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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 59045
Are tiny black holes zipping through our solar system? Scientists hope to find out. 3 Zorro 21 hrs ago 15 hrs ago 6 336
Cells Across the Tree of Life Exchange 'Text Messages' Using RNA 0 erronis Monday Monday 8 381
Breakthrough 'edge state' in atoms could lead to infinite energy sources 3 Judi Lynn Monday Monday 12 511
Gigantic Wave in Pacific Ocean Was The Most Extreme 'Rogue Wave' on Record 6 Judi Lynn Sunday Monday 71 2600
Scientists Discover Greener and More Efficient Method To Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel 5 Judi Lynn Saturday Sunday 8 384
Earth's supervolcanoes are waking up. Here's what that means for the planet 1 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 20 643
What Are The Sinister "Fingers Of Death" Beneath Antarctic Ice? 2 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 31 867
Eiffel Tower-sized asteroid 2024 JV33 resembles a 'peanut', rotates once every 7 hours; NASA shares video 0 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 11 2117
Explainer ExplainerSpace 'Puffy head bird leg syndrome': What space travel does to the body 1 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 4 310
NASA images: How stars and galaxies look in reality Top 5 images as seen through the Hubble telescope 5 Judi Lynn Saturday Sunday 16 2150
Earth to have new mini-moon for two months 6 usonian Saturday Sunday 45 1462
'God of Chaos' asteroid Apophis could still hit Earth in 2029, study hints -- but we won't know for 3 more years. 3 Cattledog Saturday Saturday 6 450
Mystery in Space: Chinese Astronomers Discover Black Hole That's Breaking the Rules 1 Judi Lynn Saturday Saturday 8 380
Don't Miss September's Sky Show: The Harvest Moon Eclipse 0 Judi Lynn Saturday Saturday 8 304
The Wolves of Yellowstone 15 erronis Saturday Saturday 68 1779
Unlocking the Invisible: An Introduction to Scintillators, Semiconductors, and Gamma Spectroscopy 0 NNadir Friday Friday 2 258
Entire Earth vibrated for nine days after climate-triggered mega-tsunami 0 cbabe Friday Friday 14 532
Watch 'spaghetti monster' with dozens of pink-tipped sausage legs swimming near Nazca Ridge 2 WestMichRad Friday Friday 9 419
Sun fires off X-class solar flare, increasing aurora viewing chances into weekend 1 Judi Lynn Friday Friday 5 309
China plans to build moon base at the lunar south pole by 2035 6 Judi Lynn Friday Friday 2 289
650-Foot High Megatsunami in Greenland Sends Seismic Waves Worldwide 2 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 23 843
Some cells can enter a 'third state that lies beyond the traditional boundaries of life and death.' Here's how. 2 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 16 498
Biden's got a plan to protect science from Trump (May, 2024) 4 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 8 320
"Truly Incredible" - Princeton Researchers Have Discovered a New Method To Reshape the Fabric of Life 7 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 13 678
Frozen in Time: Scientists Discover 45-Million-Year-Old Ancient Walnuts on Remote Arctic Island 2 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 29 968
Northern Lights Alert: States Where Aurora Borealis May Be Visible This Week 2 Judi Lynn Wednesday Thursday 5 472
Tiny fish found to have sophisticated self-awareness only ever seen in some humans 1 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 12 449
Researchers find live fungi, bacteria and viruses high in the Earth's atmosphere 0 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 6 299
The History of the Telescope Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World Full Episode 1 PBS 0 Ptah Wednesday Wednesday 1 274

Science Continued...

