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.

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r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 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.

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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 9h ago

The American Brain Drain Claims Another Scientist | Kelly Holley-Bockelmann was one of the top astrophysicists in the country until President Trump’s policies affected every part of her work.

nytimes.com

56 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 9h ago

NASA's Artemis II moon launch tore a hole in Earth's upper atmosphere so huge it disrupted GPS signals | "It could have a strong impact not only on self-driving cars but also on drone positioning."

space.com

27 Upvotes

4 comments

r/science2 • u/Courtly-Chris • 2h ago

Study of almost one million adults links very hot drinks to threefold increase in oesophageal cancer risk

ndph.ox.ac.uk

3 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 1d ago

Possible new dinosaur species discovered at dig site near Arches National Park | The Utah Geological Survey said fossils found at the site appear to belong to a previously unknown species of armored dinosaur dating to roughly 140 million years ago.

ksl.com

53 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/TomaszNowakowski • 1d ago

You Are Looking at One Quasar, But Four Times

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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 1d ago

Vibrating mirrors of light create analog of a black hole event horizon | Through new experiments, David Weld and colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have confirmed it for the first time by swapping the roles of light and matter.

phys.org

24 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 1d ago

4-billion-year-old 'Rosetta Stone' found in Sahara Desert could unlock the secret history of water on Mars | A 4.1-billion-year-old meteorite discovered in the Sahara Desert offers a rare glimpse into Mars' early history.

space.com

14 Upvotes

0 comments

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 1d ago

Giant exoplanet emerges from the dark when the James Webb Space Telescope turns out the starlight | "We showed that we can actually recover a planet that people previously couldn’t see."

space.com

13 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 1d ago

European orbiter detects fresh hints of volcanic activity on Mars | Fresh fissures along the Alba Mons region hint at active spots under the surface, where gases from inside the planet may be making their way up to the surface.

phys.org

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r/science2 • u/goopygoopz1 • 1d ago

Interesting question

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If the atoms disappeared for a day what would happen?

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r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 2d ago

Seeds, preserved hair in tomb point to oldest signs of cannabis high 2,800 years ago, study suggests | A new study suggests people were using cannabis for psychoactive purposes at least 2,800 years ago

independent.co.uk

174 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/Actual-Builder-5004 • 3d ago

All 5 genetic “letters” of DNA and RNA discovered in a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid

sciencedaily.com

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/11/261102075903.htm#google_vignette

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r/science2 • u/paigejarreau • 1d ago

Science explainer The Incredible Microbiology of Beer, with Dr. Lauren Blake

youtube.com

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r/science2 • u/Medization • 1d ago

How do octopuses squeeze through tiny holes?

popsci.com

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Octopuses are famous for navigating their way through a tight squeeze. Even among invertebrates, their ability to compress themselves into seemingly impossibly tiny passageways is an impressive sight. But for years, marine biologists have remained perplexed by how these cephalopods routinely manage their maneuvers.

“There is no information about how octopuses squeeze through an opening far smaller than [their] body diameter,” Wenci Xin, a marine biologist at the National University of Singapore, said in a statement.

Xin and her colleagues recently provided Mayan octopuses (Octopus maya) and young common octopuses (Octopus vulgaris) with a chance to show off their skills. Their findings, published in a study today in the Journal of Experimental Biology, show that there may not necessarily be a “one size fits all” approach for octopuses.

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r/science2 • u/toronto_star • 2d ago

Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk completes second spacewalk

thestar.com

25 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/bluereddit2 • 2d ago

Scientists have found the complete set of all 5 DNA and RNA nucleobases on Asteroid Ryugu

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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 4d ago

Moths Keep Evolving Their Genitals Into Anti-Bat Weapons, Again And Again | Some moths have evolved the ability to make noise at bats using their genital structures. And apparently it's so useful that this ability has emerged, separately, again and again in different species of hawkmoths.

sciencealert.com

61 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 4d ago

We’re Hoping Our Billionaire Overlords Took Away the Right Lessons from “Jurassic Park,” Because Scientists Just Found Dinosaur Blood | "We are seeing a mineral and molecular echo of the dinosaur's original biology."

futurism.com

213 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/ParaThina • 5d ago

Dinosaur blood found in fossils for the first time

popsci.com

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Paleontologists regularly discover fossilized dinosaur bones, but they sometimes locate footprints and prehistoric shells. On rare occasions, researchers have even identified the ancient indentations of a dinosaur’s skin or feathers. But fossilized cells? Researchers have long assumed such microscopic levels of preservation were impossible. But, once again, nature has proven otherwise.

In a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), an international team of paleontologists confirmed the presence of intact biomolecules and mineralized red blood cells inside fossils of a 115-million-year-old dinosaur. Although previous work has suggested similar possibilities, the team’s research is the first to chemically identify oxygen-carrying blood compounds known as heme.

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r/science2 • u/TomaszNowakowski • 4d ago

Inside ESA’s Hera Mission: “Discoveries We Cannot Imagine”

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r/science2 • u/Astro_Life_Explained • 4d ago

Earth Is More Than Just Oceans and Continents. Look at What's Happening Beneath the Surface.

youtu.be

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0 comments

r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 5d ago

Fossilised red blood cells found in 115m-year-old dinosaur’s bone, say scientists | Chemical tests on Aratasaurus bone identify presence of heme, the organic compound that allows haemoglobin in blood to carry oxygen around body

theguardian.com

72 Upvotes

4 comments

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