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This message was self-deleted by its author 1 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 533
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This message was self-deleted by its author 0 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 532
The Smoot - How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement -- The Register 5 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 13 1017
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Electron microscope image of a white blood cell 5 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 43 1865
The Apollo Moon Landing - Journey to American Democracy - Heather Cox Richardson 4 Rhiannon12866 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 815
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The Most Interesting Email I Ever Received: Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1293
8-hour time-lapse shows Earth rotating while capturing the Milky Way. 8 edbermac Jul 2025 Jul 2025 42 2276
Flying with hands: The evolution of bat wings 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 664
Giant space 'boulders' unleashed by NASA's DART mission aren't behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflectin 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1005
Infrared photo of the Horsehead Nebula 0 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 15 845
Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality Anil Seth TED 4 Uncle Joe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 19 1336
New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We're still learning from it 7 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1248
The Caltech Experiment That Proved How Life Copies Itself - California Curated substack 2 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 864
Should Adults in ICU have gene testing? Recent study (possibly) suggests YES 4 SorellaLaBefana Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 1187
'Could become a death spiral': scientists discover what's driving record die-offs of US honeybees 5 turbinetree Jul 2025 Jul 2025 17 1397
Scientists discover 200-million-year-old flying reptile species 3 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 18 1207
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 turbinetree Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 498
July 10, 1925, the beginning of the Scopes trial 3 question everything Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 857
Scientists discover Burmese pythons have never-before-seen cells that help them digest entire skeletons 3 milestogo Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 942
World's Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos -- KFF Health News 3 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 951
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Moon in Saturn's rings leaving ripples 8 Ptah Jul 2025 Jul 2025 48 1621
A Formula to Keep the Science Flame Burning by James Hansen 3 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 875
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Astronomers Track Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 891
America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 724
Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? 8 Uncle Joe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1400
This Giant Telescope Will Map the Universe in Unbelievable Detail NOVA PBS 0 Uncle Joe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 837
PBS Terra: Wait...The Worst Possible US Disaster Just Got EVEN WORSE?!? (Cascadia Megaquake) 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1558
The truth about life on other planets - and what it means for humans 6 k_buddy762 Jun 2025 Jul 2025 16 1805
These Lizards Mysteriously Survived the Asteroid Strike That Killed the Dinosaurs--and Their Descendants Are Still Alive 4 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jul 2025 10 1722
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Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jul 2025 3 1003
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US to breed billions of flies and dump them out of aircraft in bid to fight flesh-eating maggot -- The Guardian 2 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1055
Dentist may have solved 500-year-old mystery in da Vinci's iconic Vitruvian Man 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 1022
Earth About to Experience Shortest Day Since the 1970s as Rotation Gains Record Speed 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 914
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An example of Special relativity 8 BootinUp Jun 2025 Jul 2025 10 1440
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations -- Retraction Watch 0 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 792
Common farm fungicide may be contributing to 'insect apocalypse' 1 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 849
The Oldest Rocks on Earth Are in Canada, and They're 4.16 Billion Years Old 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 16 1053
MIT's high-tech 'bubble wrap' turns air into safe drinking water -- even in Death Valley 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 11 1169
Physicists Catch Light in 'Imaginary Time' in Scientific First 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 805
The Skull Nebula 0 BootinUp Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 763
Ignorance Squad Strikes Again: US Cancels Nature Springer Journal Subscriptions 4 NNadir Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 1275
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Galpagos Tomatoes Quietly Reversing Evolution 5 milestogo Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 1398
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveils the first images of the sky obtained with the world's largest camera 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 15 1007
How gut bacteria change after exposure to pesticides 3 Wicked Blue Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1062

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Physicist Solves 120-Year-Old Thermodynamics Puzzle and Corrects Einstein 6 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 1478
Clair Patterson: The Caltech Scientist Who Exposed Lead Poisoning and Changed the World 4 BootinUp Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1021
What Is Thimerosal? Why Most Vaccines Don't Contain Mercury Anymore 2 LiberalArkie Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 895
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These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth 1 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 904
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For first time, Webb telescope discovers an alien planet 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2025 Jun 2025 13 1370
Physicists recreate forgotten experiment observing fusion -- Los Alamos National Laboratory 0 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 758
Overconfident conspiracy theorists: Many unaware their beliefs are on the fringe 5 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 12 1238
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Change Astronomy Forever 6 Gaugamela Jun 2025 Jun 2025 13 1422
Scientists use bacteria to convert plastic into paracetamol 2 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 1020
First images from world's largest digital camera features stunning shots of the universe 7 Jilly_in_VA Jun 2025 Jun 2025 19 1588
Smooth trends in fermium charge radii and the impact of shell effects 1 NNadir Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 794
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New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect 7 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 14 1672
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Flesh-Eating 'Screwworm' Parasites Are Headed to the U.S. 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 16 1586
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