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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 59042
"A chemicist, an astronomer, a Helium-3-miner and an asteroid-prospector walk into a bar..." 0 DetlefK Mar 2023 Mar 2023 13 1270
"Amaterasu" particle: a new cosmic mystery 0 sl8 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 9 549
"Black Widow" Pulsar May Be The Heaviest Neutron Star Ever 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 5 779
"Extraordinary" Slow-Spinning Neutron Star Shakes Astrophysics 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 354
"Hand torn steel". Stainless steel sheets 0.02mm thick. Ifrs an article from Quara just warning you 0 captain queeg Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 1968
"harvard & aliens & crackpots: a disambiguation of Avi Loeb" 2 xocetaceans Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 726
"Hey kids! Pile into the station wagon. We're going to Mars!" 3 SarahD May 2024 May 2024 5 665
"Ohhhh. Living on Mars would be cool!" Nope. Don't think so. 6 SarahD Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 661
"Record-breaking gamma-ray burst" 1 Talitha Oct 2022 Oct 2022 18 1358
"Remarkable" Binary Stars Could Birth 3 Planetary Systems Hosting Life 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 5 834
"The DART spacecraft changed the orbital period of Dimorphos by a whopping 32 minutes" 7 Talitha Oct 2022 Oct 2022 7 1438
"Truly Incredible" - Princeton Researchers Have Discovered a New Method To Reshape the Fabric of Life 7 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 13 674
"We have no evidence, but if we did..." 4 SarahD May 2024 May 2024 5 927
"Win a heart" science contest. Explain the difference between Faradaic efficiency and Thermodynamic efficiency. 7 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 3 490
🌎 LIVE: James Webb Space Telescope - First Full-Color Images and Data 4 catbyte Jul 2022 Jul 2022 6 1011
'A single magma ocean' once covered the moon, data from India's Chandrayaan-3 mission suggests 0 Judi Lynn Aug 23 Aug 23 7 315
'Awakening' of a black hole witnessed for the first time 0 Judi Lynn Jun 23 Jun 23 11 463
'Baby Jupiter' discovered in the process of forming around a star 500 light-years away 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2022 Apr 2022 4 857
'Berserker' geckos slam scorpions into oblivion before eating them, epic new footage shows 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2022 Apr 2022 12 1118
'Black hole police' discovered a dormant black hole outside our galaxy 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 4 754
'Bond villain' DNA could transform cancer treatment, scientists say 3 Wicked Blue Feb 2023 Feb 2023 19 1151
'bout time: 50% of the highest scientific awards given by the ASMS were to women. 1 NNadir Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 986
'Building blocks of life' recovered from asteroid Ryugu are older than the solar system itself 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 7 1247
'Cannibal' coronal mass ejection that devoured 'dark eruption' from sun will smash into Earth tomorr 8 Judi Lynn Jul 2023 Jul 2023 24 2521
'Cannibal' coronal mass ejection will hit Earth at nearly 2 million mph, scientists say 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 12 1244
'Cosmic magnifying glass' reveals super-rare warped supernova with gravitational lens. 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1178
'Dark matter' find could change cancer treatment 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 8 1151
'Dead sunspot' launches ball of plasma toward Earth 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2022 Apr 2022 19 1383
'Dead' telescope discovers Jupiter's twin from beyond the grave 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2022 Apr 2022 9 1056

Science Continued...

