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Happy Darwin Day, everybody! 6 Lionel Mandrake Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 1325
Scientists create 'smart underwear' to measure human flatulence 15 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 2041
Dream engineering can help solve 'puzzling' questions: Study offers insights to optimizing sleep 3 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 11 1091
Is NASA about to blow up Artemis? 3 Bmoboy Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 1270
Eli Lilly ad focusing on the Scientific Method 4 QED Feb 2026 Feb 2026 16 1139
A hidden Aloe vera compound takes aim at Alzheimer's 2 multigraincracker Feb 2026 Feb 2026 15 1120
'Textbooks will need to be updated': Jupiter is smaller and flatter than we thought, Juno spacecraft reveals 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 1221
Former NASA scientists warn of possible Artemis II spacecraft safety issue - ABC News 9 TexasTowelie Jan 2026 Feb 2026 8 1626
Stellar nursery bursts with newborn stars in hauntingly beautiful Hubble telescope image -- 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 901
The spark of the Super: Teller-Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb--rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years 7 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 1336
A Really Fabulous Lecture We Saw Today on the Topic of AI, Computer Vision, Language and Robotics: Deep Learning. 2 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 946
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 2026 Feb 2026 3 879
Does Pregnancy Result in a Hankering for Prime Numbers? 9 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 1444
Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 807
OpenAI's New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace 'Prism' Raises Fears Of Vibe-Coded Academic AISlop 3 littlemissmartypants Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 957
AI model OpenScholar synthesizes scientific research and cites sources as accurately as human experts 2 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 1 933
Genetic analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique lineage in the Balkans 0 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 778
Reproduction in space, an environment hostile to human biology 7 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 1259
Artemis II launch has been delayed until March. 0 llmart Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 681
'They've probably been untouched for 49 million years': The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 20 1084
At the scientific lecture I attended today, the speaker rephrased the term "AI" in a way I appreciated and admired. 5 NNadir Jan 2026 Feb 2026 13 1367
Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory--here's how 5 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 15 1264
16 years of brain scans reveal the cerebellum's crucial role in human language 2 erronis Jan 2026 Feb 2026 8 848
Saturn has more moons than any other planet in our solar system 2 BootinUp Jan 2026 Jan 2026 4 868
Anti-vaccine sentiment pushes Moderna away from new late-stage infectious disease trials 3 NNadir Jan 2026 Jan 2026 9 1015
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office 1 douglas9 Jan 2026 Jan 2026 14 859
How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926) 5 usonian Jan 2026 Jan 2026 9 994
Scientists identify a brain region that differs between male and female mice and may influence social behavior 10 erronis Jan 2026 Jan 2026 10 1662
Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 2026 Jan 2026 10 909
Pilot captures historic northern lights show from 37,000 feet (photos) 19 milestogo Jan 2026 Jan 2026 71 3445

Science Continued...

