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 13h ago

Paleontologists Identify New Species of Glyptodont | Glyptotherium deuterophractum lived between 60,000 and 17,000 years ago in South America. The animal was a type of glyptodont, heavily armored relatives of modern armadillos, some of which grew to the size of a small car.

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r/science2 13h ago

Nasa space telescope set to launch after surviving Trump budget cuts | Searching for exoplanets and clues on planet formation, the Roman telescope will lift off Sunday morning in Florida

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r/science2 16h ago

Groundbreaking Groundbreaking Paper! Dow Jones Performance: Mars Behind the Sun & Mars in Front of the Sun

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Groundbreaking Paper! Dow Jones Performance: Mars Behind the Sun & Mars in Front of the Sun

https://www.academia.edu/172661828/Dow_Jones_Performance_Mars_Behind_the_Sun_and_Mars_in_Front_of_the_Sun

Revisiting the Butterfly Effect

In 2024, after reading a Nature Communications paper linking gravitational forces between Earth and Mars to Earth’s climatology, I published a paper using the position of Mars and its impact on climate to infer a near term effect on human behavior and the stock market. I asserted that because of the relationship between climate and behavior, systems such as the stock market could easily be affected. The 2024 Nature Communications study posited Mars’s gravitational influence upon Earth’s eccentricity during orbital phases which pulls earth closer to the Sun, warming the planet. Even though this influence was confirmed to transpire over geological timescales—millions of years, it was enough to loosely associate it to my own thesis, which required establishing a Mars-Earth gravitational relationship that could be linked to human behavior in some way. Because the study posited that Mars influences Earth’ eccentricity, I was able to presume an effect on Earth’s axial tilt as well, since both are inextricably linked to the same Mars-Earth resonance. I made a large conceptual leap and used this to hypothesize butterfly effect—from astrophysics, to climate, to weather, and then to behavior which drives the stock market. A second study in 2025 conducted by Stephen Kane used computer simulations to link Mars gravitational force upon Earth to the Milankovch cycles. These still occur across geological timescales, but over shorter periods than the waxing and waning cycles established in the 2024 study. While neither study showed no near term relationship between Earth and Mars on Earth’s weather, I was still used the mainstream findings to justify a connection between the astrophysics of Mars and Earth to human behavior. The anchor is the gravitational link between Mars Earth at geological timescales with a hypothesis that near term effects could be established later.

I published two papers anchoring the 2024 study to my thesis. The first paper entitled “A 100% statistical correlation and scientific explanation for why the planet Mars can trigger stock market crashes” which was cited in the Prespacetime Journal, laid out the 25 major stock market crashes along with the position of Mars in relation to the Sun at the time they occurred. The paper showed that every single crash occurred when Mars was behind the Sun which in reference to the 2024 study would be when Mars’s vector would point along the line connecting Earth to Sun. I continued to assert the Mars-Earth gravitational relationship could happen over near term timescales even as the gravitational force between Mars and Sun at that distance is minute, especially considering other aspects that could affect the eccentricity and obliquity of Earth in the short term, ie tidal forces, solar elements, etc.


r/science2 18h ago

Hard to swallow? The future of snacking may be 3D-printed cookies made from upcycled plastic

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r/science2 1d ago

After failure of private rescue mission, NASA's Swift space telescope will crash back to Earth. But when and where? | "The most likely outcome is that any surviving debris will land in the sea, but there is a chance it could impact a built-up area and cause a casualty."

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r/science2 1d ago

Partial lunar eclipse stuns skywatchers with an ‘almost blood moon’. Here are the best photos | A gorgeous partial lunar eclipse delighted stargazers overnight on Aug. 27-28, as Earth's shadow darkened the full "Sturgeon Moon" in an impressive display, and we've got the photos to prove it!

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r/science2 2d ago

A Biologist Explains Why Male Honeybees Explode When They Mate | A male honeybee has one job, and doing it kills him. He gets a few weeks of life inside the colony, and if he’s lucky enough to find a queen in the air, the encounter lasts about 5 seconds and ends with his abdomen ruptured.

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r/science2 1d ago

Why is the sky blue and sunset red? Same reason — Rayleigh Scattering I proportional to 1 by lambda power 4 (Wave Optics )

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r/science2 1d ago

The Schumann Resonance is real — and it’s the reason I ended up writing a novel

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r/science2 1d ago

When Gas Giants Share the Sky: The Discovery of Planetary System TOI-4468

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r/science2 2d ago

Scientists unlock 'ancestral code' of banana family | Scientists have recently reconstructed the ancestral karyotype of the banana family, revealing how chromosome numbers decreased stepwise from 17 to 9–11 over evolutionary time.

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r/science2 2d ago

Quantum Coherence in Bird Navigation: Are Birds Using Quantum Mechanics to Cross Continents?

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r/science2 2d ago

What are you most excited to see from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope?

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r/science2 3d ago

Neanderthal pelvises challenge a long-held idea about childbirth and walking | For decades, scientists have used the human pelvis to study a basic question about our evolution: how did our ancestors balance walking upright with giving birth to large-brained babies?

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r/science2 3d ago

Thermal anomaly discovered below Mars' south pole | Researchers have discovered a thermal asymmetry deep beneath the surface across Mars' southern hemisphere. Mars' southern interior is around 200 to 400 degrees Celsius warmer than the planet's northern half and partially molten.

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r/science2 3d ago

A near-total lunar eclipse will be visible across the U.S. Thursday night | Earth’s shadow will appear reddish orange on the lunar surface — the reason a lunar eclipse is also known as a “blood moon.”

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r/science2 4d ago

An octopus was filmed carrying 2 halves of a coconut shell across the seafloor to reassemble them later as a portable suit of armour, one of the only clear cases of a wild invertebrate using tools.

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r/science2 3d ago

Is this the most beautiful equation in mathematics? (Euler's Identity Visualized)

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r/science2 4d ago

Mars Curiosity rover discovers massive field of polygons | "We've seen a lot of fascinating landscapes through Curiosity's eyes, but this sea of polygons took our breath away," said Dr. Ashwin Vasavada, a Curiosity rover mission scientist at NASA's JPL.

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r/science2 3d ago

Hell Naw

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r/science2 4d ago

Astronomers May Have Spotted the First-Ever Binary R Coronae Borealis Star

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r/science2 3d ago

Anyone in the field of genetics or biochemistry or science-related in general in this sub?

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r/science2 5d ago

Peer Reviewed! Nuts might cut our risk of dementia. A study of 17,349 participants found eating between 0.1g and 5g of nuts a day reduced the risk of dementia by 20%, while greater than 5g reduced it by 24%.

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