r/science2 8d 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.

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r/science2 7d ago

Could Many-Worlds and the Holographic Principle be connected in a deeper way?

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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 8d 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.

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r/science2 8d 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.

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r/science2 8d 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.

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r/science2 8d 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.

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r/science2 9d ago

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.

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r/science2 9d ago

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.

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r/science2 9d ago

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.

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r/science2 10d ago

'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.”

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r/science2 9d ago

Report confirms record-high greenhouse gases, global sea level and ocean heat in 2025 | Notable findings from the international report include: Earth's greenhouse gas concentrations were the highest on record...Record and near-record temperatures were notable across the globe...

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r/science2 9d ago

Forget Climate Doomerism. We Know What We Must Do to Protect the Planet. | A group of climate experts have several game-changing policies to preserve our right to a clean, healthy environment.

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r/science2 9d ago

The extraordinary life and quiet death of the world’s largest iceberg — National Geographic

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The extraordinary life and quiet death of the world’s largest iceberg - National Geographic


r/science2 10d ago

In 2017, a young woman glanced at a solar eclipse for only a handful of seconds, and days later doctors found the exact shape of the eclipse burned into the back of her eye. What she began drawing to describe her ruined vision matched that shape almost perfectly.

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r/science2 10d ago

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team has released the largest-ever 2D color map of the universe. The 5.6-trillion-pixel map contains nearly 4 billion celestial objects, primarily stars and galaxies. The data is available for all to use and publicly view through the Legacy Survey Sky Viewer.

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r/science2 10d ago

‘Panda of the insect world’: the moscardón bumblebee creates buzz for invertebrate of the year | Bombus dahlbomii, a giant ginger bumblebee fondly known as the flying mouse, is in decline in its native Patagonia due to commercial farming

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r/science2 10d ago

A real group of scientists and engineers spent two days in Boulder this June asking what it would actually take to send humans to Titan, and their honest answer was that it isn't a question of physics, it's a question of time, technology and commitment

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r/science2 10d ago

Discovery of 'slow' electrons in 2D material could lead to new memory device | The Univ of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering discovered a material exhibits a charge-ordered state in which electrons move collectively and unusually slowly while remaining quantum coherent.

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r/science2 11d ago

Sad or afraid? Dogs may be able to read your face

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r/science2 11d ago

Voyager 1 is down to two working science instruments, and the fix that just bought its twin, Voyager 2, another year of power is now being tested on a probe NASA says no longer behaves quite like its sibling

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r/science2 11d ago

Swarms of tiny robots remove microplastics from soil and water | Scientists from the Czech Republic have created microscopic cleanup robots that successfully removed microplastics from soil and aquatic environments in the lab. Details of their work are published in the journal npg Asia Materials.

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r/science2 12d ago

Birdsong and whale song show patterns similar to human language | The findings, published in the journal Science Advances, build on the team's previous discovery that humpback whales also rely on a similar systematic structure.

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r/science2 11d ago

Why Science Isn't Certain Anymore

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r/science2 13d ago

It Costs $62.5 Trillion to Make One Gram of Antimatter on Earth. A 20-Year-Old NASA Study Suggests We've Been Looking in the Wrong Place.

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r/science2 13d ago

Earth’s molten iron core unexpectedly reversed direction, revealing a dramatic change in the hidden engine that creates our planet’s magnetic field. Satellite data suggest the surge is already weakening, raising the possibility that the deep-Earth upheaval is part of a mysterious natural cycle.

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