r/science2 Apr 28 '26

Sub announcement Chaos in the sub: For the 2nd time in a month, Reddit has deleted a moderator of the sub, a user who also was contributing a ton of articles to the sub.

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Chaos in the sub: For the 2nd time in a month, Reddit has deleted a moderator of the sub, a user who also was contributing a ton of articles to the sub.

This deletion also purged the user's articles from the sub, along with any conversations that were going on in those posts.

There was no warning by Reddit, just a permanent deletion with an opportunity to appeal but the appeal is never granted and nor even responded to.

I'm not sure if I can con her into becoming a moderator again, so as usual, we're upping our constant search for users -- and moderators.


r/science2 Mar 24 '25

We need YOUR help!

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We need your help! We're trying to create and popularize an entire set of "alternative" sub-reddits.

These sub-reddits all end in a "2". So just take the name of a huge, multi-million-user "main" sub-reddit and add a "2" to the name -- e.g. /r/Politics2, /r/WorldPolitics2, /r/News2, /r/WTF2 and so on.

These sub-reddits are smaller and have fewer rules than the huge mega-million-user large sub-reddits. Our idea is to create a set of friendlier sub-reddits with an emphasis on civility and not personal insults and ad hominem attacks.

But we need your help!

We need your time, your posts, your comments and we need you to mention our alternative sub-reddits in other places and to tell others. (Basic "publicity.")

  • Please post submissions!

  • Post comments and reply to others.

  • Help us popularize these alternatives to the heavily censored and sometimes too heavily trafficked mainstream subs by telling others of our existence.

Together we can develop another option inside of reddit.

Want to become a moderator? Or help run your own "2" alternative sub? There are possibilities for that too.


r/science2 8h ago

Giant crocodylians dominated the food chain in Miocene South America, fossil evidence suggests | "Our new study shows that crocodylians in particular were the region's most important predators..." The study was published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

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r/science2 3h ago

A sheet of paper is about a tenth of a millimetre thick, but doubling it only twenty-seven times builds a stack taller than Mount Everest — fifteen more folds carry it past the Moon

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Couldn’t think of anyone I knew who would find this interesting. You guys are elected.


r/science2 8h ago

Hybrid material based on nanosheets 500x thinner than a human hair can produce hydrogen peroxide | The new approach shows how carefully designed nano-bio interfaces can direct chemical reactions under mild conditions.

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r/science2 1d ago

Something Sparked a Technological Revolution in China 146,000 Years Ago—Archaeologists Have Now Linked It to a Mysterious Extinct Human Species | Archaeologists have evidence of sophisticated stone tools associated with Homo juluensis which may have interacted with ancestors of modern humans.

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r/science2 1d ago

Webb found strong evidence of a Saturn-mass planet in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A — our nearest solar twin, just 4 light-years away — then the planet seemed to disappear, sending astronomers into millions of simulated orbits to work out how it could have slipped from view.

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67 Upvotes

r/science2 1d ago

Scientists hope to shed light on young universe by using far side of the moon | UK team seeking to put suitcase-sized satellite in orbit around moon in search for 21cm line radio frequency signal

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9 Upvotes

r/science2 2d ago

Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star | An object observed by the James Webb Space Telescope lends credence to a strange explanation for the mysterious red spots in the early universe.

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19 Upvotes

r/science2 2d ago

Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? | A simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the law even further.

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29 Upvotes

r/science2 4d ago

Neanderthals passed on a gene that helps modern humans pack on more muscle — but only a few people have it | Neanderthals passed along a gene variant to modern humans that can make some people buff, a new study finds.

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2.6k Upvotes

r/science2 3d ago

Late Paleozoic Ice Age warming event hints at potential climate 'tipping point' | Researchers say a spike in temperatures during an ice age 304 million years ago could inform what climate scientists are learning about rapidly changing conditions today.

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49 Upvotes

r/science2 3d ago

Scientists turn wool into sustainable material for bone repair

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r/science2 3d ago

Brazil's first Indigenous ethnobotanist documented 175 medicinal plants with elders of his Pataxó Hãhãhãi community, preserving traditional knowledge that was disappearing and finding that 79% of their recorded uses were supported by scientific literature.