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Bright lights detected by NASA telescopes lead to a dancing pair of supermassive black holes 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 10 Sep 10 5 312
Remote surgery performed on a pig 9,000 km away using a game controller 5 Diamond_Dog Sep 9 Sep 10 0 322
Northern Lights: Get Ready For Action As 'Equinox Aurora Season' Is Triggered 1 Judi Lynn Sep 10 Sep 10 6 329
Ask an Astrophysicist (NASA) 1 usonian Sep 10 Sep 10 6 314
Does It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space? Can They Really Cost Less To Operate? 10 Ptah Sep 9 Sep 9 5 499
Is Our Weather Turning Against Us? Scientists Predict Rapid Escalation of Extreme Weather 8 erronis Sep 9 Sep 9 11 450
NASA's Curiosity rover uncovers 'mind-blowing' yellow sulfur crystals on Mars 8 Judi Lynn Sep 8 Sep 9 38 1189
Has a UC Berkeley chemistry lab discovered the holy grail of plastic recycling? 10 NJCher Sep 7 Sep 8 12 707
Discerning Melting and Volatilization Process of Fukushima's Fuel After the Tōhoku Tsunami. 0 NNadir Sep 8 Sep 8 2 278
The Canadian Summer Forest Fires and Toxic Particulate Pollution in NY/NJ 1 NNadir Sep 7 Sep 7 5 290
Some black holes have a 'heartbeat' -- and astronomers may finally know why 2 Judi Lynn Sep 3 Sep 7 13 540
Researchers discover a surprising way to jump-start battery performance 0 sl8 Sep 7 Sep 7 12 570
Thanks to Reddit, a New Diagnosis Is Bubbling Up Across the Nation 12 erronis Sep 6 Sep 6 3 1024
Remember the visible human science kit? 18 usonian Sep 5 Sep 6 12 602
Witness 1.8 billion years of tectonic plates dance across Earth's surface in a new animation 3 erronis Sep 6 Sep 6 58 1854
Winner of the Ed Lyman Award in Selection Bias, "Ph.D. in Physics" says... 0 NNadir Sep 5 Sep 5 3 445
Northern Lights Alert: Solar Activity Surges To Strongest For 23 Years 1 Judi Lynn Sep 5 Sep 5 19 946
New knowledge about a fungus that turns 60-80% of the flies in your home into zombies 3 erronis Sep 3 Sep 4 8 612
Remote isles may solve mystery of 'Snowball Earth' 4 Wicked Blue Aug 15 Sep 3 11 543
Quarter Moon and Seven Sisters: APOD Having Run of Relatable Magical Moments 1 SorellaLaBefana Sep 3 Sep 3 8 396
World's biggest battery coming to Maine -- and it could store 130 million times more energy than your laptop 2 Judi Lynn Sep 3 Sep 3 6 485
Star-packed Triangulum Galaxy shines in new Hubble Telescope image 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2 Sep 3 14 456
Sunlight as You've Not Seen It: Another Truly ☼Amazing☼ APOD 9 SorellaLaBefana Sep 2 Sep 2 48 1390
1 month until the annular solar eclipse 2024: Here's what you need to know 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2 Sep 2 10 498
Aurora season is here: What to expect from the northern lights in 2024/25 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2 Sep 2 5 283
The nature of a starfish: 'a disembodied head walking about on its lips' 2 erronis Sep 2 Sep 2 10 414
Scientists discover way to restore water to Mars using dust 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2 Sep 2 6 412
NASA's Perseverance Rover to Begin Long Climb Up Martian Crater Rim 1 turbinetree Aug 31 Aug 31 7 341
Huge SpaceX rocket explosion shredded the upper atmosphere 2 sl8 Aug 31 Aug 31 13 674
Emerging PFAS Pollutants at a Lithium Battery Recycling Plant. 1 NNadir Aug 31 Aug 31 7 470

Science Continued...

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NASA is developing robots that will swim beneath Antarctic ice and measure how quickly it's melting 1 Judi Lynn Aug 31 Aug 31 11 323
The coinage of a new word in climate science: "natech," as in "natech disasters." 2 NNadir Aug 31 Aug 31 9 407
Professor proposes how a black hole in orbit around a planet could be a sign of an advanced civilization 4 Judi Lynn Aug 31 Aug 31 4 470
Professor proposes how a black hole in orbit around a planet could be a sign of an advanced civilization 0 Judi Lynn Aug 31 Aug 31 2 313
This Tiny Backyard Bug Does the Fastest Backflips on Earth 5 sl8 Aug 30 Aug 30 17 717
Boeing's uncrewed Starliner set to undock after Sept. 6, NASA says - Reuters 1 TexasTowelie Aug 30 Aug 30 6 434
Oceanographers discover 2-mile-high underwater mountain, new species -- and rare "flying spaghetti monsters" 4 Judi Lynn Aug 29 Aug 30 17 713
When maize screams, beans listen: How the Three Sisters crop trio repels pests 1 sl8 Aug 30 Aug 30 27 635
Mating proximity blinds threat perception 1 sl8 Aug 29 Aug 30 9 521
Fuel debris removal attempt halted at Fukushima Daiichi. 11 NNadir Aug 24 Aug 29 5 704
Carl Sagan Christmas Lectures 3 - The History of Mars 2 BootinUp Aug 28 Aug 29 4 392
Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts 4 sl8 Aug 28 Aug 29 5 467
Scientists discover a long-sought global electric field on Earth 3 Jim__ Aug 28 Aug 29 12 751
Earth's Temperature Could Increase by 25 Degrees 9 erronis Aug 27 Aug 27 9 1128
A Snaking Scar Across Mars: The Mystery of Aganippe Fossa 1 Judi Lynn Aug 27 Aug 27 5 449
Revolutionary Biodegradable Plastic Developed by Korean Researchers 1 Judi Lynn Aug 27 Aug 27 10 387
SpaceX pushes launch of daring Polaris Dawn mission back to Wednesday. Meet the 4-person crew spearheading it 0 Eugene Aug 27 Aug 27 2 339
Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean 17 erronis Aug 25 Aug 26 44 1755
Jelly plays Pong and gets better at with practice 2 Judi Lynn Aug 26 Aug 26 4 500
'Once-in-a-lifetime' photo: Perseid meteors, northern lights and rare glowing arc shine over 11th-century castle 5 Judi Lynn Aug 26 Aug 26 43 2066
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