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Rare Chi Cygnids {meteors} are active! Maybe. Observing info here (earthsky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1089
Nuclear power plants rely on other forms of energy, sometimes energy from high pollution sources to operate. 1 Eko Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 2032
The Thought That Led to General Relativity 2 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 3035
Using only reported COVID-19 deaths, the same model yielded 14.4 million deaths averted by vaccines. 3 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 12 4466
Spiral Galaxy IC 342 located roughly 11 million light-years from Earth. 0 BootinUp Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 3952
How Sunflower Remove Radioactive Waste From Soil 1 YoshidaYui Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 1205
Amazing Sunflower Facts To Brighten Your Day 2 YoshidaYui Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 2799
Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics Workbooks (HELM) Free college level workbooks. CC-Licensed. 1 usonian Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 1049
'A paradigm change': black hole spotted that may have been created moments after big bang 2 muriel_volestrangler Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 1051
UK, Japan, South Korea endure hottest summer on record 1 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 841
New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA's Webb Telescope (NASA) 0 eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 Sep 2025 8 815
Scientists find evidence of parallel universes 14 Bayard Aug 2025 Sep 2025 23 2779
Scientists Discovered A New Mineral On Mars, Here's What That Means 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 20 1031
Researchers Create Rechargeable, Glow-in-the-Dark Succulents 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 948
Exposing Fake Honey Using Carbon-13 1 struggle4progress Aug 2025 Aug 2025 15 1082
Astronomers Spot a Rare Quadruple Star System in the Milky Way, Shedding Light on Mysterious Brown Dwarfs 1 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 785
Testosterone shifts political preferences in weakly affiliated Democratic men, study finds 8 Bayard Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 1778
I rather admire, on some level, this retraction. 1 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 1006
This AI model simulates 1,000 years of the current climate in just one day 2 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 1630
What the heck is a time crystal, and why are physicists obsessed with them? 1 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 1144
Braided magnetic flux ropes found at both human and light year scales 2 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 1416
'Cosmic whisper' observed in the search for dark matter 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1563
Plants steer the way rivers meander across the landscape 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 1303
Scientists Have Identified the Origin of an Extraordinarily Powerful Outer Space Radio Wave 8 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 28 1968
Black holes that transform matter into dark energy could solve 'cosmic hiccups' mystery 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1246
Longest canyon in the solar system reveals new secrets -- Space photo of the week 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1401
NASA prepares for its next year-long simulated Mars habitat mission 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 856
Pastel Pink Lobsters, Goofy-Looking Squid Among Deep-Sea Oddities Discovered in Ocean Abyss 2 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 27 1415
Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis 5 Bayard Aug 2025 Aug 2025 42 2003
An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 879

Science Continued...

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New findings from UA's asteroid sample mission 0 Ptah Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 818
IBM and Moderna have simulated the longest mRNA pattern without AI -- they used a quantum computer instead 6 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 1461
Nerve cell synapse artistic rendering. 0 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 839
Green Hydrogen Goes Affordable: Rethinking Catalyst Design 1 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 964
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 1225
Moving up in the world: Rare catfish species filmed climbing waterfalls 0 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 929
Scientists discover sex reversal in kookaburras and lorikeets with cause unknown 2 usonian Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 955
Strange spiral in the night sky was a rocket fuel dump (earthsky.org) 2 eppur_se_muova Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1063
Nightmares linked to faster biological ageing and early death 8 littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1626
Toothpaste made from hair could help repair teeth 3 Goonch Aug 2025 Aug 2025 14 1305
Discovery Plateau Hypothesis 2 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 4 908
First antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning "cleans" blood in minutes 0 Wicked Blue Aug 2025 Aug 2025 11 980
The World Is Running Out of Freshwater Faster Than Anyone Expected 9 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 16 1994
Electron microscope image of the penicillin fungus 6 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 16 1578
'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 4 975
New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 1086
Mercury reaches elongation 8/19/25, shares morning sky w/Venus and Jupiter ... 0 eppur_se_muova Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 771
Demonstration of polarity in a stream of water 1 BootinUp Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 946
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 1081
Andromeda and Ghost. Today's spectacular and surprising APOD 4 SorellaLaBefana Aug 2025 Aug 2025 17 1270
Scientists Just Found a Shocking Link Between Dirty Air and Dementia 0 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 18 1080
Chemistry at the Beginning: How Molecular Reactions Influenced the Formation of the First Stars 5 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 1245
A volcano in Russia's Far East erupts for the first time in centuries 3 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2025 Aug 2025 12 1079
Judge allows the National Science Foundation to withhold hundreds of millions of research dollars 0 Eugene Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 812
Virginia opossums: The American marsupials that have barely changed since the time of the dinosaurs 3 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1029
Scientists Have Discovered a "Sixth Sense" That Links the Gut and Brain in Real Time 0 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 18 1089
Skyscraper-size spikes of methane ice may surround Pluto's equator 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 761
Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double black hole system ever found, crooked jet suggests 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 770
New theory to understand the origins of the Universe 3 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 18 1252
At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery -- Quanta Magazine 2 erronis Aug 2025 Aug 2025 15 1394

Science Continued...

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WMO certifies megaflash lightning record in USA -- World Meteorlogical Association 5 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1349
New 40cm-long species of stick insect suspected to be the heaviest insect in Australia 2 muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 Jul 2025 16 1242
Chicago pianist 'grateful' to make music again after life-changing brain surgery 4 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1200
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 925
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 0 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 778
'Communities' of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean 1 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 931
A submersible finds sea creatures thriving in the deepest parts of the ocean 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 1097
The fungus among us: Study shows fungi form living bridges to share water between neighboring plants 1 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 876
What Can a Cell Remember? -- Quanta Magazine 2 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 969
Congo Basin's Peatlands are More Than 42,000 Years Old, New Study Reveals 0 milestogo Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 704
Fascinating documentary on PBS about the search for "twin primes" 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 937
Wasps may hold the secret to slowing down the aging process 6 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1532
Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials 3 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1252
New play in the chemical-reaction playbook uncovered 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 907
Why the Key to a Mathematical Life is Collaboration -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 836
Phase Change Materials you can make at home... 1 ret5hd Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 1186
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 ret5hd Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 695
Executive function may stem from schooling rather than innate cognition 4 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1391
About 700m years ago, the Earth froze over entirely - now we may know why 4 muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 Jul 2025 16 1542
The Cells That Breathe Two Ways -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 895
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