scientists find evidence of 'supernova graveyard' at the bottom of the sea -- and possibly on the surface of the moon 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1078
Hubble Telescope spies star-forming cocoons in neighboring galaxy (photo) 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 845
Scientists Detect Silent "Scream" of Skin Cells for the First Time 2 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1224
Oh Dear God. Realize am late to the party but: MAGA now may be going to halt mRNA research !?! 2 SorellaLaBefana Mar 2025 Mar 2025 14 1300
Not sure this is the group, but: "Glasses" That Transcribe Text To Audio. By an eighth grade student. 2 usonian Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1052
The Independent: Mutant snake with three sharp fangs 'might be most dangerous death adder' ever found 0 Dennis Donovan Mar 2025 Mar 2025 13 958
Tiny 'microlightning' flashes inside water droplets may have sparked life on Earth 0 highplainsdem Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 724
AI's research blunder: How a mistake sparked a chain of flawed scientific papers. Can artificial intelligence be trusted 1 eppur_se_muova Mar 2025 Mar 2025 14 1233
Welcome to the New, Ad-Free Universe Today, Brought to You By 3,000 Space Fans 0 usonian Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 845
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants 2 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 869
Young scientists see career pathways vanish as schools adapt to federal funding cuts 4 Eugene Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1121
122 devil rays joined in a wild mating ritual that lasted for hours 2 milestogo Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1076
H5N1 bird flu virus is infectious in raw milk cheese for months, posing risk to public health, study shows 0 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 806
Why does nature love spirals? The link to entropy 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 917
Bullseye! Astronomers discover a giant galaxy with nine rings 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Mar 2025 7 1040
'A political division, not a physical one, determined who got measles and who didn't' 4 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 34 2119
Beyond Earthrise: Blue Ghost's Chilling New Perspective From the Moon 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 987
Superb lyrebirds have an unexpected new skill 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 15 1092
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Installs LSST Camera on Telescope 1 Ptah Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 902
Black holes: Not endings, but beginnings? Theoretical study delves into 'white holes' 3 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1095
The 'Silent' X Chromosome Gives the Aging Female Brain a Boost 5 WestMichRad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 16 1429
NASA's newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1030
Water's Hidden Side Revealed - It Can Exist in Two Liquid Forms at Once 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 976
Building Blocks of Life Discovered on Distant Asteroid NOVA PBS 2 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1129
Mystery at heart of Milky Way galaxy linked to new type of dark matter 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1111
New Palladium Catalyst Cuts Hydrogen Production Costs by 90% Nanosheet structure reduces need for precious metals by 90% 0 Caribbeans Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1108
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research 2 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1010
Highly Efficient Plutonium Extraction Using a Phosphonium Phosphinate Task-Specific Ionic Liquid 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 655
Secret commands found in Bluetooth chip used in a billion devices 6 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 19 1484
Webb exposes complex atmosphere of starless super-Jupiter 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 975

Science Continued...

