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AI tools may weaken critical thinking skills by encouraging cognitive offloading, study suggests 6 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 13 1228
This One Cognitive Skill May Be a Better Predictor of Life Expectancy Than Health Habits 6 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 11 1704
An annually resolved 5700-year storm archive reveals drivers of Caribbean cyclone frequency 1 Sancho Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 822
A French university is offering 'scientific asylum' for US talent. The brain drain has started 5 usonian Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1144
India's Floating Solar Farms Can Be Seen From Space 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 900
Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields 2 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 905
Science is shattering our intuitions about consciousness Annaka Harris 17 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 19 2540
Physicists Bend Time Inside a Diamond, Creating a Brand-New Phase of Matter 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 23 1500
Scientists Uncover a Hidden Brain Plumbing System That Restores Memory 2 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 11 1108
A transition point in romantic relationships may signal the beginning of their end 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1107
Mysterious Ancestors: Scientists Just Uncovered a Shocking Secret About Human Origins 2 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 1122
Scientists Trick the Brain With a Fake Hand - And Pain Disappears 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 690
The Hidden Logic Behind Poland's Stunningly Striped Fields 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 920
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 10 904
Hubble Telescope spies star-forming cocoons in neighboring galaxy (photo) 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 698
Scientists Detect Silent "Scream" of Skin Cells for the First Time 2 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1022
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 1073
Not sure this is the group, but: "Glasses" That Transcribe Text To Audio. By an eighth grade student. 2 usonian Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 861
The Independent: Mutant snake with three sharp fangs 'might be most dangerous death adder' ever found 0 Dennis Donovan Mar 2025 Mar 2025 13 786
Tiny 'microlightning' flashes inside water droplets may have sparked life on Earth 0 highplainsdem Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 569
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 1030
Welcome to the New, Ad-Free Universe Today, Brought to You By 3,000 Space Fans 0 usonian Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 697
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants 2 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 644
Young scientists see career pathways vanish as schools adapt to federal funding cuts 4 Eugene Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 821
122 devil rays joined in a wild mating ritual that lasted for hours 2 milestogo Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 880
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 2 646
Why does nature love spirals? The link to entropy 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 776
Bullseye! Astronomers discover a giant galaxy with nine rings 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Mar 2025 7 860
'A political division, not a physical one, determined who got measles and who didn't' 4 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 34 1830
Beyond Earthrise: Blue Ghost's Chilling New Perspective From the Moon 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 812

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Superb lyrebirds have an unexpected new skill 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 15 905
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Installs LSST Camera on Telescope 1 Ptah Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 719
Black holes: Not endings, but beginnings? Theoretical study delves into 'white holes' 3 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 827
The 'Silent' X Chromosome Gives the Aging Female Brain a Boost 5 WestMichRad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 16 1121
NASA's newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 821
Water's Hidden Side Revealed - It Can Exist in Two Liquid Forms at Once 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 823
Building Blocks of Life Discovered on Distant Asteroid NOVA PBS 2 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 944
Mystery at heart of Milky Way galaxy linked to new type of dark matter 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 937
New Palladium Catalyst Cuts Hydrogen Production Costs by 90% Nanosheet structure reduces need for precious metals by 90% 0 Caribbeans Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 880
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research 2 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 830
Highly Efficient Plutonium Extraction Using a Phosphonium Phosphinate Task-Specific Ionic Liquid 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 499
Secret commands found in Bluetooth chip used in a billion devices 6 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 19 1211
Webb exposes complex atmosphere of starless super-Jupiter 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 793
Private lunar lander Athena may have fallen over while touching down near the moon's south pole 9 Eugene Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1427
The Startling Truth About What Happens to Your Eyes While You Sleep 1 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 21 1202
Listen To The Loudest Humpback Whale Yapping We've Ever Heard Off Hawaii 6 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1042
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 22 952
How to photograph the moon: Tips on camera gear, settings and composition 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 937
Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover 4 DBoon Mar 2025 Mar 2025 22 5966
Powerful 'equinox auroras' may arrive soon: Why changing seasons can bring the best northern lights 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 594
James Webb Unveils a Mysterious Planet Unlike Anything in Our Solar System 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 959
Astronomers Just Found a Star System That Shouldn't Exist Near a Supermassive Black Hole 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 627
Study warns of deadly future marine heat waves in East Coast estuaries 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 594
Unproven Einstein theory of 'gravitational memory' may be real after all, new study hints 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1066
NASA's Webb Exposes Complex Atmosphere of Starless Super-Jupiter 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 739
Men are getting bigger than women. 2 surfered Jan 2025 Mar 2025 6 1243
Interstellar tunnel discovered: Could it be the cosmic gateway to new stars? 4 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 1148
Science Can't Explain This Woman's Superpower 6 Xipe Totec Mar 2025 Mar 2025 14 2216
How did this man's brain turn to glass? Scientists have a theory 3 erronis Feb 2025 Mar 2025 10 1342
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 1460

Science Continued...

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'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 5 996
Canada's Bruce Power Sets a Record for the Production of Cobalt 60 for Medical Use. 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 662
Determination of the Valuable Actinides Neptunium and Americium In Historically Operated Nuclear Reactors. 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 645
Sometimes ethical courage is more than its own reward. 2 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 16 933
Time: Private Lunar Lander Blue Ghost Aces Moon Touchdown With Special Delivery for NASA 1 Dennis Donovan Mar 2025 Mar 2025 11 706
Ancient Egyptian Mummified Bodies: Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of Their Smell 1 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 912
Superelastic titanium alloy has potential for space missions 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 752
Ten "talented, persistent, and brilliant" Ukrainian scientists whose work - some cases lives - were cut short by war. 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 743
US universities curtail PhD admissions amid Trump science funding cuts 8 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1391
The loss of sugar coating of the brain and aging. 3 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 14 1259
Ancient Stone Tools Reveal Early Human Presence in Tropical Rainforests 150,000 Years Ago 0 milestogo Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 689
Mozart's true face is revealed for the first time in 230 YEARS 13 NJCher Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 2009
James Hansen and Pushker Kharecha - The Acid Test: Global Temperature in 2025 19 OKIsItJustMe Feb 2025 Mar 2025 3 3589
For-Profit Companies Can't Easily Replace NOAA's Weather-Forecasting Prowess 4 littlemissmartypants Feb 2025 Feb 2025 18 1209
Dear God, Why? (muscle-driven android test) 3 LudwigPastorius Feb 2025 Feb 2025 0 958
Scientists match Earth's ice age cycles with orbital shifts 0 Jim__ Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 699
World's oldest juniper shrub discovered in Finland--annual rings suggest it's 1,647 years old 0 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 12 811
A Rare Alignment of 7 Planets Is Taking Place in The Sky This Week 6 SheltieLover Feb 2025 Feb 2025 16 1753
A good explanation of the JWST and Cosmological Crisis (if you think it is a "crisis") 2 Sancho Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1131
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 1127
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