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Asteroid-Smashing NASA Mission Sped Up Space Rocks' Journey Around the Sun 3 reACTIONary Mar 2026 Mar 7 4 876
Dead Reckoning - The Asimov Press 2 BootinUp Mar 7 Mar 7 5 1055
Transplanted neural stem cells help preserve vision in retinal degeneration 0 erronis Mar 7 Mar 7 11 897
Predicting onset of symptomatic Alzheimerʼs disease with plasma p-tau217 clocks 0 BadgerKid Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 613
Questions asked by 13 and 14 year old kids at a science lecture yesterday. 8 NNadir Mar 2026 Mar 2026 75 3560
Did Life Hitch a Ride to Earth? Scientists Smashed the Living Crap Out of Microbes to Find Out 4 highplainsdem Mar 2026 Mar 2026 7 914
Late scientist's notebooks help finish study of rare 55-million-year-old tarpon fossil 0 erronis Mar 2026 Mar 2026 10 661
NASA has 'cancelled' the Artemis III moon landing. Here's why 4 nitpicked Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 1444
Foundation AI model uses MRI data to predict multiple brain disorders 3 erronis Mar 2026 Mar 2026 5 839
It doesn't lie. So who are you?' 3 question everything Feb 2026 Feb 2026 30 1391
World-first supercomputer discovers invisible flaw in all jet engines that no human had spotted 12 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 17 2270
Flood Control Monitoring, Homeless People, and Covid Virus Mutant Spike Protein. 0 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 640
Nasa astronauts' moon mission likely to be delayed due to rocket issue 1 muriel_volestrangler Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 682
Astronomers Wake Up to 800,000 Notifications From a Vera Rubin 8 usonian Feb 2026 Feb 2026 28 1425
How a one-eyed creature gave rise to our modern eyes 4 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 16 996
Paediatricians' blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds 1 muriel_volestrangler Feb 2026 Feb 2026 10 817
The Human Cost of Trump's War on Science 3 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 965
How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? -- Quanta Magazine 7 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 13 1031
Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought 0 Uncle Joe Feb 2026 Feb 2026 16 909
Soil Restoration Experiments in Australia using Sheep's Wool... 7 electric_blue68 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 1090
This cutting-edge exoskeleton got me up a mountain I had no chance of climbing alone 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 1050
An 'astonishingly' large new dinosaur species has been discovered in the Sahara 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 15 1201
Saturn's North Pole 9 BootinUp Feb 2026 Feb 2026 40 1792
The Effect of Dibutyl Phthalate on Proliferation of Breast Cancer Cells Studied by Mass Spec Imaging. 0 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 782
Renowned Cal Tech scientist who studied distant planets fatally shot at his home near LA 1 BlueWaveNeverEnd Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 878
Deepest-Ever Rock Core From Beneath Antarctica's Ice. It Holds Clues About the Earth's Past--and Future 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 664
Scientists May Have Found The Key Cellular Process Behind Aging in Animals 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 852
Carl Sagan - Protons and Neutrons 2 BootinUp Feb 2026 Feb 2026 2 767
We need more papers showing stuff that doesn't work: Extraction of Actinides into Molten Zn Fails to Separate... 2 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 805
Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive and will be for more than a millennium. 12 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 35 2380

Science Continued...

