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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 60308
About 700m years ago, the Earth froze over entirely - now we may know why 0 muriel_volestrangler 3 min ago 3 min ago 1 58
Executive function may stem from schooling rather than innate cognition 0 erronis 51 min ago 51 min ago 1 149
The Cells That Breathe Two Ways -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis 3 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 6 200
Arctic Melting in Mid-Winter 0 SorellaLaBefana 7 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 3 289
NASA Shares How to Save Camera 370-Million-Miles Away Near Jupiter (nasa.gov) 3 usonian 19 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 5 162
'E's got 'UUGE sharrp... It can leap abou--... LOOK AT THE BONES!!!" 2 Montauk6 Yesterday 16 hrs ago 12 391
Companion for Betelgeuse confirmed! Beloved red star has a blue-white buddy (earthsky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova 19 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 3 152
Magic mushrooms rewind aging in mice--could they do the same for humans? 3 DBoon 19 hrs ago 18 hrs ago 10 384
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 usonian 19 hrs ago 19 hrs ago 1 96
Playing an Instrument Could Protect Against Cognitive Aging, Study Reveals 10 erronis Saturday 19 hrs ago 12 412
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 usonian 19 hrs ago 19 hrs ago 0 139
The Smoot - How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement -- The Register 5 erronis Friday 19 hrs ago 13 396
Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move 5 mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday Yesterday 11 412
Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained 13 Judi Lynn Sunday Monday 11 572
Electron microscope image of a white blood cell 5 BootinUp Sunday Sunday 43 1171
The Apollo Moon Landing - Journey to American Democracy - Heather Cox Richardson 4 Rhiannon12866 Sunday Sunday 2 231
This Ancient Practice Beats Pills for Sleep - And Science Backs It 3 erronis Saturday Saturday 17 826
The Most Interesting Email I Ever Received: Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles 0 erronis Friday Friday 8 365
8-hour time-lapse shows Earth rotating while capturing the Milky Way. 8 edbermac Wednesday Thursday 42 1234
Flying with hands: The evolution of bat wings 0 erronis Wednesday Wednesday 5 248
Giant space 'boulders' unleashed by NASA's DART mission aren't behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflectin 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 8 391
Infrared photo of the Horsehead Nebula 0 BootinUp Wednesday Wednesday 15 426
Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality Anil Seth TED 4 Uncle Joe Jul 12 Jul 14 19 790
New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We're still learning from it 7 usonian Jul 11 Jul 12 11 531
The Caltech Experiment That Proved How Life Copies Itself - California Curated substack 2 BootinUp Jul 11 Jul 11 5 384
Should Adults in ICU have gene testing? Recent study (possibly) suggests YES 4 SorellaLaBefana Jul 11 Jul 11 2 530
'Could become a death spiral': scientists discover what's driving record die-offs of US honeybees 5 turbinetree Jul 10 Jul 11 17 706
Scientists discover 200-million-year-old flying reptile species 3 Judi Lynn Jul 10 Jul 10 18 661
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 turbinetree Jul 10 Jul 10 1 159

