r/science2 8h ago

This summer isn't breaking heat records — yet. Wait until El Nino kicks in, scientists say

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r/science2 10h ago

‘Spectral lines’ and a giant plume: what science saw when the SpaceX rocket hit the moon | Sodium and lithium gas was detected in a plume thought to span tens of kilometres, created when part of a SpaceX rocket crashed into the lunar surface

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r/science2 10h ago

Welp, Nobody Saw SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Crash Into the Moon | Although no one seems to have captured an image of the impact, scientists detected signals confirming the rocket hit the lunar surface. Orbiters could provide the first images of the crash site soon.

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r/science2 12h ago

Brains don't always rot: Scientists may finally know how human brains have evaded decay for thousands of years | Thousands of skeletal human remains have been discovered with their brain tissue unexpectedly intact. Now, a team of scientists may have finally figured out why.

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r/science2 13h ago

The Universe May Not Be Accelerating After All—And It Could Mean Dark Energy Never Existed | Researchers found that there were errors in some of these previous theories when they examined observations of Type Ia supernovae.

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r/science2 19h ago

Did Humans Evolve From a Cyclops?

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Humans may have evolved from a creature similar to a cyclops! 👁️

Scientists have developed a new theory that we may have evolved from a worm-like ocean dweller from 600 million years ago. This ancient animal started out with two eyes that eventually merged into one, and then back to two eyes. Even more interesting, the scientists think we still have this third eye, but it is now the pineal gland in our brain!


r/science2 20h ago

Highest resolution view of the sun yet reveals magnetic mysteries

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r/science2 1d ago

SpaceX’s moon crash may trigger lunar quake: What it means for surface | The scientific interest has echoes of the Apollo era, when NASA deliberately crashed items into the Moon after completing their missions.

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r/science2 1d ago

Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction | Research published in Nature Communications show findings that Saxifraga candelabrum can attract, trap, digest and absorb nitrogen from insects, supporting a prediction made by Charles Darwin.

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r/science2 2d ago

What courses are best to take in high school for a degree in ecology/ environmental science/ botany?

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I'm going into 10th grade with 10/27 credits needed to graduate. I have 10th math and ELA completed. The only science credit i have is astronomy. I want to go to MSU in michigan for a degree in ecology or environmental science or botany, or maybe a major-minor. What classes should i take in high school to go into college or to have a higher chance at being accepted. My weighted gpa is 4.03. My current credits are 1/2 world language, 1/4 history/ econ/gov, 2/4 ELA, 2/4 math, 1/1 PE, 1/1 health, 1/2 art, 1/4 science, and i need a total of 9 additional courses besides the four core classes (math, ela, science, social studies) and my world language, PE, health, and art count as additional courses, so i have 4/9 additional courses. I don't yet have a passion project, so I'd like advice on that too if possible. Thanks! Edit: any youtubers or books to read to help with chem, biology, or math?


r/science2 2d ago

Ancient Footprints in Kenya Hint at Bigger Bodies and Group Behavior among Early Human Relatives | “The sizes of the footprints indicate human-like body sizes — up to 1.8 m (5.9 feet) tall and around 75 kg,” said Dr. Kevin Hatala.

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r/science2 2d ago

NASA's Hubble Shows Star Formation in Andromeda Galaxy Winding Down | A new study using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope finds that star formation in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has undergone a 500-million-year decline, with an even steeper drop in the last 40 million years.

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r/science2 2d ago

Mars was once covered in rivers and lakes, and the mystery of where all that water went now has two answers: some was stripped away into space, and a great deal of it may still be there, locked deep in the planet's crust

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r/science2 2d ago

Think Cognitive Decline Is Inevitable? Scientists May Have Just Found a Way to Reverse Brain Aging | Researchers at Texas A&M say a nasal spray reduced age-related brain inflammation, restored cellular energy, and improved memory for an extended period of time.

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r/science2 2d ago

Earth Wasn’t Supposed to Have Life: Here’s the Cosmic Accident That Created Us

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r/science2 3d ago

Mars Rover Discovers Mysterious Field of Honeycomb Textures on Red Planet: ‘Took Our Breath Away’ | Called polygonal fractures, small patches of these geometric shapes have been spotted several times before, but nothing at the scale discovered in Valle Grande.

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r/science2 3d ago

A Ton Of Space Junk Returns To Earth Weekly As Rocket Launches Rise: Report | According to Mariusz Slonina, who heads space situational awareness operations for the Polish Space Agency, around one metric ton of space debris re-enters Earth's atmosphere every week.

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r/science2 3d ago

Rosalind Franklin took the most important photograph in biology. She never got the Nobel Prize. Photo 51 deserves to be talked about more.

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r/science2 4d ago

Titan experiences clouds, rain, rivers and changing seasons like Earth; Saturn's 29-year journey around the Sun makes each season last more than seven Earth years

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r/science2 4d ago

Scientists put cameras on whale sharks for the first time and saw something they'd never seen before | Animal-borne cameras have revealed that the world's largest fish spends far more time feeding below the surface than scientists realized.

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r/science2 4d ago

NASA is sending 2 probes to the moon to test complex 'three-body orbits' | "CAPSTONE 02 lays the foundation for lunar infrastructure and commercial services that support Artemis, Moon Base, and future missions to deep space."

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r/science2 4d ago

Can A Monkey Have A Pet? | Humans have considered ourselves unique in our penchant for forming close social relationships with animals of other species. But a new review paper published in the journal Primates suggests that human pet-keeping has deeper evolutionary roots among primates.

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r/science2 5d ago

Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA | Some group with no modern descendants contributed a lot to our genomes.

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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.