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'Direct hit': 'Space Weather Woman' predicts massive solar storm to strike Earth 11 cbabe Jul 2022 Jul 2022 9 2162
'Dyson spheres' were theorized as a way to detect alien life. Scientists say they've found potential evidence. 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 10 747
'Einstein ring' snapped by James Webb Space Telescope is most distant gravitationally lensed object 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2023 Sep 2023 27 1616
'Extremely rare' fossilized dinosaur voice box suggests they sounded birdlike 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 13 891
'Fantastic' particle could be most energetic neutrino ever detected 0 sl8 Jun 23 Jun 23 8 461
'Finally, we have the evidence': James Webb telescope spots neutron star hiding in wreckage of famous 1987 supernova 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 16 720
'God of Chaos' asteroid Apophis could still hit Earth in 2029, study hints -- but we won't know for 3 more years. 3 Cattledog Saturday Saturday 6 439
'Gold nuggets in night sky': Astronomers find 49 new galaxies in 3 hrs 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 10 836
'Happy Easter X': Missing set of valuable Charles Darwin notebooks returned with note 2 milestogo Apr 2022 Apr 2022 8 884
'Hell Fish Species' That Died Alongside the Dinosaurs 66 Million Years Ago Unearthed in North Dakota 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2022 Oct 2022 16 1421
'Hidden' photons could shed light on mysterious dark matter 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2023 Jul 2023 4 622
'Holy cow': scientists successfully grow plants in moon soil for the first time 6 Judi Lynn May 2022 May 2022 17 1539
'Hubble trouble' could deepen with new measurement of the universe's expansion 0 WhiteTara Apr 2023 Apr 2023 7 1445
'I want to see the first African woman in space': the Kenyan stargazer bringing astronomy to the peo 1 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2023 Sep 2023 3 1201
'I've never seen anything like this': Scientists hijack cancer genes to turn tumors against themselves 1 Judi Lynn Jul 8 Jul 8 19 699
'Imagine a lush tropical island slipping beneath the waves': Drowned island the size of Iceland found off Brazil 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 11 743
'Impossible' New Ring System Discovered at the Edge of the Solar System 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 18 1103
'Informational simplicity' may explain why nature favors symmetry 5 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 7 846
'Is it aliens?': how a mysterious star could help the search for extraterrestrial life 2 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 948
'It's just gorgeous': rare deep-sea dragonfish spotted off California coast 0 Judi Lynn May 2022 May 2022 9 1450
'Lost City' Deep in The Ocean Is Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen Before on Earth 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Nov 2023 30 1489
'Magic mushroom' compound creates a hyper-connected brain to treat depression 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2022 Apr 2022 17 1186
'Magical' abilities of water-striding insects could inspire new aquatic robots 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 572
'Marshmallow' World Orbiting a Cool Red Dwarf Star 3 Ptah Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 1039
'Mind-boggling' scrambled genome found in octopus and squid. It could explain their smarts. 3 Judi Lynn May 2022 May 2022 15 1388
'Missing link' for Earth's water found around remote baby star 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 988
'Missing link' protostar may prove solar system's water is older than the sun 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1451
'Old smokers': Strange new type of star discovered in Milky Way 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 10 663
'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 2063
'Overweight' neutron star defies a black hole theory, say astronomers 3 Judi Lynn Nov 2022 Nov 2022 10 997

Science Continued...

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'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life and minerals unseen on Earth, scientists rev 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 16 792
'Publish or Perish' is now a card game -- not just an academic's life 0 sl8 Aug 2 Aug 2 1 342
'Quantum hair' could resolve Hawking's black hole paradox, say scientists 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2022 Mar 2022 9 1049
'Quantum superchemistry' observed for the 1st time ever 4 Judi Lynn Aug 2023 Aug 2023 18 1494
'Runaway' black hole the size of 20 million suns found speeding through space with a trail of newbor 31 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2024 52 3712
'Scent therapy' helps unlock memories in people with depression, trial finds 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 397
'Secret code' behind key type of memory revealed in new brain scans 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2022 Apr 2022 10 1132
'Something is seriously wrong': Room-temperature superconductivity study retracted 2 Eugene Sep 2022 Oct 2022 6 2170
'Staggering number' of titanosaur nests discovered in India reveals controversial findings about din 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2023 Jan 2023 12 1123
'Stunning deep-sea' fish spotted lurking off California coast in rare find, video shows 4 Judi Lynn May 2022 May 2022 5 1503
'Super-Jupiter': Giant gas planet discovered by space telescope 0 Judi Lynn Jul 27 Jul 27 2 432
'Terrifying': British windshield 'splatometer' study finds 60 percent drop in flying insect populati 8 multigraincracker May 2022 May 2022 10 1286
'The most magical equation in physics': How Paul Dirac accidentally revealed the strange world of an 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2023 Aug 2023 17 1992
'This is a journey, not a destination': Stunning map of the Milky Way's center exposes new mysteries about our galaxy 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 10 712
'Tiger stripes' on Saturn's moon Enceladus could reveal if its oceans are habitable 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 645
'Too greedy': mass walkout at global science journal over 'unethical' fees 2 Eugene May 2023 May 2023 13 1544
'Undruggable' cancer-causing protein meets its match 6 NNadir Oct 2022 Oct 2022 19 1935
'Universal memory' breakthrough brings the next generation of computers 1 step closer to major speed boost 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 577
'We've Never Seen Anything Like This Before:' Black Hole Spews Out Material Years After Shredding .. 7 sl8 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 10 1708
'Wobbly' moon probable cause of mass tree deaths in Australia, scientists say 0 cbabe Sep 2022 Sep 2022 16 1475
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