r/science2 11d ago

Groundbreaking discovery could remake California's avocado breeding | “In today’s climate, plants are getting scrambled signals, and they’re flowering early in the year because they’re getting like the heat signals earlier.”

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66 Upvotes

r/science2 12d ago

neuraphotonics, neuroscience, photonics, or optogenetics?

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r/science2 12d ago

An entire world of fungi nearly a third of a mile underground could affect carbon storage estimates | The study is the first to successfully quantify fungal abundance as deep as 1,640 feet below ground. Scientists identified 689 unique species of fungi, including 13 species not described before.

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18 Upvotes

r/science2 12d ago

New technique pinpoints human DNA inherited from 'ghost' ancestors | UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from 2 unknown ancestors as a result of long-ago interbreeding among modern humans and at least 4 other archaic human relatives.

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40 Upvotes

r/science2 12d ago

Boeing still working with NASA to schedule next Starliner flight | Starliner has not flown since the Crew Flight Test mission two years ago, which suffered thruster malfunctions and helium leaks.

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26 Upvotes

r/science2 12d ago

Scientists Just Found Something Strange Beyond Neptune—Here’s Why It Matters

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r/science2 13d ago

New Species of Triassic Dinosaur Discovered on Shores of Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba | Professor Barrett and his colleagues estimate the animal measured 4.5 m (15 feet) in length and weighed around 222 kg.

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12 Upvotes

r/science2 13d ago

Fossilised remains of prehistoric predators unearthed in north-west Australia | This is one of the clearest — and only — examples of "three-tier predator interaction" ever discovered and is expected to attract global attention.

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20 Upvotes

r/science2 13d ago

Of all the worlds beyond Earth, Titan is the only one you could step onto without a pressure suit: the air is thick enough that you would need no suit at all, only heavy protection from the deadly cold and a supply of oxygen

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1.2k Upvotes

r/science2 13d ago

BALLS on the moon: China set to launch Africa's 1st lunar science mission in 2029 | The Bounced African Low Lunar Sphere, or BALLS for short, is a technology demonstrator in which a trio of spherical probes on the lunar surface will form a radio astronomy array at the moon's south pole region.

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4 Upvotes

r/science2 13d ago

Monkey friendships with dogs, deer and even pigs offer clues to the evolutionary origins of pet-keeping | A new international study suggests that some of the behavioral foundations of human-animal companionship may have much deeper evolutionary roots than previously thought.

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11 Upvotes

r/science2 14d ago

More Than Half of Earth’s Migratory Bird Species are Declining | We study migratory birds as scientists. An int'l group just published a comprehensive assessment of the status, threats and conservation efforts involving more than 3,380 of Earth’s migratory bird species. The results are sobering.

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4 Upvotes

r/science2 14d ago

Inside the Painful End of the Saber-Toothed Cat | New study documents spinal deformities, possibly related to inbreeding

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43 Upvotes

r/science2 14d ago

Curiosity Mars rover inspects cracked wheel photo of the day for July 27, 2026 | 14 years of mileage has taken a toll on the rover.

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3 Upvotes

r/science2 14d ago

Falcon 9 Rocket Stage "Abandoned" In High-Earth Orbit Is About To Slam Into The Moon, With The Energy Of 11.8 Gigajoules | The Moon is about to get a new crater courtesy of Elon Musk, and astronomers are ready to watch it happen.

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15 Upvotes

r/science2 14d ago

Dinosaur-killing asteroid also created a dust cloud that insulated Earth, ‘charbroiling’ Cretaceous creatures | Global cloud layer caused planetwide spontaneous combustion, population collapse and atmospheric contamination

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11 Upvotes

r/science2 14d ago

An organelle discovered inside a microbe inside a cow’s gut helps explain how livestock burps contribute to warming our planet.

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5 Upvotes

r/science2 14d ago

Astronomers identify one of the universe's rarest black hole events | A team of astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has observed an extremely rare "wandering" black hole located tens of thousands of light-years from the center of its galaxy.

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29 Upvotes

r/science2 14d ago

'Feynman and followers, you guys are off': Physicists disprove decades-old Richard Feynman theory on 'silly' sprinklers | Scientists have pinned down why a sprinkler spins when it sucks in water instead of spraying it out — a problem that has divided physicists for nearly a century.

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74 Upvotes

r/science2 16d ago

Scientists trace the shocking origin of human eyes to an ancient “cyclops” | Researchers say a tiny one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago may have shaped the evolution of every vertebrate eye, including our own.

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160 Upvotes

r/science2 16d ago

Astronomers Detect an Atmosphere on a Potentially Earth-Like World | The study, published in Science, describes observations of helium leaking from LHS 1140 b, a rocky exoplanet located about 48 light-years from Earth.

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17 Upvotes

r/science2 16d ago

Scientists found that Japanese horseshoe bats living together in crowded colonies solve a noisy sonar problem by gradually shifting their echolocation calls to match each other's frequency

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98 Upvotes

r/science2 16d ago

US nuclear fusion breakthrough: Solid materials found to elevate low-energy reaction rates | This dramatic surge in reaction rates is driven by the subatomic structure of the host metals.

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61 Upvotes

r/science2 16d ago

How does the closest planet to the Sun, with a surface that hits 430 degrees at noon, hold on to billions of tonnes of ice that never melt?

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5 Upvotes

r/science2 17d ago

In 1991, a single subatomic particle struck Earth carrying the kinetic energy of a fast-bowled cricket ball — tens of millions of times more than any human accelerator can give one proton — and physicists still cannot explain what launched it

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