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Quantifying the Photolytic Fate of Fluorinated Pharmaceuticals and Pesticides. 3 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 1 1087
Astronomers Discover the Brightest Known Object in the Universe, Shining 500 Trillion Times as Bright as the Sun 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1289
See 15 Otherworldly Images From the Underwater Photographer of the Year Awards 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 30 1342
Our solar system map may need an update -- the Kuiper belt could be way bigger 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1061
"Ohhhh. Living on Mars would be cool!" Nope. Don't think so. 6 SarahD Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 1684
James Webb Space Telescope finds neutron star mergers forge gold in the cosmos: 'It was thrilling' 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 15 939
IM-1 Lunar Landing Official NASA Broadcast (landing at approx. 5:24 CST) 2 xocetaceans Feb 2024 Feb 2024 5 962
'Scent therapy' helps unlock memories in people with depression, trial finds 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 1011
British company pioneers new nuclear welding technique 0 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 4 901
Bizarre Fossils Are Neither Plant Nor Animal, But a 'Weird Fusion' of Life 6 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 28 1802
A 1959 Comment on Engineering Education 10 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 11 2031
NASA Satellite Reveals How Much Saharan Dust Feeds Amazon's Plants 5 BootinUp Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1343
Star-killing 'black hole wind' spotted in a distant galaxy could explain a major mystery at the Milky Way's center 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1041
The lowest point wants to tell us how great nuclear is and how bad renewables are. 6 Eko Feb 2024 Feb 2024 1 1596
Astronomers find what may be the universe's brightest object with a black hole devouring a sun a day 1 Eugene Feb 2024 Feb 2024 9 976
Recovering Lanthanides (Rare Earths) From Acid Mine Drainage. 0 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 850
Geologists signal start of hydrogen energy 'gold rush'. Natural sources of the gas are more abundant than expected 9 Caribbeans Feb 2024 Feb 2024 3 1643
Astronomers Have Found a Super-Earth Near The Habitable Zone of Its Star 2 Judi Lynn May 2022 Feb 2024 15 2028
Researchers Have Finally Recorded Plants "Talking" On Camera And Warning Each Other About Attacking Insects 15 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 48 4015
There may be a 'dark mirror' universe within ours where atoms failed to form, new study suggests 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 19 1358
Females Dominate Males in Many Primate Species 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 15 1194
The Case for Risk Based Environmental Analysis of Floating Solar Cells. 0 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 4 813
Dark matter detected dangling from the cosmic web for 1st time 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 12 1107
Quantitation of Heavy Metal Release in Urban/Wilderness Interface Fires. 2 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 899
Early Carboniferous Tree Species Had Unique Crown Shape 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 11 1357
Scientists Detect Water on the Surface of Asteroids for the First Time Ever 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 827
Osiris-Rex: NASA's final tally shows spacecraft returned double the amount of asteroid rubble 1 Eugene Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1189
Watch hypnotizing footage of mysterious deep-sea worm 'dance like nobody's watching' 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 10 1250
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 716
Scientists may have accidentally found mystery magma reservoir in volcanoless region of Alaska 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 9 898

Science Continued...

