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A cosmic 'speed camera' just revealed the staggering speed of neutron star jets in a world first 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 992
Amidst misinformation, critical thinking needs a 21st century upgrade 6 BootinUp Mar 2024 Mar 2024 27 1975
'Gold nuggets in night sky': Astronomers find 49 new galaxies in 3 hrs 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 10 1884
The surprising key to magpie intelligence: it's not genetic 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 15 1545
Ancient Ocean Water Discovered in Himalayan Mineral Deposits Unlocks Earth's Past Secrets 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 1142
How are extreme "blue supergiant" stars born? Astronomers may finally know 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 1074
Physicists make record-breaking 'quantum vortex' to study the mysteries of black holes 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1112
Enormous explosions may be visible on the sun during the April 8 solar eclipse 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 1127
Giant Terror Birds Were Apex Predators of Eocene-Period Antarctica 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 1202
Canada Is Bizarrely Shaking--and It Might Be Creating a New Ocean Crust 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 17 1373
AI's Future is Similar to that of Star Trek's Borg, Scientists Say 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1198
Gaia Space Telescope Discovers Ancient Stellar Streams 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 970
MIT scientists have just figured out how to make the most popular AI image generators 30 times faster 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1062
Drilling for water ice on Mars: How close are we to making it happen? 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1054
Scientists Ignited a Thermonuclear Explosion Inside a Supercomputer 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 9 1410
UArizona's Biosphere 2: A look at three decades of climate research 3 Ptah Mar 2024 Mar 2024 9 1410
UPDATE -- Severe solar storm will generate auroras as far south as Alabama 5 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 21 2232
Eclipse seasons: Why the lunar eclipse on March 25 occurs 2 weeks before the total solar eclipse on April 8 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 1156
Gale Crater on Mars seems to have recently had a lot of water 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 8 1197
The holographic secret of black holes 7 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 29 2675
The holographic secret of black holes 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 9 1250
Nova Documentary on Domestic Cats 4 YoshidaYui Mar 2024 Mar 2024 15 2471
Amazing photos of 'horned' comet 12P/Pons-Brooks from around the world 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 8 1452
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 YoshidaYui Mar 2024 Mar 2024 0 801
Scientists Spotted 'Massless' Electrons Moving in 4 Dimensions 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 1256
Physicists Reveal a Strange Form of Crystal Where Electrons Can't Move 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 8 1173
Astronomers call for radio silence on the far side of the moon 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 13 1178
Russian Soyuz rocket suffers rare last-minute abort during launch of 3 astronauts to ISS 2 WestMichRad Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1198
NASA's DART mission hammered its target asteroid into a new shape. Here's how 2 WestMichRad Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 1208
DARPA picks Northrop Grumman to develop 'lunar raiload' concept 16 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 2481

Science Continued...

