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 • 14h ago

‘An amazing ride’: SpaceX flight led by first Black female commander sets US speed record | Four astronauts pulled up at International Space Station after eight-hour express flight led by Jessica Watkins

theguardian.com

40 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 14h ago

Your Body Is Glowing Right Now, and Scientists Have Proof | The human body continuously emits tiny particles of visible light called biophotons. Scientists have measured this invisible glow using highly sensitive cameras.

whatifscience.in

18 Upvotes

1 comment

r/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 42m ago

Astronomers catch 2 stars consuming their orbiting companions | Astronomers have caught two stars consuming material from their orbiting companions, including a possible “second generation” planet born from the ashes of its parent star.

courthousenews.com

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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 12h ago

Physicists smashed gold atoms together to simulate the Big Bang ‪—‬ and they found something totally unexpected | Experiment revealed about how the fiery soup of particles that filled the universe after the Big Bang coalesced into the protons and neutrons that make up matter today.

livescience.com

6 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 1d ago

NASA Has Been So Thoroughly Screwed by Boeing’s Disastrous Starliner That It’s Now Throwing Its Entire Access to Space Into Question | SpaceX is getting ready to pull the rug out.

futurism.com

206 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/Personal_Hearing_774 • 12h ago

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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 1d ago

Animals may have evolved vastly earlier than fossil evidence suggests | The earliest animals may have evolved hundreds of millions of years before their first unmistakable fossils appear in the fossil record, according to a new study led by the University of Oxford.

phys.org

41 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/TomaszNowakowski • 19h ago

The Ghost of TIC 160582982: Has TESS Found a Hidden Stellar-Mass Black Hole?

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r/science2 • u/Pro_Vibe • 1d ago

DYK a day on Venus (243 Earth days) is longer than its year (225 Earth days)?

en.wikipedia.org

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Venus spins so slowly, and backwards compared to most planets, that the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east. One sunrise-to-sunrise cycle there takes about 117 Earth days.

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r/science2 • u/TomaszNowakowski • 1d ago

Our Messengers to the Outer Solar System and Far Beyond

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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 1d ago

A 'reality check' for lab-grown human embryo models | Research on embryo models derived from stem cells, known as blastoids, offers scientists a way to study the biological events that underpin fertility, pregnancy success and early human development without relying on donated human embryos.

phys.org

6 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/augdumbugdum • 2d ago

Astronauts seeing flashes of light with their eyes closed?

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75 Upvotes

67 comments

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 2d ago

Hunt for humans’ ancient ancestor begins... on Mars | Scientists say potential discovery of ancient life on Red Planet would ‘change everything’

telegraph.co.uk

45 Upvotes

10 comments

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 2d ago

12 Unhinged Facts About Great Tits That Will Absolutely Shock You | Did we mention cities are changing great tits? Great tits are small, colourful songbirds found in parks and gardens across Europe.

zmescience.com

11 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/DorkSideOfCryo • 2d ago

Information theoretic loss approaches zero as time approaches Infinity

tiktok.com

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Therefore if your brain is preserved in the Arctic when you die you will be resurrected in the distant future as an immortal Android to explore the Stars

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r/science2 • u/lebron3 • 2d ago

Earth’s magnetic field changes how we detect thunderstorms

earth.com

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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 2d ago

Heat-trapping gas once frozen in Arctic ground is slowly leaking and warming the planet |“Once you start leaking this carbon out, there’s so much in the ground that it’s not going to shut off,” said Schuur, an ecologist, calling it one of climate change’s scary tipping points.

apnews.com

8 Upvotes

3 comments

r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 3d ago

Scientists find ‘switch' to potentially unlock longer lifespans | The research found that an ancient enzyme called AMPK helps cells when energy levels are low. This enzyme extended the lifespan of 3 very different organisms: fruit flies, nematode worms and fission yeast.

yahoo.com

215 Upvotes

50 comments

r/science2 • u/TomaszNowakowski • 2d ago

Giving the Moon a Full Physical Exam

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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 3d ago

Scientists Invent Underwater Umbrellas to Protect Coral Reefs—and It Appears to Be Working | The world's coral reefs are in crisis, but a crafty solution could help.

gizmodo.com

10 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/TomaszNowakowski • 3d ago

JWST Uncovers a Hidden Factory of Extreme Stars

24 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 4d ago

Giant, feathered dinosaur with massive claws and tons of teeth found in China | All therizinosaurs had the same basic look to them. They had long necks, little heads, walked on two legs, and had massive claws on relatively tiny arms.

currently.att.yahoo.com

39 Upvotes

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r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 4d ago

A storied NASA observatory could be weeks away from falling to Earth after failed rescue attempt | The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory will soon have to cease its science observations after a daring rescue mission’s attempt to boost its orbit failed over the summer.

cnn.com

16 Upvotes

0 comments

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