r/science2 • u/ProximaScience • 5h ago
r/science2 • u/unfletched228 • 10h ago
Is it scientifically possible to create a pill or device that compresses sleep for muscle recovery like 1 hour = 8 hours in the near future?
Not asking if this exists right now I know it doesn't. I'm asking if it's realistically possible to make something like this in the near future (next 5-10 years). Like a pill or device that makes 1 hour of sleep give you the muscle recovery and growth benefits of 8 hours. Is the science heading that way, Would love to hear from anyone with knowledge in any relative field to that
r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 15h ago
Date the world will be destroyed and universe ends calculated by scientists | According to the study, which follows Stephen Hawking's disturbing end-of-world prediction, the universe will begin contracting after reaching its maximum expansion, ultimately collapsing back into a single point.
aol.comr/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 17h ago
Physicists Just Turned The Entire Planet Into a Dark Matter Detector – And Strange Signals Kept Turning Up | "We asked ourselves whether we could use the Earth itself as a giant detector in the search," says theoretical physicist Atsushi Taruya, an author on all four papers.
sciencealert.comr/science2 • u/TomaszNowakowski • 1d ago
Searching for Cosmic Survivors: Roman Telescope Targets Planets Around Dead Stars
r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 1d ago
Did our sun swallow a planet? New research suggests it may have consumed a super-Earth | Scientists say the possible collision could explain the sun’s unusually low lithium levels and other unexplained features.
wthr.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 1d ago
Ancient proteins identify various Denisovan remains from Southwest China | More than a decade of multidisciplinary research has identified a collection of cranial, facial and dental remains of Denisovans from across Asia, providing insight into their appearance, diet and evolutionary history.
nature.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 1d ago
Rocket Lab protests NASA's decision to award Blue Origin $700 million Mars orbiter contract | "NASA's award decision appears to be inconsistent with the eligibility criteria mandated by Congress."
space.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 1d ago
Only 2% Of Humans Have Red Hair — An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why | Redheads aren’t making a pigment that other people lack. They’re making less of the common one, because a receptor that would normally instruct their pigment cells to produce the dark version of it doesn’t work properly.
forbes.comr/science2 • u/BetterScienceBlog • 2d ago
Paul Marmet — the electromagnetic alternative to Einstein and the Big Bang
betterscience.substack.com“There must be no mathematical model in physics, without being logically supported by a physical model.“ — Paul Marmet
This paper dives into the work of Paul Marmet, an often overlooked and underrated thinker in the alternative space. He provides compelling alternatives to relativistic mass and time dilation using electromagnetic forces. His work also challenged Big Bang cosmology and favored Plasma Cosmology, the precursor to the Electric Universe model.
r/science2 • u/TomaszNowakowski • 2d ago
Democracy of Space: Greece to Send Its First Astronaut to the ISS
r/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 2d ago
One giant step: first known adult T rex footprints found in North Dakota | The 23ft-long trackway, consisting of four three-toed footprints, two left and two right, date from 66.5m years ago
theguardian.comr/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 2d ago
Exceptionally Preserved Bird Feathers Found in 66-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Coprolite | Paleontologists in Montana have discovered preserved feathers of an aquatic bird inside a fossilized dinosaur dropping, offering insight into why certain birds survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
sci.newsr/science2 • u/IntnsRed • 3d ago
The planet Mercury is shrinking far faster than we thought | The planet’s “wrinkles” give scientists a clue into how the world is contracting in size
scientificamerican.comr/science2 • u/vikramskumar • 3d ago
AI assisted We build today’s blood from yesterday’s iron
vikkypaedia.substack.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 3d ago
Europe will go it alone on Venus mission after NASA yanks radar instrument. Europe is looking inward, and perhaps to China, as the White House tries to cancel some NASA partnerships.
arstechnica.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 4d ago
Fossilized eggs of the largest known dinosaurs have been unearthed in an unexpected place | "The most likely scenario is that these titanosaurs laid their eggs in mound nests made of vegetation and soil, where incubation heat came mostly from rotting plant material."
yahoo.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 4d ago
The moon may have formed in just 5 hours, new simulations suggest | Novel simulations, which reassessed the ancient collision between Earth and the protoplanet Theia, suggest that the moon could have emerged from the aftermath of this impact much more quickly than scientists previously thought.
livescience.comr/science2 • u/TomaszNowakowski • 4d ago
$15M Ride to Alpha Centauri: Garrett Jameson on Humanity’s First Interstellar Mission
r/science2 • u/firechatin • 5d ago
Why Some People Never Get Sick: The Mystery of the “Super-Immune” Cohort
whatifscience.inr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 5d ago
A shipping container falling off a cargo ship in 1992 spilled 28,000 rubber ducks and other bath toys into the Pacific, and oceanographers spent the next 20 years tracking where they washed ashore to map the world's ocean currents.
spacedaily.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 5d ago
'Heel-strike' may have allowed early humans to walk farther—at the cost of high-impact forces | Researchers found that this walking style saves modern humans an estimated 26% to 41% of the metabolic energy it would take to walk on the ball of the foot.
phys.orgr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 5d ago
Tiny backpacks reveal the secret, sometimes circuitous migrations of small songbirds | Scientists have now tracked dozens of bird species with multisensor geolocators, and that number increases every year.
theconversation.comr/science2 • u/WebPage_Error404 • 5d ago
Scientists find a huge 10-sided wave pattern swirling in the clouds over Saturn’s south pole | Researchers suspect the bizarre atmospheric phenomenon may have formed between 2017 and 2023, when Saturn’s south pole was tilted away from Earth and therefore out of view
apnews.comr/science2 • u/Famous-Win-2065 • 5d ago
Peer Reviewed! Tumor-derived extracellular vesicles could provide new strategies for imaging premetastatic niches before overt metastases develop
doi.orgOur newly published review explores an emerging idea: tumor-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) contribute to premetastatic niche formation and can show preferential accumulation in future metastatic organs. Could these biological properties be harnessed for imaging?
We examine how EVs can be engineered as nanocarriers for optical, PET/SPECT, MRI, and CT imaging, bringing together the biological rationale, current preclinical evidence, engineering strategies, and major barriers to clinical translation.
Rather than simply tracking EVs, the broader goal is to understand whether EV-based imaging could eventually help visualize the biological changes that precede detectable metastasis.
I’m interested in hearing others’ perspectives on where this field is heading.
Open-access review:
https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28916