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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 60836

Science under attack - hopefully we don't suffer a similar fate. 0 generalbetrayus 3 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 2 163

Transmutation of Mercury into Gold. 12 NNadir Wednesday 7 hrs ago 12 473

After distractions, rotating brain waves may help thought circle back to the task 4 erronis Yesterday 19 hrs ago 6 234

Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation 2 Jim__ Yesterday Yesterday 3 271

The International Space Station marks 25 years of nonstop human presence in orbit 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Thursday Thursday 5 129

Tool reveals how your dinner affects risk of 30,875 species land-dwelling animals going extinct 0 erronis Thursday Thursday 1 152

Galactical model of subquark particles 8 wise47 Oct 15 Thursday 2 464

Fishers' heartbeats align during collaborative hunts with dolphins, study reveals 0 erronis Thursday Thursday 2 185

My mother told me she had an eye on the back of her head. It appears she may have been right. 2 erronis Oct 22 Wednesday 20 609

World's Biomass Human vs ... 6 SorellaLaBefana Wednesday Wednesday 9 300

Have you ever been to a lecture where the speaker is so smart people are afraid to ask a question? 11 NNadir Sunday Wednesday 12 572

The long, deep dig: Collaboration unearths ancient city of Sardis 0 erronis Tuesday Tuesday 9 283

NBC covering breakthrough ufo paper 6 SamuelTheThird Sunday Monday 10 1165

If you had a healthy dollop of disposable income, would you pay 500 hundred bucks for this book? 9 NNadir Saturday Saturday 3 612

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment 2 erronis Saturday Saturday 11 330

Cool science word: Euxinia. 2 NNadir Saturday Saturday 7 371

NASA tested my chain theory in space - Steve Mould (video) 0 sl8 Oct 24 Oct 24 11 440

A laser pointer at 2 billion fps makes the speed of light look... kinda weird 2 LiberalArkie Oct 22 Oct 22 13 737

American Heart Association reviewing award to rocket scientist with eight retractions 0 erronis Oct 22 Oct 22 2 313

A gorgeous view of M51 - the Whirlpool Galaxy 8 BootinUp Oct 21 Oct 22 16 509

Mosquitoes Have Started Appearing in One of The Last Places on Earth Without Them 0 littlemissmartypants Oct 22 Oct 22 15 504

Sad. Nobel laureate George Smoot, who researched the universe's origins at UC Berkeley, dies at 80 7 usonian Oct 20 Oct 21 11 391

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 usonian Oct 20 Oct 20 0 84

Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of UAP 0 ThreeNoSeep Oct 20 Oct 20 1 279

This message was self-deleted by its author 1 SamuelTheThird Oct 20 Oct 20 2 150

Evidence suggests mRNA (Covid) vaccines prolong some cancer patients' lives. 16 Laffy Kat Oct 19 Oct 20 40 1219

Science saving whales: Scientists hope underwater fiber-optic cables can help save endangered orcas 4 cbabe Oct 19 Oct 19 8 298

New theory of evolution 0 wise47 Oct 19 Oct 19 3 555

An Iranian volcano appears to have woken up -- 700,000 years after its last eruption 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 17 Oct 19 7 426

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How Afraid of the AI Apocalypse Should We Be? The Ezra Klein Show 1 YoshidaYui Oct 18 Oct 18 2 346

Theory of everything (TOE), Quantum Gravity (QG) and theory of gravity 4 wise47 Oct 15 Oct 18 2 502

The most accurate 3D map of stellar nurseries in the Milky Way (ESA) 3 usonian Oct 16 Oct 17 7 349

Sam Altman Shows Me GPT 5... And What's Next 4 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 17 2 487

Dinosaurs Were Weirder Than We Thought 3 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 16 7 774

Why Gravity Is A Lie, explained in Zero G 1 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 16 7 570

'Bored aliens': has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth? 9 hunter Oct 15 Oct 15 8 490

Cascadia quake may create 'emergency situation' in other West Coast fault zone, study warns 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 15 Oct 15 5 365

The Small World Paradox 4 Uncle Joe Oct 8 Oct 15 5 581

Playing with Tantalum. 2 NNadir Oct 15 Oct 15 3 412

Mysterious gullies on Mars appear to have been carved by burrowing CO₂ ice blocks 0 erronis Oct 14 Oct 14 7 312

