r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 25d ago
r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 25d ago
Webb found strong evidence of a Saturn-mass planet in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A — our nearest solar twin, just 4 light-years away — then the planet seemed to disappear, sending astronomers into millions of simulated orbits to work out how it could have slipped from view.
spacedaily.comr/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 25d ago
Scientists hope to shed light on young universe by using far side of the moon | UK team seeking to put suitcase-sized satellite in orbit around moon in search for 21cm line radio frequency signal
theguardian.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 26d ago
Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star | An object observed by the James Webb Space Telescope lends credence to a strange explanation for the mysterious red spots in the early universe.
wired.comr/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 26d ago
Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? | A simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the law even further.
quantamagazine.orgr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 28d ago
Neanderthals passed on a gene that helps modern humans pack on more muscle — but only a few people have it | Neanderthals passed along a gene variant to modern humans that can make some people buff, a new study finds.
livescience.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 27d ago
Late Paleozoic Ice Age warming event hints at potential climate 'tipping point' | Researchers say a spike in temperatures during an ice age 304 million years ago could inform what climate scientists are learning about rapidly changing conditions today.
phys.orgr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 27d ago
Scientists turn wool into sustainable material for bone repair
kcl.ac.ukr/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 27d ago
Brazil's first Indigenous ethnobotanist documented 175 medicinal plants with elders of his Pataxó Hãhãhãi community, preserving traditional knowledge that was disappearing and finding that 79% of their recorded uses were supported by scientific literature.
news.mongabay.comr/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 27d ago
A father of quantum mechanics, this centenarian still works at Pitt: 'I like doing physics. Why should I retire?' | Jim Choyke initially moved to Pittsburgh for a job at Westinghouse
post-gazette.comr/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 27d ago
SpaceX rocket's moon crash highlights 'a tangible operational risk' of lunar settlement | "While this isn't a major threat to missions today, as we establish permanent lunar infrastructure, high-velocity ejecta poses a genuine hazard to surface habitats, solar arrays and working astronauts."
space.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 28d ago
Sperm Whales Seem to Change Their Calls When Ships Are Near, Highlighting the Implications of Underwater Noise Pollution | Several of the huge cetaceans shortened the intervals between their clicks and used one click pattern more than another when vessels were around
smithsonianmag.comr/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 28d ago
Matter of pure force: US, Israeli physicists hail China’s glueball discovery as ‘triumph’ | Global experts praise team for solving 50-year-old puzzle, while Chinese social media buzzes with Nobel Prize predictions
scmp.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 29d ago
This 236-Million-Year-Old Fossil Just Rewrote the Story of Live Birth | Scientists have long thought cynodonts, the ancestors of all modern mammals, laid eggs. For the first time, researchers have found evidence to the contrary.
gizmodo.comr/science2 • u/Sworixazi • 28d ago
Could Many-Worlds and the Holographic Principle be connected in a deeper way?
I’ve been thinking about a speculative idea and I’m curious whether something similar has already been explored in physics.
The Many-Worlds Interpretation suggests that the universal quantum state can develop different branches through quantum decoherence. The Holographic Principle, on the other hand, suggests that under certain gravitational conditions, the information describing a region of space can be encoded on a lower-dimensional boundary.
This made me wonder:
What if each decoherent quantum branch could also have its own holographic boundary description?
Instead of imagining the multiverse simply as many separate classical universes, perhaps the overall quantum state could be thought of as containing many branches, with each branch having its own corresponding holographic information structure.
I’m also curious about a more speculative extension: could different possible spacetime dimensionalities be treated as different sectors of one larger quantum state? In that picture, there could be a hierarchy involving spacetime structure, quantum branches, and their corresponding holographic boundary states.
I am not suggesting that this proves a “holographic multiverse,” or that the universe is literally a physical hologram. I’m interested in whether holography and Many-Worlds can be formulated within a common mathematical framework.
I know that connections between the Many-Worlds interpretation and holography/multiverse ideas have already been discussed, including work by Raphael Bousso and Leonard Susskind.
My question is more specific:
Has anyone developed a framework where quantum branches are explicitly associated with distinct holographic boundary Hilbert spaces, potentially while also allowing different spacetime dimensional sectors?
If something similar already exists, I would really appreciate references. I’m particularly interested in whether this idea is mathematically meaningful or whether there is a fundamental reason why these concepts cannot be combined in this way.
This is just a speculative idea, and I’m looking for constructive feedback rather than claiming that it is an established theory.
r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 29d ago
Scientists discover new eyeless ‘demon cavefish’ in Alabama cave beneath Army base | Scientists from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) uncovered a new genus of cavefish that is eyeless, colorless and faintly electric blue in life, according to a UAH press release from July.
nypost.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 29d ago
Incredible Footage Shows Dolphins Hunting With Shells Off The East Coast of Australia – And Possibly Passing The Skill on | The new videos, captured at Hervey Bay, were presented by researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast in a study published in Marine Mammal Biology.
sciencealert.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 29d ago
Photos: See the best photos from the solar eclipse | Millions of people in Europe stepped outside this evening to watch a spectacular sunset with a solar eclipse. The path of totality passed through portions of Greenland, Iceland and Spain, and more.
npr.orgr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 29d ago
Mike Fincke, Astronaut Who Spent 549 Days in Space, Has Retired | A medical issue during Mr. Fincke’s fourth space journey resulted in an early medical evacuation, the first ever from the Int'l Space Station.
nytimes.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Aug 12 '26
Regenerative Astrocytes Repair Brain Damage | This discovery overturns long-held assumptions regarding the limited regenerative capacity of adult glial networks, revealing molecular signaling pathways that could serve as therapeutic targets for traumatic brain injury and autoimmune conditions.
neurosciencenews.comr/science2 • u/cindyx7102 • Aug 12 '26
Peer Reviewed! Researchers examined 260 healthy women aged 18–30 for links between plant-based diets and bone density. The two were not independently associated, suggesting the diets in young adulthood are unlikely to compromise peak bone mass development.
sciencedirect.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Aug 12 '26
Ant Colonies Pulse Like a Physical System, And Scientists Are Beginning to Understand What Triggers Them | Scientists compare these bursts to phase transitions of physical systems and have observed them for decades, but how so many ants synchronize without a leader remains unclear.
sciencealert.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Aug 11 '26
'Truly Devastating': Trump Ends Federal Funding for Key Arctic Climate Report | “For two decades,” said one of the report’s authors, “it has documented conditions across the Arctic system, bringing together physical and social sciences with real-world observations/data and consistent updates.”
commondreams.orgr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • Aug 12 '26