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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 60266

Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality Anil Seth TED 4 Uncle Joe Saturday Monday 18 697

The Caltech Experiment That Proved How Life Copies Itself - California Curated substack 2 BootinUp Friday Friday 5 348

Should Adults in ICU have gene testing? Recent study (possibly) suggests YES 4 SorellaLaBefana Friday Friday 1 467

New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We're still learning from it 7 usonian Friday Saturday 11 434

'Could become a death spiral': scientists discover what's driving record die-offs of US honeybees 5 turbinetree Thursday Friday 16 618

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July 10, 1925, the beginning of the Scopes trial 3 question everything Thursday Thursday 3 319

Scientists discover 200-million-year-old flying reptile species 3 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 17 594

World's Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos -- KFF Health News 3 erronis Wednesday Wednesday 11 401

How much energy do fish expend when floating "effortlessly" in the water column? 0 SorellaLaBefana Wednesday Wednesday 4 1043

Scientists discover Burmese pythons have never-before-seen cells that help them digest entire skeletons 3 milestogo Wednesday Wednesday 7 378

Moon in Saturn's rings leaving ripples 8 Ptah Jul 8 Wednesday 48 872

A Formula to Keep the Science Flame Burning by James Hansen 3 OKIsItJustMe Jul 8 Jul 8 5 332

What did dinosaurs sound like? 7 cbabe Jul 8 Jul 8 5 410

On this day, July 7, 1959, Venus occulted Regulus. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 7 Jul 7 3 277

Killer Whales Fashion Tools from Kelp and Use Them for Grooming 1 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 8 6 307

Longevity Medicine Breakthrough 2 DanBaron Jul 6 Jul 7 8 551

Astronomers Track Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS 1 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 6 9 400

America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 5 Jul 5 1 339

Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? 8 Uncle Joe Jul 4 Jul 4 7 683

This Giant Telescope Will Map the Universe in Unbelievable Detail NOVA PBS 0 Uncle Joe Jul 4 Jul 4 8 446

PBS Terra: Wait...The Worst Possible US Disaster Just Got EVEN WORSE?!? (Cascadia Megaquake) 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 3 Jul 4 9 916

Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2 Jul 3 6 441

US to breed billions of flies and dump them out of aircraft in bid to fight flesh-eating maggot -- The Guardian 2 erronis Jul 2 Jul 2 9 593

Dentist may have solved 500-year-old mystery in da Vinci's iconic Vitruvian Man 0 erronis Jul 2 Jul 2 12 666

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Earth About to Experience Shortest Day Since the 1970s as Rotation Gains Record Speed 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 1 Jul 2 9 472

An example of Special relativity 8 BootinUp Jun 30 Jul 1 10 647

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Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations -- Retraction Watch 0 erronis Jun 30 Jun 30 5 410

Common farm fungicide may be contributing to 'insect apocalypse' 1 erronis Jun 30 Jun 30 2 451

MIT's high-tech 'bubble wrap' turns air into safe drinking water -- even in Death Valley 2 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 11 742

The Oldest Rocks on Earth Are in Canada, and They're 4.16 Billion Years Old 1 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 16 629

Physicists Catch Light in 'Imaginary Time' in Scientific First 0 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 5 470

The Skull Nebula 0 BootinUp Jun 29 Jun 29 10 442

Ignorance Squad Strikes Again: US Cancels Nature Springer Journal Subscriptions 4 NNadir Jun 28 Jun 29 10 615

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveils the first images of the sky obtained with the world's largest camera 2 Judi Lynn Jun 28 Jun 28 15 599

X-Posted from Australia group 2 canetoad Jun 28 Jun 28 1 456

How gut bacteria change after exposure to pesticides 3 Wicked Blue Jun 27 Jun 27 4 566

Physicist Solves 120-Year-Old Thermodynamics Puzzle and Corrects Einstein 6 erronis Jun 27 Jun 27 8 736

Clair Patterson: The Caltech Scientist Who Exposed Lead Poisoning and Changed the World 4 BootinUp Jun 27 Jun 27 4 453

