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Superb lyrebirds have an unexpected new skill 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 15 1073
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Installs LSST Camera on Telescope 1 Ptah Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 877
Black holes: Not endings, but beginnings? Theoretical study delves into 'white holes' 3 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1052
The 'Silent' X Chromosome Gives the Aging Female Brain a Boost 5 WestMichRad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 16 1392
NASA's newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1008
Water's Hidden Side Revealed - It Can Exist in Two Liquid Forms at Once 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 958
Building Blocks of Life Discovered on Distant Asteroid NOVA PBS 2 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1101
Mystery at heart of Milky Way galaxy linked to new type of dark matter 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1090
New Palladium Catalyst Cuts Hydrogen Production Costs by 90% Nanosheet structure reduces need for precious metals by 90% 0 Caribbeans Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1090
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research 2 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 990
Highly Efficient Plutonium Extraction Using a Phosphonium Phosphinate Task-Specific Ionic Liquid 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 635
Secret commands found in Bluetooth chip used in a billion devices 6 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 19 1446
Webb exposes complex atmosphere of starless super-Jupiter 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 949
Private lunar lander Athena may have fallen over while touching down near the moon's south pole 9 Eugene Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1732
The Startling Truth About What Happens to Your Eyes While You Sleep 1 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 21 1350
Listen To The Loudest Humpback Whale Yapping We've Ever Heard Off Hawaii 6 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1395
This Map Lets You Plug in Your Address to See How It's Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 22 1161
How to photograph the moon: Tips on camera gear, settings and composition 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1237
Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover 4 DBoon Mar 2025 Mar 2025 22 6263
Powerful 'equinox auroras' may arrive soon: Why changing seasons can bring the best northern lights 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 734
James Webb Unveils a Mysterious Planet Unlike Anything in Our Solar System 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1176
Astronomers Just Found a Star System That Shouldn't Exist Near a Supermassive Black Hole 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 751
Study warns of deadly future marine heat waves in East Coast estuaries 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 726
Unproven Einstein theory of 'gravitational memory' may be real after all, new study hints 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1212
NASA's Webb Exposes Complex Atmosphere of Starless Super-Jupiter 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 888
Men are getting bigger than women. 2 surfered Jan 2025 Mar 2025 6 1418
Interstellar tunnel discovered: Could it be the cosmic gateway to new stars? 4 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 1361
Science Can't Explain This Woman's Superpower 6 Xipe Totec Mar 2025 Mar 2025 14 2472
How did this man's brain turn to glass? Scientists have a theory 3 erronis Feb 2025 Mar 2025 10 1637
Once this would have been just pure science fiction: Two AI agents on a phone call realize they're both AI... 6 Pluvious Mar 2025 Mar 2025 11 1783

Science Continued...

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'Cosmic Horseshoe' may contain black hole the size of 36 billion suns -- one of the largest ever detected 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1237
Canada's Bruce Power Sets a Record for the Production of Cobalt 60 for Medical Use. 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 801
Determination of the Valuable Actinides Neptunium and Americium In Historically Operated Nuclear Reactors. 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 790
Sometimes ethical courage is more than its own reward. 2 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 16 1111
Time: Private Lunar Lander Blue Ghost Aces Moon Touchdown With Special Delivery for NASA 1 Dennis Donovan Mar 2025 Mar 2025 11 847
Ancient Egyptian Mummified Bodies: Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of Their Smell 1 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1088
Superelastic titanium alloy has potential for space missions 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 870
Ten "talented, persistent, and brilliant" Ukrainian scientists whose work - some cases lives - were cut short by war. 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 868
US universities curtail PhD admissions amid Trump science funding cuts 8 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1762
The loss of sugar coating of the brain and aging. 3 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 14 1464
Ancient Stone Tools Reveal Early Human Presence in Tropical Rainforests 150,000 Years Ago 0 milestogo Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 822
Mozart's true face is revealed for the first time in 230 YEARS 13 NJCher Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 2491
James Hansen and Pushker Kharecha - The Acid Test: Global Temperature in 2025 19 OKIsItJustMe Feb 2025 Mar 2025 3 4993
For-Profit Companies Can't Easily Replace NOAA's Weather-Forecasting Prowess 4 littlemissmartypants Feb 2025 Feb 2025 18 1694
Dear God, Why? (muscle-driven android test) 3 LudwigPastorius Feb 2025 Feb 2025 0 1148
Scientists match Earth's ice age cycles with orbital shifts 0 Jim__ Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 833
World's oldest juniper shrub discovered in Finland--annual rings suggest it's 1,647 years old 0 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 12 1046
A Rare Alignment of 7 Planets Is Taking Place in The Sky This Week 6 SheltieLover Feb 2025 Feb 2025 16 2062
A good explanation of the JWST and Cosmological Crisis (if you think it is a "crisis") 2 Sancho Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1301
Rare fresco discovered in Pompeii shows type of woman who 'breaks free from male order to dance freely, 2 milestogo Feb 2025 Feb 2025 13 1356
A Black Fungus Is Thriving In Chernobyl By Feeding On Radiation--could It Help Humanity? 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1137
Radiophobia: Useful concept, or ostracising term? 0 NNadir Feb 2025 Feb 2025 0 1037
Popular Weight Loss Drugs Linked to Blindness, New Study Finds 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1280
Colorado Plateau's dramatic canyons: How rivers' ancient pauses and rapid cuts shaped them 0 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 858
Ancient Beaches Found on Mars Reveal The Red Planet Once Had Oceans 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 10 1413
Phys.org: How Roman society integrated people who altered their bodies and defied gender norms 1 DBoon Feb 2025 Feb 2025 9 1116
NASA Has Some Good News About The Asteroid That Could Hit Earth 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 1501
Eight things scientists can do right now to stand up to the Trump administration's attacks on research, public health, 0 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 838
NASA's 'SPHEREx' infrared space telescope is launching this week. Here's why it's a big deal 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 816
AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years 12 LiberalArkie Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 2183

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A Perfect 'Einstein Ring' Is Helping Scientists Unlock Dark Matter 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 743
NASA astronomers find the fastest exoplanet system at 1.2 million miles per hour 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 714
Nokia Is Building a 4G Cell Network on the Moon and It's Just the Beginning 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 708
Labord's chameleon: The color-changing lizard that drops dead in 4 months 1 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1299
Free ebook uploaded by author at the archive: Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty -- CC License. 2 usonian Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1069
Hydrogen becomes a superfluid at nanoscale, confirming 50-year-old prediction - UBC 1 Caribbeans Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 976
'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut 2 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1294
The janitor who changed science. Great short video. 0 Eko Feb 2025 Feb 2025 9 1069
The butts of these blowfly larvae mimic termite faces 2 Onthefly Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 1173
This Strange Motion Keeps Appearing Everywhere - Even in High-Energy Collisions 3 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1488
'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut 0 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 865
Drylands under pressure: Science and solutions for global stability 0 NNadir Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 747
Will An Asteroid Hit Earth in 2032? 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1205
When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds 4 JT99 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1469
Largest superstructure in the nearby universe discovered 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 12 1265
World's glaciers melting faster than ever recorded 0 Wicked Blue Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 822
Welcome To Tylos, A Planet 'Out Of Science Fiction,' Scientists Say 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 10 1097
'Iridescent' clouds on Mars captured in Martian twilight in stunning NASA rover images 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 813
Breakthrough quantum chip that harnesses new state of matter could set us on the path to quantum supremacy 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 831
mRNA vaccines show promise in pancreatic cancer in early trial 2 Wicked Blue Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 966
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