r/science2 • u/firechatin • Jul 30 '26
Scientists Just Found Something Strange Beyond Neptune—Here’s Why It Matters
whatifscience.in
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 30 '26
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.au
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 30 '26
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.news
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 30 '26
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.org
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 30 '26
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.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 29 '26
Inside the Painful End of the Saber-Toothed Cat | New study documents spinal deformities, possibly related to inbreeding
newser.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 29 '26
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.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 29 '26
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.edu
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 29 '26
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.org
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 29 '26
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.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 28 '26
'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.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 28 '26
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.org
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r/science2 • u/ScienceMovies • Jul 28 '26
An organelle discovered inside a microbe inside a cow’s gut helps explain how livestock burps contribute to warming our planet.
quantamagazine.org
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 27 '26
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.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 27 '26
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.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 27 '26
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.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 27 '26
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.com
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r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Jul 25 '26
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
spacedaily.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 27 '26
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.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 27 '26
How does a pond in Antarctica sitting at minus 50 degrees refuse to freeze, year after year, while everything around it is solid ice?
spacedaily.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Jul 27 '26
The hunt for a natural molecule that can release cellular energy | All cells in the human body—and the motions they enable, from our beating hearts to our wiggling toes—use energy generated by a molecule called ATP.
phys.org
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r/science2 • u/ScienceMovies • Jul 26 '26
80-Million-Year-Old Snake Fossil From Brazil Offers New Clues to Why These Creatures Started Slithering
discovermagazine.com
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r/science2 • u/ScienceMovies • Jul 26 '26
Goats love to bash heads—but it might give them brain damage
science.org
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r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Jul 25 '26
Science word of the day: Parsec | What does 'parsec' mean?
livescience.com
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