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Scientists beam solar power to Earth from space for 1st time ever 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 14 1793
Don't miss Jupiter and its 5 Galilean satellites shine near the crescent moon tonight 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 8 3005
Shining rainbow rings around the sun photographed in Finland. What caused them? 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 13 1601
Primordial soup 5 Tetrachloride Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 1072
Scientists Develop New Birth Control for Female Cats--No Surgery Necessary 18 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 30 4719
Lifesaving Fentanyl Test Strips Are Being Legalized in More States 6 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 7 1397
China wants to launch a moon-orbiting telescope array as soon as 2026 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 4 1668
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission -- Live updates 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 7 844
See Mars like never before in this amazing new photo from a 20-year-old probe 4 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 47 3487
Ethereal 'halo' and light arcs around the sun captured in photos of ultra-rare phenomena 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 11 1328
So I went to a lecture this afternoon by double Nobel Laureate K. Barry Sharpless... 2 NNadir Jun 2023 Jun 2023 13 1678
Chemical fossils spanning 1.64 billion years hint at the evolution of steroids in living systems. 2 NNadir Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1812
The Truth Behind Africa's Piranha Tigerfish Attack Real Wild 0 YoshidaYui Jun 2023 Jun 2023 5 926
Brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen, the largest known explosion since Big Bang, has a unique jet st 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 8 1734
NASA's sun-kissing Parker Solar Probe finds source of 'fast' solar wind 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 779
Strange star holds 'holy grail' clues about unique supernova explosions in the early universe 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1533
Origins of masturbation traced back to primates 40m years ago 18 milestogo Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 2477
The Biggest Meat Eating Dinosaur Ever: Spinosaurus Documentary 4 YoshidaYui Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 985
Wow Wildlife Moments from the Deep Waters Near Kingman Reef 1 catbyte Jun 2023 Jun 2023 4 1321
James Webb Space Telescope spies earliest complex organic molecules in the universe 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 9 1744
Dinosaurs 101 National Geographic 1 YoshidaYui Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 755
TARBOSAURUS I. THE MIGHTIEST EVER PART 1 Dinosaur documentary 1 YoshidaYui Jun 2023 Jun 2023 4 1743
Why do animals keep evolving into crabs? 9 Judi Lynn May 2023 Jun 2023 7 1381
This psychedelic-eyed gecko isn't what we thought it was 7 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 20 2224
Biggest Volcanic Eruptions Mega Disasters Free Documentary 1 YoshidaYui Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 821
Hidden Volcano Abyss: Behind Tonga's Massive Eruption Full Documentary NOVA PBS 1 YoshidaYui Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1226
Cannabis-derived products have flooded the US market - two immunologists explain the medicinal benef 5 BootinUp Jun 2023 Jun 2023 9 2063
Mysterious cosmic threads are reaching out from the Milky Way's monster black hole 0 muriel_volestrangler Jun 2023 Jun 2023 11 1644
Japan and NASA planning to launch a wooden satellite into space next year. 2 BootinUp Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1435
This message was self-deleted by its author 7 GenXer47 Jun 2023 Jun 2023 17 1360

Science Continued...

