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18,000 dinosaur tracks discovered along ancient Bolivian coastline -- and they set a new record 11 Judi Lynn Dec 5 Dec 5 38 1588
The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Dec 5 Dec 5 2 508
Private com-sat companies are planning to launch so many satellites that even SPACE telescopes will be compromised 2 SorellaLaBefana Dec 5 Dec 5 10 611
Skin-to-brain signal explains why warm hugs make us feel so good about ourselves 0 erronis Dec 4 Dec 4 4 632
For the 1st time ever, 8 spacecraft are docked to the International Space Station 2 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 6 690
Video-call glitches can have serious consequences 0 erronis Dec 3 Dec 3 6 712
New Algorithm Lets Architects Design Stunning Curved Structures in Minutes 0 erronis Dec 3 Dec 3 4 613
Tiny Bullet Fragments in Hunted Meat Pose Lead Poisoning Risk 1 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 5 616
James Webb telescope spots strange 'super-puff' planet frantically chasing its own atmosphere through space 0 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 6 620
NASA's Perseverance Rover Hears the Crack of Martian Lightning, Providing the First Glimpse into the Red Planet's Atmosp 0 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 2 491
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon 4 littlemissmartypants Nov 28 Dec 2 4 729
When Americans migrate from violent states, the risk of future violence follows them 1 erronis Dec 2 Dec 2 8 855
Seismic Mystery Solved: Scientists Find a New State of Matter at Earth's Center 1 Judi Lynn Dec 1 Dec 1 17 813
Birds Are Beeping and Booping like R2-D2. Their Mimicked Sounds Are Helping Unlock the Secrets of Avian Communication 1 Judi Lynn Dec 1 Dec 1 13 795
Consciousness as the foundation: New theory addresses nature of reality 13 erronis Nov 25 Dec 1 13 1655
Textbooks Were Wrong: 249-Million-Year-Old Fossil Discovery Upends Timeline of Evolution 15 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Dec 1 36 2283
A.I. Reveals Signs of Early Life in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks. Next, It Could Continue the Search in Space 0 Judi Lynn Dec 1 Dec 1 8 707
Scientists mapped the shape of a supernova for the first time ever - and it's not what we expected: Space photo of the w 4 Judi Lynn Nov 30 Nov 30 16 1094
Your Brain Quietly Rewrites Reality Depending on Your State of Mind 4 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 14 1010
Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years 3 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 6 5748
Living microbes found in a meteorite crater may offer clues to life on Mars 0 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 6 570
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 littlemissmartypants Nov 28 Nov 28 1 487
"It's A Remarkable Thing, To Be A Human Being" - Prof. Brian Cox 2 BootinUp Nov 25 Nov 26 13 761
Astrophysicist's latest 3I/ATLAS theory: It's interested in Jupiter 6 Jilly_in_VA Nov 24 Nov 24 11 917
Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy 3 Jilly_in_VA Nov 24 Nov 24 31 973
The Uncanny Gmail Clone That Drops You Straight Into Epstein's Inbox 2 littlemissmartypants Nov 24 Nov 24 6 680
Mosquito proboscis repurposed as a fine nozzle for 3D printing 2 cbabe Nov 21 Nov 21 11 764
Why Some People Feel Nothing From Music: Scientists Uncover Rare Brain Disconnect 14 erronis Nov 20 Nov 21 8 1278
No need to ask for directions: Loggerhead sea turtles rely on two senses for migration 0 douglas9 Nov 21 Nov 21 9 595
New Psychoactive Substances in Wastewater from Rest Areas and Commercial Weigh Stations along Interstate Highways 8 NNadir Nov 20 Nov 21 15 1254

Science Continued...

