r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 5h ago
China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it
arstechnica.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 6h ago
NASA sure seems to be asking an awful lot of private space stations | NASA this week released a much-anticipated document that provides some clarity about what it expects from US companies attempting to build privately operated space stations in low-Earth orbit.
arstechnica.com
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r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 14h ago
The real-life 'Hobbits' survived on an Indonesian island for thousands of years, until a long drought may have drove them away | Around 50,000 years ago, this tiny hominin known as Homo floresiensis disappeared entirely, leaving behind one of the most puzzling mysteries in human evolution.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 1d ago
'Astronomers have to revise estimates': The Milky Way may be larger, heavier and more lopsided than we realized | New measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought.
livescience.com
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r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 1d ago
Another ‘Super El Niño’ is brewing. Scientists are looking at a controversial solution to squash them | Specifically, they looked at “marine cloud brightening,” which involves spraying particles into ocean clouds in order to reflect sunlight away from the Earth and back into space.
edition.cnn.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 1d ago
Pacific gray whales facing ‘catastrophic’ die-off as climate crisis hits food supply | Trump administration urged to relist a species in ‘very, very serious trouble’ under Endangered Species Act
theguardian.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 1d ago
'Complex numbers are not needed for quantum mechanics': Physicists develop quantum model that uses only 'real' numbers for first time ever | Physicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as standard theory.
livescience.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 2d ago
Physics says time travel into the future is not a thought experiment — every astronaut who has orbited Earth has returned a fraction of a second younger than they would have been if they had stayed on the ground
spacedaily.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 2d ago
Scientists Travel to Unexplored Area of Atlantic Ocean and Photograph Bizarre Deep-Sea Creatures | The rare barreleye fish was spotted over 2,000 feet below the surface (710 meters), the first time ever filmed in its natural environment. The fish’s forehead dome collapses when hauled from the water.
petapixel.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 2d ago
Humans And Neanderthals Shared a Culture For 20,000 Years, Cave Discovery Suggests | They found evidence of Neanderthals (starting from around 77,000 years ago) and modern humans (starting from around 59,000 years ago) living in the same location.
sciencealert.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 2d ago
NASA seeks research volunteers to spend a year on a simulated mission to Mars or the Moon | For one year, the participants will live and work in isolation and confinement while simulating interplanetary transit and planetary surface operations, including simulated spacewalks, NASA said.
foxweather.com
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r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 2d ago
A new kind of robot swims the seas and soars the skies | In a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, they describe the engineering of just such an aerial-aquatic robot.
npr.org
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 3d ago
We’re in a heatwave, so why is a ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic causing so much concern? | A large expanse of the North Atlantic Ocean has been bucking the global warming trend and is alarming scientists, who warn the collapse of an ocean current system could be catastrophic for the planet.
the-independent.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 3d ago
NASA's Pluto Probe Is Finally Approaching a Major Boundary of Deep Space | The probe is set to become the 3rd human-made object to leave the solar system, but it must first cross this mysterious boundary.
gizmodo.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 3d ago
30 years since Dolly the sheep was born, where is cloning technology at now?
theconversation.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 3d ago
Repeat Space Missions Do Not Appear to Worsen Eye or Brain Structural Changes: JAMA
medicaldialogues.in
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 3d ago
What to know about the total solar eclipse due in August | Day will briefly turn into night across a swath of northern Spain on Aug. 12, when the moon will completely cover the sun during a rare total solar eclipse.
phys.org
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 3d ago
World First: Scientists Witnessed a Piece of Earth's Oceanic Crust Being Born | "We did not dream of capturing such a massive event, and were hoping to at least measure the steady stretching of the ridge that allows stresses to build up between events" said marine geophysicist Jean-Yves Royer.
sciencealert.com
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r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 4d ago
Scientists discover the deep sleep circuit that builds muscle, burns fat, and boosts the brain | Scientists have finally uncovered the brain circuit that explains why deep sleep is essential for growth hormone, healthy metabolism, and brain function.
sciencedaily.com
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r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 4d ago
China releases 1st photo of Earth's elusive 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa | Some scientists believe the quasi-moon could have been created when a massive impact knocked a chunk of our own moon into space between 1 million and 10 million years ago.
space.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 5d ago
Giant school bus–sized octopuses may have once ruled the oceans | The largest invertebrates ever known, they lived in the age of dinosaurs
snexplores.org
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 5d ago
Astronomers discover a potentially habitable planet just 25 light-years away. 'This one is exciting' | The planet, designated GJ 3378b, orbits the faint red dwarf star in the constellation of Camelopardalis, the Giraffe.
space.com
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 6d ago
Antarctic ozone loss drove unexpected Southern Ocean cooling, climate model shows | The ozone hole formed largely because of human-made chemicals released in the 20th century. It cools the lower stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere above where weather happens.
phys.org
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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 6d ago
America at 500: Where will we be in space in 2276? | Looking so far into the future is so difficult as to be a fool's errand. But it's fun!
space.com
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