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Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jan 2026 Jan 2026 9 932
Image of Barnard 59, in the Pipe Nebula 3 BootinUp Jan 2026 Jan 2026 11 977
What If You Keep Slowing Down? 3 Uncle Joe Jan 2026 Jan 2026 10 1390
Why do some people get 'hangry' more quickly than others? 1 erronis Jan 2026 Jan 2026 20 1113
There Is Something Faster Than Light 10 Uncle Joe Dec 2025 Jan 2026 7 2073
OFFS -- AI can FU anything (bogus illustration). 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 2026 Jan 2026 2 894
Study finds Tyrannosaurus rex did not reach full size until age 40 2 Jilly_in_VA Jan 2026 Jan 2026 4 959
The Southern Ocean current reverses for the first time, signaling a risk of climate system collapse 23 Bayard Jan 2026 Jan 2026 82 4525
Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane 3 highplainsdem Jan 2026 Jan 2026 6 1079
NASA's Artemis moon mission one step closer to liftoff - NBC News 2 TexasTowelie Jan 2026 Jan 2026 3 944
NASA's Voyager Just Crossed the Edge of the Solar System -- and Found Something Wild 10 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2026 Jan 2026 52 3256
Scientists uncover Antarctica's hidden landscape beneath ice sheet for first time 0 highplainsdem Jan 2026 Jan 2026 10 803
NASA SpaceX Crew-11 Splashes Down Off Coast of California - C-SPAN 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 2026 Jan 2026 3 626
"Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis. University research delivers." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2026 Jan 2026 57 2403
Never-before-seen footage captures moment scientists find new, giant anaconda species in Amazon 4 milestogo Jan 2026 Jan 2026 18 1353
Dogs with a Large Vocabulary of Object Labels Learn New Labels by Overhearing Like 1.5-Year-Old Infants 13 GreatGazoo Jan 2026 Jan 2026 13 2166
NASA crew to make rare early return after medical issue in space (CNN) 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 2026 Jan 2026 4 1027
WHY DINOSAURS? AN AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DINOSAURS AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM 0 eppur_se_muova Jan 2026 Jan 2026 5 704
A bison's hump helps it plow through snow with ease 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 2026 Jan 2026 5 1140
Psychological traits that may fuel conspiracy theorist mindset identified 10 erronis Jan 2026 Jan 2026 6 1444
The Shocking Speed at Which Pandemics Take Over Cities 2 erronis Jan 2026 Jan 2026 16 961
Flu Is Relentless. Crispr Might Be Able to Shut It Down 4 LiberalArkie Jan 2026 Jan 2026 11 1199
Is President Jeffries in 2027 More Probable Than the Universe that Exists? 7 NNadir Dec 2025 Jan 2026 12 1498
Scientists Teach the Brain To Read Light as a New Sense 9 erronis Dec 2025 Jan 2026 3 1500
Has anyone 3 Rebl2 Jan 2026 Jan 2026 3 945
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 2026 Jan 2026 11 1011
My wife noted something about the "Science on Saturday" series we attend every winter. 5 NNadir Jan 2026 Jan 2026 62 2362
These giant sea reptiles lived in freshwater rivers, too (earthsky.org) 8 eppur_se_muova Dec 2025 Dec 2025 8 1573
Hiroshima and the Development of Anticlotting Drugs (A Wikipedia Reference Only.) 0 NNadir Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 729
short video of a flying fish 9 BootinUp Dec 2025 Dec 2025 9 1432

Science Continued...

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Moonship, December 1972 3 SorellaLaBefana Dec 2025 Dec 2025 11 1050
A 'Third State' Exists Between Life and Death--And That Suggests Your Cells Are Conscious, Some Scientists Say 7 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 32 2285
Turtle Patrol Volunteer 4 surfered Dec 2025 Dec 2025 11 1007
A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue 10 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 2025 47 2688
Panning across the Cosmic Seagull 0 BootinUp Dec 2025 Dec 2025 7 770
Doctor's orders? 'Belly laugh at least two to five days a week' 0 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 2025 7 814
60 edges, 38 faces, and 24 vertices, Supramolecular Snub Cubes 3 NNadir Dec 2025 Dec 2025 7 1162
Good listeners connect more easily with strangers, study finds 4 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 1052
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Sean Carroll Discuss Controversies in Quantum Mechanics 0 BootinUp Dec 2025 Dec 2025 9 845
FRET in biochemistry, not guitars. 2 NNadir Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 851
The Iberian Peninsula is rotating clockwise, scientists report 0 cbabe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 18 874
ADHD Isn't Just a Deficit: New Study Reveals Powerful Psychological Strengths 6 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 2025 15 5486
Gray hair may have evolved as a protection against cancer 4 Bayard Dec 2025 Dec 2025 8 1727
a capella science: VSEPR 1 QED Dec 2025 Dec 2025 7 866
How Ramanujan's formulae for pi connect to modern high energy physics 3 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 2025 6 1079
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 1033
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 1359
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 9 990
How a simple slipknot can help surgeons tie the perfect suture 2 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 2025 7 996
excerpt from: The Penicillin Myth - Asimov Press 2 BootinUp Dec 2025 Dec 2025 9 1093
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