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Giant Stars With Black Holes Inside Them May Have Been Detected For The First Time 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 1987
"Brightest Object In Known Universe" Puffs Itself Up To Look 15 Times Its Actual Size 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 14 2927
The First Black Hole We Ever Saw Is Doing Something Never Seen Before 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 17 2326
Perplexing diamonds from South Africa mine contain 'almost impossible' chemistry 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 14 1693
Chimps regularly consume alcohol, study finds 0 milestogo Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 914
Physics-informed AI learns local rules behind flocking and collective motion behaviors 3 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 819
A picture of IBM's Quantum System 2 5 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 1227
New Math Revives Geometry's Oldest Problems -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 2600
Mount Sinai study supports evidence that prenatal acetaminophen use may be linked to increased risk of autism and ADHD 2 Wicked Blue Aug 2025 Sep 2025 8 1182
Did you know brown pelicans are protected by lots of miniature airbags in their skin, like BubbleWrap ? 4 eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 2040
Brian Cox explains why time travels in one direction - BBC (2 videos) 10 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 4561
Will glaciers ever come back after they've melted away? 5 MrWowWow Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 4344
Cold snap in Florida made Burmese python puke up a whole deer 1 Bayard Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 2934
Offending the Analyst, the view "if you need to use statistics, then you have not designed your experiment very well". 7 NNadir Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 2910
2025 Ig Physics Nobel Prize goes to perfect pasta sauce 5 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 3305
Identifying Links between Alzheimer's Disease and Type 2 Diabetes through Proteomics 2 NNadir Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1091
People with conservative political leanings more likely to believe in health disinformation, study finds 6 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1397
There are 32 different ways AI can go rogue, scientists say -- from hallucinating answers to a complete misalignment with 5 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Sep 2025 7 1255
Are 'little red dots' seen by the James Webb Space Telescope actually elusive 'black hole stars'? 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 2674
'A genuine surprise': Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu once had 'flowing water' that transformed its insides 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 766
A 'crescent sunrise' solar eclipse is coming this weekend. Here's where to see it. 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 742
Skyscraper-size asteroid previously predicted to hit us in 60 years will zoom past Earth on Thursday (Sept. 18) -- and yo 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 1049
'Totally unexpected': Stunning new imagery shows big changes in the 1st black hole ever captured by humanity (photo, vid 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 816
New 'quasi-moon' discovered in Earth orbit may have been hiding there for decades 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 16 926
Scientists Just Found a Way to Simulate the Universe on a Laptop 1 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 724
Engineers Create Mini Microscope for Real-Time Brain Imaging (UC Davis) 0 usonian Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 556
Carl Sagan was right--Brian Cox explains our first real steps into the cosmos 0 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1731
Family Fishing Trip Leads to "One-in-a-Million" Fossil Discovery (mcwane.org) 2 eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 2235
Trump budget cuts threaten groundbreaking gravity wave research 2 DBoon Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 3731
Physicist Brian Cox explains quantum physics in 22 minutes 2 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 861

Science Continued...

