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Private Peregrine moon lander powers up lunar payloads despite propulsion anomaly 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 761
I've been to mountain top: As life winds down, the opening sentence of this paper lifts me. 6 NNadir Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 1274
Watch these humpback whales create a stunning Fibonacci spiral to capture prey 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 29 1456
In a Huge First, Scientists Have Observed The 'Missing Link' Between Stars And Black Holes 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 9 890
Bottled Water Is Packed Full of Up to 100x More Microplastic Than Expected 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 2 974
Astronomers Discover Unexpected Structures In Youngest Planetary Disks Ever Seen 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 592
Startling Signs of Gravity's Laws Breaking Down Detected in Twin Stars 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 703
Hubble Telescope finds surprising source of brightest fast radio burst ever 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 7 1014
Coal - It's what's for dinner! 2 Diamond_Dog Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 725
Giant iron rings might hold clues about young solar systems 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 867
Crystal-studded space rock found in the Sahara may rewrite the history of the early solar system 7 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 36 1741
China's Einstein Probe, an X-ray astronomy mission, heads to orbit. 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 2 559
Astronomers solve mystery of 'Green Monster' in famous supernova remnant (photo) 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 6 1039
Overview of 2023's CO2 Weekly and Monthly Concentration Data at the Mauna Loa Observatory. 5 NNadir Jan 2024 Jan 2024 7 2479
Floating 'magic islands' on Saturn's moon Titan may be honeycomb-shaped snow 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 683
New Images of Jupiter's Moon Io Capture Infernal Volcanic Landscape 0 RandySF Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 733
Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2024 January 7 The Cat's Eye Nebula in Optical and X-ray 3 Ptah Jan 2024 Jan 2024 10 984
Missed LA Bhopal: The 2015 Torrance, CA Exxon Refinery Explosion: A Nice Process Based Animation of the Failure. 5 NNadir Jan 2024 Jan 2024 2 1430
Chinese hospital finds new genetic sequence for rare blood type p during routine tests 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2024 Jan 2024 6 835
NASA's Perseverance rover captures 360-degree view of Mars' Jezero Crater (video) 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 767
Mexico's 1st moon mission will send 5 tiny robots aloft on Peregrine lunar lander Jan. 8 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 6 779
Shark's Torn Fin Seen Regenerated a Year Later in an Incredible First 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 14 882
Ganymede Is Like a 'Snowglobe' Inside, Which Could Explain Its Mysterious Magnetism 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 13 1100
What is quantum tunneling? (youtube) 8 BootinUp Jan 2024 Jan 2024 7 1500
The Human Body Is Bags, Bags and More Bags 12 Ocelot II Jan 2024 Jan 2024 10 1830
A Device About Which I Wish I Knew When I Was a Kid, the Taylor Vortex Apparatus. 0 NNadir Jan 2024 Jan 2024 10 1227
Scientists Discover An Amazing Practical Use For Leftover Coffee Grounds 20 Warpy Jan 2024 Jan 2024 39 3702
All 34 episodes of BBC's Rough science are on internet archive 1 BootinUp Jan 2024 Jan 2024 6 850
Oh Oh. Pollution Abatement Catalyst Generates the Ozone Depleting Greenhouse Gas N2O. 0 NNadir Jan 2024 Jan 2024 2 1005
Scientists hail new antibiotic that can kill drug-resistant bacteria 13 muriel_volestrangler Jan 2024 Jan 2024 50 3054

Science Continued...

