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A 'crescent sunrise' solar eclipse is coming this weekend. Here's where to see it. 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 789
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 1118
'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 8 877
New 'quasi-moon' discovered in Earth orbit may have been hiding there for decades 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 16 985
Scientists Just Found a Way to Simulate the Universe on a Laptop 1 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 792
Engineers Create Mini Microscope for Real-Time Brain Imaging (UC Davis) 0 usonian Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 601
Carl Sagan was right--Brian Cox explains our first real steps into the cosmos 0 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1772
Family Fishing Trip Leads to "One-in-a-Million" Fossil Discovery (mcwane.org) 2 eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 2312
Trump budget cuts threaten groundbreaking gravity wave research 2 DBoon Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 3806
Physicist Brian Cox explains quantum physics in 22 minutes 2 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 944
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 1065
A Single, 'Naked' Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe (Warning! Naked Black Holes in space) 0 usonian Sep 2025 Sep 2025 11 877
For the First Time in 40 Years, Panama's Ocean Lifeline Has Vanished 2 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 17 1089
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 3 685
Happy 100th birthday, quantum mechanics! 6 usonian Aug 2025 Sep 2025 11 1236
Magic mushrooms rewind aging in mice--could they do the same for humans? 4 DBoon Jul 2025 Sep 2025 12 1361
Beer drinkers are mosquito magnets, according to a festival study 3 DBoon Sep 2025 Sep 2025 14 3650
NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures Mars Vista As Clear As Day 3 turbinetree Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 1102
Ibex defies gravity and climbs a dam Forces of Nature with Brian Cox - BBC 6 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 15 2582
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 10 993
The Biological Rulebook Was Just Rewritten--by Ants 10 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 45 4147
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 2176
Watch today's blood moon total lunar eclipse free online with these livestreams (video) 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 1782
Innovative Supramolecular Crystals Unlock High-Capacity Hydrogen Storage 1 Caribbeans Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1076
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 1614
Rare Chi Cygnids {meteors} are active! Maybe. Observing info here (earthsky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1039
Nuclear power plants rely on other forms of energy, sometimes energy from high pollution sources to operate. 1 Eko Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 2003
The Thought That Led to General Relativity 2 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 2986
Using only reported COVID-19 deaths, the same model yielded 14.4 million deaths averted by vaccines. 3 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 4412
Spiral Galaxy IC 342 located roughly 11 million light-years from Earth. 0 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 3909

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How Sunflower Remove Radioactive Waste From Soil 1 YoshidaYui Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 1167
Amazing Sunflower Facts To Brighten Your Day 2 YoshidaYui Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 2743
Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics Workbooks (HELM) Free college level workbooks. CC-Licensed. 1 usonian Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 980
'A paradigm change': black hole spotted that may have been created moments after big bang 2 muriel_volestrangler Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 996
UK, Japan, South Korea endure hottest summer on record 1 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 801
New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA's Webb Telescope (NASA) 0 eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 778
Scientists find evidence of parallel universes 14 Bayard Aug 2025 Sep 2025 23 2499
Scientists Discovered A New Mineral On Mars, Here's What That Means 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 20 995
Researchers Create Rechargeable, Glow-in-the-Dark Succulents 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 874
Exposing Fake Honey Using Carbon-13 1 struggle4progress Aug 2025 Aug 2025 15 1034
Astronomers Spot a Rare Quadruple Star System in the Milky Way, Shedding Light on Mysterious Brown Dwarfs 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 738
Testosterone shifts political preferences in weakly affiliated Democratic men, study finds 8 Bayard Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 1636
I rather admire, on some level, this retraction. 1 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 955
This AI model simulates 1,000 years of the current climate in just one day 2 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1573
What the heck is a time crystal, and why are physicists obsessed with them? 1 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 1098
Braided magnetic flux ropes found at both human and light year scales 2 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 1363
'Cosmic whisper' observed in the search for dark matter 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1519
Plants steer the way rivers meander across the landscape 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 1260
Scientists Have Identified the Origin of an Extraordinarily Powerful Outer Space Radio Wave 8 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 28 1859
Black holes that transform matter into dark energy could solve 'cosmic hiccups' mystery 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1211
Longest canyon in the solar system reveals new secrets -- Space photo of the week 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1348
NASA prepares for its next year-long simulated Mars habitat mission 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 794
Pastel Pink Lobsters, Goofy-Looking Squid Among Deep-Sea Oddities Discovered in Ocean Abyss 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 27 1364
Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis 5 Bayard Aug 2025 Aug 2025 42 1896
An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 838
New findings from UA's asteroid sample mission 0 Ptah Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 781
IBM and Moderna have simulated the longest mRNA pattern without AI -- they used a quantum computer instead 6 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 1335
Nerve cell synapse artistic rendering. 0 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 804
Green Hydrogen Goes Affordable: Rethinking Catalyst Design 1 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 914
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 1124

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Moving up in the world: Rare catfish species filmed climbing waterfalls 0 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 889
Scientists discover sex reversal in kookaburras and lorikeets with cause unknown 2 usonian Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 894
Strange spiral in the night sky was a rocket fuel dump (earthsky.org) 2 eppur_se_muova Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1018
Nightmares linked to faster biological ageing and early death 8 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1449
Toothpaste made from hair could help repair teeth 3 Goonch Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 1231
Discovery Plateau Hypothesis 2 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 861
First antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning "cleans" blood in minutes 0 Wicked Blue Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 939
The World Is Running Out of Freshwater Faster Than Anyone Expected 9 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 16 1863
Electron microscope image of the penicillin fungus 6 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 16 1487
'It seems that size really does matter': Males of 4 never-before-seen tarantula species have record-long genitalia 1 WestMichRad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 922
New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 1039
Mercury reaches elongation 8/19/25, shares morning sky w/Venus and Jupiter ... 0 eppur_se_muova Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 727
Demonstration of polarity in a stream of water 1 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 894
World's Most Powerful Telescope Just Spotted a Visitor From Another Star System--10 Days Before Anyone Else 1 muriel_volestrangler Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 1032
Andromeda and Ghost. Today's spectacular and surprising APOD 4 SorellaLaBefana Aug 2025 Aug 2025 17 1168
Scientists Just Found a Shocking Link Between Dirty Air and Dementia 0 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 18 1033
Chemistry at the Beginning: How Molecular Reactions Influenced the Formation of the First Stars 5 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 1137
A volcano in Russia's Far East erupts for the first time in centuries 3 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2025 Aug 2025 12 997
Judge allows the National Science Foundation to withhold hundreds of millions of research dollars 0 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 772
Virginia opossums: The American marsupials that have barely changed since the time of the dinosaurs 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 958
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