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The project provides the capacity to produce 500,000 cancer treatment doses per year instead of 4000 0 NNadir Apr 2023 Apr 2023 4 2804
In a 1st, scientists predicted that volcanic comet was due to pop 'like a Champagne bottle' -- and it 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 10 1814
No SpaceX Starship launch till June? 1 RussBLib Apr 2023 Apr 2023 0 859
6-Foot-High Giant Tunnels Found in South America Dug by Ancient Megafauna Giant Sloths 8 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 19 12527
New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan Book Instead of Bible 27 progressoid Apr 2023 Apr 2023 87 3983
Scientists Just Discovered a Molten Layer Below Earth's Surface 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 6 876
Bizarre object 10 million times brighter than the sun defies physics, NASA says 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 10 1711
Breakthrough discovery suggests gravity can create light 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 7 900
Physicists Might Finally Be Able to Find Wormholes, Thanks to Their Light-Bending Ability 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 3 1127
New type of black hole found lurking in Earth's 'cosmic backyard' is closest ever discovered 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1281
James Webb Space Telescope discovers oldest black hole in the universe -- a cosmic monster 10 million 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 4 1713
OTD in 1981 - Space Shuttle Columbia's 1st spaceflight 0 BootinUp Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 682
Hindenburg: The New Evidence Full Documentary NOVA PBS Mar 22, 2023 (Aired May 19, 2021) 6 Goonch Apr 2023 Apr 2023 9 2031
For All This Time, Protons Have Been Hiding Secret Mass. We Just Found It. 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 15 1497
Scientists Have Found the 'BOAT' Gamma Ray Burst--the Brightest of All Time 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 8 832
This Strange New Map Of 'Dark Matter' Proves Einstein Was Right, Say Scientists 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 11 2013
We Might Soon Be Able to See Missing Ripples in Spacetime 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 14 1304
Freezing Cold Cryovolcano Erupts From Comet 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 6 854
'Hubble trouble' could deepen with new measurement of the universe's expansion 0 WhiteTara Apr 2023 Apr 2023 7 1486
Physicists Simulated a Black Hole in The Lab, And Then It Started to Glow 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 12 2374
Extending Equations of State to Inhomogeneous Systems. 1 NNadir Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 963
The James Webb Telescope Just Took a Truly Incredible Photo of Uranus 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 33 2717
James Webb telescope detects light from a small, Earth-like planet -- and finds it's missing its atmo 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Apr 2023 15 2687
Question for astronomy buffs. 9 grumpyduck Apr 2023 Apr 2023 3 1171
Somalia meteorite turns out to contain two minerals that are not found on Earth 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 20 2955
Astronomers discovered two black holes close to Earth unlike anything we've seen 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 14 1601
This message was self-deleted by its author 25 milestogo Apr 2023 Apr 2023 16 2230
Opposable Thumbs Make You Easier to Fool (Sometimes) 1 SorellaLaBefana Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1701
Python 3.14 Will be Faster than C++ (Not really) 11 BootinUp Mar 2023 Apr 2023 3 2849
The Collapse of the Wave Function and Origins of Consciousness: A Conversation with Roger Penrose 10 NNadir Apr 2023 Apr 2023 8 2572

Science Continued...

