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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 60803

NBC covering breakthrough ufo paper 2 SamuelTheThird 2 hrs ago 46 min ago 7 469

Have you ever been to a lecture where the speaker is so smart people are afraid to ask a question? 5 NNadir 6 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 10 346

If you had a healthy dollop of disposable income, would you pay 500 hundred bucks for this book? 9 NNadir Yesterday 20 hrs ago 3 485

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment 2 erronis Yesterday 23 hrs ago 11 223

Cool science word: Euxinia. 2 NNadir Yesterday Yesterday 7 285

NASA tested my chain theory in space - Steve Mould (video) 0 sl8 Friday Friday 11 388

My mother told me she had an eye on the back of her head. It appears she may have been right. 1 erronis Wednesday Thursday 19 553

Galactical model of subquark particles 6 wise47 Oct 15 Wednesday 2 369

A laser pointer at 2 billion fps makes the speed of light look... kinda weird 2 LiberalArkie Wednesday Wednesday 13 686

American Heart Association reviewing award to rocket scientist with eight retractions 0 erronis Wednesday Wednesday 2 287

A gorgeous view of M51 - the Whirlpool Galaxy 8 BootinUp Tuesday Wednesday 15 438

Mosquitoes Have Started Appearing in One of The Last Places on Earth Without Them 0 littlemissmartypants Wednesday Wednesday 15 463

Sad. Nobel laureate George Smoot, who researched the universe's origins at UC Berkeley, dies at 80 7 usonian Monday Tuesday 11 307

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Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of UAP 0 ThreeNoSeep Monday Monday 1 251

This message was self-deleted by its author 1 SamuelTheThird Monday Monday 2 122

Evidence suggests mRNA (Covid) vaccines prolong some cancer patients' lives. 16 Laffy Kat Sunday Monday 40 1090

Science saving whales: Scientists hope underwater fiber-optic cables can help save endangered orcas 4 cbabe Sunday Sunday 6 247

New theory of evolution 0 wise47 Sunday Sunday 3 510

An Iranian volcano appears to have woken up -- 700,000 years after its last eruption 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 17 Sunday 7 385

How Afraid of the AI Apocalypse Should We Be? The Ezra Klein Show 1 YoshidaYui Oct 18 Oct 18 2 317

Theory of everything (TOE), Quantum Gravity (QG) and theory of gravity 4 wise47 Oct 15 Oct 18 2 457

The most accurate 3D map of stellar nurseries in the Milky Way (ESA) 3 usonian Oct 16 Oct 17 7 303

Sam Altman Shows Me GPT 5... And What's Next 4 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 17 2 432

Dinosaurs Were Weirder Than We Thought 3 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 16 7 724

Why Gravity Is A Lie, explained in Zero G 1 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 16 7 522

'Bored aliens': has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth? 9 hunter Oct 15 Oct 15 8 405

Cascadia quake may create 'emergency situation' in other West Coast fault zone, study warns 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 15 Oct 15 5 318

The Small World Paradox 4 Uncle Joe Oct 8 Oct 15 5 530

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Playing with Tantalum. 2 NNadir Oct 15 Oct 15 3 372

Mysterious gullies on Mars appear to have been carved by burrowing CO₂ ice blocks 0 erronis Oct 14 Oct 14 7 291

SpaceX successfully lands 11th test starship - FRANCE 24 0 TexasTowelie Oct 14 Oct 14 4 298

In the wild, chimpanzees likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks every day 5 erronis Sep 17 Oct 12 5 540

Satellite Technology Uncovers New Ancient Egyptian Cities And Pyramids 1 William Seger Sep 19 Oct 12 7 3042

Your iPhone Tracking You and Listening - TURN THIS OFF! 0 YoshidaYui Oct 11 Oct 11 16 750

Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science 2 douglas9 Oct 11 Oct 11 8 289

One of the largest great white sharks ever tagged pings in unusual spot 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 10 Oct 11 12 691

How Europe's largest bat catches and eats birds mid-air 0 erronis Oct 9 Oct 9 6 330

Annie Walker: The astronomer with an asteroid, but no known photographs 2 cbabe Oct 9 Oct 9 9 398

The "American" winner of the Nobel in Chemistry is Palestinian by birth. 6 NNadir Oct 8 Oct 9 10 433

Success on my quest to make a mutant! 2 mr715 Oct 9 Oct 9 2 385

What Does AI Think of Star Trek's Data (& SciFi AI)? 0 YoshidaYui Oct 8 Oct 8 2 339

