sciencealert.comadded August 2026
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz27 Aug 2026
Earth has survived asteroid impacts, volcanic catastrophes, ice ages, and dramatic changes in the Sun's brightness. Yet it has remained habitable for billions of years.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill27 Aug 2026
There are numerous kinds of diets that can help you to lose weight if you're overweight or obese, and if all you want to do is shed some pounds, you have options.
ScienceAlertby Starre Vartan27 Aug 2026
The Socotra variety of the desert rose (Adenium obesum) looks like a tree that a child might draw.
ScienceAlertby Fiona MacDonald27 Aug 2026
You already know the feeling: You've had maybe four hours of sleep, you've got a full day ahead of you, and coffee is only going to get you so far.
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr27 Aug 2026
Empty space is never actually truly empty. Even a quantum field in its lowest-energy state, the vacuum, has unavoidable fluctuations that arise from the Heisenberg uncertainty principle: Certain...
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella27 Aug 2026
Youth isn't enough to protect your heart. Last year, researchers examining a cohort of young adults in the US made an "ominous" observation.
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill27 Aug 2026
Toxic flame-retardant compounds that were banned two decades ago continue to contaminate sediments and soils across Europe, a new study shows.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill26 Aug 2026
Almost half of all habitable land on Earth is used for agriculture, and most of that is dominated by livestock farming, which not only monopolizes land, but has numerous negative impacts on the...
ScienceAlertby David Nield26 Aug 2026
Metals everywhere need to be protected from corrosion, from beloved cars to iconic buildings, sculptures, and ships.
ScienceAlertby Michael Irving26 Aug 2026
Slowing the progression of Alzheimer's disease is the goal of most existing treatments, but reversing it is much harder.
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas26 Aug 2026
Though the Sun bathes us in life-giving light, it is a scorching nuclear orb that dwarfs all the planets combined and blasts its children with gene-mutating radiation.
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella26 Aug 2026
With age comes wisdom – and, apparently, some rusty plumbing in the old noggin. Growing evidence suggests that as we age, the lymphatic system that serves our central nervous system may drain out...
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr26 Aug 2026
Ketamine is a weird chimera of a drug. It does so many different things. It acts as an anesthetic, painkiller, dissociative drug, hallucinogen, and unusually fast-acting antidepressant.
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz26 Aug 2026
Most weight-loss drugs work largely by reducing appetite and food intake. But an experimental compound appears to work differently: In mice, it helps the body use more of the energy it takes in.
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill26 Aug 2026
Nicotine e-cigarettes may be the most effective option for people trying to quit smoking, when compared to nicotine gums, patches, and behavioral support like counseling, according to a new review.
ScienceAlertby Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz25 Aug 2026
Probiotics are one of those pills that you see literally everywhere. You can get them on supermarket shelves, in pharmacies, even in your local health food store.
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill25 Aug 2026
More than 5,000 feet beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, scientists encountered a truly alien landscape that might just haunt your dreams.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill25 Aug 2026
Sometimes it seems like there's no end to the catastrophic dangers we face as a species. Nuclear armageddon. Climate change. Pandemics. AI. Supervolcanoes. The list is a long one.
ScienceAlertby David Nield25 Aug 2026
The discovery of a new species is always cause for celebration, but the arrival of Pristimantis milpe (or the Milpe Rain Frog) into the scientific textbooks comes with a more unusual story than...
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr25 Aug 2026
When the batteries die in your TV remote, you might start rummaging around your desk clock for a replacement. That doesn't tend to be how we think about the human body.
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