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June 11, 2026, 1:41 pm UTC    
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Hermione 07/11/2020 03:35AM

Sticky No discussion of contemporary politics (1 Posts)

Hermione 06/11/2020 06:59AM

Sticky Rules and Guidelines (including guidance on Copyright) (1 Posts)

Katherine Reece 09/29/2019 16:20PM

Ground squirrel coprolites preserve complex archives of ancient environmental DNA over 700,000 years.

Paul H. 06/10/2026 09:59AM

The Dirt That Refused To Die: Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil for six years

Paul H. 06/08/2026 12:44PM

The origin of ferruginous coprolite-like masses controversy continues

Paul H. 05/20/2026 13:02PM

New technique could uncover the secrets of ‘ringing’ black holes

Hermione 05/15/2026 03:09AM

Re: New technique could uncover the secrets of ‘ringing’ black holes

Jammer 05/15/2026 19:44PM

Re: New technique could uncover the secrets of ‘ringing’ black holes

Hermione 05/16/2026 15:26PM

Re: New technique could uncover the secrets of ‘ringing’ black holes

Jammer 05/16/2026 20:24PM

Snow cover on Greek mountains has more than halved in 4 decades

Hermione 05/12/2026 16:30PM

Scientists find a new way coronaviruses can get into human cells

Hermione 04/24/2026 03:09AM

Embryo fossil found in South Africa is world’s oldest proof that mammal ancestors laid eggs

Paul H. 04/10/2026 09:04AM

‘Nonsurvivable’: heatwaves are already breaching human limits.

Paul H. 04/09/2026 08:39AM

Earliest known octopus is not an octopus after all

Paul H. 04/08/2026 14:49PM

Experiments refute dark matter claim

Paul H. 04/07/2026 09:24AM

Re: Experiments refute dark matter claim

Hermione 04/08/2026 09:53AM

Do you see faces in the clouds? Researchers examine pareidolia

Paul H. 04/07/2026 09:15AM

Earth’s Spin Is Slowing at a Pace Not Seen in Millions of Years

Paul H. 04/04/2026 22:04PM

Spectacular Chinese fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals

Paul H. 04/04/2026 21:37PM

Human sperm get lost in space, pioneering study finds

Paul H. 04/04/2026 21:27PM

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?

Paul H. 04/04/2026 21:09PM

Higgs boson breakthrough was UK triumph, but British physics faces 'catastrophic' cuts

Hermione 03/18/2026 08:54AM

Recent Pandemic Viruses Jumped to Humans Without Prior Adaptation,

Paul H. 03/16/2026 10:36AM

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: These LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud

Paul H. 03/07/2026 14:42PM

Re: Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: These LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud

Hermione 03/14/2026 02:16AM

This iceberg was once the biggest in the world. Now it has just weeks left (BBC report with animations)

Hermione 03/07/2026 13:14PM

Cryogenian Snowball Earth and the evolution of multicelluar organisms - fascinating talk

Paul H. 03/06/2026 14:06PM

We Finally Know What Tore a 500-Km 'Grand Canyon' (King's Trough Complex) Into The Atlantic Seafloor

Paul H. 03/05/2026 14:12PM

Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments

Paul H. 03/05/2026 09:45AM

Laptops and tablets, and cognitive capabilities

Paul H. 03/02/2026 15:59PM

laptops and tablets, and cognitive capabilities

Jammer 03/02/2026 20:25PM

Lost fossils reveal sea monsters that took over after Earth’s greatest extinction, Triassic, Australia

Paul H. 02/28/2026 10:54AM

Scientists Thought Melting Antarctic Ice Might Fight Climate Change. It Doesn’t

Paul H. 02/27/2026 22:09PM

Vertebrate paleontology has a numbers problem. Computer vision can help

Paul H. 02/27/2026 21:49PM

Exceptionally preserved 551-millionyear- old site suggests Avalon biota lasted longer, Newfoundland, Canada

Paul H. 02/27/2026 21:42PM

Great Unconformity likely due to tectonics—not glaciers

Paul H. 02/25/2026 12:53PM

Science fiction blinded us to the perils of settling Mars

Paul H. 02/20/2026 22:24PM

Re: Science fiction blinded us to the perils of settling Mars

Jammer 02/22/2026 20:49PM

What happens to a car when the company behind its software goes under?

Paul H. 02/19/2026 10:28AM

Re: What happens to a car when the company behind its software goes under?

