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Is there a better head position for sleeping (and clearing out junk)? 17 erronis Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 2296
Faces made of living skin make robots smile 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 908
Mountain-size 'planet killer' asteroid will make a close approach to Earth today 4 Cattledog Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 1221
The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes 23 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 69 4883
Stunning photos show 44,000-year-old mummified wolf discovered in Siberian permafrost 0 Cattledog Jun 2024 Jun 2024 18 884
Why do people hate scientists? 4 Warpy Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 1067
Webb telescope makes discovery that was previously impossible 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 16 1283
Once-In-A-Lifetime Stellar Event Expected To Happen This Summer 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 14 1239
A Psychologist Reveals The Unexpected Benefits Of Swearing 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 10 1388
A simple change to save thousands of patients with sepsis 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 27 1418
Why Mount Rainier is the US volcano keeping scientists up at night 0 RandySF Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 894
China's Chang'e 6 probe will soon bring samples of the moon's far side to Earth -- and scientists are getting excited 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 532
This game-changing new gel can convert motion into energy 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 14 675
Gaia space telescope helps astronomers image hidden objects around bright stars 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 536
Deadly 'Flesh-Eating Bacteria' Is Surging in Japan. Here's What You Should Know. 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 712
Solid Wood Surfaces Have Natural Antiviral Properties, Study Shows 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 658
Webb Finds Proto-Globular Clusters in Early Universe 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 489
Texas Abortion Ban Linked to Marked Increase in Infant Deaths, Study Finds 1 Warpy Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 610
A black hole of inexplicable mass: JWST observations reveal a mature quasar at cosmic dawn 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 22 1634
Gigantic oddball aurora seen from Earth for the first time 6 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 15 1601
'Fantastic' particle could be most energetic neutrino ever detected 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 807
Einstein Telescope could launch a new era in astronomy 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 14 882
'Awakening' of a black hole witnessed for the first time 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 831
James Webb Space Telescope spies never-before-seen star behavior in distant nebula (video, photo) 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 16 1027
Magnetic vortices may help feed supermassive black holes. Here's how 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 697
Sick chimpanzees seek out medicinal plants to self-medicate, study reveals 4 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 18 829
Neutron Stars May Contain Matter That 'Does Not Exist Anywhere Else' 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 930
China and France launch satellite to better understand the universe 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 474
Could astronauts grow plants on the Moon? One experiment is heading to the lunar surface to find out 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 659
Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus 2 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 10749

Science Continued...

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Asteroid headed toward Earth? NASA simulation explores how the nation might respond 2 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 815
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks' tail visible in the Southern Hemisphere sky, captured over Chile's Atacama Desert 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 574
Glassy gel is hard as plastic and stretches 7 times its length 2 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 9 1092
Sensory secrets of penis and clitoris unlocked after more than 150 years 3 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 17 1455
Not all 'open source' AI models are actually open: here's a ranking 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 607
Cargo from 'most ancient' shipwreck found off Israel 0 muriel_volestrangler Jun 2024 Jun 2024 13 918
James Webb telescope reveals long-studied baby star is actually 'twins' -- and they're throwing identical tantrums 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 748
Daycares in Finland Grew Forests, And It Changed Kids' Immune Systems 11 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 69 2856
A Study Suggests Black Holes Can Create Space Lasers--Just Like Einstein Thought 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 876
Harnessing Maxwell's demon to establish a macroscale concentration gradient 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 604
Supermassive black hole roars to life as astronomers watch in real time 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 14 902
Evidence That Your Mind is NOT Just In Your Brain - Rupert Sheldrake 20 Uncle Joe Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 3137
Kitchen spices such as turmeric and black pepper could revolutionise wound dressings 23 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 57 4278
'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 1208
Purple Planets Could Be The Signs of Alien Life We've Been Looking For 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 799
Researcher suggests that gravity can exist without mass, mitigating the need for hypothetical dark matter 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 613
Mysterious Martian Hole Puzzles Scientists: An Enigma Underground on The Red Planet : ScienceAlert 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 773
New Type Ia supernova discovered 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 620
DARPA's military-grade 'quantum laser' will use entangled photons to outshine conventional laser beams 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 596
Edward Stone, who guided NASA's Voyager to distant planets, dies at 88 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 524
Mars Was Hit With a Solar Storm Days After Earth's Aurora Light Show, NASA Says 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 546
Meet the 'Echidnapus,' an Extinct Creature That Resembles Both the Echidna and Platypus of Today 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 593
A Giant Interstellar Cloud May Have Once Enveloped Earth, Potentially Causing Ice Ages 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 539
Researchers leverage shadows to model 3D scenes, including objects blocked from view 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 666
Rocket company develops massive catapult to launch satellites into space without using jet fuel 11 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 16 1758
Neanderthal DNA Exists in Humans, But One Piece Is Mysteriously Missing 7 BootinUp Jun 2024 Jun 2024 29 2111
The GOP's war on science is suicidal -- Sabrina Haake 3 erronis Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 820
Webb Detects Giant Collision in Beta Pictoris System 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 12 987
Astronomers Spot Parallel Jets and Circumstellar Disks in Nearby Multistar System 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 641
Wild New Study Suggests Gravity Can Exist Without Mass 2 Warpy Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 1020

Science Continued...

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Future evolution: from looks to brains and personality, how will humans change in the next 10,000 years? 3 erronis Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 811
Study confirms the rotation of Earth's inner core has slowed 8 Jim__ Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 1406
Why scientists fear a second Trump term, and what they are doing about it 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 809
Elite researchers in China say they had 'no choice' but to commit misconduct 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 10006
AI & robotics briefing: The year machines will run out of data (Nature) 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 660
Study: African Elephants Address Each Other With Name-Like Calls 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 22 948
Water Frost Deposits Spotted on Tropical Martian Volcanoes 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 767
A telescope on Earth just took an unbelievable image of Jupiter's moon 12 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 51 2738
In Wyoming, Bill Gates moves ahead with nuclear project aimed at revolutionizing power generation 7 BootinUp Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 1593
George Mason University Announces Its First NASA Space Mission Which Seeks to Uncover the Secrets of Dark Energy 0 nitpicked Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 533
All Human Existence May Have Begun in a Black Hole, Some Scientists Believe 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 10077
A Biologist Reveals How To Avoid Deadly Bites From South America's Most Feared Snake 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 1096
Researchers made ultra-thin night-vision lenses that fit regular glasses 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 779
Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 813
A Herpetologist Reveals The World's Most Venomous Snake--Shockingly, It Has Never Killed Anyone 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 1261
Scientists Have Discovered a New Way to Look Inside Crystals 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 647
Ed Dwight, first African American candidate for space travel, takes off 60 years later 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 558
Peering Through Cosmic Dust: James Webb Telescope Is on the Hunt for Newborn Planets 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 505
First Detection of Magnetism in Massive Stars Beyond Our Galaxy 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 516
"Extraordinary" Slow-Spinning Neutron Star Shakes Astrophysics 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 729
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