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From Cosmic Collision to Fertile Fields: Finland's Hidden Hexagonal Wonder 0 erronis Jan 2025 Jan 2025 32 1769
Quadrantid meteor shower: How to watch the first 'shooting stars' of 2025 rain over Earth tonight 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 1396
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ready to transform our understanding of the cosmos 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 11 1440
The new science of death: 'There's something happening in the brain that makes no sense' 8 littlemissmartypants Dec 2024 Jan 2025 6 2046
Here's your 2025 guide to the night sky and other celestial wow moments 1 littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 Jan 2025 12 1162
Boffins ponder paltry brain data rate of 10 bits per second 1 erronis Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 1013
Archaeologists Found 115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Where They Shouldn't Be 8 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2024 Jan 2025 55 3281
Q_NLN_Factoring - an extension of Binary Energy Dynamics 6 mikelewis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 15265
NASA Is Watching a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field 2 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 33 1937
In Source Fragmentation of PFAS in Mass Spectrometry Complicates the Identification of These Ubiquitous Pollutants. 0 NNadir Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 1011
Atmospheric Rivers Unleashed: How Climate Change Is Reshaping West Coast Storms 9 erronis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 12 2373
Geoffrey Hinton upgrades the possibilty of AI causing our extinction in 30 years 17 mdbl Dec 2024 Dec 2024 15 3750
Beam me up, Scotty: Will human teleportation ever become a reality? 5 LastLiberal in PalmSprings Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1445
Quantum Computing Is Finally Here. But What Is It? 1 Zorro Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 1334
Q_Security: A quantumly inspired security solution. 6 mikelewis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1723
Dinosaurs' Extinction: A Warning for Humanity? Full Special 4 YoshidaYui Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1662
Time is an Illusion : Past, Present, and Future Coexist! 7 YoshidaYui Dec 2024 Dec 2024 12 2231
Scientists Discover New Deep-Sea Predator, Name It 'Darkness' 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2024 Dec 2024 14 1320
Scientists Discuss Music and the Origins of Language 5 mopinko Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 2097
How a newly discovered galaxy could offer clues on how our Milky Way Galaxy formed - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 1105
Thermodynamic model identifies how gold reaches Earth's surface 0 hunter Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 948
How Airplanes Create Stunning Holes in the Sky 0 erronis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 11 1015
"Ant-Like" Robot Swarms Lift Heavy Objects With Herculean Strength 2 erronis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 14 1715
Why sonic booms from the most powerful rocket ever built have some scientists worried 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 10 1202
Moon, Dogs and Lights: The APOD for December 25 0 SorellaLaBefana Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 926
The Fastest Spacecraft Ever Heads for Its Close-Up With the Sun 0 reACTIONary Dec 2024 Dec 2024 9 936
Binary Energy Dynamics - exploring the relationship between energy sequences and prime factorization 16 mikelewis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 0 17614
1400 degrees C, 430,000 mph - the Parker Solar Probe makes its closest dive yet to the Sun this Christmas 0 muriel_volestrangler Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 869
OpenAI's Latest Model Shows AGI Is Inevitable. Now What? -- LawfareMedia 9 erronis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 1974
Ants prove superior to humans in group problem-solving maze experiment 1 Jim__ Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1144