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Monster black hole burps out hot gas in bright 'H' shape (photos) 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 6 821
Infant stars burst out of their cosmic cribs in a violent stellar nursery (photo) 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 10 1728
Hubble captures starry tentacles of faraway 'jellyfish galaxy' in stunning detail (photo) 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 7 1074
OmegaCAM Sees Giant Filaments in Vela Supernova Remnant 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 636
SpaceX could launch this wild, origami-inspired folding heat shield later this year 5 Judi Lynn May 2023 Jun 2023 10 1876
Listen to the sounds of Pando, the largest living tree in the world 7 Judi Lynn May 2023 Jun 2023 12 1643
And now we have the first X-ray taken of a single atom 2 BootinUp Jun 2023 Jun 2023 10 1587
New 'quasi-moon' discovered near Earth has been travelling alongside our planet since 100 BC 1 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 17 1683
M16 the eagle nebula 2 moonshinegnomie May 2023 May 2023 6 894
New record! 17 people are in Earth orbit at the same time right now 1 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 3 1555
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 0 426
Mystery pathogen is stripping sea urchins of their flesh and turning them to skeletons -- and it's sp 3 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 15 1658
Small earthquake in Cook Inlet, Alaska 0 Tetrachloride May 2023 May 2023 3 675
Scientists find fungi that can eat plastic 4 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 9 3174
M83: The Thousand Ruby Galaxy 14 BootinUp May 2023 May 2023 40 2856
a universe of galaxies 8 moonshinegnomie May 2023 May 2023 22 1576
The Euclid spacecraft will transform how we view the 'dark universe' 0 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 13 1260
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor's Earth Shattering Discovery of the Taylor Cone Took Place at Ages 78-83. 1 NNadir May 2023 May 2023 13 1823
Photon lights a path towards a nuclear clock 0 NNadir May 2023 May 2023 6 943
World's oldest human footprint identified in South Africa (earthsky.org) 2 eppur_se_muova May 2023 May 2023 20 1739
A Very Wonderful Open Chemical Review On A Most Powerful Analytical Chemistry Tool: IMS/Mass Spec. 2 NNadir May 2023 May 2023 2 1437
6.1 Earthquake offshore of Chiba Prefecture, Japan 5 Tetrachloride May 2023 May 2023 2 1011
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Isn't What You Think It Is - Scientifc American 6 BootinUp May 2023 May 2023 5 1798
Strange star system may hold first evidence of an ultra-rare 'dark matter star' 4 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 5 2423
Liberals, Conservatives, and the Political Brain: fMRI Studies of Political Ideology 3 xocetaceans May 2023 May 2023 7 1081
James Webb telescope discovers gargantuan geyser on Saturn's moon, blasting water hundreds of miles 2 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 11 1161
Giants of the Jurassic seas were twice the size of a killer whale (U Portsmout/EarthSky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova May 2023 May 2023 6 1338
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 eppur_se_muova May 2023 May 2023 0 447
Crystals and rich ores drawn from deep inside active volcanoes might lead the way to a better future 1 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 7 1239
Mind reading breakthrough immediately raises questions of ethics 2 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 8 1169

Science Continued...

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These giant 'drop bears' with opposable thumbs once scaled trees in Australia. But how did they grow 0 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 4 1180
Volcanoes may carpet surface of newfound Earth-size exoplanet 1 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 2 978
Human-evolution story rewritten by fresh data and more computing power 2 NNadir May 2023 May 2023 13 2072
The Geologic Oddity in Arizona; The Wave 4 catbyte May 2023 May 2023 6 1090
The Six Moons Most Likely to Host Life in Our Solar System Vast quantities of liquid water may exist 7 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 5 1583
James Webb Telescope finds evidence of 'celestial monster' stars the size of 10,000 suns lurking at 2 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 10 1552
Butterflies originated in North America after splitting from moths, new study suggests. 1 elleng May 2023 May 2023 8 882
Building telescopes on the moon could transform astronomy - and it's becoming an achievable goal 1 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 5 1017
The Closest Living Relative of the First Animal Has Finally Been Found 7 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 46 2994
Juno spacecraft takes an image of Jupiter. 2 BootinUp May 2023 May 2023 12 1279
What Created This Mini Book-Shaped Rock on Mars? 1 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 3 1075
Stone Engravings of Mysterious Ancient Megastructures May Be World's Oldest 'Blueprints' 0 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 5 1286
Sharks are older than Saturn's rings 3 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 4 1004
Scientists discover giant crater from ice age explosion that has methane-spewing mud volcano inside 2 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 5 1176
Titanic cosmic bubbles blown by the Milky Way are surprisingly complex 0 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 4 634
Solar 'superflares' millions of times stronger than anything today may have sparked life on Earth 0 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 1 1160
New trio of telescopes scans the southern sky for gravitational waves 7 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 20 1425
The Milky Way galaxy may be a different shape than we thought 7 BootinUp May 2023 May 2023 9 1628
Butterflies originated in North America after splitting from moths, new study suggests 6 BumRushDaShow May 2023 May 2023 10 1629
Astronomers observed first radiation belt seen outside our solar system 1 Judi Lynn May 2023 May 2023 8 1005
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