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On this day, March 21, 1768, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 974
Scientists find galaxy supercluster as massive as 26 quadrillion suns 5 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 14 1434
Deep-space astronomy sensor peers into the heart of an atom 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 8 947
Mathematicians have finally proved that Bach was a great composer 9 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 10 1737
'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life and minerals unseen on Earth, scientists rev 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 16 1361
'This is a journey, not a destination': Stunning map of the Milky Way's center exposes new mysteries about our galaxy 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 10 1345
Beluga whales appear to change the shape of their melon heads to communicate, scientists discover 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 1385
Giant sequoias: There are less than 80,000 of these redwoods left in California, 19 speak easy Mar 2024 Mar 2024 8 3090
Betelgeuse's mysterious spin could be a cosmic illusion caused by its enormous 'boiling' surface 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 1205
Ireland was once home to deer with massive 12-foot antlers 4 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 16 1418
What happens when you send cancer into space? - BBC News 1 TexasTowelie Mar 2024 Mar 2024 12 1327
2024's Unprecedented Terror At the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory Continues. 1 NNadir Mar 2024 Mar 2024 12 1737
The Piranha Infested Waters Of The Amazon WILD 24 Real Wild 0 YoshidaYui Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 1370
The worst prediction in physics: what energy is in empty space? 8 Sancho Mar 2024 Mar 2024 12 2494
Which dinosaurs survived? The ones that shrank the fastest. 3 tblue37 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 9 1348
Extensive Research Reveals 32 Health Risks Linked to Ultra-Processed Foods 4 erronis Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 1383
Astronomers reveal one of the most detailed pictures of an exploded star ever taken 11 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 46 2953
Found: new vine snake species after a gap 113 years 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 869
A SINGLE ASTEROID CAUSED TWO BILLION CRATERS ON MARS, SCIENTISTS CLAIM 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 1006
Webb discovered Ethanol and other icy ingredients around two protostars 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 826
'Imagine a lush tropical island slipping beneath the waves': Drowned island the size of Iceland found off Brazil 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 11 1333
Massive volcano "hiding in plain sight" on Mars 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 8 963
Evidence of Unusual Atmospheric Changes Due to Ancient Pandemics (Video 11:49) 0 BootinUp Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1013
NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures a Martian Day, From Dawn to Dusk 0 turbinetree Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 967
Scientists discover 100 new species off the coast of New Zealand - WION 1 TexasTowelie Mar 2024 Mar 2024 10 1069
Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble 8 TexasTowelie Mar 2024 Mar 2024 44 3578
Watch the exploding green 'devil comet' zoom past the Andromeda Galaxy in a stunning livestream this week 9 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 14 1642
Conspiracy crap thrives because the media give it plausibility. 5 SarahD Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 1222
Japanese rocket explodes shortly after its first launch - Reuters 0 TexasTowelie Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 940
Superconductivity scandal: the inside story of deception in a rising star's physics lab 6 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 1576

Science Continued...

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The Meteorite That Buried Michigan The Sudbury Impact 4 catbyte Mar 2024 Mar 2024 15 1642
Mercury slammed by gargantuan eruption from the sun's hidden far side, possibly triggering 'X-ray auroras' 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 9 1021
French Reactor Running on Uranium Recycled from Used Nuclear Fuel. 4 NNadir Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1485
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 556
Annoying Peeve: Naming substances after the institution at which they are discovered sucks. 7 NNadir Dec 2021 Mar 2024 1 2226
France sets out long-term used nuclear fuel recycling plans 2 NNadir Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 956
Trump, Covid, Hydroxyquinone, Ethics, and Fraud at a Major "Failure at Every Level" in France. 1 NNadir Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 1094
Documentary on "Tsunami" 0 YoshidaYui Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 1023
Rare gray whale spotted 200 years after extinction in Atlantic - NBC News 2 TexasTowelie Mar 2024 Mar 2024 13 1181
At the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory, the 2024 Terror Continues. 4 NNadir Mar 2024 Mar 2024 23 1559
About that funny story I told my son some years ago about the plutonium/gallium phase diagram. 2 NNadir Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1013
How can I fact check this article? 12 SleeplessinSoCal Mar 2024 Mar 2024 1 1969
AI singularity may come in 2027 with artificial 'super intelligence' sooner than we think, says top scientist 12 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 1904
Doctors found tiny nanoplastics in people's arteries. Their presence was tied to a higher risk of heart disease. 5 Wicked Blue Mar 2024 Mar 2024 8 1464
Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Crew-8 Nebula 3 Ptah Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 1116
At the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory, February 2024 Is the Worst Month Ever Reported. 1 NNadir Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 957
Rare 11th-century star chart reveals complex history of Islamic, Jewish and Christian astronomy 0 question everything Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 823
Setback for hopes of life as Nasa says less oxygen on Jupiter moon than thought 1 muriel_volestrangler Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 871
Pangaea: Facts about an ancient supercontinent 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 10 1156
James Webb telescope reveals targets for the next year, including moster black holes, exomoons, dark energy -- and more 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 9 974
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