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Ocean Rivers Slowing in the Great River Ocean 3 SorellaLaBefana Apr 2023 Apr 2023 10 1228
High school students may have just discovered an 'impossible' proof to the 2,000-year-old Pythagorea 20 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 55 4082
Ettore Majorana: The "Genius" Physicist Who Predicted Neutrons And Then Disappeared Completely 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 12 1409
Rare blood-red arc of light shines in the Scandinavian sky. What is it? 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 12 1598
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 495
UAE Mars orbiter creates stunning new map of the Red Planet 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2023 Apr 2023 14 1479
Black hole jet changes direction as astronomers watch in cosmic first -- and it's aimed right at us 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 2002
Surprise! Icy 'rain' from Saturn's rings is heating the gas giant's atmosphere 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 5 1301
I'll bet putting this thing together this takes some skill and practice. 6 NNadir Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1209
Newly discovered 'einstein' tile is a 13-sided shape that solves a decades-old math problem 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 16 2165
New drug offers "two-for-one" treatment of heart failure, sleep apnea 6 Wicked Blue Mar 2023 Mar 2023 17 2492
Astronomers May Have Just Found the Smoking Gun Behind Mysterious Radio Signals 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 10 2164
Toothless Tyrannosaurs? 0 SorellaLaBefana Mar 2023 Mar 2023 9 1191
Potentially Prebiotic Synthesis of Aminoacyl-RNA via a Bridging Phosphoramidate-Ester Intermediate 1 NNadir Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1597
Stressed plants emit airborne sounds that can be detected from more than a meter away 6 Diamond_Dog Mar 2023 Mar 2023 10 2106
Brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen a 1-in-10,000-years event that's 'absolutely monstrous,' scienti 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 11 1422
Gargantuan black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun is one of the largest ever discovered 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 15 2047
Object mistaken as a galaxy is actually a black hole pointed directly at Earth 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 11 1764
Asteroid Didymos May Spin So Fast It Flings Rocks into Space 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1392
New additives could turn concrete into an effective carbon sink 1 Wicked Blue Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1739
Hubble telescope spies mysterious celestial object that defies classification 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 24 1197
Webb telescope finds a 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet that defies expectations 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 1314
New NASA Map Details 2023 and 2024 Solar Eclipses in the US 3 sl8 Mar 2023 Mar 2023 7 2199
Psychedelic brew ayahuasca's profound impact revealed in brain scans 4 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 16 1370
Redness of Neptunian asteroids sheds light on early Solar System 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 8 1369
The man who discovered the 'abyss of time' - BBC News 2 TexasTowelie Mar 2023 Mar 2023 17 2365
Rolls-Royce go-ahead to build a nuclear reactor on Moon 4 BootinUp Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1025
The Mystery of Alleged Alien Object 'Oumuamua Has Been Solved, Scientists Say 8 Jilly_in_VA Mar 2023 Mar 2023 8 2535
Scientists discover enzyme that can turn air into energy, unlocking potential new energy source 8 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 12 2028
Here's the full analysis of newly uncovered genetic data on COVID's origins - Ars Technica 1 BootinUp Mar 2023 Mar 2023 11 2230

Science Continued...

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Here's What Dinosaurs Really Looked Like 12 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 28 2895
Beethoven's DNA decoded from locks of hair saved by his fans 2 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1576
New NASA spacesuit from Axiom Space promises better fit for Artemis III moonwalkers 2 Uncle Joe Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1732
A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future Influences the Past 4 Javaman Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1115
How The Matilda Effect Removes Women in STEM From History - Beyond the Scenes The Daily Show 0 YoshidaYui Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 1726
Satellites are photobombing Hubble (earthsky.org) 4 eppur_se_muova Mar 2023 Mar 2023 14 1145
60,000-mile-tall 'plasma waterfall' snapped showering the sun with impossibly fast fire 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 40 2940
The Unpredictable Abilities Emerging From Large AI Models 0 Pluvious Mar 2023 Mar 2023 8 978
A systematic "omics" (molecular biology) approach to the effects of radiation on living tissue. 5 NNadir Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 24158
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Javaman Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 596
How Evolution Brought a Flightless Bird Back From Extinction 2 sl8 Mar 2023 Mar 2023 10 1302
The Little-Known Origin Story behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics 1 BootinUp Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1576
Fossil site is 'Rosetta Stone' for understanding early life 2 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 12 956
James Webb Space Telescope captures star going supernova in a dazzling cloud of dust 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 10 1518
Unearthed genetic sequences from China market may point to animal origin of COVID-19 0 milestogo Mar 2023 Mar 2023 5 622
The Multiverse: Our Universe Is Suspiciously Unlikely To Exist - Unless It Is One Of Many 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 1598
'Extremely rare' fossilized dinosaur voice box suggests they sounded birdlike 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 13 924
Planets Might Protect their Water Until their Star Settles Down 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1070
Potentially Active Volcanoes Have Been Found on Venus 1 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 4 580
Scientists discover signs of 'modern' glacier on Mars that hints at buried water ice 0 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 6 1237
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