sciencealert.comadded August 2026
ScienceAlertby Michael Irving22 Aug 2026
Chances are, there are thousands of photos on your phone right now – and you probably never look at them. Selfies at parties. Brunch spreads, carefully staged for Instagram.
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill22 Aug 2026
Hidden inside tree trunks, between grains of soil, deep within our bodies, and below our feet, fungi seem to wind their way into everything. But did you know fungi actually live in the ocean, too?
ScienceAlertby David Nield22 Aug 2026
When heart attacks (myocardial infarctions) strike, it's because a coronary artery supplying the heart muscle gets blocked, cutting off the oxygen and nutrients the heart needs to keep going.
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr22 Aug 2026
The desert sands of Egypt have been dry for thousands of years. As difficult as it is to picture now, however, much of that desert was once submerged beneath a sea that covered much of the northern...
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz22 Aug 2026
When you recognize a familiar face, your brain must connect that face with a name, a place, and perhaps a memory.
ScienceAlertby Starre Vartan22 Aug 2026
You probably remember learning about Earth's internal layers when you were a kid in Earth Sciences class: a superhot, solid inner core, surrounded by a molten metal outer core (how metal!), and a...
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz22 Aug 2026
Your birthday tells you how many years you have been alive. But it cannot tell you whether your heart, brain, or kidneys have weathered those years equally well.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill22 Aug 2026
As the recent global pandemic waned – and the urgent need for widespread remote work began to fade into history – a new view started to emerge.
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas21 Aug 2026
It's well known that where there's smoke there's fire, but did you know that where there's rain there's ice?
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr21 Aug 2026
The Universe can pull some wild monkeyshines, especially when it comes to scale. From giant black holes to massive sheet-like walls of galaxies, our reality is full of mind-boggling chonkers.
ScienceAlertby Starre Vartan21 Aug 2026
For over a year, starting in late 2021, the Women's Heart Bus chugged around France, offering cardiac and gynecological screenings to thousands of patients living in precarious situations or unable...
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill21 Aug 2026
For decades we've known that the cleaning solvent chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) is associated with a higher risk of Parkinson's disease, but the scope of the danger may be greater than we...
ScienceAlertby Michael Irving21 Aug 2026
This Week in Science: Jellyfish attack, lab-grown mini-brains sense time, and much more! First up: An analysis of 500 occupations revealed the job with the highest risk of radiation-related cancer...
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz21 Aug 2026
Schizophrenia can affect how a person perceives reality, thinks, and communicates, sometimes causing hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, reduced motivation, and cognitive...
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr21 Aug 2026
For those living in the shadow of mental health conditions such as PTSD, anxiety, and depression, finding a way forward can sometimes feel impossible – especially when conventional treatments have...
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr21 Aug 2026
Every atom of matter in the Universe is built around a nucleus. It's a tightly packed bundle of protons and neutrons that makes up the atomic core, defines its elemental identity, and contains most...
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr20 Aug 2026
Sometime in Earth's distant past, nearly 4 billion years ago, our planet's earliest lifeforms somehow coalesced from primordial chemistry.
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill20 Aug 2026
Scientists have found that a little-known bacterial antibiotic is capable of disarming fungi responsible for life-threatening infections.
ScienceAlertby Michael Irving20 Aug 2026
Gastrointestinal cancers are among the most common cancers worldwide, and a leading cause of death.
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas20 Aug 2026
Psychedelics are becoming more clinically relevant, and a slew of recent research has explored the effects of psilocybin in ever-greater detail, revealing that it has the ability to imprint...
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