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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 62246
What if the bacteria living in our digestive tracts could produce compounds that help us live longer? 1 littlemissmartypants Wednesday 1 hr ago 5 366
Apes and humans have been sharing a laugh for 15 million years 4 erronis 18 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 8 388
Gorilla Giggles 2 littlemissmartypants 17 hrs ago 17 hrs ago 6 455
The 24-hour hotline helping save the world's biggest freshwater fish 1 littlemissmartypants Wednesday Yesterday 11 378
No one believed it': how a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya's sand cat really does exist 7 littlemissmartypants Wednesday Wednesday 43 1169
10 Minute Morning Routine That Rewires Your Brain 9 littlemissmartypants Tuesday Wednesday 26 1081
MIT Explains the 12 Possible Endings for AI 4 Uncle Joe Tuesday Tuesday 4 703
Why Communities are Revolting Against Data Centers 4 littlemissmartypants Monday Monday 5 520
Interstellar comet may be oldest object seen in our solar system, scientists say 0 muriel_volestrangler Monday Monday 6 343
Craving something for dinner? Your mind may be 'tasting' food before you eat it 0 erronis Monday Monday 2 294
A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading 1 littlemissmartypants Saturday Saturday 15 602
The Refracting Pool 3 LessAspin Saturday Saturday 8 779
A secretive Chinese probe has just arrived at one of Earth's 'quasi-moons' and will soon attempt a first-of-its-kind lan 5 Judi Lynn Jun 17 Jun 18 14 700
Ancient DNA provides evidence of earliest known plague outbreak 1 muriel_volestrangler Jun 17 Jun 17 5 514
How eight beavers solved a Tube flooding problem engineers have been trying to fix for years (The Independent, 6/14/26) 23 highplainsdem Jun 15 Jun 17 85 2525
A Bill Before Congress to Put the Last Nail in the Coffin of American Science: Write Your Congressperson. 31 NNadir Jun 14 Jun 17 80 2818
Update Further Remarks on the Administration's Efforts to Destroy American Science. Where to Comment. 5 NNadir Jun 16 Jun 17 5 547
A submersible ride revealed a vast whale graveyard. And it holds more than just bones 5 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 14 Jun 15 54 1499
James Webb Space Telescope discovers 'galaxy-killing' wind that may explain why some early galaxies lived f... 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 12 Jun 12 3 537
Prenatal exposure to phthalates is associated with decreased anogenital distance and penile size in male newborns 4 littlemissmartypants Jun 11 Jun 12 12 693
Screwworm in Texas Was Announced June 3 But EUAs Began in August 2025 (?!) 5 GreatGazoo Jun 11 Jun 11 5 725
Welsh scientists create biodegradable plastic from seaweed. . . 2 Stargleamer Jun 7 Jun 11 8 580
Report of gene-edited human embryos sparks worries about the technology's future uses 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 11 Jun 11 2 404
First global map of mycorrhizal fungi reveals true scale of underground networks across the planet 4 erronis Jun 11 Jun 11 13 687
YouTube is a Research Library Here's How to Search It Like One 2 littlemissmartypants May 31 Jun 10 12 852
Federal science agencies facing a 'generational loss,' nonprofit says 7 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 10 Jun 10 16 926
Glucosamine Supplements May Speed Memory Loss from Alzheimer's New Research Suggests 4 GreatGazoo Jun 9 Jun 9 8 924
Science in a Totalitarian State: This has been tried, and failed, long before MAGA 1 SorellaLaBefana Jun 8 Jun 8 11 472
Science Astronomers are capturing video of a black hole for the first time 0 Jilly_in_VA Jun 7 Jun 7 12 609

Science Continued...