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Humans are evolved for nature, not cities, say anthropologists 14 erronis Nov 18 Nov 19 18 1327
How language shapes the way we think Lera Boroditsky TED 2 Uncle Joe Nov 18 Nov 18 13 749
The State of Napa Valley College's Ground Breaking $7.5 million Solar Facility Built in 2009. 4 NNadir Nov 18 Nov 18 3 703
Research integrity conference hit with AI-generated abstracts 0 erronis Nov 18 Nov 18 3 557
NBC covering breakthrough ufo paper 7 SamuelTheThird Oct 2025 Nov 18 10 6645
A whopper of a retraction. 5 NNadir Nov 12 Nov 17 13 1338
Tiny spiders that build giant 'puppet' decoys from disembodied prey discovered in Peru and Philippines 1 SamuelTheThird Nov 12 Nov 17 21 1008
Scientists make jaw-dropping find after drilling more than 1,500 feet into Antarctic ice: 'We even discovered a school o 12 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 12 Nov 12 100 3991
G4 (SEVERE) WATCH IN EFFECT FOR 12 NOVEMBER. (Space weather) 3 usonian Nov 11 Nov 11 10 807
On Bashing Servers: ShengBTE, A Boltzmann Transport Equation Solver. 9 NNadir Nov 8 Nov 11 4 898
People Are Falling In Love With AI Chatbots. What Could Go Wrong? 0 YoshidaYui Nov 9 Nov 9 0 572
Boy that went fast. 1 NNadir Nov 8 Nov 8 10 1059
'Yale Climate Connection' has a very concise and coherent discussion on Climate-Change Denialism: FLICC & CONSPIR 1 SorellaLaBefana Nov 7 Nov 7 7 652
China's Shenzhou-20 return mission delayed due to space debris impact 2 Eugene Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 557
This Slime Could Change The World Planet Fix BBC Earth Science 1 Xipe Totec Nov 2025 Nov 2025 12 914
What Exactly Is Inside Jupiter? 3 YoshidaYui Nov 2025 Nov 2025 17 1093
Science under attack - hopefully we don't suffer a similar fate. 0 generalbetrayus Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 620
Transmutation of Mercury into Gold. 12 NNadir Oct 2025 Nov 2025 12 1205
After distractions, rotating brain waves may help thought circle back to the task 4 erronis Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 638
Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation 2 Jim__ Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 624
The International Space Station marks 25 years of nonstop human presence in orbit 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 408
Tool reveals how your dinner affects risk of 30,875 species land-dwelling animals going extinct 0 erronis Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 423
Fishers' heartbeats align during collaborative hunts with dolphins, study reveals 0 erronis Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 456
My mother told me she had an eye on the back of her head. It appears she may have been right. 2 erronis Oct 2025 Oct 2025 20 933
World's Biomass Human vs ... 6 SorellaLaBefana Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 756
Have you ever been to a lecture where the speaker is so smart people are afraid to ask a question? 11 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 1075
The long, deep dig: Collaboration unearths ancient city of Sardis 0 erronis Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 579
If you had a healthy dollop of disposable income, would you pay 500 hundred bucks for this book? 9 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 1081
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment 2 erronis Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 617
Cool science word: Euxinia. 2 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 668

Science Continued...

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NASA tested my chain theory in space - Steve Mould (video) 0 sl8 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 695
A laser pointer at 2 billion fps makes the speed of light look... kinda weird 2 LiberalArkie Oct 2025 Oct 2025 13 1039
American Heart Association reviewing award to rocket scientist with eight retractions 0 erronis Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 566
A gorgeous view of M51 - the Whirlpool Galaxy 8 BootinUp Oct 2025 Oct 2025 16 915
Mosquitoes Have Started Appearing in One of The Last Places on Earth Without Them 0 littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 Oct 2025 15 765
Sad. Nobel laureate George Smoot, who researched the universe's origins at UC Berkeley, dies at 80 7 usonian Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 762
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 usonian Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 293
Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of UAP 0 ThreeNoSeep Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 490
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 SamuelTheThird Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 365
Evidence suggests mRNA (Covid) vaccines prolong some cancer patients' lives. 16 Laffy Kat Oct 2025 Oct 2025 40 1739
Science saving whales: Scientists hope underwater fiber-optic cables can help save endangered orcas 4 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 572
An Iranian volcano appears to have woken up -- 700,000 years after its last eruption 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 695
How Afraid of the AI Apocalypse Should We Be? The Ezra Klein Show 1 YoshidaYui Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 587
The most accurate 3D map of stellar nurseries in the Milky Way (ESA) 3 usonian Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 633
Sam Altman Shows Me GPT 5... And What's Next 4 YoshidaYui Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 772
Dinosaurs Were Weirder Than We Thought 3 YoshidaYui Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 1029
Why Gravity Is A Lie, explained in Zero G 1 YoshidaYui Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 816
'Bored aliens': has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth? 9 hunter Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 828
Cascadia quake may create 'emergency situation' in other West Coast fault zone, study warns 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 641
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