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Is political interference causing faculty brain drain in the southern United States? 11 SorellaLaBefana Dec 2024 Dec 2024 31 3150
Scientists observe 'negative time' in quantum experiments 2 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 10 1380
Chemistry Nobel Winner Fredrick Soddy's "Crank" Thermodynamics Inspired Views on Economics 6 NNadir Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 1610
A 1,000-Year-Old Seed Grows in Israel - kept secret from the public for 14 years 3 BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 2024 Dec 2024 15 1662
Revivable self-assembled supramolecular biomass fibrous framework for efficient microplastic removal 6 WestMichRad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 9 1580
Scientists have taught rats to drive little cars. And they love it. 41 JohnnyRingo Dec 2024 Dec 2024 74 8484
"I can assure you that the misuse of the word 'national' by our rulers has thoroughly broken me of the habit... 3 NNadir Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 1597
Model suggests Earth's subsurface may hold up to 5.6 10⁶ million metric tons of natural hydrogen - Phys.org 2 Caribbeans Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 1163
The Curious Reason Taxi Drivers Are Protected From Alzheimer's 33 erronis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 72 9279
Study claims all observables in nature can be measured with a single constant: The second 5 Jim__ Dec 2024 Dec 2024 10 1670
Two stars may be orbiting each other near a supermassive black hole in our Milky Way galaxy 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 1002
Stars Are Everywhere, So Why Is the Sky Still Dark? 4 erronis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 6 1310
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. 9 erronis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 12 2292
What will they think of next? - PROBA-3 0 Ptah Dec 2024 Dec 2024 10 863
Knick Knack Paddy Whack... Talk to your dogs Bone? 0 mikelewis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 0 951
Jupiter's Moon Io Doesn't Have An Ocean Of Lava, Scientists Say 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1059
New Brain Technique Method Unveils Hidden Connections Behind Higher Order Functions 0 erronis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 9 1092
This Post is Incomplete 8 mikelewis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 1971
After crashing on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter could live on as a weather station for 20 years (maybe not) 2 eppur_se_muova Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1123
Pluto's Small Moons Are Unlike Any Other 17 Judi Lynn Dec 2024 Dec 2024 43 4699
Just a fraction of the hydrogen hidden beneath Earth's surface could power Earth for 200 years, scientists find 1 Caribbeans Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1035
The Physics of Perpetual Motion - Hamiltonian v Lagrangian. 8 mikelewis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 2154
An Incredible Mass Spectrometer. 3 NNadir Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 1313
AMOC: Atlantic circulation collapse? Part 2: The Evidence and Discussion 1 SorellaLaBefana Dec 2024 Dec 2024 10 1189
Sentinel-1C captures first radar images of Earth 2 Jim__ Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 1138
AMOC: Atlantic circulation collapse? The best (if still confusing to me) explanation have yet seen 1 SorellaLaBefana Dec 2024 Dec 2024 10 1322
Dark Energy Camera Captures Stunning New Image of Messier 83 9 Judi Lynn Dec 2024 Dec 2024 16 2004
Alena Tensor--a new hope for unification in physics 0 erronis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 1025
Judging knot strength throws people for a loop: Experiment reveals new blind spot in our physical reasoning 6 erronis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 5848
The most dangerous delivery truck? How a lorry-load of antimatter will help solve secrets of universe 7 cbabe Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 1965

Science Continued...

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Needle-Free: New Nano-Vaccine Effective Against All COVID-19 Variants 12 erronis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 77 4770
Ancient life 0 SarcasticSatyr Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 967
Dark Energy Camera Spies the Outskirts of the Swirling Southern Pinwheel Galaxy 2 Ptah Dec 2024 Dec 2024 6 1226
Scientists close to solving mystery of how universe's giant galaxies formed 2 muriel_volestrangler Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 1080
Hubble Space Telescope Looks at Flocculent Spiral: NGC 2090 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2024 Dec 2024 6 967
Producing circuit boards from leaves would prevent millions of tons of e-waste 3 Wicked Blue Nov 2024 Dec 2024 8 1569
World's biggest battery coming to Maine -- and it could store 130 million times more energy than your laptop 3 Judi Lynn Sep 2024 Dec 2024 6 1511
Researchers discover a surprising way to jump-start battery performance 1 sl8 Sep 2024 Dec 2024 12 1299
Trump wants SpaceX customer Jared Isaacman as next NASA boss 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2024 Dec 2024 0 1177
Spiderweb protocluster is filled with baby galaxies, James Webb Space Telescope reveals (image) 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 917
Study: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's Water Has Similar Molecular Signature to Earth's Water 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 828
Hubble Telescope peeks at star with planet-forming disk that gets 3 times hotter than the sun 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2024 Dec 2024 9 940
Actual Image taken on surface of Alien World 7 SorellaLaBefana Dec 2024 Dec 2024 84 4542
Artificial photosynthesis learned from nature: New solar hydrogen production technology developed 0 Caribbeans Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 1017
Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too? 1 erronis Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 1040
Accidental Discovery Reveals an Image of a Single Photon 3 Sancho Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 1989
A whale so rare only 7 carcasses have ever been found. 1 duncang Dec 2024 Dec 2024 14 1332
Ethiopian Wolves Become First Large Carnivore Documented Feeding on Nectar 5 Judi Lynn Nov 2024 Dec 2024 9 1521
Humanity May Reach Singularity Within Just 6 Years, Trend Shows Story by Darren Orf 7h 3 min read 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2024 Nov 2024 7 1506
Webb Captures New Image of Sombrero Galaxy 10 Judi Lynn Nov 2024 Nov 2024 7 2157
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