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The Smoot - How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement -- The Register 5 erronis Jul 18 Jul 22 13 728
Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 22 Jul 22 11 793
Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained 13 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 21 11 1109
Electron microscope image of a white blood cell 5 BootinUp Jul 20 Jul 20 43 1534
The Apollo Moon Landing - Journey to American Democracy - Heather Cox Richardson 4 Rhiannon12866 Jul 20 Jul 20 2 544
This Ancient Practice Beats Pills for Sleep - And Science Backs It 3 erronis Jul 19 Jul 19 17 1236
The Most Interesting Email I Ever Received: Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles 0 erronis Jul 18 Jul 18 8 1078
8-hour time-lapse shows Earth rotating while capturing the Milky Way. 8 edbermac Jul 16 Jul 17 42 1694
Flying with hands: The evolution of bat wings 0 erronis Jul 16 Jul 16 5 471
Giant space 'boulders' unleashed by NASA's DART mission aren't behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflectin 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 16 Jul 16 8 703
Infrared photo of the Horsehead Nebula 0 BootinUp Jul 16 Jul 16 15 668
Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality Anil Seth TED 4 Uncle Joe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 19 1075
New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We're still learning from it 7 usonian Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 886
The Caltech Experiment That Proved How Life Copies Itself - California Curated substack 2 BootinUp Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 629
Should Adults in ICU have gene testing? Recent study (possibly) suggests YES 4 SorellaLaBefana Jul 2025 Jul 2025 2 837
'Could become a death spiral': scientists discover what's driving record die-offs of US honeybees 5 turbinetree Jul 2025 Jul 2025 17 1024
Scientists discover 200-million-year-old flying reptile species 3 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 18 944
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July 10, 1925, the beginning of the Scopes trial 3 question everything Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 631
Scientists discover Burmese pythons have never-before-seen cells that help them digest entire skeletons 3 milestogo Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 686
World's Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos -- KFF Health News 3 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 11 720
How much energy do fish expend when floating "effortlessly" in the water column? 0 SorellaLaBefana Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 1920
Moon in Saturn's rings leaving ripples 8 Ptah Jul 2025 Jul 2025 48 1274
A Formula to Keep the Science Flame Burning by James Hansen 3 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 603
What did dinosaurs sound like? 7 cbabe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 774
Killer Whales Fashion Tools from Kelp and Use Them for Grooming 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 533
On this day, July 7, 1959, Venus occulted Regulus. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 500
Longevity Medicine Breakthrough 2 DanBaron Jul 2025 Jul 2025 8 819
Astronomers Track Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 668
America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 547

Science Continued...

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Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? 8 Uncle Joe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1031
This Giant Telescope Will Map the Universe in Unbelievable Detail NOVA PBS 0 Uncle Joe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 664
PBS Terra: Wait...The Worst Possible US Disaster Just Got EVEN WORSE?!? (Cascadia Megaquake) 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 1188
The truth about life on other planets - and what it means for humans 6 k_buddy762 Jun 2025 Jul 2025 16 1375
These Lizards Mysteriously Survived the Asteroid Strike That Killed the Dinosaurs--and Their Descendants Are Still Alive 4 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jul 2025 10 1451
Swarms of tiny nose robots could clear infected sinuses, researchers say 8 Wicked Blue Jun 2025 Jul 2025 5 977
Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jul 2025 3 707
Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 613
US to breed billions of flies and dump them out of aircraft in bid to fight flesh-eating maggot -- The Guardian 2 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 830
Dentist may have solved 500-year-old mystery in da Vinci's iconic Vitruvian Man 0 erronis Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 852
Earth About to Experience Shortest Day Since the 1970s as Rotation Gains Record Speed 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 704
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An example of Special relativity 8 BootinUp Jun 2025 Jul 2025 10 994
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations -- Retraction Watch 0 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 611
Common farm fungicide may be contributing to 'insect apocalypse' 1 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 651
The Oldest Rocks on Earth Are in Canada, and They're 4.16 Billion Years Old 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 16 856
MIT's high-tech 'bubble wrap' turns air into safe drinking water -- even in Death Valley 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 11 937
Physicists Catch Light in 'Imaginary Time' in Scientific First 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 655
The Skull Nebula 0 BootinUp Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 613
Ignorance Squad Strikes Again: US Cancels Nature Springer Journal Subscriptions 4 NNadir Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 916
X-Posted from Australia group 2 canetoad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 653
Galpagos Tomatoes Quietly Reversing Evolution 5 milestogo Jun 2025 Jun 2025 10 1041
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveils the first images of the sky obtained with the world's largest camera 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 15 772
How gut bacteria change after exposure to pesticides 3 Wicked Blue Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 779
Physicist Solves 120-Year-Old Thermodynamics Puzzle and Corrects Einstein 6 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 1049
Clair Patterson: The Caltech Scientist Who Exposed Lead Poisoning and Changed the World 4 BootinUp Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 678
What Is Thimerosal? Why Most Vaccines Don't Contain Mercury Anymore 2 LiberalArkie Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 659
I have a great YouTube channel to rec...Dr. Becky Smethurst is an Oxford U. astrophysicist and is really fun... 1 wcmagumba Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 701
These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth 1 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 691

Science Continued...

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Alaska Brown Bear Has Shiny New Smile After Getting A Huge Metal Crown 1 Wicked Blue Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 659
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 2025 Jun 2025 43 1828
Australian Moths Are the First Known Insects to Navigate by the Stars, Revealing a Migratory Superpower 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 618
For first time, Webb telescope discovers an alien planet 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2025 Jun 2025 13 956
Physicists recreate forgotten experiment observing fusion -- Los Alamos National Laboratory 0 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 593
Overconfident conspiracy theorists: Many unaware their beliefs are on the fringe 5 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 12 925
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Change Astronomy Forever 6 Gaugamela Jun 2025 Jun 2025 13 1103
Scientists use bacteria to convert plastic into paracetamol 2 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 9 753
First images from world's largest digital camera features stunning shots of the universe 7 Jilly_in_VA Jun 2025 Jun 2025 19 1229
Smooth trends in fermium charge radii and the impact of shell effects 1 NNadir Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 581
Advanced AI models generate up to 50 times more CO₂ emissions than more common LLMs when answering the same questions 2 littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 589
New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect 7 erronis Jun 2025 Jun 2025 14 1294
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'RFK Jr is a disaster': Staff describe chaos in 'anti-science' regime 3 douglas9 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 16 970
Flesh-Eating 'Screwworm' Parasites Are Headed to the U.S. 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 16 1257
Astronomers find universe's "missing" matter after long search 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2025 Jun 2025 12 938
The Way You Breathe Is Unique to You, Like a Fingerprint, New Study Suggests - Smithsonian Magazine 2 Rhiannon12866 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 7 787
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