Jammer 02/22/2026 20:45PM

New ‘scimitar-crested’ Spinosaurus species discovered in the central Sahara

Paul H. 02/21/2026 12:05PM

Re: New ‘scimitar-crested’ Spinosaurus species discovered in the central Sahara

Jammer 02/22/2026 20:43PM

Retracted : Two PLos One Papers Supporting Younger Dryas cosmic airbursts/impacts

Paul H. 02/15/2026 14:11PM

Re: Retraction: Shocked quartz at the Younger Dryas onset (12.8 ka) supports cosmic airbursts/impacts

Hermione 02/15/2026 15:03PM

Re: Retracted : Two PLos One Papers Supporting Younger Dryas cosmic airbursts/impacts

Hermione 02/22/2026 13:17PM

But if we find an Earth-like world, will we even recognize it?

Paul H. 02/20/2026 22:29PM

New paper on boreal wildfires supports recent scholarship (Holliday et al., 2023) refuting a cosmic impact hypothesis

Paul H. 02/18/2026 12:18PM

Scientists Have Made Light Speed Visible.

Paul H. 02/17/2026 10:21AM

Search for impact ejecta at the Paleocene–Eocene boundary. - Negative Results

Paul H. 02/16/2026 11:24AM

Record-breaking gravitational wave puts Einstein's relativity to its toughest test

Paul H. 02/13/2026 10:16AM

A Football-Size Creature That Lived 307 Million Years Ago May Have Been One of the First Land Vertebrates to Eat Plants

Paul H. 02/13/2026 09:53AM

Nipah virus outbreak in India triggers Asia airport screenings

Paul H. 02/10/2026 09:13AM

Re: Nipah virus outbreak in India triggers Asia airport screenings

Hermione 02/11/2026 09:55AM

Hidden Risk in a Common Fruit: Bananas Contaminated by Mining Disaster

Paul H. 02/10/2026 08:53AM

Re: Hidden Risk in a Common Fruit: Bananas Contaminated by Mining Disaster

Hermione 02/10/2026 09:24AM

Rare 'alien-like' sea slugs found in rock pools (Plymouth, Devon, UK)

Hermione 02/08/2026 07:34AM

Re: Rare 'alien-like' sea slugs found in rock pools (Plymouth, Devon, UK)

Hermione 02/10/2026 03:34AM

Mysterious Prototaxites cannot be a fungus and was an unknown life form argues study

Paul H. 02/06/2026 10:41AM

A 200-foot asteroid has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon in 2032—and we could see it

Paul H. 02/06/2026 10:21AM

The World’s Strangest Computer Is Alive and It Blurs the Line Between Brains and Machines

Paul H. 02/04/2026 22:23PM

The Fabrication Problem: How AI Models Generate Fake Citations, URLs, and References

Paul H. 02/04/2026 22:19PM

A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body

Paul H. 01/17/2026 16:21PM

Mysterious Pink Rocks Expose a Massive Secret Buried Under Antarctica’s Ice

Paul H. 01/14/2026 10:30AM

Landscape beneath Antarctica's icy surface revealed in unprecedented detail

Hermione 01/16/2026 08:54AM

Parkfield, San Andreas, and the quest for a 'crystal ball' for predicting earthquakes before they happen

Paul H. 01/14/2026 10:41AM

The oldest rock in the Western United States

Paul H. 01/13/2026 15:29PM

The risk of falling space junk hitting airplanes is on the rise, experts warn

Paul H. 01/12/2026 12:16PM

Ancient Antarctica reveals a ’one–two punch’ behind ice sheet collapse

Paul H. 01/12/2026 12:15PM

Dark energy just got even weirder and why the Universe may end in a 'Big Crunch'

Hermione 12/28/2025 10:03AM

Re: Dark energy just got even weirder and why the Universe may end in a 'Big Crunch'

Jammer 01/05/2026 11:28AM

New paper by Mark Boslough about Taurid stream

Paul H. 01/04/2026 13:07PM

Engineer powers his entire home using 500 discarded vapes:

Paul H. 12/31/2025 11:54AM

‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps?

Paul H. 12/28/2025 11:13AM

Major autism study uncovers biologically distinct subtypes,

Paul H. 12/26/2025 22:30PM

How Life Solved Its “Impossible” Problem: Leading Chemist Explains Life Doesn’t Need a Miracle to Appear

Paul H. 12/25/2025 11:49AM

Scientists crack ancient salt crystals to unlock secrets of 1.4 billion-year-old air

Paul H. 12/25/2025 11:41AM

He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing

Paul H. 12/25/2025 10:26AM

Lemon-Shaped World Is the Most Stretched-Out Planet Ever Seen

Paul H. 12/19/2025 11:40AM

Re: Lemon-Shaped World Is the Most Stretched-Out Planet Ever Seen

Jammer 12/21/2025 08:19AM