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AI may be to blame for our failure to make contact with alien civilisations 2 LudwigPastorius May 2024 May 2024 0 1099
Oldest Known Human Viruses Discovered In 50,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones 6 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 5 1211
Watch a Möbius strip robot move and climb when hit by light (Youtube video) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 6 998
Project Hephaistos - II. Dyson sphere candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE 0 Sancho May 2024 May 2024 4 915
GPS Jamming & Spoofing - How Does It Work, And Who's Doing It? 0 Ptah May 2024 May 2024 4 966
The Science of Reducing Prejudice in Kids 2 DBoon May 2024 May 2024 10 876
You joined the DOE from academia. What caused you to accept the job? 0 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 6 851
Post-irradiation testing of high-burnup fuel under way at ORNL 0 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 4 868
"We have no evidence, but if we did..." 4 SarahD May 2024 May 2024 5 1480
Sperm Whale "Phonetic Alphabet" Surprisingly Similar In Structure To Human Language 16 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 61 3253
Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail 7 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 35 2319
500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks (paywall) 3 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 32 2298
Newfound 'altermagnets' shatter the magnetic status quo 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 May 2024 7 1252
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Platinum Group Elements with 103Rh Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy 0 eppur_se_muova May 2024 May 2024 4 841
Coral restoration in the Red Sea 0 Tetrachloride May 2024 May 2024 4 800
New NASA Black Hole Visualization Plunges Viewers Into the Event Horizon 0 erronis May 2024 May 2024 7 1256
Empowering social media users to assess content helps fight misinformation 4 BootinUp Mar 2024 May 2024 3 1259
China launches Chang'e 6 sample-return mission to moon's far side (video) 1 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 2 848
Fusion Breakthrough: 6 Minutes of Plasma Sets New Reactor Record 7 Warpy May 2024 May 2024 12 1576
Hunger on campus: why US PhD students are fighting over food 4 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 5 1320
Most Dementia Patients 'Return' Before Death And It's Unclear Why 9 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 35 2266
The Chandra X-ray spacecraft may soon go dark, threatening a great deal of astronomy 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 May 2024 8 1426
Today begins "Black Hole Week" at NASA: 5 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 4 1125
Alternative Medicine An Orangutan Healed Himself With Medicinal Plant 4 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 17 1396
The most horrifying planets in the universe 4 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 9 1728
Dinosaurs from first to last 2 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 4 1548
The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths 1 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 25 1627
The Largest Single Cause of Death Among African American Youth Is Firearms. 0 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 3 1071
James Webb telescope spots wind blowing faster than a bullet on '2-faced planet' with eternal night 4 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 10 1272
Interesting: A Scientist for President? (Mexico). 2 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 5 1150

Science Continued...

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Another Victory for Fear And Ignorance Over the World's Poorest. 1 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 6 1223
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 0 675
Scientists Reveal 'Major' New Factor in Bumblebee Decline 11 Sewa May 2024 May 2024 12 2213
Video of sun's surface shows solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss 3 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 4 1209
The Jurassic Period 0 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 3 1620
99 Dinosaur sounds based on Scientific data 5 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 5 1482
Eta Aquarid meteor shower peak could spawn over 100 'shooting stars' per hour this weekend 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 3 996
These Are The Avalanches To Worry About - Veritasium 0 TexasTowelie May 2024 May 2024 1 1273
Scientists reveal Southern Ring Nebula's unexpected structure: 'We were amazed' 3 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 6 1125
Dusty 'Cat's Paw Nebula' contains a type of molecule never seen in space -- and it's one of the largest ever found 4 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 24 1980
The Math That Predicted Black Holes Predicts Even Stranger Objects - Veritasium 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1528
On this day, April 30, 1916, mathematician, electrical engineer, and computer scientist Claude Shannon was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1057
Foxes' skulls are specially adapted for diving into snow 3 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 12485
'Is it aliens?': how a mysterious star could help the search for extraterrestrial life 2 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1423
These Hardy Plants Have Figured Out How to 'Farm' Microbes in Their Soil 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 1135
Horsehead Nebula rears its head in gorgeous new James Webb Space Telescope images (video) 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 49 2421
Chickens Can Blush When They're Feeling Emotional, And We Should Pay Attention 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 7 1299
China releases world's most detailed moon atlas (video) 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 874
'Tiger stripes' on Saturn's moon Enceladus could reveal if its oceans are habitable 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 985
Why dangerous bird flu is spreading faster and farther than first thought... 5 littlemissmartypants Apr 2024 Apr 2024 29 1801
A New Record Concentration for CO2, 427.98 ppm Has Been Set for the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory's Weekly Average. 4 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1776
NASA discovered a planet twice as big as Earth with a gas that is 'only produced by life' 15 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 68 4267
Rare dinosaur tracks are longest continuous set of sauropod footprints (EarthSky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Apr 2024 Apr 2024 24 1457
New CO2 Concentration Record Set, 428.59 ppm, at the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory. 1 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1082
Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1616
There's a mysterious ecosystem underneath the driest desert on Earth 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 42 2539
The Effect of Climate Change on Nuclear Reactor Cooling Will Be Studied at Argonne National Lab. 0 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1081
Judge dismisses superconductivity physicist's lawsuit against university 1 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1067
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Stumbled On A Glistening Lava Lake On Jupiter's Moon Io 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 15 1533
Algorithm ranks peer reviewers by reputation -- but critics warn of bias 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 808

Science Continued...

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Scientists create 'toxic AI' that is rewarded for thinking up the worst possible questions we could imagine 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1419
4 solar flares erupt in exceptionally rare, "quadruple" solar flare from the sun in rare 'super' explosion 5 LastLiberal in PalmSprings Apr 2024 Apr 2024 9 1488
Cosmic fountain is polluting intergalactic space with 50 million suns' worth of material 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1255
Restoring sight is possible now with optogenetics 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 11 1290
It's Official: Scientists Finally Confirmed What's Inside The Moon 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 12 1655
NASA veteran's propellantless propulsion drive defies laws of physics 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1476
For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism 4 WestMichRad Apr 2024 Apr 2024 30 1578
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 869
NASA's Voyager 1 resumes sending engineering updates to Earth 6 erronis Apr 2024 Apr 2024 22 1559
In my lifetime, space exploration has gone from Sputnik to multiple launches each week. 6 Ptah Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1260
An Interesting Experiment in Trying to Involve Journalists in Reporting Real Science Correctly. 1 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1177
Jupiter's Moon Io has been volcanically active for 4.5 billion years 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1037
Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient 13 BootinUp Apr 2024 Apr 2024 27 2341
A Rare Nova Explosion Will Soon Bring a 'New Star' to the Night Sky--How to Catch a Glimpse 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1287
A Stellar Collision Birthed the 'Dragon's Egg' Nebula, a Puzzling Structure in the Milky Way 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1307
Non Nuclear Portions of Wyoming's Kemmerer Nuclear Power Plant to Start Construction This Summer. 3 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1172
Meet 'goldene': this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 11 1041
Too hot for a lizard? Climate change quickens the pace of extinction 0 BootinUp Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 1069
I have been waiting for about 20 years for this paper to appear. 8 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 15 2070
Can AI read our minds? Probably not, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be worried 5 BootinUp Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1192
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