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Discovery Plateau Hypothesis 2 BootinUp Aug 13 Aug 13 4 509
First antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning "cleans" blood in minutes 0 Wicked Blue Aug 13 Aug 13 11 640
The World Is Running Out of Freshwater Faster Than Anyone Expected 9 erronis Aug 9 Aug 10 16 1091
Electron microscope image of the penicillin fungus 6 BootinUp Aug 9 Aug 10 16 915
'It seems that size really does matter': Males of 4 never-before-seen tarantula species have record-long genitalia 1 WestMichRad Aug 9 Aug 9 4 573
New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Aug 6 Aug 6 8 679
Mercury reaches elongation 8/19/25, shares morning sky w/Venus and Jupiter ... 0 eppur_se_muova Aug 6 Aug 6 5 422
Demonstration of polarity in a stream of water 1 BootinUp Aug 6 Aug 6 5 548
World's Most Powerful Telescope Just Spotted a Visitor From Another Star System--10 Days Before Anyone Else 1 muriel_volestrangler Aug 4 Aug 5 11 700
Andromeda and Ghost. Today's spectacular and surprising APOD 4 SorellaLaBefana Aug 4 Aug 5 17 619
Scientists Just Found a Shocking Link Between Dirty Air and Dementia 0 erronis Aug 4 Aug 4 18 687
Chemistry at the Beginning: How Molecular Reactions Influenced the Formation of the First Stars 5 OKIsItJustMe Aug 4 Aug 4 8 570
A volcano in Russia's Far East erupts for the first time in centuries 3 Jilly_in_VA Aug 3 Aug 3 12 540
Judge allows the National Science Foundation to withhold hundreds of millions of research dollars 0 Eugene Aug 3 Aug 3 5 485
Virginia opossums: The American marsupials that have barely changed since the time of the dinosaurs 3 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 7 506
Scientists Have Discovered a "Sixth Sense" That Links the Gut and Brain in Real Time 0 erronis Aug 3 Aug 3 18 707
Skyscraper-size spikes of methane ice may surround Pluto's equator 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 3 423
Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double black hole system ever found, crooked jet suggests 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 8 423
New theory to understand the origins of the Universe 3 OKIsItJustMe Aug 1 Aug 2 18 750
At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery -- Quanta Magazine 2 erronis Aug 1 Aug 1 15 797
WMO certifies megaflash lightning record in USA -- World Meteorlogical Association 5 erronis Jul 31 Jul 31 9 585
New 40cm-long species of stick insect suspected to be the heaviest insect in Australia 2 muriel_volestrangler Jul 31 Jul 31 16 763
Chicago pianist 'grateful' to make music again after life-changing brain surgery 4 Jilly_in_VA Jul 31 Jul 31 9 577
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 31 Jul 31 2 513
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 0 Jilly_in_VA Jul 31 Jul 31 0 418
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 31 Jul 31 4 468
A submersible finds sea creatures thriving in the deepest parts of the ocean 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 30 Jul 31 10 615
The fungus among us: Study shows fungi form living bridges to share water between neighboring plants 1 erronis Jul 30 Jul 30 2 495
What Can a Cell Remember? -- Quanta Magazine 2 erronis Jul 30 Jul 30 5 482
Congo Basin's Peatlands are More Than 42,000 Years Old, New Study Reveals 0 milestogo Jul 30 Jul 30 2 366

Science Continued...

