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You joined the DOE from academia. What caused you to accept the job? 0 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 6 743
Post-irradiation testing of high-burnup fuel under way at ORNL 0 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 4 764
"We have no evidence, but if we did..." 4 SarahD May 2024 May 2024 5 1269
Sperm Whale "Phonetic Alphabet" Surprisingly Similar In Structure To Human Language 16 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 61 2832
Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail 7 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 35 2111
500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks (paywall) 3 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 32 2101
Newfound 'altermagnets' shatter the magnetic status quo 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 May 2024 7 1146
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Platinum Group Elements with 103Rh Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy 0 eppur_se_muova May 2024 May 2024 4 743
Coral restoration in the Red Sea 0 Tetrachloride May 2024 May 2024 4 704
New NASA Black Hole Visualization Plunges Viewers Into the Event Horizon 0 erronis May 2024 May 2024 7 1147
Empowering social media users to assess content helps fight misinformation 4 BootinUp Mar 2024 May 2024 3 1130
China launches Chang'e 6 sample-return mission to moon's far side (video) 1 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 2 734
Fusion Breakthrough: 6 Minutes of Plasma Sets New Reactor Record 7 Warpy May 2024 May 2024 12 1335
Hunger on campus: why US PhD students are fighting over food 4 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 5 1147
Most Dementia Patients 'Return' Before Death And It's Unclear Why 9 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 35 2023
The Chandra X-ray spacecraft may soon go dark, threatening a great deal of astronomy 3 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 May 2024 8 1280
Today begins "Black Hole Week" at NASA: 5 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 4 935
Alternative Medicine An Orangutan Healed Himself With Medicinal Plant 4 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 17 1207
The most horrifying planets in the universe 4 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 9 1570
Dinosaurs from first to last 2 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 4 1433
The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths 1 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 25 1501
The Largest Single Cause of Death Among African American Youth Is Firearms. 0 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 3 960
James Webb telescope spots wind blowing faster than a bullet on '2-faced planet' with eternal night 4 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 10 1123
Interesting: A Scientist for President? (Mexico). 2 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 5 991
Another Victory for Fear And Ignorance Over the World's Poorest. 1 NNadir May 2024 May 2024 6 1097
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 0 592
Scientists Reveal 'Major' New Factor in Bumblebee Decline 11 Sewa May 2024 May 2024 12 1857
Video of sun's surface shows solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss 3 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 4 1074
The Jurassic Period 0 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 3 1359
99 Dinosaur sounds based on Scientific data 5 YoshidaYui May 2024 May 2024 5 1236

Science Continued...

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Eta Aquarid meteor shower peak could spawn over 100 'shooting stars' per hour this weekend 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 3 896
These Are The Avalanches To Worry About - Veritasium 0 TexasTowelie May 2024 May 2024 1 1138
Scientists reveal Southern Ring Nebula's unexpected structure: 'We were amazed' 3 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 6 974
Dusty 'Cat's Paw Nebula' contains a type of molecule never seen in space -- and it's one of the largest ever found 4 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 24 1672
The Math That Predicted Black Holes Predicts Even Stranger Objects - Veritasium 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1398
On this day, April 30, 1916, mathematician, electrical engineer, and computer scientist Claude Shannon was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 930
Foxes' skulls are specially adapted for diving into snow 3 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 12331
'Is it aliens?': how a mysterious star could help the search for extraterrestrial life 2 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1247
These Hardy Plants Have Figured Out How to 'Farm' Microbes in Their Soil 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 1017
Horsehead Nebula rears its head in gorgeous new James Webb Space Telescope images (video) 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 49 2270
Chickens Can Blush When They're Feeling Emotional, And We Should Pay Attention 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 7 1142
China releases world's most detailed moon atlas (video) 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 776
'Tiger stripes' on Saturn's moon Enceladus could reveal if its oceans are habitable 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 853
Why dangerous bird flu is spreading faster and farther than first thought... 5 littlemissmartypants Apr 2024 Apr 2024 29 1634
A New Record Concentration for CO2, 427.98 ppm Has Been Set for the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory's Weekly Average. 4 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1527
NASA discovered a planet twice as big as Earth with a gas that is 'only produced by life' 15 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 68 3892
Rare dinosaur tracks are longest continuous set of sauropod footprints (EarthSky.org) 1 eppur_se_muova Apr 2024 Apr 2024 24 1258
New CO2 Concentration Record Set, 428.59 ppm, at the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory. 1 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 936
Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1425
There's a mysterious ecosystem underneath the driest desert on Earth 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 42 2364
The Effect of Climate Change on Nuclear Reactor Cooling Will Be Studied at Argonne National Lab. 0 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 980
Judge dismisses superconductivity physicist's lawsuit against university 1 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 927
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Stumbled On A Glistening Lava Lake On Jupiter's Moon Io 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 15 1394
Algorithm ranks peer reviewers by reputation -- but critics warn of bias 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 723
Scientists create 'toxic AI' that is rewarded for thinking up the worst possible questions we could imagine 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1202
4 solar flares erupt in exceptionally rare, "quadruple" solar flare from the sun in rare 'super' explosion 5 LastLiberal in PalmSprings Apr 2024 Apr 2024 9 1236
Cosmic fountain is polluting intergalactic space with 50 million suns' worth of material 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1107
Restoring sight is possible now with optogenetics 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 Apr 2024 11 1178
It's Official: Scientists Finally Confirmed What's Inside The Moon 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 12 1443
NASA veteran's propellantless propulsion drive defies laws of physics 4 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1296

Science Continued...

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For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism 4 WestMichRad Apr 2024 Apr 2024 30 1417
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 791
NASA's Voyager 1 resumes sending engineering updates to Earth 6 erronis Apr 2024 Apr 2024 22 1366
In my lifetime, space exploration has gone from Sputnik to multiple launches each week. 6 Ptah Apr 2024 Apr 2024 3 1069
An Interesting Experiment in Trying to Involve Journalists in Reporting Real Science Correctly. 1 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1066
Jupiter's Moon Io has been volcanically active for 4.5 billion years 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 924
Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient 13 BootinUp Apr 2024 Apr 2024 27 1975
A Rare Nova Explosion Will Soon Bring a 'New Star' to the Night Sky--How to Catch a Glimpse 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1099
A Stellar Collision Birthed the 'Dragon's Egg' Nebula, a Puzzling Structure in the Milky Way 2 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1208
Non Nuclear Portions of Wyoming's Kemmerer Nuclear Power Plant to Start Construction This Summer. 3 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1015
Meet 'goldene': this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 11 959
Too hot for a lizard? Climate change quickens the pace of extinction 0 BootinUp Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 947
I have been waiting for about 20 years for this paper to appear. 8 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 15 1865
Can AI read our minds? Probably not, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be worried 5 BootinUp Apr 2024 Apr 2024 2 1026
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Mosby Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 542
Watch a swarm of cyborg cockroaches controlled by computers 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 964
Mysterious dark matter may leave clues in 'strings of pearls' trailing our galaxy 1 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 879
March 2024 Was the Worst Month Ever for CO2 Increases Measured at the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory. 6 NNadir Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1637
US COVID-origins hearing puts scientific journals in the hot seat 5 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 1373
Earthquake: Japan's Ehime Prefecture. 6.3 on Richter 0 Tetrachloride Apr 2024 Apr 2024 9 907
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