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A bacterium's built-in compass, explained: Single-cell magnetometry confirms Earth-field alignment 2 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 719
A 25-year study found an unexpected link between cheese and dementia 41 multigraincracker Feb 2026 Feb 2026 81 6769
Astrophysics turned upside down by unique 'inside out' planetary system 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 922
Brain worm hell: The CDC hepatitis B study is unethical and must never be published 6 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 24 1557
As a paleontologist, I had never expected to see paleontologists names pop up in the Epstein Files. I was naive. 4 generalbetrayus Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 1078
China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct 2 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 754
Plot twist! The Andromeda-Milky Way Merger has begun. 5 GreenWave Feb 2026 Feb 2026 29 1643
Massive Pyroclastic Flow Descends Entire Slope of Mount Semeru Volcano (Feb 13, 2026) 3 catbyte Feb 2026 Feb 2026 12 1135
Stargazing Buddy A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment (free, online) 1 usonian Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 691
New study tells us what's up with what's going down with the sinking Chesapeake Bay 2 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 12 1026
Jupiter Is Not The Size And Shape We've Long Thought It Was 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 999
Happy Darwin Day, everybody! 6 Lionel Mandrake Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 1209
Scientists create 'smart underwear' to measure human flatulence 15 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 1837
Dream engineering can help solve 'puzzling' questions: Study offers insights to optimizing sleep 3 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 11 1043
Is NASA about to blow up Artemis? 3 Bmoboy Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 1180
Eli Lilly ad focusing on the Scientific Method 4 QED Feb 2026 Feb 2026 16 1074
A hidden Aloe vera compound takes aim at Alzheimer's 2 multigraincracker Feb 2026 Feb 2026 15 1068
'Textbooks will need to be updated': Jupiter is smaller and flatter than we thought, Juno spacecraft reveals 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 1130
Former NASA scientists warn of possible Artemis II spacecraft safety issue - ABC News 9 TexasTowelie Jan 2026 Feb 2026 8 1491
Stellar nursery bursts with newborn stars in hauntingly beautiful Hubble telescope image -- 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 856
The spark of the Super: Teller-Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb--rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years 7 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 1272
A Really Fabulous Lecture We Saw Today on the Topic of AI, Computer Vision, Language and Robotics: Deep Learning. 2 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 878
If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn't write it disappears from a journal's website with no notice... 1 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 825
Does Pregnancy Result in a Hankering for Prime Numbers? 9 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 1340
Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 760
OpenAI's New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace 'Prism' Raises Fears Of Vibe-Coded Academic AISlop 3 littlemissmartypants Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 888
AI model OpenScholar synthesizes scientific research and cites sources as accurately as human experts 2 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 1 858
Genetic analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique lineage in the Balkans 0 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 738
Reproduction in space, an environment hostile to human biology 7 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 1150
Artemis II launch has been delayed until March. 0 llmart Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 648

Science Continued...

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'They've probably been untouched for 49 million years': The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 20 1035
At the scientific lecture I attended today, the speaker rephrased the term "AI" in a way I appreciated and admired. 5 NNadir Jan 2026 Feb 2026 13 1276
Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory--here's how 5 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 15 1151
16 years of brain scans reveal the cerebellum's crucial role in human language 2 erronis Jan 2026 Feb 2026 8 789
Saturn has more moons than any other planet in our solar system 2 BootinUp Jan 2026 Jan 2026 4 786
Anti-vaccine sentiment pushes Moderna away from new late-stage infectious disease trials 3 NNadir Jan 2026 Jan 2026 9 963
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office 1 douglas9 Jan 2026 Jan 2026 14 799
How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926) 5 usonian Jan 2026 Jan 2026 9 940
Scientists identify a brain region that differs between male and female mice and may influence social behavior 10 erronis Jan 2026 Jan 2026 10 1537
Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 2026 Jan 2026 10 856
Pilot captures historic northern lights show from 37,000 feet (photos) 19 milestogo Jan 2026 Jan 2026 71 3146
Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Jan 2026 Jan 2026 9 888
Image of Barnard 59, in the Pipe Nebula 3 BootinUp Jan 2026 Jan 2026 11 936
What If You Keep Slowing Down? 3 Uncle Joe Jan 2026 Jan 2026 10 1244
Why do some people get 'hangry' more quickly than others? 1 erronis Jan 2026 Jan 2026 20 1066
There Is Something Faster Than Light 10 Uncle Joe Dec 2025 Jan 2026 7 1966
OFFS -- AI can FU anything (bogus illustration). 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 2026 Jan 2026 2 841
Study finds Tyrannosaurus rex did not reach full size until age 40 2 Jilly_in_VA Jan 2026 Jan 2026 4 895
The Southern Ocean current reverses for the first time, signaling a risk of climate system collapse 23 Bayard Jan 2026 Jan 2026 82 4331
Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane 3 highplainsdem Jan 2026 Jan 2026 6 1029
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