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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 59028

Ask an Astrophysicist (NASA) 1 usonian 4 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 6 267

Northern Lights: Get Ready For Action As 'Equinox Aurora Season' Is Triggered 1 Judi Lynn 9 hrs ago 47 min ago 6 288

Remote surgery performed on a pig 9,000 km away using a game controller 5 Diamond_Dog 18 hrs ago 25 min ago 0 285

Does It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space? Can They Really Cost Less To Operate? 10 Ptah Yesterday Yesterday 5 429

Is Our Weather Turning Against Us? Scientists Predict Rapid Escalation of Extreme Weather 8 erronis Yesterday Yesterday 11 381

Discerning Melting and Volatilization Process of Fukushima's Fuel After the Tōhoku Tsunami. 0 NNadir Sunday Sunday 2 241

NASA's Curiosity rover uncovers 'mind-blowing' yellow sulfur crystals on Mars 8 Judi Lynn Sunday Yesterday 38 1125

Has a UC Berkeley chemistry lab discovered the holy grail of plastic recycling? 10 NJCher Saturday Sunday 12 640

The Canadian Summer Forest Fires and Toxic Particulate Pollution in NY/NJ 1 NNadir Saturday Saturday 5 262

Researchers discover a surprising way to jump-start battery performance 0 sl8 Saturday Saturday 12 528

Witness 1.8 billion years of tectonic plates dance across Earth's surface in a new animation 3 erronis Friday Friday 58 1793

Thanks to Reddit, a New Diagnosis Is Bubbling Up Across the Nation 12 erronis Friday Friday 3 957

Remember the visible human science kit? 18 usonian Thursday Friday 12 562

Winner of the Ed Lyman Award in Selection Bias, "Ph.D. in Physics" says... 0 NNadir Thursday Thursday 3 395

Northern Lights Alert: Solar Activity Surges To Strongest For 23 Years 1 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 19 902

New knowledge about a fungus that turns 60-80% of the flies in your home into zombies 3 erronis Tuesday Wednesday 8 558

Some black holes have a 'heartbeat' -- and astronomers may finally know why 2 Judi Lynn Tuesday Saturday 13 514

Quarter Moon and Seven Sisters: APOD Having Run of Relatable Magical Moments 1 SorellaLaBefana Tuesday Tuesday 8 368

World's biggest battery coming to Maine -- and it could store 130 million times more energy than your laptop 2 Judi Lynn Tuesday Tuesday 6 448

1 month until the annular solar eclipse 2024: Here's what you need to know 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2 Sep 2 10 469

Aurora season is here: What to expect from the northern lights in 2024/25 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2 Sep 2 5 265

Star-packed Triangulum Galaxy shines in new Hubble Telescope image 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2 Tuesday 14 430

The nature of a starfish: 'a disembodied head walking about on its lips' 2 erronis Sep 2 Sep 2 10 388

Scientists discover way to restore water to Mars using dust 4 Judi Lynn Sep 2 Sep 2 6 392

Sunlight as You've Not Seen It: Another Truly ☼Amazing☼ APOD 9 SorellaLaBefana Sep 2 Sep 2 48 1309

NASA's Perseverance Rover to Begin Long Climb Up Martian Crater Rim 1 turbinetree Aug 31 Aug 31 7 320

Emerging PFAS Pollutants at a Lithium Battery Recycling Plant. 1 NNadir Aug 31 Aug 31 7 449

NASA is developing robots that will swim beneath Antarctic ice and measure how quickly it's melting 1 Judi Lynn Aug 31 Aug 31 11 306

Huge SpaceX rocket explosion shredded the upper atmosphere 2 sl8 Aug 31 Aug 31 13 635

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The coinage of a new word in climate science: "natech," as in "natech disasters." 2 NNadir Aug 31 Aug 31 9 380

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 4 427

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 2 298

Boeing's uncrewed Starliner set to undock after Sept. 6, NASA says - Reuters 1 TexasTowelie Aug 30 Aug 30 6 413

This Tiny Backyard Bug Does the Fastest Backflips on Earth 5 sl8 Aug 30 Aug 30 17 695

When maize screams, beans listen: How the Three Sisters crop trio repels pests 1 sl8 Aug 30 Aug 30 27 603

Oceanographers discover 2-mile-high underwater mountain, new species -- and rare "flying spaghetti monsters" 4 Judi Lynn Aug 29 Aug 30 17 661

Mating proximity blinds threat perception 1 sl8 Aug 29 Aug 30 9 496

Scientists discover a long-sought global electric field on Earth 3 Jim__ Aug 28 Aug 29 12 724

Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts 4 sl8 Aug 28 Aug 29 5 443

Carl Sagan Christmas Lectures 3 - The History of Mars 2 BootinUp Aug 28 Aug 29 4 362

Earth's Temperature Could Increase by 25 Degrees 9 erronis Aug 27 Aug 27 9 1067

Revolutionary Biodegradable Plastic Developed by Korean Researchers 1 Judi Lynn Aug 27 Aug 27 10 366

