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The Jurassic Period 0 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 3 1499
99 Dinosaur sounds based on Scientific data 5 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 5 1347
Eta Aquarid meteor shower peak could spawn over 100 'shooting stars' per hour this weekend 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 3 944
These Are The Avalanches To Worry About - Veritasium 0 TexasTowelie May 2024 May 2024 1 1192
Scientists reveal Southern Ring Nebula's unexpected structure: 'We were amazed' 3 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 6 1041
Dusty 'Cat's Paw Nebula' contains a type of molecule never seen in space -- and it's one of the largest ever found 4 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 24 1811
The Math That Predicted Black Holes Predicts Even Stranger Objects - Veritasium 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1456
On this day, April 30, 1916, mathematician, electrical engineer, and computer scientist Claude Shannon was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 992
Foxes' skulls are specially adapted for diving into snow 3 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 12398
'Is it aliens?': how a mysterious star could help the search for extraterrestrial life 2 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1329
These Hardy Plants Have Figured Out How to 'Farm' Microbes in Their Soil 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 1069
Horsehead Nebula rears its head in gorgeous new James Webb Space Telescope images (video) 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 49 2347
Chickens Can Blush When They're Feeling Emotional, And We Should Pay Attention 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 7 1217
China releases world's most detailed moon atlas (video) 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 813
'Tiger stripes' on Saturn's moon Enceladus could reveal if its oceans are habitable 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 907
Why dangerous bird flu is spreading faster and farther than first thought... 5 littlemissmartypants Apr 2024 Apr 2024 29 1723
A New Record Concentration for CO2, 427.98 ppm Has Been Set for the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory's Weekly Average. 4 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1663
NASA discovered a planet twice as big as Earth with a gas that is 'only produced by life' 15 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 68 4109
Rare dinosaur tracks are longest continuous set of sauropod footprints (EarthSky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Apr 2024 Apr 2024 24 1354
New CO2 Concentration Record Set, 428.59 ppm, at the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory. 1 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 997
Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1513
There's a mysterious ecosystem underneath the driest desert on Earth 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 42 2442
The Effect of Climate Change on Nuclear Reactor Cooling Will Be Studied at Argonne National Lab. 0 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1026
Judge dismisses superconductivity physicist's lawsuit against university 1 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1000
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Stumbled On A Glistening Lava Lake On Jupiter's Moon Io 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 15 1455
Algorithm ranks peer reviewers by reputation -- but critics warn of bias 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 759
Scientists create 'toxic AI' that is rewarded for thinking up the worst possible questions we could imagine 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1309
4 solar flares erupt in exceptionally rare, "quadruple" solar flare from the sun in rare 'super' explosion 5 LastLiberal in PalmSprings Apr 2024 Apr 2024 9 1384
Cosmic fountain is polluting intergalactic space with 50 million suns' worth of material 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1171
Restoring sight is possible now with optogenetics 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 11 1223

Science Continued...

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It's Official: Scientists Finally Confirmed What's Inside The Moon 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 12 1542
NASA veteran's propellantless propulsion drive defies laws of physics 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1379
For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism 4 WestMichRad Apr 2024 Apr 2024 30 1498
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 823
NASA's Voyager 1 resumes sending engineering updates to Earth 6 erronis Apr 2024 Apr 2024 22 1460
In my lifetime, space exploration has gone from Sputnik to multiple launches each week. 6 Ptah Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1151
An Interesting Experiment in Trying to Involve Journalists in Reporting Real Science Correctly. 1 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1119
Jupiter's Moon Io has been volcanically active for 4.5 billion years 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 981
Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient 13 BootinUp Apr 2024 Apr 2024 27 2156
A Rare Nova Explosion Will Soon Bring a 'New Star' to the Night Sky--How to Catch a Glimpse 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1187
A Stellar Collision Birthed the 'Dragon's Egg' Nebula, a Puzzling Structure in the Milky Way 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1256
Non Nuclear Portions of Wyoming's Kemmerer Nuclear Power Plant to Start Construction This Summer. 3 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1083
Meet 'goldene': this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 11 993
Too hot for a lizard? Climate change quickens the pace of extinction 0 BootinUp Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 1005
I have been waiting for about 20 years for this paper to appear. 8 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 15 1969
Can AI read our minds? Probably not, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be worried 5 BootinUp Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1107
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Mosby Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 574
Watch a swarm of cyborg cockroaches controlled by computers 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 998
Mysterious dark matter may leave clues in 'strings of pearls' trailing our galaxy 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 923
March 2024 Was the Worst Month Ever for CO2 Increases Measured at the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory. 6 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1734
US COVID-origins hearing puts scientific journals in the hot seat 5 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 1456
Earthquake: Japan's Ehime Prefecture. 6.3 on Richter 0 Tetrachloride Apr 2024 Apr 2024 9 941
Bumblebee species able to survive underwater for up to a week 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 975
Water Bears' 'Incredible Response' to Radiation Surprises Scientists 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2024 Apr 2024 14 1158
Nature Energy: An Estimate of the Death Toll Associated with a US Nuclear Power Phase Out. 1 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 1309
Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds 8 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1761
Most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy found 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 966
New analysis reveals the brutal history of the Winchcombe meteorite's journey through space 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 882
Nasa: 'New plan needed to return rocks from Mars' 0 Eugene Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 984
CICADA APOCALYPSE 2024: The Historical Rebirth in Spring 3 YoshidaYui Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1216

Science Continued...

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NASA releases free e-book on Hubble space mysteries 6 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 26 1777
The science of static shock jolted into the 21st century - phys.org 2 erronis Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1117
New advances promise secure quantum computing at home -- phys.org 3 erronis Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1172
A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular structure inside algae 0 BootinUp Apr 2024 Apr 2024 19 1248
Nominations for invertebrate of the year 6 cbabe Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1217
Turns out wombats *can* run at 40km/h 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1296
Dark Matter Debunked in Revolutionary Cosmic Study - SciTech Daily and The Astrophysical Journal 4 erronis Mar 2024 Apr 2024 7 1589
Researchers confirm brightest gamma-ray burst of all time from supernova - but where's the gold? 0 muriel_volestrangler Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 950
So a Higgs boson walks into a Catholic church..... 2 lastlib Apr 2024 Apr 2024 23 1435
Nobel-winning physicist Peter Higgs dies "peacefully in his home" - DW News 2 TexasTowelie Apr 2024 Apr 2024 11 975
Possible improvements in the electrowinning of the lanthanide elements (aka "rare earths). 0 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 997
Antarctica is covered in volcanoes, could they erupt? 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 23 1568
Elusive prickly sharks spotted gathering at underwater mountain off Panama -- but why remains a mystery 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 14 987
Blue, mysterious and arriving by the millions: the alien-like creatures blanketing US beaches 9 cbabe Apr 2024 Apr 2024 11 1884
White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Announces Year of Open Science Recognition Challenge Winners 0 usonian Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 866
See what the solar eclipse will look like in your city WaPo link (PayWall sorry) 5 TeamProg Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1385
Eclipse conspiracies. Nothing specific. 2 SarahD Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 726
A New Record Concentration for CO2, 426.35 ppm Has Been Set at the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory. 1 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1125
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 773
Geoengineering Test Quietly Launches Salt Crystals into Atmosphere - Scientific American 6 Caribbeans Apr 2024 Apr 2024 12 1444
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