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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 Oct 20 Oct 20 1 431
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 SamuelTheThird Oct 20 Oct 20 2 302
Evidence suggests mRNA (Covid) vaccines prolong some cancer patients' lives. 16 Laffy Kat Oct 19 Oct 20 40 1586
Science saving whales: Scientists hope underwater fiber-optic cables can help save endangered orcas 4 cbabe Oct 19 Oct 19 8 482
An Iranian volcano appears to have woken up -- 700,000 years after its last eruption 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 17 Oct 18 7 593
How Afraid of the AI Apocalypse Should We Be? The Ezra Klein Show 1 YoshidaYui Oct 18 Oct 18 2 490
The most accurate 3D map of stellar nurseries in the Milky Way (ESA) 3 usonian Oct 16 Oct 17 7 529
Sam Altman Shows Me GPT 5... And What's Next 4 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 17 2 665
Dinosaurs Were Weirder Than We Thought 3 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 16 7 948
Why Gravity Is A Lie, explained in Zero G 1 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 16 7 721
'Bored aliens': has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth? 9 hunter Oct 15 Oct 15 8 719
Cascadia quake may create 'emergency situation' in other West Coast fault zone, study warns 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 15 Oct 15 5 540
The Small World Paradox 4 Uncle Joe Oct 8 Oct 15 5 751
Playing with Tantalum. 2 NNadir Oct 15 Oct 15 4 581
Mysterious gullies on Mars appear to have been carved by burrowing CO₂ ice blocks 0 erronis Oct 14 Oct 14 7 447
SpaceX successfully lands 11th test starship - FRANCE 24 0 TexasTowelie Oct 14 Oct 14 4 472
In the wild, chimpanzees likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks every day 5 erronis Sep 17 Oct 12 5 759
Satellite Technology Uncovers New Ancient Egyptian Cities And Pyramids 1 William Seger Sep 19 Oct 12 7 3209
Your iPhone Tracking You and Listening - TURN THIS OFF! 0 YoshidaYui Oct 11 Oct 11 16 916
Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science 2 douglas9 Oct 11 Oct 11 8 480
One of the largest great white sharks ever tagged pings in unusual spot 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 10 Oct 11 12 892
How Europe's largest bat catches and eats birds mid-air 0 erronis Oct 9 Oct 9 6 479
Annie Walker: The astronomer with an asteroid, but no known photographs 2 cbabe Oct 9 Oct 9 9 578
The "American" winner of the Nobel in Chemistry is Palestinian by birth. 6 NNadir Oct 8 Oct 9 10 668
Success on my quest to make a mutant! 2 mr715 Oct 9 Oct 9 2 555
What Does AI Think of Star Trek's Data (& SciFi AI)? 0 YoshidaYui Oct 8 Oct 8 2 478
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Joe Rogan discuss the cherry picking of Science...12 min vid 2 mitch96 Oct 6 Oct 6 6 743
Rogue planet's record growth spurt of 6 billion tonnes per second 3 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 4 548
Elephants know when we're looking at them 2 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 10 950
Why Do Women Outlive Men? WaPo: Redundancy of XX vs XY Genetics 14 GreatGazoo Oct 5 Oct 6 20 1267

Science Continued...

