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Welcome to the Science Group ! (Please read before posting) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Jan 2012 18 60835

Transmutation of Mercury into Gold. 12 NNadir Wednesday 10 min ago 12 458

After distractions, rotating brain waves may help thought circle back to the task 4 erronis 20 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 6 230

Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation 2 Jim__ Yesterday Yesterday 3 259

The International Space Station marks 25 years of nonstop human presence in orbit 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Thursday Thursday 5 128

Tool reveals how your dinner affects risk of 30,875 species land-dwelling animals going extinct 0 erronis Thursday Thursday 1 149

Galactical model of subquark particles 8 wise47 Oct 15 Thursday 2 463

Fishers' heartbeats align during collaborative hunts with dolphins, study reveals 0 erronis Thursday Thursday 2 182

My mother told me she had an eye on the back of her head. It appears she may have been right. 2 erronis Oct 22 Wednesday 20 609

World's Biomass Human vs ... 6 SorellaLaBefana Wednesday Wednesday 9 290

Have you ever been to a lecture where the speaker is so smart people are afraid to ask a question? 11 NNadir Sunday Wednesday 12 567

The long, deep dig: Collaboration unearths ancient city of Sardis 0 erronis Tuesday Tuesday 9 275

NBC covering breakthrough ufo paper 6 SamuelTheThird Sunday Monday 10 1163

If you had a healthy dollop of disposable income, would you pay 500 hundred bucks for this book? 9 NNadir Saturday Saturday 3 608

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment 2 erronis Saturday Saturday 11 329

Cool science word: Euxinia. 2 NNadir Saturday Saturday 7 369

NASA tested my chain theory in space - Steve Mould (video) 0 sl8 Oct 24 Oct 24 11 438

A laser pointer at 2 billion fps makes the speed of light look... kinda weird 2 LiberalArkie Oct 22 Oct 22 13 735

American Heart Association reviewing award to rocket scientist with eight retractions 0 erronis Oct 22 Oct 22 2 313

A gorgeous view of M51 - the Whirlpool Galaxy 8 BootinUp Oct 21 Oct 22 16 507

Mosquitoes Have Started Appearing in One of The Last Places on Earth Without Them 0 littlemissmartypants Oct 22 Oct 22 15 503

Sad. Nobel laureate George Smoot, who researched the universe's origins at UC Berkeley, dies at 80 7 usonian Oct 20 Oct 21 11 388

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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 1 278

This message was self-deleted by its author 1 SamuelTheThird Oct 20 Oct 20 2 150

Evidence suggests mRNA (Covid) vaccines prolong some cancer patients' lives. 16 Laffy Kat Oct 19 Oct 20 40 1218

Science saving whales: Scientists hope underwater fiber-optic cables can help save endangered orcas 4 cbabe Oct 19 Oct 19 8 298

New theory of evolution 0 wise47 Oct 19 Oct 19 3 555

An Iranian volcano appears to have woken up -- 700,000 years after its last eruption 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 17 Oct 19 7 425

How Afraid of the AI Apocalypse Should We Be? The Ezra Klein Show 1 YoshidaYui Oct 18 Oct 18 2 344

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Theory of everything (TOE), Quantum Gravity (QG) and theory of gravity 4 wise47 Oct 15 Oct 18 2 502

The most accurate 3D map of stellar nurseries in the Milky Way (ESA) 3 usonian Oct 16 Oct 17 7 348

Sam Altman Shows Me GPT 5... And What's Next 4 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 17 2 485

Dinosaurs Were Weirder Than We Thought 3 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 16 7 774

Why Gravity Is A Lie, explained in Zero G 1 YoshidaYui Oct 16 Oct 16 7 569

'Bored aliens': has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth? 9 hunter Oct 15 Oct 15 8 490

Cascadia quake may create 'emergency situation' in other West Coast fault zone, study warns 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 15 Oct 15 5 364

The Small World Paradox 4 Uncle Joe Oct 8 Oct 15 5 580

Playing with Tantalum. 2 NNadir Oct 15 Oct 15 3 411

Mysterious gullies on Mars appear to have been carved by burrowing CO₂ ice blocks 0 erronis Oct 14 Oct 14 7 312

SpaceX successfully lands 11th test starship - FRANCE 24 0 TexasTowelie Oct 14 Oct 14 4 319