SpaceX successfully lands 11th test starship - FRANCE 24 0 TexasTowelie Oct 14 Oct 14 4 320

In the wild, chimpanzees likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks every day 5 erronis Sep 17 Oct 12 5 583

Satellite Technology Uncovers New Ancient Egyptian Cities And Pyramids 1 William Seger Sep 19 Oct 12 7 3071

Your iPhone Tracking You and Listening - TURN THIS OFF! 0 YoshidaYui Oct 11 Oct 11 16 778

Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science 2 douglas9 Oct 11 Oct 11 8 326

One of the largest great white sharks ever tagged pings in unusual spot 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 10 Oct 11 12 728

How Europe's largest bat catches and eats birds mid-air 0 erronis Oct 9 Oct 9 6 354

Annie Walker: The astronomer with an asteroid, but no known photographs 2 cbabe Oct 9 Oct 9 9 432

The "American" winner of the Nobel in Chemistry is Palestinian by birth. 6 NNadir Oct 8 Oct 9 10 487

Success on my quest to make a mutant! 2 mr715 Oct 9 Oct 9 2 416

What Does AI Think of Star Trek's Data (& SciFi AI)? 0 YoshidaYui Oct 8 Oct 8 2 365

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Joe Rogan discuss the cherry picking of Science...12 min vid 2 mitch96 Oct 6 Oct 6 6 603

Rogue planet's record growth spurt of 6 billion tonnes per second 3 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 4 395

Elephants know when we're looking at them 2 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 10 818

Why Do Women Outlive Men? WaPo: Redundancy of XX vs XY Genetics 14 GreatGazoo Oct 5 Oct 6 20 1046

APOD: "Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website." 4 SorellaLaBefana Oct 2 Oct 6 9 717

Scientists Develop Robots That Literally Walk on Water 1 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 3 487

Generations of Bearded Vultures Stashed Humans' Treasures, Including a 650-Year-Old Sandal, in These Bird Nests 1 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 19 771

ESA inaugurates new deep space antenna in Australia 0 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 2 305

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String Theory - ScienceClic 6 BootinUp Oct 3 Oct 5 9 567

Sputnik Starts Space Race (APOD Redux from 2000) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 4 Oct 4 4 352

What if the Universe Remembers Everything? New Theory Rewrites the Rules of Physics 12 erronis Oct 3 Oct 3 27 1267

Another Comet, from another time (From the APOD files) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 3 Oct 3 3 512

Bizarre ankylosaur with spikes is unlike any known dinosaur (earthsky.org) 3 eppur_se_muova Sep 30 Sep 30 10 2150

'Wholesale destruction': Government shutdown or not, critical science programs are at risk 0 douglas9 Sep 30 Sep 30 6 1904

Paleontologists Discover Megaraptor Fossil With a Crocodilian's Leg Still in Its Mouth 1 Judi Lynn Sep 29 Sep 30 12 2468

These Ancient Footprints Rewrite Human History 5 Ptah Sep 29 Sep 29 17 2890

Giant Stars With Black Holes Inside Them May Have Been Detected For The First Time 1 Judi Lynn Sep 28 Sep 29 8 1750

"Brightest Object In Known Universe" Puffs Itself Up To Look 15 Times Its Actual Size 1 Judi Lynn Sep 28 Sep 28 14 2674

The First Black Hole We Ever Saw Is Doing Something Never Seen Before 0 Judi Lynn Sep 28 Sep 28 17 2128

Perplexing diamonds from South Africa mine contain 'almost impossible' chemistry 2 Judi Lynn Sep 27 Sep 27 14 1427

Chimps regularly consume alcohol, study finds 0 milestogo Sep 27 Sep 27 3 726

Physics-informed AI learns local rules behind flocking and collective motion behaviors 3 erronis Sep 26 Sep 26 2 532

A picture of IBM's Quantum System 2 5 BootinUp Sep 26 Sep 26 1 865

New Math Revives Geometry's Oldest Problems -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Sep 26 Sep 26 7 2405

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 8 881

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 1755

Brian Cox explains why time travels in one direction - BBC (2 videos) 10 BootinUp Sep 21 Sep 23 6 4023

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