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July 10, 1925, the beginning of the Scopes trial 3 question everything Jul 10 Jul 10 3 373
Scientists discover Burmese pythons have never-before-seen cells that help them digest entire skeletons 3 milestogo Jul 9 Jul 9 7 429
World's Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos -- KFF Health News 3 erronis Jul 9 Jul 9 11 469
How much energy do fish expend when floating "effortlessly" in the water column? 0 SorellaLaBefana Jul 9 Jul 9 4 1720
Moon in Saturn's rings leaving ripples 8 Ptah Jul 8 Jul 9 48 974
A Formula to Keep the Science Flame Burning by James Hansen 3 OKIsItJustMe Jul 8 Jul 8 5 367
What did dinosaurs sound like? 7 cbabe Jul 8 Jul 8 5 502
Killer Whales Fashion Tools from Kelp and Use Them for Grooming 1 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 8 6 342
On this day, July 7, 1959, Venus occulted Regulus. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 7 Jul 7 3 312
Longevity Medicine Breakthrough 2 DanBaron Jul 6 Jul 7 8 598
Astronomers Track Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS 1 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 6 9 456
America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 5 Jul 5 1 372
Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? 8 Uncle Joe Jul 4 Jul 4 7 749
This Giant Telescope Will Map the Universe in Unbelievable Detail NOVA PBS 0 Uncle Joe Jul 4 Jul 4 8 493
PBS Terra: Wait...The Worst Possible US Disaster Just Got EVEN WORSE?!? (Cascadia Megaquake) 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 3 Jul 4 9 975
The truth about life on other planets - and what it means for humans 6 k_buddy762 Jun 6 Jul 3 15 1138
These Lizards Mysteriously Survived the Asteroid Strike That Killed the Dinosaurs--and Their Descendants Are Still Alive 4 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jul 3 10 1190
Swarms of tiny nose robots could clear infected sinuses, researchers say 8 Wicked Blue Jun 25 Jul 3 5 655
Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch 3 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jul 3 3 493
Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2 Jul 3 6 469
US to breed billions of flies and dump them out of aircraft in bid to fight flesh-eating maggot -- The Guardian 2 erronis Jul 2 Jul 2 9 632
Dentist may have solved 500-year-old mystery in da Vinci's iconic Vitruvian Man 0 erronis Jul 2 Jul 2 12 713
Earth About to Experience Shortest Day Since the 1970s as Rotation Gains Record Speed 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 1 Jul 2 9 503
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 1 Jul 1 0 146
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 1 Jul 1 0 166
An example of Special relativity 8 BootinUp Jun 30 Jul 1 10 699
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations -- Retraction Watch 0 erronis Jun 30 Jun 30 5 444
Common farm fungicide may be contributing to 'insect apocalypse' 1 erronis Jun 30 Jun 30 2 496
The Oldest Rocks on Earth Are in Canada, and They're 4.16 Billion Years Old 1 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 16 662
MIT's high-tech 'bubble wrap' turns air into safe drinking water -- even in Death Valley 2 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 11 775

Science Continued...

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Physicists Catch Light in 'Imaginary Time' in Scientific First 0 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 5 508
The Skull Nebula 0 BootinUp Jun 29 Jun 29 10 478
Ignorance Squad Strikes Again: US Cancels Nature Springer Journal Subscriptions 4 NNadir Jun 28 Jun 29 10 666
X-Posted from Australia group 2 canetoad Jun 28 Jun 28 1 490
Galpagos Tomatoes Quietly Reversing Evolution 5 milestogo Jun 24 Jun 28 10 785
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveils the first images of the sky obtained with the world's largest camera 2 Judi Lynn Jun 28 Jun 28 15 630
How gut bacteria change after exposure to pesticides 3 Wicked Blue Jun 27 Jun 27 4 608
Physicist Solves 120-Year-Old Thermodynamics Puzzle and Corrects Einstein 6 erronis Jun 27 Jun 27 8 794
Clair Patterson: The Caltech Scientist Who Exposed Lead Poisoning and Changed the World 4 BootinUp Jun 27 Jun 27 4 491
What Is Thimerosal? Why Most Vaccines Don't Contain Mercury Anymore 2 LiberalArkie Jun 27 Jun 27 6 514
I have a great YouTube channel to rec...Dr. Becky Smethurst is an Oxford U. astrophysicist and is really fun... 1 wcmagumba Jun 26 Jun 26 5 568
These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth 1 erronis Jun 26 Jun 26 9 558
Alaska Brown Bear Has Shiny New Smile After Getting A Huge Metal Crown 1 Wicked Blue Jun 26 Jun 26 6 519
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 26 Jun 26 43 1543
Australian Moths Are the First Known Insects to Navigate by the Stars, Revealing a Migratory Superpower 2 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jun 26 9 464
For first time, Webb telescope discovers an alien planet 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 25 Jun 25 13 729
Physicists recreate forgotten experiment observing fusion -- Los Alamos National Laboratory 0 erronis Jun 25 Jun 25 2 462
Overconfident conspiracy theorists: Many unaware their beliefs are on the fringe 5 erronis Jun 24 Jun 24 12 675
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Change Astronomy Forever 6 Gaugamela Jun 24 Jun 24 13 894
Scientists use bacteria to convert plastic into paracetamol 2 cbabe Jun 24 Jun 24 9 596
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