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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 60650
Did you know brown pelicans are protected by lots of miniature airbags in their skin, like BubbleWrap ? 1 eppur_se_muova 2 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 3 419
Brian Cox explains why time travels in one direction - BBC (2 videos) 10 BootinUp Sunday Tuesday 6 3639
Will glaciers ever come back after they've melted away? 5 MrWowWow Friday Tuesday 8 3772
Cold snap in Florida made Burmese python puke up a whole deer 1 Bayard Monday Tuesday 8 2432
Offending the Analyst, the view "if you need to use statistics, then you have not designed your experiment very well". 7 NNadir Friday Monday 4 2215
2025 Ig Physics Nobel Prize goes to perfect pasta sauce 5 erronis Friday Friday 6 2701
Satellite Technology Uncovers New Ancient Egyptian Cities And Pyramids 0 William Seger Friday Friday 6 2840
Identifying Links between Alzheimer's Disease and Type 2 Diabetes through Proteomics 2 NNadir Thursday Friday 3 527
People with conservative political leanings more likely to believe in health disinformation, study finds 6 erronis Thursday Thursday 4 834
There are 32 different ways AI can go rogue, scientists say -- from hallucinating answers to a complete misalignment with 5 Judi Lynn Aug 31 Thursday 7 546
In the wild, chimpanzees likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks every day 4 erronis Sep 17 Sep 17 4 359
Are 'little red dots' seen by the James Webb Space Telescope actually elusive 'black hole stars'? 4 Judi Lynn Sep 16 Sep 17 7 2178
'A genuine surprise': Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu once had 'flowing water' that transformed its insides 1 Judi Lynn Sep 17 Sep 17 10 387
A 'crescent sunrise' solar eclipse is coming this weekend. Here's where to see it. 0 Judi Lynn Sep 17 Sep 17 8 416
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 17 Sep 17 10 596
'Totally unexpected': Stunning new imagery shows big changes in the 1st black hole ever captured by humanity (photo, vid 0 Judi Lynn Sep 17 Sep 17 8 470
New 'quasi-moon' discovered in Earth orbit may have been hiding there for decades 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 16 Sep 16 15 602
Scientists Just Found a Way to Simulate the Universe on a Laptop 1 erronis Sep 16 Sep 16 8 358
Engineers Create Mini Microscope for Real-Time Brain Imaging (UC Davis) 0 usonian Sep 16 Sep 16 4 246
Carl Sagan was right--Brian Cox explains our first real steps into the cosmos 0 BootinUp Sep 15 Sep 15 1 1426
Family Fishing Trip Leads to "One-in-a-Million" Fossil Discovery (mcwane.org) 2 eppur_se_muova Sep 13 Sep 15 12 1836
Trump budget cuts threaten groundbreaking gravity wave research 2 DBoon Sep 11 Sep 13 6 3372
Physicist Brian Cox explains quantum physics in 22 minutes 2 BootinUp Sep 12 Sep 13 7 432
Has NASA Found 3 Billion Year Old Dead Martians? Why A Green Crystal Could Be A Biosignature! Scott Manley 3 Ptah Sep 12 Sep 13 3 550
A Single, 'Naked' Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe (Warning! Naked Black Holes in space) 0 usonian Sep 12 Sep 12 11 502
For the First Time in 40 Years, Panama's Ocean Lifeline Has Vanished 2 erronis Sep 12 Sep 12 17 594
New findings by NASA Mars rover provide strongest hints yet of potential signs of ancient life 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 11 Sep 11 3 292
Happy 100th birthday, quantum mechanics! 6 usonian Aug 9 Sep 10 10 587
Magic mushrooms rewind aging in mice--could they do the same for humans? 4 DBoon Jul 22 Sep 10 12 808

Science Continued...

