sciencealert.comadded August 2026
ScienceAlertby David Nield30 Aug 2026
As scientists look for ways to tackle the global obesity crisis, research has established that once the obesity stage is reached, it can be very difficult for many people to find weight loss...
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz30 Aug 2026
A prosthetic limb can help people to stand, walk, or run again. But it cannot always warn them when its socket is pressing too hard against the skin of their residual limb.
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella30 Aug 2026
Of all the diseases spread through the bite of an insect or arachnid in the United States, Lyme disease is the most common.
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas29 Aug 2026
Cancer cells are proving trickier than we thought, so scientists are getting even trickier to shift the survival odds in our favor.
ScienceAlertby David Nield29 Aug 2026
Graphene is a very special material, only one atom thick. It has a rare combination of properties, including quantum and magnetic characteristics, that make it unique in many respects.
ScienceAlertby David Nield29 Aug 2026
On a day-to-day, local level, it can be all too easy to forget the perilous state that our planet is in – but the sobering reality checks from science are only getting more frequent and more...
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill29 Aug 2026
The warning signs of Parkinson's appear to be all around us. Scientists have found clues to the disease's emergence in people's hair, in their blood, and in their earwax too.
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz29 Aug 2026
What happens in one ocean doesn't necessarily stay there. For centuries, changes over the tropical Pacific have traveled through the atmosphere to influence temperatures in the Indian Ocean...
ScienceAlertby Starre Vartan29 Aug 2026
It's a bit dizzying if you think about it: We're hurtling through space on a rock that both spins on its axis and rotates around the Sun.
ScienceAlertby David Nield29 Aug 2026
With health problems related to poor diets and obesity continuing to become more widespread, researchers are hunting for the specific biological mechanisms behind preferences for fatty foods – and...
ScienceAlertby Fiona MacDonald29 Aug 2026
In 1988, archaeologists cracked open a lead coffin inside the Château de Laval in northwestern France and found something peculiar.
ScienceAlertby Michael Irving28 Aug 2026
Polish countryside, 17th century. A young woman from high society is buried in a remote cemetery away from the village, because of the manner of her death.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill28 Aug 2026
It's estimated that more than a million vehicle collisions with deer occur in the US every year. While the vast majority of these incidents don't involve harm to humans, around 60,000 cases each...
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella28 Aug 2026
Scientists have figured out how to secretly enrich white bread with spinach – and it could have an immediate and measurable impact on the body's insulin response.
ScienceAlertby Michael Irving28 Aug 2026
This Week in Science: Reversing Alzheimer's damage, the safest place on Earth, and more! First up: Oceanographers exploring a sonar blip assumed they'd find a shipwreck.
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr28 Aug 2026
The world changed forever on 6 August 1945. That was the day humanity first deliberately turned the most powerful weapon ever conceived upon itself – when the US unleashed an atomic bomb on the...
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr28 Aug 2026
NASA rovers Curiosity and Perseverance have photographed some pretty strange objects on the surface of Mars.
ScienceAlertby David Nield28 Aug 2026
As strange cases of mistaken identity go, this story is a difficult one to beat. A fossil dating back some 324 million years has turned out to be a completely new species of insect, rather than a...
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas28 Aug 2026
Unicorns, Bigfoot, and banshees have been scientifically debunked, but ghosts are real – kind of.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill27 Aug 2026
The iconic 'Doomsday Vault' – aka Norway's Svalbard Global Seed Vault – is perhaps the world's best-known seed bank.
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