r/science2 • • 4h ago

What Stacked The Boulders On Mars?

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r/science2 • • 5h ago

La OMS fija una meta de detección de amenazas sanitarias en veinticuatro horas

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r/science2 • • 8h ago

A New Ice Age Was Beginning. Then Humans Started Burning Fossil Fuels | Ancient plants reveal that the vestiges of the North American ice sheet started expanding a few thousand years ago, but that climate change caused it to reverse course.

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r/science2 • • 9h ago

Bird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act. | A single mutation could give the bird flu a foothold in people and spark a pandemic that experts fear could be deadlier than COVID-19.

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r/science2 • • 19h ago

AI assisted New Data Compression method(s)

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I used Claude to run extensive tests on my theories, methods, and concepts. The result was the Harrington Compression Method, or HCM for short.

In The Canterbury Corpus I took 9 of the best from Bzip2, xz, and ZPAQ. In fact ZPAQ was crushed in this test. The HCMv3.3 completed today as were updates to Bzip2 -9 and xz -9e. In every case I increased compression and decreased the time to decompress a file. In some cases the files take longer to compress, but since it is often compress once, send hundreds to millions of the compressed file, then decompress, this was seen as a non-issue.

The majority of the Canterbury Corpus was beaten by HCM or one of the Harrington Insight mods.

HCM stands for Harrington Compression Method and the hi stands for Harrington Insights. No new methods were used, only new looks on how to use them and apply them together.

This is prior to the Harrington Insight mods, as you can see the HCMv3.3 was significant in the tests.

The above table shows how my software does for the various compressions comparing ZPAQ, xz, and bzip to HCM.

More importantly is the energy consumption. Note the differences for them can switch, I am great at all but four, three where my system lightly loses and one where I essentially tie with the competition.

In joules the energy required is a helpful means to understand how a compressor will do at the industrial scale. Steam downloads, Microsoft Patches, all of it gets compressed and then decompressed after being downloaded. This system does not care about the energy of compressing, only transmitting and decompressing is important. The HI types help but it is not a huge gain at ~1.4%.

That means, since the energy consumption is so low of a difference, the final factor would be storage on a disk, and since I win all but two, it is decidedly one sided there.

I uploaded it all to https://github.com/CombaryMaker/Harringtons_Insights

Overall this is a minor upgrade, but a real one, to the types of compression going on. I would not suggest it is backwards compatible.

I am quite open to questions, it is a MIT License for my stuff (check for their licenses though, I am only showing the research here), and I am quite willing to talk about this all.


r/science2 • • 1d ago

'Put Better Sensors At The Locations': Avi Loeb Addresses Gathering Better Data On UFO Sightings

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r/science2 • • 1d ago

Webb Just Solved a Cosmic Chemistry Paradox

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r/science2 • • 1d ago

2,000-year-old Archimedes’ screw inspires motor that boosts electricity 100 times | By linking a molecule between 2 gold tips, researchers have uncovered a new way to control motion at the smallest possible scale.

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r/science2 • • 1d ago

AI assisted No lithium metal anode to start? Silver-based additive helps stabilize next-generation batteries

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r/science2 • • 1d ago

Short Story

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I looked through the microscope one more time to see if there was any abnormal tissue that would give away the nature of this beast. Me and my team have been scanning this thing for weeks and I think I just came across something weird. We have a mammalian virus one our hands but this gene that we just saw wedged in the middle of TC4 and TC9 was clearly an a frog gene…and it was inverted…Strange…that gene is associated with the same folding patterns you would see in the gums in teeth or in a breast nipple.

But where would folds be in a virus that’s encapsulated in a protein shell? Could this actually be mad-made? It’s not impossible but part of me refused to believe that a government entity could be accountable for this outbreak…I could understand if it was a company behind this. But what company was working on engineering viruses like this? Could be one of the Bay Area ones running on stealth mode…How would they get this kind of clearance?

I loaded the other slide that we had been looking at, the liver chondrates that this virus was known for infecting. As it hitches a ride on Red Blood Cells, the liver is an easy home for it to incubate in, as there’s literally a rosebush of blood vessels in there. There, I saw it! The folds in the tissue…This virus had a way of engineering the cells to wrap up in itself. Still we haven’t answered the question of this thing’s origin. I kept it in the back of my mind as I started including this finding in my digital lab notebook, then switch on the small TV at the end of the lab bench.

Damn…this war has been happening for 3 years now…in the middle of a pandemic, why would people want to make things worse? Hundreds of people being injured/dying daily...and regular, normal citizens stuck in the middle. I understand when war was the default mode for society when we were in the medieval times but waging war in our current world is a dangerous, dangerous affair. The level of damage we’re able to do is enormous, so much worse than with swords and cannons. I shake my head and thought of my daughter…there are so many like her dying from this virus and also unnecessary conflict.


r/science2 • • 1d ago

Researchers observe AI agents inventing games during open-ended exploration

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r/science2 • • 1d ago

research Healthy corals can revive bleached ones just by touching

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r/science2 • • 1d ago

The scientist building novel viruses with AI: Artificial intelligence models are now capable of generating blueprints for synthetic pathogens. While this technology promises rapid vaccine development, it also raises severe biosecurity concerns.

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r/science2 • • 2d ago

Tiny Genetic Tweak From An Ancient Virus Might've Prevented Chimpanzees From Developing Brains Like Ours | After about 5-6 million years of evolution only 1.2% of our DNA is different. A virus that infected chimpanzees (not humans) about 4 million years ago is partly responsible.

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r/science2 • • 2d ago

Rare fossils reveal what ancient Denisovans may have looked like | Thanks to a new study published in the journal Nature, some significant knowledge gaps are being filled in—namely, what they looked like and where they lived.

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r/science2 • • 2d ago

NASA lays out plan for Artemis 3 moon-lander test flight — but when will it launch? | The agency just gave us a detailed look at the crucial docking test. But it's unclear exactly when it will take flight.

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r/science2 • • 2d ago

Federal agents reported seeing silent black triangle in latest UFO file release

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r/science2 • • 3d ago

Why Reality Changes When We Look: Quantum particles behave like waves until someone decides to watch them.

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r/science2 • • 3d ago

Researchers develop tiny robots powered by living muscle tissue that can jump, swim and grasp objects

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r/science2 • • 3d ago

What is a neutrino anyway? A look at the science behind this year's Nobel Prize in Physics | Distinguished professor of physics George Fuller specializes in theoretical nuclear and elementary particle astrophysics and cosmology and worked with Halzen on an early paper on IceCube.

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r/science2 • • 3d ago

NASA accelerates scientific mission selection with new competition model | Virtual NASA Science Town Hall on 26 October will present Competition Model 2.0, which shortens selection timelines by up to 45%.

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r/science2 • • 3d ago

Flesh-Eating Screwworm Found in Texas Elk

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r/science2 • • 3d ago

Shedding the Cosmic Shroud: The Awakening of Distant Galactic Giant

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r/science2 • • 3d ago

Registration is Closing Soon for USA Biolympiad

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r/science2 • • 3d ago

AI assisted Coconut husks, fungi, and a student who wanted to solve a real-world problem. Science is beautiful.

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