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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 60338

Fascinating documentary on PBS about the search for "twin primes" 0 erronis 4 hrs ago 4 hrs ago 6 292

Wasps may hold the secret to slowing down the aging process 6 erronis 12 hrs ago 4 hrs ago 8 383

Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials 3 erronis Monday Monday 8 359

New play in the chemical-reaction playbook uncovered 0 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 9 299

Why the Key to a Mathematical Life is Collaboration -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Monday Monday 5 232

Phase Change Materials you can make at home... 1 ret5hd Saturday Sunday 3 379

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Executive function may stem from schooling rather than innate cognition 4 erronis Wednesday Friday 5 504

About 700m years ago, the Earth froze over entirely - now we may know why 4 muriel_volestrangler Wednesday Wednesday 16 681

The Cells That Breathe Two Ways -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Wednesday Wednesday 6 309

Arctic Melting in Mid-Winter 0 SorellaLaBefana Wednesday Wednesday 3 366

NASA Shares How to Save Camera 370-Million-Miles Away Near Jupiter (nasa.gov) 3 usonian Jul 22 Wednesday 7 234

'E's got 'UUGE sharrp... It can leap abou--... LOOK AT THE BONES!!!" 2 Montauk6 Jul 22 Jul 22 12 461

Companion for Betelgeuse confirmed! Beloved red star has a blue-white buddy (earthsky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Jul 22 Jul 22 4 204

Magic mushrooms rewind aging in mice--could they do the same for humans? 3 DBoon Jul 22 Jul 22 11 481

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Playing an Instrument Could Protect Against Cognitive Aging, Study Reveals 10 erronis Jul 19 Jul 22 12 484

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The Smoot - How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement -- The Register 5 erronis Jul 18 Jul 22 13 443

Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 22 Jul 22 11 494

Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained 13 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 21 11 708

Electron microscope image of a white blood cell 5 BootinUp Jul 20 Jul 20 43 1235

The Apollo Moon Landing - Journey to American Democracy - Heather Cox Richardson 4 Rhiannon12866 Jul 20 Jul 20 2 281

This Ancient Practice Beats Pills for Sleep - And Science Backs It 3 erronis Jul 19 Jul 19 17 926

The Most Interesting Email I Ever Received: Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles 0 erronis Jul 18 Jul 18 8 472

8-hour time-lapse shows Earth rotating while capturing the Milky Way. 8 edbermac Jul 16 Jul 17 42 1309

Flying with hands: The evolution of bat wings 0 erronis Jul 16 Jul 16 5 280

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 8 440

Infrared photo of the Horsehead Nebula 0 BootinUp Jul 16 Jul 16 15 473

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Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality Anil Seth TED 4 Uncle Joe Jul 12 Jul 14 19 849

New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We're still learning from it 7 usonian Jul 11 Jul 12 11 577

The Caltech Experiment That Proved How Life Copies Itself - California Curated substack 2 BootinUp Jul 11 Jul 11 5 418

Should Adults in ICU have gene testing? Recent study (possibly) suggests YES 4 SorellaLaBefana Jul 11 Jul 11 2 568

'Could become a death spiral': scientists discover what's driving record die-offs of US honeybees 5 turbinetree Jul 10 Jul 11 17 747

Scientists discover 200-million-year-old flying reptile species 3 Judi Lynn Jul 10 Jul 10 18 711

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 turbinetree Jul 10 Jul 10 1 186

July 10, 1925, the beginning of the Scopes trial 3 question everything Jul 10 Jul 10 3 412

Scientists discover Burmese pythons have never-before-seen cells that help them digest entire skeletons 3 milestogo Jul 9 Jul 9 7 465

World's Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos -- KFF Health News 3 erronis Jul 9 Jul 9 11 503

How much energy do fish expend when floating "effortlessly" in the water column? 0 SorellaLaBefana Jul 9 Jul 9 4 1744

Moon in Saturn's rings leaving ripples 8 Ptah Jul 8 Jul 9 48 1015

A Formula to Keep the Science Flame Burning by James Hansen 3 OKIsItJustMe Jul 8 Jul 8 5 403

What did dinosaurs sound like? 7 cbabe Jul 8 Jul 8 5 535

Killer Whales Fashion Tools from Kelp and Use Them for Grooming 1 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 8 6 372

On this day, July 7, 1959, Venus occulted Regulus. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 7 Jul 7 3 336

Longevity Medicine Breakthrough 2 DanBaron Jul 6 Jul 7 8 635

Astronomers Track Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS 1 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 6 9 489

America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 5 Jul 5 1 396

Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? 8 Uncle Joe Jul 4 Jul 4 7 792

This Giant Telescope Will Map the Universe in Unbelievable Detail NOVA PBS 0 Uncle Joe Jul 4 Jul 4 8 514

PBS Terra: Wait...The Worst Possible US Disaster Just Got EVEN WORSE?!? (Cascadia Megaquake) 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 3 Jul 4 9 1012

The truth about life on other planets - and what it means for humans 6 k_buddy762 Jun 6 Jul 3 15 1166

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 1244

Swarms of tiny nose robots could clear infected sinuses, researchers say 8 Wicked Blue Jun 25 Jul 3 5 702

Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch 3 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jul 3 3 532

Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2 Jul 3 6 494

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 9 676

Dentist may have solved 500-year-old mystery in da Vinci's iconic Vitruvian Man 0 erronis Jul 2 Jul 2 12 743

Earth About to Experience Shortest Day Since the 1970s as Rotation Gains Record Speed 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 1 Jul 2 9 540

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An example of Special relativity 8 BootinUp Jun 30 Jul 1 10 759

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations -- Retraction Watch 0 erronis Jun 30 Jun 30 5 469

Common farm fungicide may be contributing to 'insect apocalypse' 1 erronis Jun 30 Jun 30 2 520

The Oldest Rocks on Earth Are in Canada, and They're 4.16 Billion Years Old 1 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 16 700

MIT's high-tech 'bubble wrap' turns air into safe drinking water -- even in Death Valley 2 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 11 812

Physicists Catch Light in 'Imaginary Time' in Scientific First 0 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 5 541

The Skull Nebula 0 BootinUp Jun 29 Jun 29 10 518

Ignorance Squad Strikes Again: US Cancels Nature Springer Journal Subscriptions 4 NNadir Jun 28 Jun 29 10 713

X-Posted from Australia group 2 canetoad Jun 28 Jun 28 1 522

Galpagos Tomatoes Quietly Reversing Evolution 5 milestogo Jun 24 Jun 28 10 839

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 15 658

How gut bacteria change after exposure to pesticides 3 Wicked Blue Jun 27 Jun 27 4 642

Physicist Solves 120-Year-Old Thermodynamics Puzzle and Corrects Einstein 6 erronis Jun 27 Jun 27 8 833

Clair Patterson: The Caltech Scientist Who Exposed Lead Poisoning and Changed the World 4 BootinUp Jun 27 Jun 27 4 528

What Is Thimerosal? Why Most Vaccines Don't Contain Mercury Anymore 2 LiberalArkie Jun 27 Jun 27 6 546

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 5 598

These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth 1 erronis Jun 26 Jun 26 9 588

Alaska Brown Bear Has Shiny New Smile After Getting A Huge Metal Crown 1 Wicked Blue Jun 26 Jun 26 6 549

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