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This message was self-deleted by its author 1 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 529
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This message was self-deleted by its author 0 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 531
The Smoot - How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement -- The Register 5 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 13 1015
Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1099
Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained 13 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1630
Electron microscope image of a white blood cell 5 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 43 1864
The Apollo Moon Landing - Journey to American Democracy - Heather Cox Richardson 4 Rhiannon12866 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 813
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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 1292
8-hour time-lapse shows Earth rotating while capturing the Milky Way. 8 edbermac Jul 2025 Jul 2025 42 2274
Flying with hands: The evolution of bat wings 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 663
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 1003
Infrared photo of the Horsehead Nebula 0 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 15 843
Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality Anil Seth TED 4 Uncle Joe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 19 1334
New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We're still learning from it 7 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1246
The Caltech Experiment That Proved How Life Copies Itself - California Curated substack 2 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 860
Should Adults in ICU have gene testing? Recent study (possibly) suggests YES 4 SorellaLaBefana Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 1186
'Could become a death spiral': scientists discover what's driving record die-offs of US honeybees 5 turbinetree Jul 2025 Jul 2025 17 1396
Scientists discover 200-million-year-old flying reptile species 3 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 18 1203
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 turbinetree Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 497
July 10, 1925, the beginning of the Scopes trial 3 question everything Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 856
Scientists discover Burmese pythons have never-before-seen cells that help them digest entire skeletons 3 milestogo Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 941
World's Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos -- KFF Health News 3 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 949
How much energy do fish expend when floating "effortlessly" in the water column? 0 SorellaLaBefana Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 2138
Moon in Saturn's rings leaving ripples 8 Ptah Jul 2025 Jul 2025 48 1620
A Formula to Keep the Science Flame Burning by James Hansen 3 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 874
What did dinosaurs sound like? 7 cbabe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 1152
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On this day, July 7, 1959, Venus occulted Regulus. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 717
Longevity Medicine Breakthrough 2 DanBaron Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1053
Astronomers Track Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 890
America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 723
Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? 8 Uncle Joe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1399
This Giant Telescope Will Map the Universe in Unbelievable Detail NOVA PBS 0 Uncle Joe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 836
PBS Terra: Wait...The Worst Possible US Disaster Just Got EVEN WORSE?!? (Cascadia Megaquake) 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1557
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 1720
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Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jul 2025 3 1002
Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 804
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 1054
Dentist may have solved 500-year-old mystery in da Vinci's iconic Vitruvian Man 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 1021
Earth About to Experience Shortest Day Since the 1970s as Rotation Gains Record Speed 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 913
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 411
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An example of Special relativity 8 BootinUp Jun 2025 Jul 2025 10 1437
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations -- Retraction Watch 0 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 791
Common farm fungicide may be contributing to 'insect apocalypse' 1 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 847
The Oldest Rocks on Earth Are in Canada, and They're 4.16 Billion Years Old 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 16 1052
MIT's high-tech 'bubble wrap' turns air into safe drinking water -- even in Death Valley 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 11 1168
Physicists Catch Light in 'Imaginary Time' in Scientific First 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 803
The Skull Nebula 0 BootinUp Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 760
Ignorance Squad Strikes Again: US Cancels Nature Springer Journal Subscriptions 4 NNadir Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 1273
X-Posted from Australia group 2 canetoad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 897
Galpagos Tomatoes Quietly Reversing Evolution 5 milestogo Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 1393
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 1005
How gut bacteria change after exposure to pesticides 3 Wicked Blue Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1061
Physicist Solves 120-Year-Old Thermodynamics Puzzle and Corrects Einstein 6 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 1477

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Clair Patterson: The Caltech Scientist Who Exposed Lead Poisoning and Changed the World 4 BootinUp Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1019
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These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth 1 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 903
Alaska Brown Bear Has Shiny New Smile After Getting A Huge Metal Crown 1 Wicked Blue Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 848
Doctors Detected a Mysterious Antibody in a French Woman's Body. It Turned Out to Be a Brand New Blood Type 8 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 43 2278
Australian Moths Are the First Known Insects to Navigate by the Stars, Revealing a Migratory Superpower 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 927
For first time, Webb telescope discovers an alien planet 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2025 Jun 2025 13 1367
Physicists recreate forgotten experiment observing fusion -- Los Alamos National Laboratory 0 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 757
Overconfident conspiracy theorists: Many unaware their beliefs are on the fringe 5 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 12 1233
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Change Astronomy Forever 6 Gaugamela Jun 2025 Jun 2025 13 1421
Scientists use bacteria to convert plastic into paracetamol 2 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 1017
First images from world's largest digital camera features stunning shots of the universe 7 Jilly_in_VA Jun 2025 Jun 2025 19 1587
Smooth trends in fermium charge radii and the impact of shell effects 1 NNadir Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 793
Advanced AI models generate up to 50 times more CO₂ emissions than more common LLMs when answering the same questions 2 littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 814
New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect 7 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 14 1670
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'RFK Jr is a disaster': Staff describe chaos in 'anti-science' regime 3 douglas9 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 16 1215
Flesh-Eating 'Screwworm' Parasites Are Headed to the U.S. 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 16 1584
Astronomers find universe's "missing" matter after long search 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 12 1151
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