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Private lunar lander Athena may have fallen over while touching down near the moon's south pole 9 Eugene Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1779
The Startling Truth About What Happens to Your Eyes While You Sleep 1 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 21 1380
Listen To The Loudest Humpback Whale Yapping We've Ever Heard Off Hawaii 6 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1450
This Map Lets You Plug in Your Address to See How It's Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 22 1194
How to photograph the moon: Tips on camera gear, settings and composition 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1264
Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover 4 DBoon Mar 2025 Mar 2025 22 6303
Powerful 'equinox auroras' may arrive soon: Why changing seasons can bring the best northern lights 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 749
James Webb Unveils a Mysterious Planet Unlike Anything in Our Solar System 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1203
Astronomers Just Found a Star System That Shouldn't Exist Near a Supermassive Black Hole 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 770
Study warns of deadly future marine heat waves in East Coast estuaries 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 753
Unproven Einstein theory of 'gravitational memory' may be real after all, new study hints 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1242
NASA's Webb Exposes Complex Atmosphere of Starless Super-Jupiter 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 904
Men are getting bigger than women. 2 surfered Jan 2025 Mar 2025 6 1444
Interstellar tunnel discovered: Could it be the cosmic gateway to new stars? 4 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 1390
Science Can't Explain This Woman's Superpower 6 Xipe Totec Mar 2025 Mar 2025 14 2522
How did this man's brain turn to glass? Scientists have a theory 3 erronis Feb 2025 Mar 2025 10 1693
Once this would have been just pure science fiction: Two AI agents on a phone call realize they're both AI... 6 Pluvious Mar 2025 Mar 2025 11 1814
'Cosmic Horseshoe' may contain black hole the size of 36 billion suns -- one of the largest ever detected 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1256
Canada's Bruce Power Sets a Record for the Production of Cobalt 60 for Medical Use. 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 816
Determination of the Valuable Actinides Neptunium and Americium In Historically Operated Nuclear Reactors. 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 810
Sometimes ethical courage is more than its own reward. 2 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 16 1131
Time: Private Lunar Lander Blue Ghost Aces Moon Touchdown With Special Delivery for NASA 1 Dennis Donovan Mar 2025 Mar 2025 11 867
Ancient Egyptian Mummified Bodies: Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of Their Smell 1 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1110
Superelastic titanium alloy has potential for space missions 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 885
Ten "talented, persistent, and brilliant" Ukrainian scientists whose work - some cases lives - were cut short by war. 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 891
US universities curtail PhD admissions amid Trump science funding cuts 8 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1818
The loss of sugar coating of the brain and aging. 3 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 14 1495
Ancient Stone Tools Reveal Early Human Presence in Tropical Rainforests 150,000 Years Ago 0 milestogo Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 840
Mozart's true face is revealed for the first time in 230 YEARS 13 NJCher Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 2558
James Hansen and Pushker Kharecha - The Acid Test: Global Temperature in 2025 19 OKIsItJustMe Feb 2025 Mar 2025 3 5234

Science Continued...

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For-Profit Companies Can't Easily Replace NOAA's Weather-Forecasting Prowess 4 littlemissmartypants Feb 2025 Feb 2025 18 1741
Dear God, Why? (muscle-driven android test) 3 LudwigPastorius Feb 2025 Feb 2025 0 1174
Scientists match Earth's ice age cycles with orbital shifts 0 Jim__ Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 872
World's oldest juniper shrub discovered in Finland--annual rings suggest it's 1,647 years old 0 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 12 1066
A Rare Alignment of 7 Planets Is Taking Place in The Sky This Week 6 SheltieLover Feb 2025 Feb 2025 16 2106
A good explanation of the JWST and Cosmological Crisis (if you think it is a "crisis") 2 Sancho Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1320
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 1378
A Black Fungus Is Thriving In Chernobyl By Feeding On Radiation--could It Help Humanity? 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1160
Radiophobia: Useful concept, or ostracising term? 0 NNadir Feb 2025 Feb 2025 0 1065
Popular Weight Loss Drugs Linked to Blindness, New Study Finds 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1306
Colorado Plateau's dramatic canyons: How rivers' ancient pauses and rapid cuts shaped them 0 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 876
Ancient Beaches Found on Mars Reveal The Red Planet Once Had Oceans 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 10 1437
Phys.org: How Roman society integrated people who altered their bodies and defied gender norms 1 DBoon Feb 2025 Feb 2025 9 1131
NASA Has Some Good News About The Asteroid That Could Hit Earth 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 1533
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 4 860
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 8 835
AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years 12 LiberalArkie Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 2263
A Perfect 'Einstein Ring' Is Helping Scientists Unlock Dark Matter 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 758
NASA astronomers find the fastest exoplanet system at 1.2 million miles per hour 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 731
Nokia Is Building a 4G Cell Network on the Moon and It's Just the Beginning 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 728
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