sciencealert.comadded August 2026
ScienceAlertby David Nield25 Aug 2026
Motivation (or a lack of it) shapes our lives in ways large and small every day: From changing careers to changing TV channels, we're guided by what motivates us and what we find rewarding.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill25 Aug 2026
For anybody with a loved one experiencing dementia or Alzheimer's, news of prospective drug treatments failing or producing mixed results is a cause for concern.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill25 Aug 2026
Alzheimer's has long been recognized as a sporadic condition – influenced by factors such as age, genetics, and lifestyle – but scientists don't think that's the only way the disease emerges.
ScienceAlertby David Nield24 Aug 2026
Volcanoes can wreak devastation when they erupt, but they're also a valuable natural resource: the liquids that bubble up from magma are often rich in important metals.
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz24 Aug 2026
Imagine walking from your bedroom to the kitchen and suddenly not knowing which way to turn. For most of us, getting lost means taking a wrong turn in an unfamiliar city or briefly losing our...
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella24 Aug 2026
Leading cardiology organizations around the world are having a change of heart. Just five years after the first universal definition of heart failure was published, they are proposing a big update.
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas24 Aug 2026
Crocodiles are among today's most feared predators, but their ancient relatives make today's crocs seem as threatening as a cuddle-prone kitty with a cold.
ScienceAlertby Fiona MacDonald24 Aug 2026
Happy Monday! To test your eyes and your science knowledge this week, we've got a fresh round of Microscope Mystery.
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill24 Aug 2026
In April 2019, London took drastic action against traffic emissions in a bid to reduce the toxic air pollution that choked up the city's center. It's called the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ).
ScienceAlertby Michael Irving24 Aug 2026
Would you eat a cookie that was made from plastic? Technically, we're all ingesting an ungodly amount of plastic already, in the form of micro- and nanoscopic particles in our food.
ScienceAlertby David Nield24 Aug 2026
Thank you for reading this article: By supporting science journalism, you're also supporting higher standards in scientific research – which benefits us all.
ScienceAlertby Starre Vartan24 Aug 2026
Trichotillomania (pulling out the hairs on your head, eyebrows, lashes, or elsewhere) is not a new condition.
ScienceAlertby David Nield23 Aug 2026
We've got another notable first in the field of physics to report: A specific type of quantum behavior in waves of heat has now been observed at room temperature, rather than at the ultra-low...
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas23 Aug 2026
The world is drowning in plastic waste. Our bodies are full of microplastics and no environment is safe.
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz23 Aug 2026
Look closely at one of the most famous photographs ever taken of Earth and you might struggle to find Earth at all. There are no blue oceans. No continents. No clouds.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill23 Aug 2026
It was January 1940, and the United Kingdom had a serious problem. German attacks on import ships were threatening to trigger extreme food shortages, effectively starving the nation into...
ScienceAlertby Russell McLendon23 Aug 2026
Your pupils quickly dilate when you enter a dark room, letting in more light to help you see. Once you're in brighter conditions, they contract accordingly.
ScienceAlertby David Nield23 Aug 2026
GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) drugs are now perhaps best known in relation to weight loss, but they were originally developed – and continue to be widely used – for diabetes.
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr23 Aug 2026
To replicate information, life usually has fairly straightforward ways of doing things. To copy DNA, you generally use DNA as a template.
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz23 Aug 2026
A once-daily pill has helped restore skin color in some people with vitiligo, a condition that causes white patches to appear on the skin.
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