In the wild, chimpanzees likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks every day 5 erronis Sep 17 Oct 12 5 582

Satellite Technology Uncovers New Ancient Egyptian Cities And Pyramids 1 William Seger Sep 19 Oct 12 7 3071

Your iPhone Tracking You and Listening - TURN THIS OFF! 0 YoshidaYui Oct 11 Oct 11 16 777

Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science 2 douglas9 Oct 11 Oct 11 8 324

One of the largest great white sharks ever tagged pings in unusual spot 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 10 Oct 11 12 727

How Europe's largest bat catches and eats birds mid-air 0 erronis Oct 9 Oct 9 6 353

Annie Walker: The astronomer with an asteroid, but no known photographs 2 cbabe Oct 9 Oct 9 9 432

The "American" winner of the Nobel in Chemistry is Palestinian by birth. 6 NNadir Oct 8 Oct 9 10 485

Success on my quest to make a mutant! 2 mr715 Oct 9 Oct 9 2 415

What Does AI Think of Star Trek's Data (& SciFi AI)? 0 YoshidaYui Oct 8 Oct 8 2 364

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Joe Rogan discuss the cherry picking of Science...12 min vid 2 mitch96 Oct 6 Oct 6 6 602

Rogue planet's record growth spurt of 6 billion tonnes per second 3 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 4 395

Elephants know when we're looking at them 2 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 10 817

Why Do Women Outlive Men? WaPo: Redundancy of XX vs XY Genetics 14 GreatGazoo Oct 5 Oct 6 20 1045

APOD: "Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website." 4 SorellaLaBefana Oct 2 Oct 6 9 716

Scientists Develop Robots That Literally Walk on Water 1 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 3 486

Generations of Bearded Vultures Stashed Humans' Treasures, Including a 650-Year-Old Sandal, in These Bird Nests 1 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 19 771

ESA inaugurates new deep space antenna in Australia 0 Judi Lynn Oct 6 Oct 6 2 304

String Theory - ScienceClic 6 BootinUp Oct 3 Oct 5 9 567

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Sputnik Starts Space Race (APOD Redux from 2000) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 4 Oct 4 4 352

What if the Universe Remembers Everything? New Theory Rewrites the Rules of Physics 12 erronis Oct 3 Oct 3 27 1259

Another Comet, from another time (From the APOD files) 1 SorellaLaBefana Oct 3 Oct 3 3 511

Bizarre ankylosaur with spikes is unlike any known dinosaur (earthsky.org) 3 eppur_se_muova Sep 30 Sep 30 10 2150

'Wholesale destruction': Government shutdown or not, critical science programs are at risk 0 douglas9 Sep 30 Sep 30 6 1904

Paleontologists Discover Megaraptor Fossil With a Crocodilian's Leg Still in Its Mouth 1 Judi Lynn Sep 29 Sep 30 12 2468

These Ancient Footprints Rewrite Human History 5 Ptah Sep 29 Sep 29 17 2889

Giant Stars With Black Holes Inside Them May Have Been Detected For The First Time 1 Judi Lynn Sep 28 Sep 29 8 1750

"Brightest Object In Known Universe" Puffs Itself Up To Look 15 Times Its Actual Size 1 Judi Lynn Sep 28 Sep 28 14 2672

The First Black Hole We Ever Saw Is Doing Something Never Seen Before 0 Judi Lynn Sep 28 Sep 28 17 2127

Perplexing diamonds from South Africa mine contain 'almost impossible' chemistry 2 Judi Lynn Sep 27 Sep 27 14 1427

Chimps regularly consume alcohol, study finds 0 milestogo Sep 27 Sep 27 3 725

Physics-informed AI learns local rules behind flocking and collective motion behaviors 3 erronis Sep 26 Sep 26 2 531

A picture of IBM's Quantum System 2 5 BootinUp Sep 26 Sep 26 1 859

New Math Revives Geometry's Oldest Problems -- Quanta Magazine 0 erronis Sep 26 Sep 26 7 2405

Mount Sinai study supports evidence that prenatal acetaminophen use may be linked to increased risk of autism and ADHD 2 Wicked Blue Aug 14 Sep 26 8 881

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 1754

Brian Cox explains why time travels in one direction - BBC (2 videos) 10 BootinUp Sep 21 Sep 23 6 4020

Will glaciers ever come back after they've melted away? 5 MrWowWow Sep 19 Sep 23 8 4018

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