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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
Arctic Melting in Mid-Winter 0 SorellaLaBefana Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 1003
NASA Shares How to Save Camera 370-Million-Miles Away Near Jupiter (nasa.gov) 3 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1013
'E's got 'UUGE sharrp... It can leap abou--... LOOK AT THE BONES!!!" 2 Montauk6 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 1296
Companion for Betelgeuse confirmed! Beloved red star has a blue-white buddy (earthsky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 816
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 637
Playing an Instrument Could Protect Against Cognitive Aging, Study Reveals 10 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 1716
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 625
The Smoot - How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement -- The Register 5 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 13 1258
Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1379
Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained 13 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 2210
Electron microscope image of a white blood cell 5 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 43 2133
The Apollo Moon Landing - Journey to American Democracy - Heather Cox Richardson 4 Rhiannon12866 Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 1026
This Ancient Practice Beats Pills for Sleep - And Science Backs It 3 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 17 1736
The Most Interesting Email I Ever Received: Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1426
8-hour time-lapse shows Earth rotating while capturing the Milky Way. 8 edbermac Jul 2025 Jul 2025 42 2680
Flying with hands: The evolution of bat wings 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 774
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 1217
Infrared photo of the Horsehead Nebula 0 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 15 958
Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality Anil Seth TED 4 Uncle Joe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 19 1539
New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We're still learning from it 7 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1533
The Caltech Experiment That Proved How Life Copies Itself - California Curated substack 2 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1074
Should Adults in ICU have gene testing? Recent study (possibly) suggests YES 4 SorellaLaBefana Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 1411
'Could become a death spiral': scientists discover what's driving record die-offs of US honeybees 5 turbinetree Jul 2025 Jul 2025 17 1713
Scientists discover 200-million-year-old flying reptile species 3 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 18 1421
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 turbinetree Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 591
July 10, 1925, the beginning of the Scopes trial 3 question everything Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 1027
Scientists discover Burmese pythons have never-before-seen cells that help them digest entire skeletons 3 milestogo Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1132
World's Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos -- KFF Health News 3 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 1160

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How much energy do fish expend when floating "effortlessly" in the water column? 0 SorellaLaBefana Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 2267
Moon in Saturn's rings leaving ripples 8 Ptah Jul 2025 Jul 2025 48 1924
A Formula to Keep the Science Flame Burning by James Hansen 3 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1072
What did dinosaurs sound like? 7 cbabe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 1432
Killer Whales Fashion Tools from Kelp and Use Them for Grooming 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 874
On this day, July 7, 1959, Venus occulted Regulus. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 855
Longevity Medicine Breakthrough 2 DanBaron Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 1251
Astronomers Track Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1023
America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 825
Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? 8 Uncle Joe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1699
This Giant Telescope Will Map the Universe in Unbelievable Detail NOVA PBS 0 Uncle Joe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 935
PBS Terra: Wait...The Worst Possible US Disaster Just Got EVEN WORSE?!? (Cascadia Megaquake) 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1736
The truth about life on other planets - and what it means for humans 6 k_buddy762 Jun 2025 Jul 2025 16 2090
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 1950
Swarms of tiny nose robots could clear infected sinuses, researchers say 8 Wicked Blue Jun 2025 Jul 2025 5 1723
Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jul 2025 3 1206
Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 935
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 1218
Dentist may have solved 500-year-old mystery in da Vinci's iconic Vitruvian Man 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 1145
Earth About to Experience Shortest Day Since the 1970s as Rotation Gains Record Speed 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1078
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 499
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 0 508
An example of Special relativity 8 BootinUp Jun 2025 Jul 2025 10 1805
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations -- Retraction Watch 0 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 927
Common farm fungicide may be contributing to 'insect apocalypse' 1 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 989
The Oldest Rocks on Earth Are in Canada, and They're 4.16 Billion Years Old 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 16 1189
MIT's high-tech 'bubble wrap' turns air into safe drinking water -- even in Death Valley 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 11 1294
Physicists Catch Light in 'Imaginary Time' in Scientific First 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 915
The Skull Nebula 0 BootinUp Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 858
Ignorance Squad Strikes Again: US Cancels Nature Springer Journal Subscriptions 4 NNadir Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 1533

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X-Posted from Australia group 2 canetoad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 1072
Galpagos Tomatoes Quietly Reversing Evolution 5 milestogo Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 1639
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 1152
How gut bacteria change after exposure to pesticides 3 Wicked Blue Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1249
Physicist Solves 120-Year-Old Thermodynamics Puzzle and Corrects Einstein 6 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 1872
Clair Patterson: The Caltech Scientist Who Exposed Lead Poisoning and Changed the World 4 BootinUp Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1263
What Is Thimerosal? Why Most Vaccines Don't Contain Mercury Anymore 2 LiberalArkie Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 1055
I have a great YouTube channel to rec...Dr. Becky Smethurst is an Oxford U. astrophysicist and is really fun... 1 wcmagumba Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1041
These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth 1 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 1057
Alaska Brown Bear Has Shiny New Smile After Getting A Huge Metal Crown 1 Wicked Blue Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 1002
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 2588
Australian Moths Are the First Known Insects to Navigate by the Stars, Revealing a Migratory Superpower 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 1141
For first time, Webb telescope discovers an alien planet 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2025 Jun 2025 13 1640
Physicists recreate forgotten experiment observing fusion -- Los Alamos National Laboratory 0 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 864
Overconfident conspiracy theorists: Many unaware their beliefs are on the fringe 5 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 12 1458
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Change Astronomy Forever 6 Gaugamela Jun 2025 Jun 2025 13 1674
Scientists use bacteria to convert plastic into paracetamol 2 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 1205
First images from world's largest digital camera features stunning shots of the universe 7 Jilly_in_VA Jun 2025 Jun 2025 19 1836
Smooth trends in fermium charge radii and the impact of shell effects 1 NNadir Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 942
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 1016
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