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Physicist Brian Cox explains quantum physics in 22 minutes 2 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 7 939
Has NASA Found 3 Billion Year Old Dead Martians? Why A Green Crystal Could Be A Biosignature! Scott Manley 3 Ptah Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1058
A Single, 'Naked' Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe (Warning! Naked Black Holes in space) 0 usonian Sep 2025 Sep 2025 11 874
For the First Time in 40 Years, Panama's Ocean Lifeline Has Vanished 2 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 17 1081
New findings by NASA Mars rover provide strongest hints yet of potential signs of ancient life 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 678
Happy 100th birthday, quantum mechanics! 6 usonian Aug 2025 Sep 2025 11 1224
Magic mushrooms rewind aging in mice--could they do the same for humans? 4 DBoon Jul 2025 Sep 2025 12 1351
Beer drinkers are mosquito magnets, according to a festival study 3 DBoon Sep 2025 Sep 2025 14 3639
NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures Mars Vista As Clear As Day 3 turbinetree Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 1098
Ibex defies gravity and climbs a dam Forces of Nature with Brian Cox - BBC 6 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 15 2576
How Much Can a Giant Waterlily Hold? See One Carry 183 Pounds Before Sinking, Winning a Social Media Contest 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Sep 2025 10 987
The Biological Rulebook Was Just Rewritten--by Ants 10 erronis Sep 2025 Sep 2025 45 4118
Chinese submersible explores previously unknown giant craters at the bottom of the Pacific -- and they're teeming with li 6 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 2161
Watch today's blood moon total lunar eclipse free online with these livestreams (video) 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 1776
Innovative Supramolecular Crystals Unlock High-Capacity Hydrogen Storage 1 Caribbeans Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1071
The universe's first magnetic fields were 'comparable' to the human brain -- and still linger within the 'cosmic web' 0 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 10 1610
Rare Chi Cygnids {meteors} are active! Maybe. Observing info here (earthsky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1034
Nuclear power plants rely on other forms of energy, sometimes energy from high pollution sources to operate. 1 Eko Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 2000
The Thought That Led to General Relativity 2 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 2982
Using only reported COVID-19 deaths, the same model yielded 14.4 million deaths averted by vaccines. 3 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 4408
Spiral Galaxy IC 342 located roughly 11 million light-years from Earth. 0 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 3905
How Sunflower Remove Radioactive Waste From Soil 1 YoshidaYui Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 1163
Amazing Sunflower Facts To Brighten Your Day 2 YoshidaYui Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 2739
Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics Workbooks (HELM) Free college level workbooks. CC-Licensed. 1 usonian Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 968
'A paradigm change': black hole spotted that may have been created moments after big bang 2 muriel_volestrangler Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 984
UK, Japan, South Korea endure hottest summer on record 1 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 797
New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA's Webb Telescope (NASA) 0 eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 773
Scientists find evidence of parallel universes 14 Bayard Aug 2025 Sep 2025 23 2469
Scientists Discovered A New Mineral On Mars, Here's What That Means 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 20 991
Researchers Create Rechargeable, Glow-in-the-Dark Succulents 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 868

Science Continued...

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Exposing Fake Honey Using Carbon-13 1 struggle4progress Aug 2025 Aug 2025 15 1029
Astronomers Spot a Rare Quadruple Star System in the Milky Way, Shedding Light on Mysterious Brown Dwarfs 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 734
Testosterone shifts political preferences in weakly affiliated Democratic men, study finds 8 Bayard Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 1626
I rather admire, on some level, this retraction. 1 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 948
This AI model simulates 1,000 years of the current climate in just one day 2 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1567
What the heck is a time crystal, and why are physicists obsessed with them? 1 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 1092
Braided magnetic flux ropes found at both human and light year scales 2 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 1354
'Cosmic whisper' observed in the search for dark matter 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1515
Plants steer the way rivers meander across the landscape 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 1256
Scientists Have Identified the Origin of an Extraordinarily Powerful Outer Space Radio Wave 8 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 28 1839
Black holes that transform matter into dark energy could solve 'cosmic hiccups' mystery 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1203
Longest canyon in the solar system reveals new secrets -- Space photo of the week 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1343
NASA prepares for its next year-long simulated Mars habitat mission 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 786
Pastel Pink Lobsters, Goofy-Looking Squid Among Deep-Sea Oddities Discovered in Ocean Abyss 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 27 1357
Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis 5 Bayard Aug 2025 Aug 2025 42 1882
An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 831
New findings from UA's asteroid sample mission 0 Ptah Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 776
IBM and Moderna have simulated the longest mRNA pattern without AI -- they used a quantum computer instead 6 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 1326
Nerve cell synapse artistic rendering. 0 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 799
Green Hydrogen Goes Affordable: Rethinking Catalyst Design 1 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 904
Exceeding functional biosphere integrity limits: Study finds 60% of the world's land area is in a precarious state 4 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 1111
Moving up in the world: Rare catfish species filmed climbing waterfalls 0 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 885
Scientists discover sex reversal in kookaburras and lorikeets with cause unknown 2 usonian Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 890
Strange spiral in the night sky was a rocket fuel dump (earthsky.org) 2 eppur_se_muova Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1011
Nightmares linked to faster biological ageing and early death 8 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1431
Toothpaste made from hair could help repair teeth 3 Goonch Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 1226
Discovery Plateau Hypothesis 2 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 857
First antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning "cleans" blood in minutes 0 Wicked Blue Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 935
The World Is Running Out of Freshwater Faster Than Anyone Expected 9 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 16 1844
Electron microscope image of the penicillin fungus 6 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 16 1471

Science Continued...

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'It seems that size really does matter': Males of 4 never-before-seen tarantula species have record-long genitalia 1 WestMichRad Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 918
New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 1034
Mercury reaches elongation 8/19/25, shares morning sky w/Venus and Jupiter ... 0 eppur_se_muova Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 720
Demonstration of polarity in a stream of water 1 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 889
World's Most Powerful Telescope Just Spotted a Visitor From Another Star System--10 Days Before Anyone Else 1 muriel_volestrangler Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 1028
Andromeda and Ghost. Today's spectacular and surprising APOD 4 SorellaLaBefana Aug 2025 Aug 2025 17 1165
Scientists Just Found a Shocking Link Between Dirty Air and Dementia 0 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 18 1028
Chemistry at the Beginning: How Molecular Reactions Influenced the Formation of the First Stars 5 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 1125
A volcano in Russia's Far East erupts for the first time in centuries 3 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2025 Aug 2025 12 991
Judge allows the National Science Foundation to withhold hundreds of millions of research dollars 0 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 764
Virginia opossums: The American marsupials that have barely changed since the time of the dinosaurs 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 954
Scientists Have Discovered a "Sixth Sense" That Links the Gut and Brain in Real Time 0 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 18 1040
Skyscraper-size spikes of methane ice may surround Pluto's equator 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 713
Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double black hole system ever found, crooked jet suggests 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 728
New theory to understand the origins of the Universe 3 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 18 1177
At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery -- Quanta Magazine 2 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 15 1302
WMO certifies megaflash lightning record in USA -- World Meteorlogical Association 5 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1227
New 40cm-long species of stick insect suspected to be the heaviest insect in Australia 2 muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 Jul 2025 16 1162
Chicago pianist 'grateful' to make music again after life-changing brain surgery 4 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1087
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 856
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