A major survey of 1660 physicists found deep disagreement on nearly every fundamental question in physics

A rare blue micromoon this weekend will look like the smallest full moon of the year, with Antares glowing right next to it

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  ed.kelly

  I told my wife I'd do the dishes once in a blue moon, and now she's standing at the window with a calendar and a frying pan.

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A new study suggests T. rex evolved tiny arms because its skull grew so massive that its jaws took over as the main weapon, leaving the arms nearly useless.

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  lucas_70

  Imagine being the apex predator of the planet and still needing a stepstool to change a lightbulb.

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Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, wolves, bears, and rare wild horses have reclaimed the radioactive exclusion zone

Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Serum That Activates a Dormant Ability to Regrow Lost Limbs in Mammals

Scientists are questioning whether a $600,000 lab-grown handbag marketed as T-rex leather is actually made from dinosaur tissue

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  steve_89

  A bag stitched from chicken feathers would have more dinosaur DNA than this thing.

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An Oxford physicist argues that quantum mechanics splits you into parallel versions of yourself with every interaction

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  clairecampbell49

  My therapist sent me this article and told me finding the real me is gonna take a while because now we have to search the whole universe.

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New research shows that lobsters do feel pain, and scientists are calling for a ban on boiling them alive.

A NASA satellite has found that Mexico City is sinking more than half an inch per month

Scientists say the 17 earthquakes near Area 51 in 24 hours are likely geological, not aliens

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  morgan_73

  If I'd been locked in a Nevada basement for 75 years and found out Congress was about to snitch, I'd be shaking the walls too.

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Conspiracy theorists are claiming a NASA video of the Artemis II crew is fake, saying visual glitches suggest a green screen

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  rootsnap

  They ran the footage through their rigorous verification process of pausing the video, squinting, and then typing WAKE UP in all caps.

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Meet the American Pocket Shark, the Tiny Bioluminescent Shark Found in the Gulf

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  ralexander

  When I read pocket shark I thought this was going to be about my credit card that's been eating me alive since 2019.

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  zoehughes73

  A tiny glowing shark in your pocket sounds like the world's worst but most honest description of a vape.

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The last Apollo moonwalker says that helium-3 locked in lunar dust could become a trillion-dollar clean energy industry within just a few years.

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  chompnut

  Humans are basically that roommate who eats everything in the fridge and then starts eyeing your stuff. 'Hey Moon… you gonna finish that helium-3?'

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A skyscraper-sized asteroid nicknamed "God of Chaos" will pass within 20,000 miles of Earth in 2029, close enough to see with the naked eye

Scientists revived a 24,000 year old 'zombie worm' from the Arctic ice, and then it reproduced

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  brianevans43

  This zombie worm woke up from a 24,000 year nap and immediately found a partner, meanwhile guys on Hinge can't get a match after swiping for six straight hours.

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Scientists say they have tested a method that could get us to Alpha Centauri in just twenty years

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  michael.baker

  We're about to reach Alpha Centauri faster than a contractor can finish my kitchen remodel.

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  jake.campbell

  Aliens on Alpha Centauri just saw this headline and started building a wall.👽🪓🧱

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A Singapore-based fund with $40 million is betting on longevity research to make death optional

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  lily_84

  If death becomes optional a lot of rich parents will never hear from their kids again.

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  nick2005

  I told my wife a fund is working to make death optional, and she immediately started a fund to make divorce mandatory.

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Scientists just discovered 5.6 million bees living under a cemetery in New York state

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  goldenforest

  I said rest in "peace", not in bees!

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  glowbyte

  I love that even in death you can't escape noisy neighbors in New York.

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Fossils suggest a 60 foot octopus was one of the ocean's top predators during the age of the dinosaurs

A San Francisco robotics startup says its latest AI model can direct robots to complete tasks they were never explicitly trained on

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  vertex09

  Robots completing tasks they were never trained for is literally the first sentence of every apocalypse movie ever made, but sure, let's keep going.

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The Noah's Ark mystery gets even weirder as a researcher reveals strange rock formations in Turkey

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  crimsonstar

  If Noah's Ark is real, I have some questions about how two termites didn't end the whole operation.

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  justin_89

  Scientists keep finding Noah's Ark, aliens, and hair loss cures, and I keep finding more forehead.

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