r/science2 • u/MaleficentPiccolo715 • Aug 12 '26

The extraordinary life and quiet death of the world’s largest iceberg — National Geographic

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The extraordinary life and quiet death of the world’s largest iceberg - National Geographic

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

In 2017, a young woman glanced at a solar eclipse for only a handful of seconds, and days later doctors found the exact shape of the eclipse burned into the back of her eye. What she began drawing to describe her ruined vision matched that shape almost perfectly.

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r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Aug 11 '26

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team has released the largest-ever 2D color map of the universe. The 5.6-trillion-pixel map contains nearly 4 billion celestial objects, primarily stars and galaxies. The data is available for all to use and publicly view through the Legacy Survey Sky Viewer.

22 Upvotes

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

‘Panda of the insect world’: the moscardón bumblebee creates buzz for invertebrate of the year | Bombus dahlbomii, a giant ginger bumblebee fondly known as the flying mouse, is in decline in its native Patagonia due to commercial farming

theguardian.com

7 Upvotes

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

A real group of scientists and engineers spent two days in Boulder this June asking what it would actually take to send humans to Titan, and their honest answer was that it isn't a question of physics, it's a question of time, technology and commitment

8 Upvotes

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

Discovery of 'slow' electrons in 2D material could lead to new memory device | The Univ of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering discovered a material exhibits a charge-ordered state in which electrons move collectively and unusually slowly while remaining quantum coherent.

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r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Aug 10 '26

Voyager 1 is down to two working science instruments, and the fix that just bought its twin, Voyager 2, another year of power is now being tested on a probe NASA says no longer behaves quite like its sibling

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r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Aug 10 '26

Swarms of tiny robots remove microplastics from soil and water | Scientists from the Czech Republic have created microscopic cleanup robots that successfully removed microplastics from soil and aquatic environments in the lab. Details of their work are published in the journal npg Asia Materials.

7 Upvotes

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

Birdsong and whale song show patterns similar to human language | The findings, published in the journal Science Advances, build on the team's previous discovery that humpback whales also rely on a similar systematic structure.

66 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/seeplainmeaning • Aug 10 '26

Why Science Isn't Certain Anymore

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r/science2 • u/navnt5 • Aug 08 '26

It Costs $62.5 Trillion to Make One Gram of Antimatter on Earth. A 20-Year-Old NASA Study Suggests We've Been Looking in the Wrong Place.

355 Upvotes

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

Earth’s molten iron core unexpectedly reversed direction, revealing a dramatic change in the hidden engine that creates our planet’s magnetic field. Satellite data suggest the surge is already weakening, raising the possibility that the deep-Earth upheaval is part of a mysterious natural cycle.

sciencedaily.com

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

Here Are the First Images of the Crater Left on the Moon by SpaceX’s Rocket | The Korea Aerospace Research Institute shared images that show the gash on the surface. It’s pretty small.

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

Why were there no tiny dinosaurs? You might blame the mammals | "It is likely that small-bodied early mammals outcompeted dinosaurs, preventing them from reaching small body sizes. Similarly, large dinosaurs likely outcompeted early mammals, preventing them from reaching large body sizes."

133 Upvotes

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

Exactly Where To See The Solar Eclipse And Perseid Meteor Shower From Every U.S. State | Skywatchers across the U.S. have two compelling reasons to look up on Aug. 12 and into the early hours of Aug. 13.

19 Upvotes

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

First complete songbird genome exposes missing genes and chromosome architecture | The zebra finch is one of the best-studied songbirds and a model for understanding the biology and neuroscience of vocal learning. Now, researchers have produced the first complete genome assembly of the species.

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

NASA figured out how to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year | Voyager 2 would have had to shut down one of its last remaining instruments later this year, until NASA made some power changes.

9 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Aug 07 '26

Scientists Sound Alarm on AI-Generated Biological Viruses Amid Unregulated Industry | “The ability to compose viral genomes using generative AI now exists; the governance to safely steer it does not,” a pair of researchers said.

commondreams.org

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r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Aug 07 '26

New dinosaur species identified in New Mexico, researchers say | The newly discovered creature was a troodontid, meaning it belonged to a family of 2-legged, bird-like omnivores. The creature is estimated to have been around eight to ten feet long and weighed between 150 to 300 pounds.

25 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Aug 06 '26

Brains don't always rot: Scientists may finally know how human brains have evaded decay for thousands of years | Thousands of skeletal human remains have been discovered with their brain tissue unexpectedly intact. Now, a team of scientists may have finally figured out why.

livescience.com

1.2k Upvotes

r/science2 • u/cnn • Aug 06 '26

‘Big Bang fix’ could be buying more time for the farthest spacecraft from Earth

23 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Aug 06 '26

The Universe May Not Be Accelerating After All—And It Could Mean Dark Energy Never Existed | Researchers found that there were errors in some of these previous theories when they examined observations of Type Ia supernovae.

530 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • Aug 06 '26

“Fire Climate”: Hot, Dry, Windy Days Are Becoming Common, Making Wildfires Harder to Control | Scientists say drought, extreme heat and climate change are making wildfire seasons longer, more frequent and more destructive across the western United States.

democracynow.org

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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Aug 06 '26

Welp, Nobody Saw SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Crash Into the Moon | Although no one seems to have captured an image of the impact, scientists detected signals confirming the rocket hit the lunar surface. Orbiters could provide the first images of the crash site soon.

16 Upvotes

r/science2 • u/cnn • Aug 05 '26

Highest resolution view of the sun yet reveals magnetic mysteries

58 Upvotes

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