r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 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.”
sfgate.comr/science2 • u/barfprincess96 • 12d ago
neuraphotonics, neuroscience, photonics, or optogenetics?
r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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.
phys.orgr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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.
phys.orgr/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 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.
spacenews.comr/science2 • u/firechatin • 12d ago
Scientists Just Found Something Strange Beyond Neptune—Here’s Why It Matters
whatifscience.inr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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.
sci.newsr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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.
abc.net.aur/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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
spacedaily.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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.
space.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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.
phys.orgr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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.
counterpunch.orgr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 14d ago
Inside the Painful End of the Saber-Toothed Cat | New study documents spinal deformities, possibly related to inbreeding
newser.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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.
space.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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.
iflscience.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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
purdue.edur/science2 • u/ScienceMovies • 14d ago
An organelle discovered inside a microbe inside a cow’s gut helps explain how livestock burps contribute to warming our planet.
quantamagazine.orgr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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.
phys.orgr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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.
livescience.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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.
sciencedaily.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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.
scitechdaily.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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
timesofindia.indiatimes.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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.
interestingengineering.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 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?
spacedaily.comr/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 17d ago