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Joe Rogan discuss the cherry picking of Science...12 min vid 2 mitch96 Oct 6 Oct 6 6 573

Rogue planet's record growth spurt of 6 billion tonnes per second 3 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 4 364

Elephants know when we're looking at them 2 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 10 789

Why Do Women Outlive Men? WaPo: Redundancy of XX vs XY Genetics 14 GreatGazoo Oct 5 Oct 6 20 978

APOD: "Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website." 4 SorellaLaBefana Oct 2 Oct 6 9 681

Scientists Develop Robots That Literally Walk on Water 1 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 3 456

Generations of Bearded Vultures Stashed Humans' Treasures, Including a 650-Year-Old Sandal, in These Bird Nests 1 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 19 746

ESA inaugurates new deep space antenna in Australia 0 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 2 283

String Theory - ScienceClic 6 BootinUp Oct 3 Oct 5 9 528

Sputnik Starts Space Race (APOD Redux from 2000) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 4 Oct 4 4 326

What if the Universe Remembers Everything? New Theory Rewrites the Rules of Physics 12 erronis Oct 3 Oct 3 27 1203

Another Comet, from another time (From the APOD files) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 3 Oct 3 3 485

Bizarre ankylosaur with spikes is unlike any known dinosaur (earthsky.org) 3 eppur_se_muova Sep 30 Sep 30 10 2124

'Wholesale destruction': Government shutdown or not, critical science programs are at risk 0 douglas9 Sep 30 Sep 30 6 1879

Paleontologists Discover Megaraptor Fossil With a Crocodilian's Leg Still in Its Mouth 1 Judi Lynn Sep 29 Sep 30 12 2442

These Ancient Footprints Rewrite Human History 5 Ptah Sep 29 Sep 29 17 2851

Giant Stars With Black Holes Inside Them May Have Been Detected For The First Time 1 Judi Lynn Sep 28 Sep 29 8 1723

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"Brightest Object In Known Universe" Puffs Itself Up To Look 15 Times Its Actual Size 1 Judi Lynn Sep 28 Sep 28 14 2642

The First Black Hole We Ever Saw Is Doing Something Never Seen Before 0 Judi Lynn Sep 28 Sep 28 17 2100

Perplexing diamonds from South Africa mine contain 'almost impossible' chemistry 2 Judi Lynn Sep 27 Sep 27 14 1389

Chimps regularly consume alcohol, study finds 0 milestogo Sep 27 Sep 27 3 699

Physics-informed AI learns local rules behind flocking and collective motion behaviors 3 erronis Sep 26 Sep 26 2 503

A picture of IBM's Quantum System 2 5 BootinUp Sep 26 Sep 26 1 816

New Math Revives Geometry's Oldest Problems -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Sep 26 Sep 26 7 2374

Mount Sinai study supports evidence that prenatal acetaminophen use may be linked to increased risk of autism and ADHD 2 Wicked Blue Aug 14 Sep 26 8 854

Did you know brown pelicans are protected by lots of miniature airbags in their skin, like BubbleWrap ? 4 eppur_se_muova Sep 25 Sep 25 10 1719

Brian Cox explains why time travels in one direction - BBC (2 videos) 10 BootinUp Sep 21 Sep 23 6 3955

Will glaciers ever come back after they've melted away? 5 MrWowWow Sep 19 Sep 23 8 3975

Cold snap in Florida made Burmese python puke up a whole deer 1 Bayard Sep 22 Sep 23 8 2674

Offending the Analyst, the view "if you need to use statistics, then you have not designed your experiment very well". 7 NNadir Sep 19 Sep 22 4 2465

2025 Ig Physics Nobel Prize goes to perfect pasta sauce 5 erronis Sep 19 Sep 19 6 2888

Identifying Links between Alzheimer's Disease and Type 2 Diabetes through Proteomics 2 NNadir Sep 18 Sep 19 3 819

People with conservative political leanings more likely to believe in health disinformation, study finds 6 erronis Sep 18 Sep 18 4 1015

There are 32 different ways AI can go rogue, scientists say -- from hallucinating answers to a complete misalignment with 5 Judi Lynn Aug 31 Sep 18 7 766

Are 'little red dots' seen by the James Webb Space Telescope actually elusive 'black hole stars'? 4 Judi Lynn Sep 16 Sep 17 7 2367

'A genuine surprise': Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu once had 'flowing water' that transformed its insides 1 Judi Lynn Sep 17 Sep 17 10 550

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