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Ten years ago today, February 15, 2013, a meteor put on a show over Chelyabinsk, Russia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 Feb 2024 5 1411
On this day, February 15, 2013, a meteor put on a show over Chelyabinsk, Russia. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2024 Feb 2024 3 796
'Runaway' black hole the size of 20 million suns found speeding through space with a trail of newbor 31 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2024 52 7574
An Illuminating Error in My Recent Terrifying Mauna Loa Post. 4 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 13 1687
Genetics journal retracts 17 papers from China due to human rights concerns 0 Eugene Feb 2024 Feb 2024 1 775
It takes two ... or does it? Charlotte the single stingray pregnant with pups 1 cbabe Feb 2024 Feb 2024 3 959
Breakthrough in predicting chaotic outcomes in three-body systems 7 erronis Feb 2024 Feb 2024 4 1557
Life on Mars could have thrived near active volcanoes and an ancient mile-deep lake 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 791
The Vision Pro's scary side effect 8 sarchasm Feb 2024 Feb 2024 10 2209
In a First, a Prosthetic Limb Can Sense Temperature Like a Living Hand 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 11 731
Anti-abortion group's studies retracted before Supreme Court mifepristone case 2 BootinUp Feb 2024 Feb 2024 10 1129
When Whales Could Walk Full Documentary NOVA PBS 3 Uncle Joe Feb 2024 Feb 2024 10 1241
'Universal memory' breakthrough brings the next generation of computers 1 step closer to major speed boost 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1118
At the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory, a Terrifying, Startling Week and Month, New Records Everywhere. 4 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 18 1585
Scientists Reverse Alzheimer's Memory Loss by Repairing Damaged Synapses 14 JudyM Feb 2024 Feb 2024 81 3908
Are We about to Discover a New Planet in Our Solar System?- Youtube video. 1 Eko Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1124
Hubble Space Telescope tells a starry 'tail' of 12 mingling galaxies 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 6 1021
Stabilizing 3D Printing of Metallic Titanium Alloys. 0 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 826
How Earth's new Rubin Observatory will usher in the next era of asteroid space missions 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 5 696
Scientists have 3D bioprinted functioning human brain tissue 3 Jilly_in_VA Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1138
Better start building that wormhole. 3 SarahD Feb 2024 Feb 2024 6 1223
MadRadar hack can make self-driving cars 'hallucinate' imaginary vehicles and veer dangerously off course 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 9 902
How the Large Hadron Collider's successor will hunt for the dark universe 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 4 698
Did monster black holes or galaxies come first? The James Webb Space Telescope may have a surprise answer 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 8 856
Colossal underwater canyon discovered near seamount deep in the Mediterranean Sea 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 10 898
Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas may have an ocean scientists never believed could exist 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 8 840
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 590
Icelandic eye candy, new eruption 1 Warpy Feb 2024 Feb 2024 8 934
"Win a heart" science contest. Explain the difference between Faradaic efficiency and Thermodynamic efficiency. 7 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 3 1622
Functional traits--not nativeness--shape the effects of large mammalian herbivores on plant communities 0 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 5 983

Science Continued...

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Evolution question 9 JustFiveMoreMinutes Feb 2024 Feb 2024 4 2261
Scientists Transformed Pure Water Into a Metal - And There's Video 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 18 1417
Antarctica's Denman Glacier is one of the most remote places on Earth. This is what it's like to work there 4 BootinUp Feb 2024 Feb 2024 14 1261
Could our Universe be a simulation? How would we even tell? 8 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 10 1731
Can copper be "green?" 4 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 1 1548
Aldabra rail: The bird that came back from the dead by evolving twice 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 8 1236
MOST EXTREME Weather Events Caught On Video 3 YoshidaYui Feb 2024 Feb 2024 11 1686
From a Science Editorial...Earning Respect and Trust. 1 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 3 1047
Sustainability limits needed for CO2 removal: Science Policy Forum. 0 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 918
Rare Fossils Reveal 'Absolutely Unique' Tree From 350 Million Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 12 947
Space photo of the week: Ancient 'labyrinth of night' on Mars, one of the biggest mazes in the solar system 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Feb 2024 7 1589
2023's Average CO2 Concentrations Released at the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory. The correct descriptive word is "ugly." 0 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 4 6977
Biologists Discover Four New Octopus Species in the Deep Ocean Off Costa Rica 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 7 1197
Tax dollar giveaway time. Small modular reactors. 2 SarahD Feb 2024 Feb 2024 1 948
IAEA Report on Tritiated Water Releases at Fukushima. 0 NNadir Feb 2024 Feb 2024 3 1196
Space shuttle Endeavour gets new out-of-this-world display 3 Ptah Jan 2024 Feb 2024 11 1215
New Discovery May Rewrite Textbooks On How We Measure Star's Age 0 BootinUp Feb 2024 Feb 2024 5 1020
Lack of dementia in ancient Greece and Rome suggests contemporary causes to diseases like Alzheimer's 7 BootinUp Jan 2024 Jan 2024 11 1986
Photographer snaps extremely rare 'aurora curls' after magnetic wave rings Earth's atmosphere 'like a bell' 17 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 65 4119
Daily Telescope: Webb telescope reveals breathtaking structure of galaxies 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 13 1236
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