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Beer drinkers are mosquito magnets, according to a festival study 3 DBoon Sep 9 Sep 10 14 3106
NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures Mars Vista As Clear As Day 3 turbinetree Sep 2 Sep 10 7 549
Ibex defies gravity and climbs a dam Forces of Nature with Brian Cox - BBC 6 BootinUp Sep 7 Sep 8 15 1845
How Much Can a Giant Waterlily Hold? See One Carry 183 Pounds Before Sinking, Winning a Social Media Contest 3 Judi Lynn Aug 30 Sep 7 10 474
The Biological Rulebook Was Just Rewritten--by Ants 10 erronis Sep 6 Sep 7 45 3086
Chinese submersible explores previously unknown giant craters at the bottom of the Pacific -- and they're teeming with li 6 Judi Lynn Sep 7 Sep 7 12 1494
Watch today's blood moon total lunar eclipse free online with these livestreams (video) 1 Judi Lynn Sep 7 Sep 7 9 1353
Innovative Supramolecular Crystals Unlock High-Capacity Hydrogen Storage 1 Caribbeans Sep 6 Sep 7 4 618
The universe's first magnetic fields were 'comparable' to the human brain -- and still linger within the 'cosmic web' 0 Judi Lynn Sep 7 Sep 7 10 1290
Rare Chi Cygnids {meteors} are active! Maybe. Observing info here (earthsky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Sep 6 Sep 6 3 661
Nuclear power plants rely on other forms of energy, sometimes energy from high pollution sources to operate. 1 Eko Sep 4 Sep 6 0 1658
The Thought That Led to General Relativity 2 BootinUp Sep 5 Sep 5 9 2536
Using only reported COVID-19 deaths, the same model yielded 14.4 million deaths averted by vaccines. 3 BootinUp Sep 4 Sep 5 12 3982
Spiral Galaxy IC 342 located roughly 11 million light-years from Earth. 0 BootinUp Sep 4 Sep 4 8 3591
How Sunflower Remove Radioactive Waste From Soil 1 YoshidaYui Sep 4 Sep 4 4 709
Amazing Sunflower Facts To Brighten Your Day 2 YoshidaYui Sep 4 Sep 4 8 2310
Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics Workbooks (HELM) Free college level workbooks. CC-Licensed. 1 usonian Sep 3 Sep 3 5 528
'A paradigm change': black hole spotted that may have been created moments after big bang 2 muriel_volestrangler Sep 2 Sep 2 8 542
UK, Japan, South Korea endure hottest summer on record 1 struggle4progress Sep 2 Sep 2 4 442
New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA's Webb Telescope (NASA) 0 eppur_se_muova Sep 2 Sep 2 8 436
Scientists find evidence of parallel universes 14 Bayard Aug 30 Sep 1 22 1148
Scientists Discovered A New Mineral On Mars, Here's What That Means 0 Judi Lynn Aug 31 Aug 31 19 678
Researchers Create Rechargeable, Glow-in-the-Dark Succulents 3 Judi Lynn Aug 30 Aug 31 4 424
Exposing Fake Honey Using Carbon-13 1 struggle4progress Aug 31 Aug 31 15 672
Astronomers Spot a Rare Quadruple Star System in the Milky Way, Shedding Light on Mysterious Brown Dwarfs 1 Judi Lynn Aug 30 Aug 30 9 367
Testosterone shifts political preferences in weakly affiliated Democratic men, study finds 8 Bayard Aug 30 Aug 30 4 793
I rather admire, on some level, this retraction. 1 NNadir Aug 29 Aug 30 6 554
This AI model simulates 1,000 years of the current climate in just one day 2 erronis Aug 25 Aug 28 2 1103
What the heck is a time crystal, and why are physicists obsessed with them? 1 Jilly_in_VA Aug 26 Aug 26 10 715
Braided magnetic flux ropes found at both human and light year scales 2 erronis Aug 25 Aug 25 4 926

Science Continued...

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'Cosmic whisper' observed in the search for dark matter 0 Judi Lynn Aug 25 Aug 25 9 1180
Plants steer the way rivers meander across the landscape 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 6 956
Scientists Have Identified the Origin of an Extraordinarily Powerful Outer Space Radio Wave 8 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 28 1237
Black holes that transform matter into dark energy could solve 'cosmic hiccups' mystery 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 7 915
Longest canyon in the solar system reveals new secrets -- Space photo of the week 2 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 9 934
NASA prepares for its next year-long simulated Mars habitat mission 2 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 1 396
Pastel Pink Lobsters, Goofy-Looking Squid Among Deep-Sea Oddities Discovered in Ocean Abyss 2 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 27 971
Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis 5 Bayard Aug 24 Aug 24 42 1300
An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 11 545
New findings from UA's asteroid sample mission 0 Ptah Aug 23 Aug 23 11 491
IBM and Moderna have simulated the longest mRNA pattern without AI -- they used a quantum computer instead 6 BootinUp Aug 21 Aug 22 14 750
Nerve cell synapse artistic rendering. 0 BootinUp Aug 17 Aug 17 13 496
Green Hydrogen Goes Affordable: Rethinking Catalyst Design 1 Caribbeans Aug 15 Aug 15 5 503
Exceeding functional biosphere integrity limits: Study finds 60% of the world's land area is in a precarious state 4 erronis Aug 15 Aug 15 11 582
Moving up in the world: Rare catfish species filmed climbing waterfalls 0 erronis Aug 15 Aug 15 13 563
Scientists discover sex reversal in kookaburras and lorikeets with cause unknown 2 usonian Aug 13 Aug 15 5 500
Mount Sinai study supports evidence that prenatal acetaminophen use may be linked to increased risk of autism and ADHD 0 Wicked Blue Aug 14 Aug 14 7 651
Strange spiral in the night sky was a rocket fuel dump (earthsky.org) 2 eppur_se_muova Aug 14 Aug 14 7 641
Nightmares linked to faster biological ageing and early death 8 littlemissmartypants Aug 13 Aug 14 7 650
Toothpaste made from hair could help repair teeth 3 Goonch Aug 13 Aug 13 14 747
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