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Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found 2 Uncle Joe Jun 7 Jun 7 11 905
Scientists are creating a new nasal vaccine that may provide antiviral protection. . . 3 Stargleamer Jun 7 Jun 7 11 662
NASA lifts order for International Space Station astronauts to shelter in Dragon spacecraft amid ongoing air leaks 0 Dulcinea Jun 5 Jun 5 1 440
How to Clean Your House Like an Oncologist 4 littlemissmartypants Jun 4 Jun 5 20 987
'Severe' Northern Lights Alert For 23 States On Thursday And Friday 5 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 4 Jun 4 26 1613
'In an unrecoverable state': NASA confirms MAVEN spacecraft is officially dead after loss of signal behind Mars 6 Eugene Jun 3 Jun 4 8 795
Massive booms shook the East Coast for over 300 years. Scientists finally found the source of the sonic explosions. 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 3 Jun 3 20 1104
How a Richard Feynman formula could explain your dining habits in a new city 3 erronis Jun 2 Jun 2 6 762
Vaccine Shows Promise Against Aggressive Brain Cancer 3 Matthew28 May 30 Jun 2 11 757
Not only is this the first day of Hurricane Season, but it's also Sargassum weed season 3 surfered Jun 1 Jun 1 5 546
Neural correlates of hate 5 littlemissmartypants Jun 1 Jun 1 31 1302
Lets imagine using gene editing in the future in order to allow for the growth of wombs in all biological males. Just t 5 Matthew28 May 30 May 30 2 907
This Battery Doesn't Need Lithium and It Just Hit Mass Production 2 Uncle Joe May 30 May 30 18 1245
Breaking News: Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explodes during launch pad testBreaking News: Blue Origin New Glenn rocket e 6 Warpy May 28 May 29 7 842
NASA's Curiosity rover has found organic molecules on Mars that may be billions of years old 4 Bayard May 28 May 28 12 910
A physicist made this cool sculpture of an astronaut. 3 BootinUp May 27 May 27 7 735
'Never seen anything like it.' Scientists discover brand new species of octopus. 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 27 May 27 12 867
Monkey see, monkey do: Study sheds light on cooperative decision-making 0 erronis May 27 May 27 3 435
Nasa unveils next steps to build permanent Moon base 9 Eugene May 26 May 27 2 824
One of Neptune's 16 moons is not like the others, James Webb telescope finds -- and it could be key to fully understandin 4 Judi Lynn May 22 May 24 15 932
Physicists confirm 'negative time' is real by asking the atoms themselves 2 Judi Lynn May 21 May 23 11 761
WATCH LIVE: SpaceX launching powerful new Starship V3 for 1st time ever 3 Judi Lynn May 22 May 22 4 781
Saki Monkey Chloe Needs A Companion Season 11 Episode 15 Full Episode Monkey Life 2 BootinUp May 22 May 22 1 578
An ancient solar storm left clues in tree rings and a famous poet's diary: 'Red lights in the northern sky' 0 Judi Lynn May 22 May 22 8 593
Chicks Hatch From World's First Artificial Eggs--A Breakthrough Key to Bringing Giant Birds Back From Extinction 1 Judi Lynn May 21 May 21 5 678
Sadly Peter Neumann has passed away 3 dickthegrouch May 20 May 21 17 986
Inge Lehmann Discovered Earth's Inner Core In Her Free Time 2 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 5 756
"Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity." 14 Ocelot II May 20 May 20 34 2071
Rainforest foragers intensified plant use long before agriculture 2 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 3 611
Prescient I. Rabi to Bill Moyers "...I think our troubles may come when we forget our origins..." "..once we're a mob... 0 NNadir May 19 May 19 5 614

Science Continued...

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The Sun Blasted a Mysterious Radio Signal for 19 Straight Days. Here's What We Know (Gizmodo, 5/19/26 + study) 3 highplainsdem May 19 May 19 12 946
An interesting read: Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove 4 NNadir May 18 May 19 6 783
I successfully used crispr to edit mosquitoes! 17 mr715 May 8 May 16 5 1344
NASA Fires Up Powerful Lithium-Fed Thruster for Trips to Mars 16 OKIsItJustMe May 15 May 16 7 1654
AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers 2 littlemissmartypants May 13 May 16 10 847
What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting. (Quanta, 5/6) 3 highplainsdem May 8 May 16 7 878
(Pivot to AI) arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers 0 xocetaceans May 15 May 15 4 568
Despotic primate societies rarely play as adults, analysis of 37 species reveals 2 erronis May 12 May 13 12 769
How Hantavirus Kills - Medical Lecture 0 GreatGazoo May 8 May 8 6 796
1/5 -Ted Turner Interviews Carl Sagan 1989 2 BootinUp May 6 May 8 8 763
While patients lay unconscious under anesthesia, their brains kept decoding stories and preparing for what came next 8 erronis May 6 May 6 16 1619
Well, this is fun. An LLM trained only on pre-1931 text. 4 harumph May 4 May 6 5 1197
Watch as NASA's Curiosity Rover frees its drill from a rock 0 erronis May 5 May 5 7 771
Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we've ever built 4 IronLionZion May 2 May 4 3 971
On the nature of intelligence: can the process of evolution be thought to show a form of intelligence? 1 Girard442 May 3 May 3 1 583
Hidden plant molecules show up to 25 times stronger activity against Ebola and COVID-19 0 erronis May 2 May 2 12 773
Increased Colorectal Cancer Rates among Adults under Fifty Are Causally Linked to Increased Screening 3 BootinUp May 1 May 2 6 963
I've learned something interesting about brachiopods -- most have no anus. 1 eppur_se_muova May 2 May 2 3 762
Rise in Colon Cancer In Young Adults Tied to E.Coli Exposure in First 10 Yrs of Life 0 GreatGazoo May 1 May 1 3 729
Scientists restore memory by blocking a single Alzheimer's protein 9 Bayard Apr 30 May 1 41 2048
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