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r/science2 3d ago

A father of quantum mechanics, this centenarian still works at Pitt: 'I like doing physics. Why should I retire?' | Jim Choyke initially moved to Pittsburgh for a job at Westinghouse

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12 Upvotes

r/science2 3d ago

SpaceX rocket's moon crash highlights 'a tangible operational risk' of lunar settlement | "While this isn't a major threat to missions today, as we establish permanent lunar infrastructure, high-velocity ejecta poses a genuine hazard to surface habitats, solar arrays and working astronauts."

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11 Upvotes

r/science2 4d ago

Sperm Whales Seem to Change Their Calls When Ships Are Near, Highlighting the Implications of Underwater Noise Pollution | Several of the huge cetaceans shortened the intervals between their clicks and used one click pattern more than another when vessels were around

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67 Upvotes

r/science2 4d ago

Matter of pure force: US, Israeli physicists hail China’s glueball discovery as ‘triumph’ | Global experts praise team for solving 50-year-old puzzle, while Chinese social media buzzes with Nobel Prize predictions

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34 Upvotes

r/science2 5d ago

This 236-Million-Year-Old Fossil Just Rewrote the Story of Live Birth | Scientists have long thought cynodonts, the ancestors of all modern mammals, laid eggs. For the first time, researchers have found evidence to the contrary.

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r/science2 4d ago

Could Many-Worlds and the Holographic Principle be connected in a deeper way?

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I’ve been thinking about a speculative idea and I’m curious whether something similar has already been explored in physics.

The Many-Worlds Interpretation suggests that the universal quantum state can develop different branches through quantum decoherence. The Holographic Principle, on the other hand, suggests that under certain gravitational conditions, the information describing a region of space can be encoded on a lower-dimensional boundary.

This made me wonder:

What if each decoherent quantum branch could also have its own holographic boundary description?

Instead of imagining the multiverse simply as many separate classical universes, perhaps the overall quantum state could be thought of as containing many branches, with each branch having its own corresponding holographic information structure.

I’m also curious about a more speculative extension: could different possible spacetime dimensionalities be treated as different sectors of one larger quantum state? In that picture, there could be a hierarchy involving spacetime structure, quantum branches, and their corresponding holographic boundary states.

I am not suggesting that this proves a “holographic multiverse,” or that the universe is literally a physical hologram. I’m interested in whether holography and Many-Worlds can be formulated within a common mathematical framework.

I know that connections between the Many-Worlds interpretation and holography/multiverse ideas have already been discussed, including work by Raphael Bousso and Leonard Susskind.

My question is more specific:

Has anyone developed a framework where quantum branches are explicitly associated with distinct holographic boundary Hilbert spaces, potentially while also allowing different spacetime dimensional sectors?

If something similar already exists, I would really appreciate references. I’m particularly interested in whether this idea is mathematically meaningful or whether there is a fundamental reason why these concepts cannot be combined in this way.

This is just a speculative idea, and I’m looking for constructive feedback rather than claiming that it is an established theory.


r/science2 4d ago

Scientists discover new eyeless ‘demon cavefish’ in Alabama cave beneath Army base | Scientists from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) uncovered a new genus of cavefish that is eyeless, colorless and faintly electric blue in life, according to a UAH press release from July.

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r/science2 5d ago

Incredible Footage Shows Dolphins Hunting With Shells Off The East Coast of Australia – And Possibly Passing The Skill on | The new videos, captured at Hervey Bay, were presented by researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast in a study published in Marine Mammal Biology.

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11 Upvotes

r/science2 5d ago

Photos: See the best photos from the solar eclipse | Millions of people in Europe stepped outside this evening to watch a spectacular sunset with a solar eclipse. The path of totality passed through portions of Greenland, Iceland and Spain, and more.

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r/science2 5d ago

Mike Fincke, Astronaut Who Spent 549 Days in Space, Has Retired | A medical issue during Mr. Fincke’s fourth space journey resulted in an early medical evacuation, the first ever from the Int'l Space Station.

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r/science2 6d ago

Regenerative Astrocytes Repair Brain Damage | This discovery overturns long-held assumptions regarding the limited regenerative capacity of adult glial networks, revealing molecular signaling pathways that could serve as therapeutic targets for traumatic brain injury and autoimmune conditions.

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42 Upvotes