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Stellar nursery bursts with newborn stars in hauntingly beautiful Hubble telescope image -- 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 8 14 698
The spark of the Super: Teller-Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb--rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years 7 NNadir Feb 4 Feb 8 4 935
A Really Fabulous Lecture We Saw Today on the Topic of AI, Computer Vision, Language and Robotics: Deep Learning. 2 NNadir Feb 7 Feb 7 4 666
If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn't write it disappears from a journal's website with no notice... 1 NNadir Feb 6 Feb 6 3 663
Does Pregnancy Result in a Hankering for Prime Numbers? 9 NNadir Feb 4 Feb 4 7 985
Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 6 633
OpenAI's New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace 'Prism' Raises Fears Of Vibe-Coded Academic AISlop 3 littlemissmartypants Feb 4 Feb 4 3 680
AI model OpenScholar synthesizes scientific research and cites sources as accurately as human experts 2 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 1 625
Genetic analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique lineage in the Balkans 0 erronis Feb 4 Feb 4 6 599
Reproduction in space, an environment hostile to human biology 7 erronis Feb 3 Feb 4 5 842
Artemis II launch has been delayed until March. 0 llmart Feb 3 Feb 3 5 540
'They've probably been untouched for 49 million years': The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 2 20 864
At the scientific lecture I attended today, the speaker rephrased the term "AI" in a way I appreciated and admired. 5 NNadir Jan 31 Feb 2 13 1037
Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory--here's how 5 erronis Feb 1 Feb 1 15 875
16 years of brain scans reveal the cerebellum's crucial role in human language 2 erronis Jan 27 Feb 1 8 623
Saturn has more moons than any other planet in our solar system 2 BootinUp Jan 29 Jan 29 4 616
Anti-vaccine sentiment pushes Moderna away from new late-stage infectious disease trials 3 NNadir Jan 29 Jan 29 9 755
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office 1 douglas9 Jan 27 Jan 27 14 650
How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926) 5 usonian Jan 27 Jan 27 9 719
Scientists identify a brain region that differs between male and female mice and may influence social behavior 10 erronis Jan 26 Jan 26 10 1102
Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 26 Jan 26 10 654
Pilot captures historic northern lights show from 37,000 feet (photos) 19 milestogo Jan 22 Jan 26 71 2428
Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jan 23 Jan 23 9 792
Image of Barnard 59, in the Pipe Nebula 3 BootinUp Jan 23 Jan 23 11 731
What If You Keep Slowing Down? 3 Uncle Joe Jan 21 Jan 22 10 1046
Why do some people get 'hangry' more quickly than others? 1 erronis Jan 19 Jan 19 20 931
There Is Something Faster Than Light 10 Uncle Joe Dec 24 Jan 18 7 1615
OFFS -- AI can FU anything (bogus illustration). 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 17 Jan 17 2 683
Study finds Tyrannosaurus rex did not reach full size until age 40 2 Jilly_in_VA Jan 15 Jan 17 4 722
The Southern Ocean current reverses for the first time, signaling a risk of climate system collapse 23 Bayard Jan 15 Jan 17 82 3571

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Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane 3 highplainsdem Jan 17 Jan 17 6 800
NASA's Artemis moon mission one step closer to liftoff - NBC News 2 TexasTowelie Jan 17 Jan 17 3 715
NASA's Voyager Just Crossed the Edge of the Solar System -- and Found Something Wild 10 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 16 Jan 16 52 2666
Scientists uncover Antarctica's hidden landscape beneath ice sheet for first time 0 highplainsdem Jan 16 Jan 16 10 661
NASA SpaceX Crew-11 Splashes Down Off Coast of California - C-SPAN 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 16 Jan 16 3 498
"Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis. University research delivers." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 15 Jan 15 57 2079
Never-before-seen footage captures moment scientists find new, giant anaconda species in Amazon 4 milestogo Jan 12 Jan 12 18 1054
Dogs with a Large Vocabulary of Object Labels Learn New Labels by Overhearing Like 1.5-Year-Old Infants 13 GreatGazoo Jan 9 Jan 10 13 1465
NASA crew to make rare early return after medical issue in space (CNN) 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 8 Jan 9 4 766