What Is Thimerosal? Why Most Vaccines Don't Contain Mercury Anymore 2 LiberalArkie Jun 27 Jun 27 6 480

I have a great YouTube channel to rec...Dr. Becky Smethurst is an Oxford U. astrophysicist and is really fun... 1 wcmagumba Jun 26 Jun 26 5 531

These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth 1 erronis Jun 26 Jun 26 9 529

Alaska Brown Bear Has Shiny New Smile After Getting A Huge Metal Crown 1 Wicked Blue Jun 26 Jun 26 6 482

Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch 3 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jul 3 3 456

Australian Moths Are the First Known Insects to Navigate by the Stars, Revealing a Migratory Superpower 2 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jun 26 9 426

Doctors Detected a Mysterious Antibody in a French Woman's Body. It Turned Out to Be a Brand New Blood Type 8 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jun 26 43 1478

These Lizards Mysteriously Survived the Asteroid Strike That Killed the Dinosaurs--and Their Descendants Are Still Alive 4 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jul 3 10 1144

For first time, Webb telescope discovers an alien planet 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 25 Jun 25 13 685

Swarms of tiny nose robots could clear infected sinuses, researchers say 8 Wicked Blue Jun 25 Jul 3 5 610

Physicists recreate forgotten experiment observing fusion -- Los Alamos National Laboratory 0 erronis Jun 25 Jun 25 2 429

Galpagos Tomatoes Quietly Reversing Evolution 5 milestogo Jun 24 Jun 28 10 724

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Change Astronomy Forever 6 Gaugamela Jun 24 Jun 24 13 855

Overconfident conspiracy theorists: Many unaware their beliefs are on the fringe 5 erronis Jun 24 Jun 24 12 641

Scientists use bacteria to convert plastic into paracetamol 2 cbabe Jun 24 Jun 24 9 552

First images from world's largest digital camera features stunning shots of the universe 7 Jilly_in_VA Jun 23 Jun 24 19 961

Smooth trends in fermium charge radii and the impact of shell effects 1 NNadir Jun 22 Jun 22 1 411

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Advanced AI models generate up to 50 times more CO₂ emissions than more common LLMs when answering the same questions 2 littlemissmartypants Jun 21 Jun 21 5 433

New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect 7 erronis Jun 21 Jun 21 14 1021

'RFK Jr is a disaster': Staff describe chaos in 'anti-science' regime 3 douglas9 Jun 21 Jun 21 16 798

Flesh-Eating 'Screwworm' Parasites Are Headed to the U.S. 5 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 19 16 1058

Astronomers find universe's "missing" matter after long search 2 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 12 748

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The Way You Breathe Is Unique to You, Like a Fingerprint, New Study Suggests - Smithsonian Magazine 2 Rhiannon12866 Jun 16 Jun 16 7 577

Lab-Grown Salmon Hits the Menu at an Oregon Restaurant as the FDA Greenlights the Cell-Cultured Product 1 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 16 4 518

Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves 2 LiberalArkie Jun 15 Jun 15 13 1034

How Much Power Can a Gum Wrapper Handle? 0 BootinUp Jun 14 Jun 14 4 633

Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look. -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jun 13 Jun 13 10 784

Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints -- Cell.com - Current Biology 5 erronis Jun 12 Jun 13 1 691

High-performance water electrolysis without platinum brings hydrogen economy closer 1 Caribbeans Jun 11 Jun 12 4 574

First view of the Sun's south pole filmed by spacecraft 0 nitpicked Jun 11 Jun 11 9 566

First view of the Sun's south pole filmed by spacecraft 1 nitpicked Jun 11 Jun 12 2 430

First view of the Sun's south pole filmed by spacecraft 0 nitpicked Jun 11 Jun 11 1 394

NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts -- The Register 2 erronis Jun 11 Jun 11 4 586

Across 50 countries, female faces consistently rank higher in attractiveness than male faces 1 erronis Jun 11 Jun 11 2 515

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