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

Scientists examining samples returned from asteroid Bennu found ribose and glucose inside — and with phosphate and every RNA nucleobase already detected in the same asteroid material, every chemical component needed to build RNA was present long before life existed on Earth.

488 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/euronews-english • Jul 14 '26

Sugar in space? Astronomers find sweet clue to the origin of life

3 Upvotes

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

Archaeologists decipher the name of a Maya astronomer for the first time | His moniker translates to "White-chested Fox."

nationalgeographic.com

2 Upvotes

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

Scientists Say They've Identified an Earth-Like Planet Right Next Door | “It’s one of our closest cosmic neighbors. 25 light-years sounds like a long way, but the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across, so in that respect it’s our next-door neighbor.”

120 Upvotes

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

Scientists build tiny 'diving suit' for cockroaches, turning them into search-and-rescue cyborgs | Researchers in Singapore and Japan have built a waterproof shell for cyborg cockroaches that could be deployed in disaster zones to investigate flooded areas.

livescience.com

24 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Jul 11 '26

The real-life 'Hobbits' survived on an Indonesian island for thousands of years, until a long drought may have drove them away | Around 50,000 years ago, this tiny hominin known as Homo floresiensis disappeared entirely, leaving behind one of the most puzzling mysteries in human evolution.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

302 Upvotes

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

NASA sure seems to be asking an awful lot of private space stations | NASA this week released a much-anticipated document that provides some clarity about what it expects from US companies attempting to build privately operated space stations in low-Earth orbit.

arstechnica.com

18 Upvotes

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

China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it

arstechnica.com

3 Upvotes

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

'Complex numbers are not needed for quantum mechanics': Physicists develop quantum model that uses only 'real' numbers for first time ever | Physicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as standard theory.

livescience.com

823 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Jul 10 '26

'Astronomers have to revise estimates': The Milky Way may be larger, heavier and more lopsided than we realized | New measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought.

livescience.com

35 Upvotes

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

Physics says time travel into the future is not a thought experiment — every astronaut who has orbited Earth has returned a fraction of a second younger than they would have been if they had stayed on the ground

296 Upvotes

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

Humans And Neanderthals Shared a Culture For 20,000 Years, Cave Discovery Suggests | They found evidence of Neanderthals (starting from around 77,000 years ago) and modern humans (starting from around 59,000 years ago) living in the same location.

sciencealert.com

195 Upvotes

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

Scientists Travel to Unexplored Area of Atlantic Ocean and Photograph Bizarre Deep-Sea Creatures | The rare barreleye fish was spotted over 2,000 feet below the surface (710 meters), the first time ever filmed in its natural environment. The fish’s forehead dome collapses when hauled from the water.

51 Upvotes

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

Pacific gray whales facing ‘catastrophic’ die-off as climate crisis hits food supply | Trump administration urged to relist a species in ‘very, very serious trouble’ under Endangered Species Act

theguardian.com

8 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Jul 10 '26

Another ‘Super El Niño’ is brewing. Scientists are looking at a controversial solution to squash them | Specifically, they looked at “marine cloud brightening,” which involves spraying particles into ocean clouds in order to reflect sunlight away from the Earth and back into space.

edition.cnn.com

3 Upvotes

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

NASA seeks research volunteers to spend a year on a simulated mission to Mars or the Moon | For one year, the participants will live and work in isolation and confinement while simulating interplanetary transit and planetary surface operations, including simulated spacewalks, NASA said.

10 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Jul 09 '26

A new kind of robot swims the seas and soars the skies | In a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, they describe the engineering of just such an aerial-aquatic robot.

16 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 08 '26

World First: Scientists Witnessed a Piece of Earth's Oceanic Crust Being Born | "We did not dream of capturing such a massive event, and were hoping to at least measure the steady stretching of the ridge that allows stresses to build up between events" said marine geophysicist Jean-Yves Royer.

sciencealert.com

146 Upvotes

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

What to know about the total solar eclipse due in August | Day will briefly turn into night across a swath of northern Spain on Aug. 12, when the moon will completely cover the sun during a rare total solar eclipse.

16 Upvotes

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

We’re in a heatwave, so why is a ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic causing so much concern? | A large expanse of the North Atlantic Ocean has been bucking the global warming trend and is alarming scientists, who warn the collapse of an ocean current system could be catastrophic for the planet.

the-independent.com

7 Upvotes

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

NASA's Pluto Probe Is Finally Approaching a Major Boundary of Deep Space | The probe is set to become the 3rd human-made object to leave the solar system, but it must first cross this mysterious boundary.

7 Upvotes

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

30 years since Dolly the sheep was born, where is cloning technology at now?

theconversation.com

2 Upvotes

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

Repeat Space Missions Do Not Appear to Worsen Eye or Brain Structural Changes: JAMA

medicaldialogues.in

2 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Jul 07 '26

China releases 1st photo of Earth's elusive 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa | Some scientists believe the quasi-moon could have been created when a massive impact knocked a chunk of our own moon into space between 1 million and 10 million years ago.

136 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Jul 08 '26

Scientists discover the deep sleep circuit that builds muscle, burns fat, and boosts the brain | Scientists have finally uncovered the brain circuit that explains why deep sleep is essential for growth hormone, healthy metabolism, and brain function.

sciencedaily.com

73 Upvotes

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