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APOD: "Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website." 4 SorellaLaBefana Oct 2 Oct 6 9 869
Scientists Develop Robots That Literally Walk on Water 1 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 3 600
Generations of Bearded Vultures Stashed Humans' Treasures, Including a 650-Year-Old Sandal, in These Bird Nests 1 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 19 900
ESA inaugurates new deep space antenna in Australia 0 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 2 391
String Theory - ScienceClic 6 BootinUp Oct 3 Oct 5 9 718
Sputnik Starts Space Race (APOD Redux from 2000) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 4 Oct 4 4 456
What if the Universe Remembers Everything? New Theory Rewrites the Rules of Physics 12 erronis Oct 3 Oct 3 27 1487
Another Comet, from another time (From the APOD files) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 3 Oct 3 3 606
Bizarre ankylosaur with spikes is unlike any known dinosaur (earthsky.org) 3 eppur_se_muova Sep 30 Sep 30 10 2279
'Wholesale destruction': Government shutdown or not, critical science programs are at risk 0 douglas9 Sep 30 Sep 30 6 1986
Paleontologists Discover Megaraptor Fossil With a Crocodilian's Leg Still in Its Mouth 1 Judi Lynn Sep 29 Sep 30 12 2573
These Ancient Footprints Rewrite Human History 5 Ptah Sep 29 Sep 29 17 3033
Giant Stars With Black Holes Inside Them May Have Been Detected For The First Time 1 Judi Lynn Sep 27 Sep 29 8 1826
"Brightest Object In Known Universe" Puffs Itself Up To Look 15 Times Its Actual Size 1 Judi Lynn Sep 28 Sep 28 14 2756
The First Black Hole We Ever Saw Is Doing Something Never Seen Before 0 Judi Lynn Sep 27 Sep 27 17 2196
Perplexing diamonds from South Africa mine contain 'almost impossible' chemistry 2 Judi Lynn Sep 27 Sep 27 14 1542
Chimps regularly consume alcohol, study finds 0 milestogo Sep 27 Sep 27 3 792
Physics-informed AI learns local rules behind flocking and collective motion behaviors 3 erronis Sep 26 Sep 26 2 620
A picture of IBM's Quantum System 2 5 BootinUp Sep 26 Sep 26 1 974
New Math Revives Geometry's Oldest Problems -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Sep 26 Sep 26 7 2468
Mount Sinai study supports evidence that prenatal acetaminophen use may be linked to increased risk of autism and ADHD 2 Wicked Blue Aug 2025 Sep 26 8 970
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 1829
Brian Cox explains why time travels in one direction - BBC (2 videos) 10 BootinUp Sep 21 Sep 23 6 4151
Will glaciers ever come back after they've melted away? 5 MrWowWow Sep 19 Sep 23 8 4093
Cold snap in Florida made Burmese python puke up a whole deer 1 Bayard Sep 22 Sep 23 8 2751
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 2611
2025 Ig Physics Nobel Prize goes to perfect pasta sauce 5 erronis Sep 19 Sep 19 6 3020
Identifying Links between Alzheimer's Disease and Type 2 Diabetes through Proteomics 2 NNadir Sep 18 Sep 19 3 903
People with conservative political leanings more likely to believe in health disinformation, study finds 6 erronis Sep 18 Sep 18 4 1152
There are 32 different ways AI can go rogue, scientists say -- from hallucinating answers to a complete misalignment with 5 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Sep 18 7 913

Science Continued...

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Are 'little red dots' seen by the James Webb Space Telescope actually elusive 'black hole stars'? 4 Judi Lynn Sep 16 Sep 17 7 2462
'A genuine surprise': Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu once had 'flowing water' that transformed its insides 1 Judi Lynn Sep 17 Sep 17 10 619
A 'crescent sunrise' solar eclipse is coming this weekend. Here's where to see it. 0 Judi Lynn Sep 17 Sep 17 8 608
Skyscraper-size asteroid previously predicted to hit us in 60 years will zoom past Earth on Thursday (Sept. 18) -- and yo 2 Judi Lynn Sep 17 Sep 17 10 860
'Totally unexpected': Stunning new imagery shows big changes in the 1st black hole ever captured by humanity (photo, vid 0 Judi Lynn Sep 17 Sep 17 8 683
New 'quasi-moon' discovered in Earth orbit may have been hiding there for decades 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 16 Sep 16 16 799
Scientists Just Found a Way to Simulate the Universe on a Laptop 1 erronis Sep 16 Sep 16 8 574
Engineers Create Mini Microscope for Real-Time Brain Imaging (UC Davis) 0 usonian Sep 16 Sep 16 4 428
Carl Sagan was right--Brian Cox explains our first real steps into the cosmos 0 BootinUp Sep 15 Sep 15 2 1624
Family Fishing Trip Leads to "One-in-a-Million" Fossil Discovery (mcwane.org) 2 eppur_se_muova Sep 13 Sep 15 12 2050
Trump budget cuts threaten groundbreaking gravity wave research 2 DBoon Sep 11 Sep 13 6 3583
Physicist Brian Cox explains quantum physics in 22 minutes 2 BootinUp Sep 12 Sep 13 7 693
Has NASA Found 3 Billion Year Old Dead Martians? Why A Green Crystal Could Be A Biosignature! Scott Manley 3 Ptah Sep 12 Sep 12 3 780
A Single, 'Naked' Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe (Warning! Naked Black Holes in space) 0 usonian Sep 12 Sep 12 11 698
For the First Time in 40 Years, Panama's Ocean Lifeline Has Vanished 2 erronis Sep 12 Sep 12 17 812
New findings by NASA Mars rover provide strongest hints yet of potential signs of ancient life 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 11 Sep 11 3 484
Happy 100th birthday, quantum mechanics! 6 usonian Aug 2025 Sep 10 11 861
Magic mushrooms rewind aging in mice--could they do the same for humans? 4 DBoon Jul 2025 Sep 10 12 1053
Beer drinkers are mosquito magnets, according to a festival study 3 DBoon Sep 9 Sep 10 14 3346
NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures Mars Vista As Clear As Day 3 turbinetree Sep 2025 Sep 9 8 769
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