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Has NASA Found 3 Billion Year Old Dead Martians? Why A Green Crystal Could Be A Biosignature! Scott Manley 3 Ptah Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 990
A Single, 'Naked' Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe (Warning! Naked Black Holes in space) 0 usonian Sep 2025 Sep 2025 11 833
For the First Time in 40 Years, Panama's Ocean Lifeline Has Vanished 2 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 17 995
New findings by NASA Mars rover provide strongest hints yet of potential signs of ancient life 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 630
Happy 100th birthday, quantum mechanics! 6 usonian Aug 2025 Sep 2025 11 1131
Magic mushrooms rewind aging in mice--could they do the same for humans? 4 DBoon Jul 2025 Sep 2025 12 1275
Beer drinkers are mosquito magnets, according to a festival study 3 DBoon Sep 2025 Sep 2025 14 3554
NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures Mars Vista As Clear As Day 3 turbinetree Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 1005
Ibex defies gravity and climbs a dam Forces of Nature with Brian Cox - BBC 6 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 15 2440
How Much Can a Giant Waterlily Hold? See One Carry 183 Pounds Before Sinking, Winning a Social Media Contest 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Sep 2025 10 908
The Biological Rulebook Was Just Rewritten--by Ants 10 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 45 3904
Chinese submersible explores previously unknown giant craters at the bottom of the Pacific -- and they're teeming with li 6 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 2019
Watch today's blood moon total lunar eclipse free online with these livestreams (video) 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 1710
Innovative Supramolecular Crystals Unlock High-Capacity Hydrogen Storage 1 Caribbeans Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1005
The universe's first magnetic fields were 'comparable' to the human brain -- and still linger within the 'cosmic web' 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 1565
Rare Chi Cygnids {meteors} are active! Maybe. Observing info here (earthsky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 983
Nuclear power plants rely on other forms of energy, sometimes energy from high pollution sources to operate. 1 Eko Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 1960
The Thought That Led to General Relativity 2 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 2905
Using only reported COVID-19 deaths, the same model yielded 14.4 million deaths averted by vaccines. 3 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 4334
Spiral Galaxy IC 342 located roughly 11 million light-years from Earth. 0 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 3858
How Sunflower Remove Radioactive Waste From Soil 1 YoshidaYui Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 1107
Amazing Sunflower Facts To Brighten Your Day 2 YoshidaYui Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 2674
Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics Workbooks (HELM) Free college level workbooks. CC-Licensed. 1 usonian Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 899
'A paradigm change': black hole spotted that may have been created moments after big bang 2 muriel_volestrangler Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 915
UK, Japan, South Korea endure hottest summer on record 1 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 741
New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA's Webb Telescope (NASA) 0 eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 727
Scientists find evidence of parallel universes 14 Bayard Aug 2025 Sep 2025 23 2169
Scientists Discovered A New Mineral On Mars, Here's What That Means 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 20 944
Researchers Create Rechargeable, Glow-in-the-Dark Succulents 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 800
Exposing Fake Honey Using Carbon-13 1 struggle4progress Aug 2025 Aug 2025 15 969

Science Continued...

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Astronomers Spot a Rare Quadruple Star System in the Milky Way, Shedding Light on Mysterious Brown Dwarfs 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 678
Testosterone shifts political preferences in weakly affiliated Democratic men, study finds 8 Bayard Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 1450
I rather admire, on some level, this retraction. 1 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 864
This AI model simulates 1,000 years of the current climate in just one day 2 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1495
What the heck is a time crystal, and why are physicists obsessed with them? 1 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 1038
Braided magnetic flux ropes found at both human and light year scales 2 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 1286
'Cosmic whisper' observed in the search for dark matter 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1452
Plants steer the way rivers meander across the landscape 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 1214
Scientists Have Identified the Origin of an Extraordinarily Powerful Outer Space Radio Wave 8 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 28 1751
Black holes that transform matter into dark energy could solve 'cosmic hiccups' mystery 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1161
Longest canyon in the solar system reveals new secrets -- Space photo of the week 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1272
NASA prepares for its next year-long simulated Mars habitat mission 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 732
Pastel Pink Lobsters, Goofy-Looking Squid Among Deep-Sea Oddities Discovered in Ocean Abyss 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 27 1293
Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis 5 Bayard Aug 2025 Aug 2025 42 1772
An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 784
New findings from UA's asteroid sample mission 0 Ptah Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 733
IBM and Moderna have simulated the longest mRNA pattern without AI -- they used a quantum computer instead 6 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 1230
Nerve cell synapse artistic rendering. 0 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 739
Green Hydrogen Goes Affordable: Rethinking Catalyst Design 1 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 826
Exceeding functional biosphere integrity limits: Study finds 60% of the world's land area is in a precarious state 4 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 1018
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