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Building Blocks of Life Discovered on Distant Asteroid NOVA PBS 2 Uncle Joe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1194
Mystery at heart of Milky Way galaxy linked to new type of dark matter 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1162
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 1162
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research 2 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1063
Highly Efficient Plutonium Extraction Using a Phosphonium Phosphinate Task-Specific Ionic Liquid 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 706
Secret commands found in Bluetooth chip used in a billion devices 6 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 19 1561
Webb exposes complex atmosphere of starless super-Jupiter 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1024
Private lunar lander Athena may have fallen over while touching down near the moon's south pole 9 Eugene Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 1871
The Startling Truth About What Happens to Your Eyes While You Sleep 1 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 21 1429
Listen To The Loudest Humpback Whale Yapping We've Ever Heard Off Hawaii 6 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1528
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 1292
How to photograph the moon: Tips on camera gear, settings and composition 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1333
Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover 4 DBoon Mar 2025 Mar 2025 22 6378
Powerful 'equinox auroras' may arrive soon: Why changing seasons can bring the best northern lights 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 795
James Webb Unveils a Mysterious Planet Unlike Anything in Our Solar System 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 1265
Astronomers Just Found a Star System That Shouldn't Exist Near a Supermassive Black Hole 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 812
Study warns of deadly future marine heat waves in East Coast estuaries 0 erronis Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 808
Unproven Einstein theory of 'gravitational memory' may be real after all, new study hints 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1294
NASA's Webb Exposes Complex Atmosphere of Starless Super-Jupiter 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 951
Men are getting bigger than women. 2 surfered Jan 2025 Mar 2025 6 1522
Interstellar tunnel discovered: Could it be the cosmic gateway to new stars? 4 Judi Lynn Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 1463
Science Can't Explain This Woman's Superpower 6 Xipe Totec Mar 2025 Mar 2025 14 2614
How did this man's brain turn to glass? Scientists have a theory 3 erronis Feb 2025 Mar 2025 10 1752
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 1895
'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 1305
Canada's Bruce Power Sets a Record for the Production of Cobalt 60 for Medical Use. 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 863
Determination of the Valuable Actinides Neptunium and Americium In Historically Operated Nuclear Reactors. 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 857
Sometimes ethical courage is more than its own reward. 2 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 16 1191
Time: Private Lunar Lander Blue Ghost Aces Moon Touchdown With Special Delivery for NASA 1 Dennis Donovan Mar 2025 Mar 2025 11 908
Ancient Egyptian Mummified Bodies: Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of Their Smell 1 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1156

Science Continued...

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Superelastic titanium alloy has potential for space missions 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 921
Ten "talented, persistent, and brilliant" Ukrainian scientists whose work - some cases lives - were cut short by war. 0 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 932
US universities curtail PhD admissions amid Trump science funding cuts 8 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1933
The loss of sugar coating of the brain and aging. 3 NNadir Mar 2025 Mar 2025 14 1551
Ancient Stone Tools Reveal Early Human Presence in Tropical Rainforests 150,000 Years Ago 0 milestogo Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 873
Mozart's true face is revealed for the first time in 230 YEARS 13 NJCher Mar 2025 Mar 2025 7 2729
James Hansen and Pushker Kharecha - The Acid Test: Global Temperature in 2025 19 OKIsItJustMe Feb 2025 Mar 2025 3 5587
For-Profit Companies Can't Easily Replace NOAA's Weather-Forecasting Prowess 4 littlemissmartypants Feb 2025 Feb 2025 18 1852
Dear God, Why? (muscle-driven android test) 3 LudwigPastorius Feb 2025 Feb 2025 0 1226
Scientists match Earth's ice age cycles with orbital shifts 0 Jim__ Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 913
World's oldest juniper shrub discovered in Finland--annual rings suggest it's 1,647 years old 0 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 12 1100
A Rare Alignment of 7 Planets Is Taking Place in The Sky This Week 6 SheltieLover Feb 2025 Feb 2025 16 2172
A good explanation of the JWST and Cosmological Crisis (if you think it is a "crisis") 2 Sancho Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1383
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 1421
A Black Fungus Is Thriving In Chernobyl By Feeding On Radiation--could It Help Humanity? 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1214
Radiophobia: Useful concept, or ostracising term? 0 NNadir Feb 2025 Feb 2025 0 1110
Popular Weight Loss Drugs Linked to Blindness, New Study Finds 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1345
Colorado Plateau's dramatic canyons: How rivers' ancient pauses and rapid cuts shaped them 0 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 916
Ancient Beaches Found on Mars Reveal The Red Planet Once Had Oceans 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 10 1504
Phys.org: How Roman society integrated people who altered their bodies and defied gender norms 1 DBoon Feb 2025 Feb 2025 9 1169
NASA Has Some Good News About The Asteroid That Could Hit Earth 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 1588
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 4 900
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 8 867
AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years 12 LiberalArkie Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 2387
A Perfect 'Einstein Ring' Is Helping Scientists Unlock Dark Matter 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 802
NASA astronomers find the fastest exoplanet system at 1.2 million miles per hour 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 770
Nokia Is Building a 4G Cell Network on the Moon and It's Just the Beginning 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 760
Labord's chameleon: The color-changing lizard that drops dead in 4 months 1 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1387
Free ebook uploaded by author at the archive: Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty -- CC License. 2 usonian Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1138
Hydrogen becomes a superfluid at nanoscale, confirming 50-year-old prediction - UBC 1 Caribbeans Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1051

Science Continued...

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'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut 2 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1399
The janitor who changed science. Great short video. 0 Eko Feb 2025 Feb 2025 9 1134
The butts of these blowfly larvae mimic termite faces 2 Onthefly Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 1241
This Strange Motion Keeps Appearing Everywhere - Even in High-Energy Collisions 3 erronis Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1592
'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut 0 Bayard Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 935
Drylands under pressure: Science and solutions for global stability 0 NNadir Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 809
Will An Asteroid Hit Earth in 2032? 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1269
When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds 4 JT99 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1587
Largest superstructure in the nearby universe discovered 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 12 1332
World's glaciers melting faster than ever recorded 0 Wicked Blue Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 876
Welcome To Tylos, A Planet 'Out Of Science Fiction,' Scientists Say 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 10 1161
'Iridescent' clouds on Mars captured in Martian twilight in stunning NASA rover images 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 883
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 7 877
mRNA vaccines show promise in pancreatic cancer in early trial 2 Wicked Blue Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 1031
National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues 2 douglas9 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 9 1045
Nokia is Putting the First Cellular Network On the Moon 3 LiberalArkie Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 1100
T**** Tracker at Science Magazine 1 usonian Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1182
Long video: James Webb Telescope SHOCKS Us With Gliese 504b's CLEAREST Image Yet! 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 11 1419
How a mushroom coral goes for a walk without legs 0 Onthefly Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 867
The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done 3 intrepidity Feb 2025 Feb 2025 5 1336
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