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Fascinating documentary on PBS about the search for "twin primes" 0 erronis Jul 29 Jul 29 6 598
Wasps may hold the secret to slowing down the aging process 6 erronis Jul 29 Jul 29 8 767
Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials 3 erronis Jul 28 Jul 28 8 657
New play in the chemical-reaction playbook uncovered 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 28 Jul 28 10 563
Why the Key to a Mathematical Life is Collaboration -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jul 28 Jul 28 5 456
Phase Change Materials you can make at home... 1 ret5hd Jul 26 Jul 27 3 729
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 ret5hd Jul 26 Jul 26 0 398
Executive function may stem from schooling rather than innate cognition 4 erronis Jul 23 Jul 25 5 828
About 700m years ago, the Earth froze over entirely - now we may know why 4 muriel_volestrangler Jul 23 Jul 23 16 968
The Cells That Breathe Two Ways -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jul 23 Jul 23 6 536
Arctic Melting in Mid-Winter 0 SorellaLaBefana Jul 23 Jul 23 3 636
NASA Shares How to Save Camera 370-Million-Miles Away Near Jupiter (nasa.gov) 3 usonian Jul 22 Jul 23 7 485
'E's got 'UUGE sharrp... It can leap abou--... LOOK AT THE BONES!!!" 2 Montauk6 Jul 22 Jul 22 12 745
Companion for Betelgeuse confirmed! Beloved red star has a blue-white buddy (earthsky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Jul 22 Jul 22 4 421
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 usonian Jul 22 Jul 22 1 323
Playing an Instrument Could Protect Against Cognitive Aging, Study Reveals 10 erronis Jul 19 Jul 22 12 778
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 usonian Jul 22 Jul 22 0 354
The Smoot - How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement -- The Register 5 erronis Jul 18 Jul 22 13 688
Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 22 Jul 22 11 748
Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained 13 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 21 11 1053
Electron microscope image of a white blood cell 5 BootinUp Jul 20 Jul 20 43 1492
The Apollo Moon Landing - Journey to American Democracy - Heather Cox Richardson 4 Rhiannon12866 Jul 20 Jul 20 2 510
This Ancient Practice Beats Pills for Sleep - And Science Backs It 3 erronis Jul 19 Jul 19 17 1186
The Most Interesting Email I Ever Received: Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles 0 erronis Jul 18 Jul 18 8 1039
8-hour time-lapse shows Earth rotating while capturing the Milky Way. 8 edbermac Jul 16 Jul 17 42 1634
Flying with hands: The evolution of bat wings 0 erronis Jul 16 Jul 16 5 438
Giant space 'boulders' unleashed by NASA's DART mission aren't behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflectin 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 16 Jul 16 8 663
Infrared photo of the Horsehead Nebula 0 BootinUp Jul 16 Jul 16 15 633
Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality Anil Seth TED 4 Uncle Joe Jul 12 Jul 14 19 1035
New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We're still learning from it 7 usonian Jul 11 Jul 12 11 837

Science Continued...

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The Caltech Experiment That Proved How Life Copies Itself - California Curated substack 2 BootinUp Jul 11 Jul 11 5 590
Should Adults in ICU have gene testing? Recent study (possibly) suggests YES 4 SorellaLaBefana Jul 11 Jul 11 2 793
'Could become a death spiral': scientists discover what's driving record die-offs of US honeybees 5 turbinetree Jul 10 Jul 11 17 978
Scientists discover 200-million-year-old flying reptile species 3 Judi Lynn Jul 10 Jul 10 18 895
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 turbinetree Jul 10 Jul 10 1 338
July 10, 1925, the beginning of the Scopes trial 3 question everything Jul 10 Jul 10 4 594
Scientists discover Burmese pythons have never-before-seen cells that help them digest entire skeletons 3 milestogo Jul 9 Jul 9 7 654
World's Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos -- KFF Health News 3 erronis Jul 9 Jul 9 11 690
How much energy do fish expend when floating "effortlessly" in the water column? 0 SorellaLaBefana Jul 9 Jul 9 4 1885
Moon in Saturn's rings leaving ripples 8 Ptah Jul 8 Jul 9 48 1239
A Formula to Keep the Science Flame Burning by James Hansen 3 OKIsItJustMe Jul 8 Jul 8 5 572
What did dinosaurs sound like? 7 cbabe Jul 8 Jul 8 6 718
Killer Whales Fashion Tools from Kelp and Use Them for Grooming 1 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 8 6 506
On this day, July 7, 1959, Venus occulted Regulus. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 7 Jul 7 3 462
Longevity Medicine Breakthrough 2 DanBaron Jul 6 Jul 7 8 784
Astronomers Track Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS 1 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 6 9 613
America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 5 Jul 5 1 520
Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? 8 Uncle Joe Jul 4 Jul 4 7 982
This Giant Telescope Will Map the Universe in Unbelievable Detail NOVA PBS 0 Uncle Joe Jul 4 Jul 4 9 629
PBS Terra: Wait...The Worst Possible US Disaster Just Got EVEN WORSE?!? (Cascadia Megaquake) 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 3 Jul 4 9 1153
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