A Snaking Scar Across Mars: The Mystery of Aganippe Fossa 1 Judi Lynn Aug 27 Aug 27 5 420

SpaceX pushes launch of daring Polaris Dawn mission back to Wednesday. Meet the 4-person crew spearheading it 0 Eugene Aug 27 Aug 27 2 321

Jelly plays Pong and gets better at with practice 2 Judi Lynn Aug 26 Aug 26 4 472

Rare Milky Way star cluster is packed with red supergiants 1 million times brighter than the sun 0 Judi Lynn Aug 26 Aug 26 8 442

Mars Express orbiter takes a deep dive into ancient Red Planet lake (images) 0 Judi Lynn Aug 26 Aug 26 6 430

Heaviest antimatter particle ever discovered could hold secrets to our universe's origins 0 Judi Lynn Aug 26 Aug 26 4 395

'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 2030

Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean 17 erronis Aug 25 Aug 26 44 1649

Scientists Reveal Hidden Waves Could Shape Earth's Mysterious Highlands 0 Judi Lynn Aug 25 Aug 25 6 478

Chinese Researchers Devise New Strategy for Producing Water on the Moon 0 Judi Lynn Aug 25 Aug 25 3 277

The world-saving potential of nuclear fusion just got a huge boost 4 reACTIONary Aug 25 Aug 25 11 586

News at a glance: Icebreaker research blues, disinformation data shutdown, and saving a rare bird 0 sl8 Aug 25 Aug 25 4 276

We Have "Disrupted Evolutionary Processes" - Modern Seeds Aren't Ready for Climate Change 2 erronis Aug 25 Aug 25 12 430

Fuel debris removal attempt halted at Fukushima Daiichi. 11 NNadir Aug 24 Aug 29 5 670

Photos: Egypt uncovers largest ever astronomical observatory from ancient times 1 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 21 566

Record-breaking hole drilled into the Earth's mantle is a scientific goldmine 6 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 32 827

A Wild Discovery Suggests Earth Had Multiple Hidden Moons 1 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 11 508

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NASA Fears Another Tragedy If Astronauts Return on Starliner 2 Judi Lynn Aug 23 Aug 24 11 629

'A single magma ocean' once covered the moon, data from India's Chandrayaan-3 mission suggests 0 Judi Lynn Aug 23 Aug 23 7 296

Humpback Whales Wield and Manufacture Their Own Tools 0 Judi Lynn Aug 23 Aug 23 14 445

Rates of Spontaneous Abortion and Air Pollution. 2 NNadir Aug 22 Aug 22 9 482

Part of the Atlantic is cooling at record speed and nobody knows why - New Scientist 1 Caribbeans Aug 22 Aug 22 5 602

You're Not Imagining It: Thinking Can Actually Be Painful, Study Finds 6 Warpy Aug 21 Aug 22 6 643

Prehistoric Lovebirds Lived in Cradle of Humankind 2.5 Million Years Ago 1 Judi Lynn Aug 21 Aug 21 8 424

Spacecraft will slingshot around Earth today after successful lunar flyby on its way to Jupiter 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 20 Aug 20 10 431

Spiders may lure male fireflies to their death with a call of love 2 sl8 Aug 20 Aug 20 6 409

Cash for catching scientific errors 0 sl8 Aug 19 Aug 19 5 429

Missed seeing the northern lights near you? The biggest storm may be yet to come. 0 Judi Lynn Aug 19 Aug 19 9 559

Space photo of the week: James Webb telescope catches baby stars roaring to life 2 Judi Lynn Aug 18 Aug 20 21 496

SCIENTISTS HAVE TRACED SIX METEORITES BACK TO THEIR ORIGINAL CRATERS ON MARS IN A SCIENTIFIC FIRST 4 Judi Lynn Aug 17 Aug 17 19 886

NASA shares stunning image of 10-billion-year-old globular cluster NGC 6496. Netizens say, 'Looks like glitter' 3 Judi Lynn Aug 17 Aug 17 25 13260

Astronomers Were Looking for a Planet, but They Didn't Expect This One 1 Judi Lynn Aug 17 Aug 17 14 733

Mars Is Likely Hiding Oceans Worth Of Water Deep In Its Crust -- This Could Upend Our Plans For the Planet 2 Judi Lynn Aug 16 Aug 16 6 450

Remote isles may solve mystery of 'Snowball Earth' 4 Wicked Blue Aug 15 Tuesday 11 511

One-quarter of unresponsive people with brain injuries are conscious 0 sl8 Aug 15 Aug 15 20 635

Whales synchronized swimming: Chaos theory approach reveals long-distance relationship in seemingly random behavior of b 0 cbabe Aug 14 Aug 14 11 491

Innovating sustainable hydrogen production via seawater electrolysis 3 Caribbeans Aug 13 Aug 14 4 419

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