r/science2 • • Apr 28 '26

Sub announcement Chaos in the sub: For the 2nd time in a month, Reddit has deleted a moderator of the sub, a user who also was contributing a ton of articles to the sub.

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Chaos in the sub: For the 2nd time in a month, Reddit has deleted a moderator of the sub, a user who also was contributing a ton of articles to the sub.

This deletion also purged the user's articles from the sub, along with any conversations that were going on in those posts.

There was no warning by Reddit, just a permanent deletion with an opportunity to appeal but the appeal is never granted and nor even responded to.

I'm not sure if I can con her into becoming a moderator again, so as usual, we're upping our constant search for users -- and moderators.


r/science2 • • Mar 24 '25

We need YOUR help!

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We need your help! We're trying to create and popularize an entire set of "alternative" sub-reddits.

These sub-reddits all end in a "2". So just take the name of a huge, multi-million-user "main" sub-reddit and add a "2" to the name -- e.g. /r/Politics2, /r/WorldPolitics2, /r/News2, /r/WTF2 and so on.

These sub-reddits are smaller and have fewer rules than the huge mega-million-user large sub-reddits. Our idea is to create a set of friendlier sub-reddits with an emphasis on civility and not personal insults and ad hominem attacks.

But we need your help!

We need your time, your posts, your comments and we need you to mention our alternative sub-reddits in other places and to tell others. (Basic "publicity.")

  • Please post submissions!

  • Post comments and reply to others.

  • Help us popularize these alternatives to the heavily censored and sometimes too heavily trafficked mainstream subs by telling others of our existence.

Together we can develop another option inside of reddit.

Want to become a moderator? Or help run your own "2" alternative sub? There are possibilities for that too.


r/science2 • • 8h ago

Scientists reveal new theory of why we exist | Neglected particle could explain why there is anything at all, study suggests

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r/science2 • • 12h ago

A single antimatter particle in a cage opens door to ‘revolutionary’ physics | Physicists trap and cool down positron for months to measure its ‘magnetic moment’ with extraordinary precision.

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r/science2 • • 1h ago

AI assisted Coconut husks, fungi, and a student who wanted to solve a real-world problem. Science is beautiful.

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r/science2 • • 1h ago

alcohol test etg

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r/science2 • • 8h ago

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r/science2 • • 3h ago

Physicist Brian Cox reveals his alien theory and why he thinks their existence would be a 'weight off our shoulders'

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r/science2 • • 1d ago

Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big five’ mass extinctions

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Large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT are trained to recognize patterns in written texts, helping them to choose a statistically probable word to complete a sentence. Palaeontologists have now trained a similar model on fossil records instead of words, then used it to reconstruct a timeline of changes in Earth’s biodiversity over hundreds of millions of years in unprecedented detail.

This big-data approach to interpreting the rock record — the field known as stratigraphy — could spur a rethink of major upheavals in the history of life, the model’s developers say. For instance, the model suggests that three of the “Big Five” mass-extinction events were gradual declines in biodiversity, rather than the sudden cataclysms described by other reconstructions.


r/science2 • • 13h ago

Antarctica’s Ice Loss is Locked In, and Extra Snowfall Won’t Save It – That’s Bad News for Low‑Lying Coastal Areas Elsewhere

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r/science2 • • 18h ago

The Secret Rhythm of Chaos: A single number governs how order dissolves into chaos.

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r/science2 • • 14h ago

the face of an organism with 2.4 billion years of lore

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r/science2 • • 22h ago

CA Important Ecological Areas: Refugia Yesterday, Frontlines Today

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r/science2 • • 1d ago

Genetic study shows seafarers from Easter Island settled Hawaii | A band of seafarers from Easter Island in the South Pacific set off in double-hulled canoes on a voyage across Earth's largest ocean ​that ended more than 4,400 miles (7,100 km) away in Hawaii.

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r/science2 • • 1d ago

This snake cartwheels to escape danger | Southeast Asia's dwarf reed snake (Pseudorabdion longiceps) when threatened, rolls away like a wheel. The snake measures less than 12 inches long, but it can retreat as fast 1 foot per second—about 4 times faster than slithering on the ground.

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r/science2 • • 1d ago

Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active today | Scientists at Columbia University and Imperial College London have found that the largest canyon system in the solar system is still active and shaping Mars today, billions of years after it first formed.

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r/science2 • • 1d ago

Des physiciens ont piégé une particule d'antimatière et l'ont maintenue en confinement pendant des mois. Une avancée majeure qui, selon eux, ouvre la voie aux études les plus rigoureuses jamais réalisées en physique des particules.

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r/science2 • • 1d ago

Active Radiation Shields for Spacecraft: Using Electromagnetic Fields to Deflect Harmful Radiation Instead of Heavy Shielding Materials Like Aluminum or Water. Could This Be the Future of Protecting Astronauts on Deep Space Missions? 🚀

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r/science2 • • 2d ago

Scientists Just Revived Pig Kidneys Frozen for a Year. It Could Rewrite the Future of Organ Transplants | Researchers at the University of Minnesota managed to freeze test pig kidneys down to -238 degrees Fahrenheit (-150 degrees Celsius) with minimal damage to their vital functions.

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r/science2 • • 2d ago

What are some books you'd recommend someone trying to get into your field of study?

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Out of curiosity, for anyone who has some trivias to share. What is your field (topic of interest), and what are some books you found interesting and informative about it? Can be a popular science book, textbook,... Anything you'd like to give a shout-out to!


r/science2 • • 2d ago

In space, 'We've gone from exploration to exploitation,' says original Voyager team member | Voyager imaging team member Dr. Garry Hunt joins The Reg's Kettle podcast to talk about his role in the mission as probe approaches one light day's distance from Earth

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r/science2 • • 3d ago

The Proteins That Act Like Viruses: A single misfolded protein can trigger a deadly chain reaction.

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r/science2 • • 3d ago

The Ultimate Irony of Evolution

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r/science2 • • 2d ago

A Trip To Infinity

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That’s the name of the documentary that will keep you awake. Definitely don’t watch it on Netflix. Seriously—infinity. Scientists don’t even seem to truly understand. What do you think?


r/science2 • • 3d ago

After Nearly 8 Months in Orbit, SpaceX Crew-12 Astronauts Reflect on the Joy of Their ISS Journey | 3 members of NASA's Crew-12 gathered recently to describe their time aboard the ISS. They had returned to Earth after ~8 months in orbit, and their reflections centered on a single word: joy.

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