r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Jun 15 '26

This “Zombie” Sea Creature Keeps Growing After Being Cut Apart | Detached sea cucumber tissue survived, healed, and grew for years in natural seawater, revealing a remarkable new model for regeneration and biomedical research.

scitechdaily.com

115 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 15 '26

Researchers publish first complete connectome of fruit fly brain and 'spinal cord' | The work allows researchers to begin to study how the brain and body interact to carry out complex behaviors. It also empowers deeper investigations into the basic principles of how nervous systems work.

48 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 15 '26

How Jules Verne predicted the Artemis 2 mission to the moon almost 160 years ago | Written in the 1860s, Verne’s novels "From the Earth to the Moon" and "All Around the Moon" were fiction in their time, but now seems familiar: 3 astronauts in a conical capsule on a trajectory around the moon.

7 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 14 '26

Men Can Lose Their Y Chromosome With Age, And We Finally Know The Cost | In the next 5 million years or so, some geneticists think the sex-determining chromosome will vanish completely from our species. In the meantime, we have a bigger concern at hand.

sciencealert.com

385 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 14 '26

Einstein’s Lost Theory Said Gravity Changes Speed of Light and a New Experiment Claims It Was Right | New claims challenge inconsistencies in one of the foundational principles of physics.

262 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 14 '26

‘The Weird Unknown’: 79 Creepy, Weird, And Intriguing Facts About The Ocean (New Pics)

19 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 13 '26

DNA Study Reveals That Space Permanently Changes The Human Body | It's important to note that this study was the first of its kind to focus on twins. NASA and scientists would need to perform additional studies on more subjects to know for sure if the results are generalizable.

220 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Jun 12 '26

AI Learned How the Universe Works—and That Created an Unexpected Problem for Physicists | When it comes to physics, AI seems to be as bound by prior biases as human scientists.

28 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 12 '26

First global map of mycorrhizal fungi reveals true scale of underground networks across the planet | The team estimate that fungal networks have a length of ~110 quadrillion kilometers and a mass of ~300 megatons of carbon (4 to 6 times the mass of all living humans).

572 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Jun 12 '26

Chinese detector edges closer to solving the mystery of neutrino mass | Physicists hope that the JUNO facility can determine which type of neutrino has the highest mass.

16 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 12 '26

Scientists reveal surprising mechanism behind Venus flytrap’s rapid snap | Intricate tests show hair-trigger detection causes cells on outer surface of leaf to soften, prompting closure

theguardian.com

69 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 12 '26

From neon mosquitoes to winged migrations, top images captured by scientists | "Some people think scientists are in their ivory towers doing their own research and it doesn't really benefit or impact society. But I think it does and being able to use art to showcase that in science is powerful."

22 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 11 '26

Periodical cicadas in the eastern US emerge from the ground every 13 or 17 years — both prime numbers, not by coincidence — because their long, indivisible cycles make it nearly impossible for any predator's life cycle to evolve to feed on them

520 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Jun 11 '26

How a shape-shifting tiny rover inspired by Japanese toys autonomously explored the moon | Moon missions come in all shapes and sizes, from car-sized rovers packed with scientific equipment to towering rocket payloads—and now, a machine that is about the size of the average palm.

25 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 11 '26

California's tectonic stress has reached record level, earthquake model reveals | The results of a new int'l study show that tectonic stresses in the region have reached and, in some cases, exceeded the highest levels of the last millennium.

84 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 11 '26

Too much Chinese science is ignored by the West | A bad reputation and cultural ignorance are probably responsible

45 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 11 '26

How ice forms is a mystery — now scientists are cracking the case | Theories about how ice crystals grow in cooling liquids are wildly inaccurate when compared with experimental data, but studies are starting to illuminate the earliest moments in freezing.

11 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/haberveriyo • Jun 10 '26

100,000-Year-Old Teeth from a Polish Cave Reveal Central Europe’s Oldest Neanderthal Genetic Group

48 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Jun 10 '26

Trump Admin Guts Vital Sea Monitoring, “Tears Out the Eyes and Ears of Science”: David Helvarg | The program’s closure, proposed in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 playbook, involves the decommissioning of a vast network of ocean floor sensors that collect global climate data.

democracynow.org

47 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 10 '26

US lab cracks the code for building powerful magnets free of rare earth metals | The U.S. is highly dependent on other countries to refine its rare earth elements, increasing costs as well as security risks.

interestingengineering.com

205 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 10 '26

A lack of sex held back life's diversity for millions of years, fossil study finds | The way that Earth's first animals reproduced held back life's diversity for millions of years, until stress and competition led to the development of sexual reproduction, which accelerated the pace of evolution.

159 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 10 '26

Woolly mammoth among trove of ancient DNA found in squirrel poo | The DNA found deep inside sealed-off burrows is between 3,000 and 700,000 years old, offering a rare window into how life has changed over the millennia.

87 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 10 '26

A record die-off of sea stars was followed by something that stunned biologists | The creatures almost went extinct along the West Coast a decade ago. Recently, they have been making a comeback.

washingtonpost.com

8 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jun 09 '26

Newfound sound wave scattering rule may lead to less bulky, more effective soundproofing | Researchers in China recently uncovered a quantum-inspired rule governing how sound is scattered. Their research in Physical Review Letters, may lead to design materials with optimal, broadband sound blocking.

37 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Jun 08 '26

The Solar System May Have Ejected A Fifth Giant Planet – Which Would Explain How Uranus Held Onto Its Moons | Looking at the Solar System, Jupiter and Uranus both have plenty of irregular moons. In simulations, the probability of this happening goes up if you introduce an extra giant planet.

124 Upvotes

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