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Is there a better head position for sleeping (and clearing out junk)? 17 erronis Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 3587
Faces made of living skin make robots smile 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 1255
Mountain-size 'planet killer' asteroid will make a close approach to Earth today 4 Cattledog Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 1551
The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes 23 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 69 6586
Stunning photos show 44,000-year-old mummified wolf discovered in Siberian permafrost 0 Cattledog Jun 2024 Jun 2024 18 1072
Why do people hate scientists? 4 Warpy Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 1388
Webb telescope makes discovery that was previously impossible 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 16 1697
Once-In-A-Lifetime Stellar Event Expected To Happen This Summer 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 14 1599
A Psychologist Reveals The Unexpected Benefits Of Swearing 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 10 1788
A simple change to save thousands of patients with sepsis 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 27 1734
Why Mount Rainier is the US volcano keeping scientists up at night 0 RandySF Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 1093
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 0 728
This game-changing new gel can convert motion into energy 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 14 874
Gaia space telescope helps astronomers image hidden objects around bright stars 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 712
Deadly 'Flesh-Eating Bacteria' Is Surging in Japan. Here's What You Should Know. 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 896
Solid Wood Surfaces Have Natural Antiviral Properties, Study Shows 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 885
Webb Finds Proto-Globular Clusters in Early Universe 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 669
Texas Abortion Ban Linked to Marked Increase in Infant Deaths, Study Finds 1 Warpy Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 800
A black hole of inexplicable mass: JWST observations reveal a mature quasar at cosmic dawn 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 22 1910
Gigantic oddball aurora seen from Earth for the first time 6 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 15 2072
'Fantastic' particle could be most energetic neutrino ever detected 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 1033
Einstein Telescope could launch a new era in astronomy 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 14 1069
'Awakening' of a black hole witnessed for the first time 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 1074
James Webb Space Telescope spies never-before-seen star behavior in distant nebula (video, photo) 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 16 1212
Magnetic vortices may help feed supermassive black holes. Here's how 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 872
Sick chimpanzees seek out medicinal plants to self-medicate, study reveals 4 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 18 1157
Neutron Stars May Contain Matter That 'Does Not Exist Anywhere Else' 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 1319
China and France launch satellite to better understand the universe 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 625
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 2 906
Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus 2 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 10970

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 1042
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks' tail visible in the Southern Hemisphere sky, captured over Chile's Atacama Desert 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 760
Glassy gel is hard as plastic and stretches 7 times its length 2 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 9 1364
Sensory secrets of penis and clitoris unlocked after more than 150 years 3 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 17 1768
Not all 'open source' AI models are actually open: here's a ranking 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 784
Cargo from 'most ancient' shipwreck found off Israel 0 muriel_volestrangler Jun 2024 Jun 2024 13 1104
James Webb telescope reveals long-studied baby star is actually 'twins' -- and they're throwing identical tantrums 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 931
Daycares in Finland Grew Forests, And It Changed Kids' Immune Systems 11 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 69 3496
A Study Suggests Black Holes Can Create Space Lasers--Just Like Einstein Thought 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 1108
Harnessing Maxwell's demon to establish a macroscale concentration gradient 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 810
Supermassive black hole roars to life as astronomers watch in real time 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 14 1075
Evidence That Your Mind is NOT Just In Your Brain - Rupert Sheldrake 20 Uncle Joe Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 4502
Kitchen spices such as turmeric and black pepper could revolutionise wound dressings 23 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 57 6001
'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 1521
Purple Planets Could Be The Signs of Alien Life We've Been Looking For 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 1031
Researcher suggests that gravity can exist without mass, mitigating the need for hypothetical dark matter 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 791
Mysterious Martian Hole Puzzles Scientists: An Enigma Underground on The Red Planet : ScienceAlert 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 1061
New Type Ia supernova discovered 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 815
DARPA's military-grade 'quantum laser' will use entangled photons to outshine conventional laser beams 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 778
Edward Stone, who guided NASA's Voyager to distant planets, dies at 88 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 721
Mars Was Hit With a Solar Storm Days After Earth's Aurora Light Show, NASA Says 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 739
Meet the 'Echidnapus,' an Extinct Creature That Resembles Both the Echidna and Platypus of Today 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 764
A Giant Interstellar Cloud May Have Once Enveloped Earth, Potentially Causing Ice Ages 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 722
Researchers leverage shadows to model 3D scenes, including objects blocked from view 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 862
Rocket company develops massive catapult to launch satellites into space without using jet fuel 11 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 16 2570
Neanderthal DNA Exists in Humans, But One Piece Is Mysteriously Missing 7 BootinUp Jun 2024 Jun 2024 29 2525
The GOP's war on science is suicidal -- Sabrina Haake 3 erronis Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 1119
Webb Detects Giant Collision in Beta Pictoris System 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 12 1227
Astronomers Spot Parallel Jets and Circumstellar Disks in Nearby Multistar System 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 801
Wild New Study Suggests Gravity Can Exist Without Mass 2 Warpy Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 1285

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 1114
Study confirms the rotation of Earth's inner core has slowed 8 Jim__ Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 1870
Why scientists fear a second Trump term, and what they are doing about it 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 1027
Elite researchers in China say they had 'no choice' but to commit misconduct 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 10259
AI & robotics briefing: The year machines will run out of data (Nature) 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 862
Study: African Elephants Address Each Other With Name-Like Calls 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 22 1226
Water Frost Deposits Spotted on Tropical Martian Volcanoes 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 993
A telescope on Earth just took an unbelievable image of Jupiter's moon 12 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 51 3426
In Wyoming, Bill Gates moves ahead with nuclear project aimed at revolutionizing power generation 7 BootinUp Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 2206
George Mason University Announces Its First NASA Space Mission Which Seeks to Uncover the Secrets of Dark Energy 0 nitpicked Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 725
All Human Existence May Have Begun in a Black Hole, Some Scientists Believe 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 10422
A Biologist Reveals How To Avoid Deadly Bites From South America's Most Feared Snake 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 1444
Researchers made ultra-thin night-vision lenses that fit regular glasses 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 971
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 1065
A Herpetologist Reveals The World's Most Venomous Snake--Shockingly, It Has Never Killed Anyone 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 1506
Scientists Have Discovered a New Way to Look Inside Crystals 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 832
Ed Dwight, first African American candidate for space travel, takes off 60 years later 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 713
Peering Through Cosmic Dust: James Webb Telescope Is on the Hunt for Newborn Planets 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 669
First Detection of Magnetism in Massive Stars Beyond Our Galaxy 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 698
"Extraordinary" Slow-Spinning Neutron Star Shakes Astrophysics 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 981
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