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Alien World Denser Than Steel Confounds Our Understanding of Planet Formation 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 11 7000
SETI Just Talked to a Whale To Test Alien Communication Ideas (youtube) 3 BootinUp Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 1047
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 0 333
The 'Accidental Activist' Who Changed the Face of Mathematics 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 18 990
The Effect of PFAS on Colorectal Cancer: Some bad news. 6 NNadir Jan 2024 Jan 2024 28 2775
A stable complex of Terbium +4. 3 NNadir Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 963
An organic catalyst for PFAS degradation with hydrated electrons and OH radicals. 1 NNadir Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 1084
Total Solar Eclipse coming April 8, 2024 14 RussBLib Dec 2023 Jan 2024 10 1825
Behold--the Best Space Images of 2023 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 769
Oversized Ancient Galaxy Isn't What Astronomers First Thought 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 21 1351
Hundreds of unknown species were discovered around the world this year 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 822
Isotopic Analysis of Ryugu Samples Suggest Cold and Hot Origins for its Molecules 0 NNadir Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 862
Tonga volcano eruption was fueled by 2 merging chambers that are still brimming with magma 7 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 18 1261
Eclipses, meteor showers and alignments: The astronomy events you won't want to miss in 2024 3 TeamProg Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 1143
Hold Onto Your Hats: JWST Unveils Unprecedentedly Crisp View of Uranus And Its Rings 36 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 142 8306
Academic paper based on Uyghur genetic data retracted over ethical concerns 0 cbabe Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 1039
10 dramatic discoveries about Earth from 2023 6 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 15 1218
Using Nuclear Energy to Convert Useless Biomass Into Useful Products. 0 NNadir Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 1038
Precarious Balanced Rocks Suggest the Risk to LA from Earthquakes May Be Smaller Than Previously Believed. 4 NNadir Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 1227
Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Egg 6 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 34 1928
Astronomy Picture of the Day 2023 December 25 Cathedral, Mountain, Moon 7 Ptah Dec 2023 Dec 2023 50 2238
I like this year's AAAS tee shirt. 2 NNadir Dec 2023 Dec 2023 22 1216
A Round Robin Evaluation of the Radiation Stability of Actinide Extraction Reagents for Nuclear Fuel Recovery. 0 NNadir Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 1213
Your take on Nikola Tesla? 6 SarahD Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 1206
More Christmas Chemistry: Key Odorants of Frankincense, cis and trans Olibanic Acids 0 NNadir Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 1066
Christmas Chemistry: Synthesis of an Essential Oil from Myrrh 2 NNadir Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 1168
Ancient Landmass Emerged and Disappeared 70,000 Years Ago 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 43 1942
Flowers 'giving up' on scarce insects and evolving to self-pollinate, say scientists 4 cbabe Dec 2023 Dec 2023 19 1306
Physicist Discovers 'Paradox-Free' Time Travel Is Theoretically Possible 6 steve2470 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 34 2353
Blue Origin successfully launches New Shepard rocket - Reuters 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 1015

Science Continued...

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New nuclear deflection simulations advance planetary defense against asteroid threats 3 Jim__ Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 1043
Iceland eruption start caught on camera 9 Warpy Dec 2023 Dec 2023 33 1955
Canadian Hydroelectric Power Generation Fell to the Lowest Level in a Decade Sept 2023 Because of Climate. 0 NNadir Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 1004
How NASA Learned To Fly The Space Shuttle Like A Glider 0 Eko Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 863
Scientists in Antinuclear Hellholes Develop a Means to Measure Tritiated Water Vapor in Nuclear Plants 0 NNadir Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 2854
The CO2 Concentrations at Mauna Loa are 25.91 ppm higher than 10 years ago. 0 NNadir Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 841
A new means of space propulsion... closed loop pulse propulsion... here's the idea [View all] 78 mikelewis Dec 2023 Dec 2023 9 17815
I have to say that my mind was blown by a book this weekend. 11 NNadir Dec 2023 Dec 2023 19 2477
In a dark country, a ray of light. 2 NNadir Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 949
Assessing the Supply Chain Risks of Electric Vehicles and Their Sustainability. 0 NNadir Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 1011
Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino on his emotional response to seeing Earth from space. 0 Swede Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 867
Rats are more human than you think 10 BootinUp Dec 2023 Dec 2023 13 1324
Abundances of Some Heavy Elements Result From Fission of Transuranium R-process Actinides. 0 NNadir Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 1260
A Gigantic Hole Just Opened Up in the Sun 11 WhiteTara Dec 2023 Dec 2023 23 1932
Video of ceramic storage system prototype surfaces online -- 10,000TB cartridges bombarded with laser rays 3 TheBlackAdder Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 1275
Measuring Foreign Chemical Exposure of Human Flesh: Mass Spectrometry Software for the "Exposome." 2 NNadir Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 1202
New theory may finally unite Einstein's gravity with the quantum world 7 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 32 2463
"Amaterasu" particle: a new cosmic mystery 0 sl8 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 9 882
Locusts spun in a centrifuge develop extra-strong exoskeletons 2 sl8 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 930
2 photos from Orion spacecraft - Artemis 1 mission 0 sl8 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 11 955
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