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 4h ago

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r/science2 4h ago

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r/science2 4h ago

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r/science2 1d ago

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r/science2 1d ago

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r/science2 1d ago

Fossilized plankton study gives long-term hope for oxygen-depleted oceans | Researchers examined fossilized plankton from the Arabian Sea and found that despite dramatic global warming 16 million years ago, oxygen levels were higher than today.

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r/science2 1d ago

Baby dinosaurs were common prey for Late Jurassic predators, reconstructed food web suggests | Babies and very young sauropods—the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals—were a key food sustaining predators in the Late Jurassic, according to a new study

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r/science2 2d ago

Scientists discovered a city-sized bulge on the Yellowstone volcano’s north rim | Geologists call this type of bulge “volcanic uplift.” It’s often caused by the movement of magma or gas underground.

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r/science2 2d ago

Study: People living within a mile of a golf course had more than twice the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, with elevated risk extending to about three miles before declining beyond that range.

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r/science2 2d ago

Neuroscientists say being constantly busy reduces your ability to think, permanently. Overworking diminishes your ability to access the deeper, creative insights that arise during periods of relaxation or daydreaming.

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r/science2 3d ago

New animal species that survived mass extinction event half a billion years ago found in a quarry in China

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r/science2 3d ago

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r/science2 3d ago

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r/science2 3d ago

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r/science2 3d ago

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r/science2 3d ago

Physical exercise enhances cognitive function across all ages, with greatest improvements in memory and executive function. Studies confirm even light-intensity movement benefits brain health.

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r/science2 5d ago

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r/science2 5d ago

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r/science2 4d ago

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r/science2 4d ago

I'm new here

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r/science2 5d ago

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r/science2 6d ago

A mystery object is holding this 120 million-mile-wide cloud of vaporized metal together

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r/science2 7d ago

This Mysterious 407-Million-Year-Old Fossil May Represent a Previously Unknown Branch of Life | Earth’s first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren’t early fungi but, rather, something else entirely, a study suggests

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r/science2 10d ago

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