WHY DINOSAURS? AN AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DINOSAURS AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM 0 eppur_se_muova Jan 8 Jan 8 5 570
A bison's hump helps it plow through snow with ease 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 8 Jan 8 5 842
Psychological traits that may fuel conspiracy theorist mindset identified 10 erronis Jan 5 Jan 8 6 1002
The Shocking Speed at Which Pandemics Take Over Cities 2 erronis Jan 5 Jan 6 16 753
Flu Is Relentless. Crispr Might Be Able to Shut It Down 4 LiberalArkie Jan 6 Jan 6 11 892
Is President Jeffries in 2027 More Probable Than the Universe that Exists? 7 NNadir Dec 2025 Jan 6 12 1106
Scientists Teach the Brain To Read Light as a New Sense 9 erronis Dec 2025 Jan 6 3 1015
Has anyone 3 Rebl2 Jan 5 Jan 5 3 724
The wolf supermoon will kick off 2026 with a celestial bang. Here's when and how to see it. 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 1 Jan 4 11 811
My wife noted something about the "Science on Saturday" series we attend every winter. 5 NNadir Jan 1 Jan 1 62 1987
These giant sea reptiles lived in freshwater rivers, too (earthsky.org) 8 eppur_se_muova Dec 31 Dec 31 8 1053
Hiroshima and the Development of Anticlotting Drugs (A Wikipedia Reference Only.) 0 NNadir Dec 31 Dec 31 3 597
short video of a flying fish 9 BootinUp Dec 29 Dec 29 9 989
Moonship, December 1972 3 SorellaLaBefana Dec 27 Dec 27 11 787
A 'Third State' Exists Between Life and Death--And That Suggests Your Cells Are Conscious, Some Scientists Say 7 Judi Lynn Dec 25 Dec 26 32 1849
Turtle Patrol Volunteer 4 surfered Dec 2025 Dec 25 11 742
A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue 10 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 25 47 1983
Panning across the Cosmic Seagull 0 BootinUp Dec 24 Dec 24 7 611
Doctor's orders? 'Belly laugh at least two to five days a week' 0 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 2025 7 673
60 edges, 38 faces, and 24 vertices, Supramolecular Snub Cubes 3 NNadir Dec 2025 Dec 2025 7 889
Good listeners connect more easily with strangers, study finds 4 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 772

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Neil deGrasse Tyson and Sean Carroll Discuss Controversies in Quantum Mechanics 0 BootinUp Dec 2025 Dec 2025 9 702
FRET in biochemistry, not guitars. 2 NNadir Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 627
The Iberian Peninsula is rotating clockwise, scientists report 0 cbabe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 18 738
ADHD Isn't Just a Deficit: New Study Reveals Powerful Psychological Strengths 6 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 2025 15 5080
Gray hair may have evolved as a protection against cancer 4 Bayard Dec 2025 Dec 2025 8 1287
a capella science: VSEPR 1 QED Dec 2025 Dec 2025 7 689
How Ramanujan's formulae for pi connect to modern high energy physics 3 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 2025 6 807
Formation of an Unusually Stable Crystal Found in the Ashes of a 1963 Nuclear Weapons Test in Australia. 0 NNadir Dec 2025 Dec 2025 9 894
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black 4 eppur_se_muova Dec 2025 Dec 2025 15 1068
Mysterious X-ray signal from deep space may be the scream of a star ripped apart by two black holes 1 Bayard Dec 2025 Dec 2025 9 778
How a simple slipknot can help surgeons tie the perfect suture 2 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 2025 7 768
excerpt from: The Penicillin Myth - Asimov Press 2 BootinUp Dec 2025 Dec 2025 9 865
Africa Is Splitting Into Two Continents 18 IronLionZion Nov 2025 Dec 2025 60 3938
Time may be a psychological projection, philosopher argues 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 9 1036
Scientists discover dinosaur 'mummies' with hoofs like a horse (CBC Radio - As It Happens) 1 eppur_se_muova Dec 2025 Dec 2025 16 960
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 eppur_se_muova Dec 2025 Dec 2025 0 381
Something Weird Happens When E-mc 2 Uncle Joe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 9 1103
One of the programs the University of Nebraska at Lincoln regents voted to drop is earth and atmospheric sciences. 3 generalbetrayus Dec 2025 Dec 2025 14 866
Last Lunar Walkabout December 1972 2 SorellaLaBefana Dec 2025 Dec 2025 4 646
18,000 dinosaur tracks discovered along ancient Bolivian coastline -- and they set a new record 11 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 38 1811
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