sciencealert.comadded August 2026
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill6 Sept 2026
There's no effective treatment for dementia, and cases keep growing. The best bet at the moment is to reduce your risk, which is higher for people with type 2 diabetes.
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella6 Sept 2026
An 'old-fashioned' disease of kings is experiencing a modern resurgence. Today, gout is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis worldwide. And it's on the rise, even among young people.
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella6 Sept 2026
If you have a bad night of sleep and wake up feeling unrefreshed, your sleep tracker may offer little indication as to why.
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz6 Sept 2026
Imagine being 50 and watching your biological age fall to 45. Five years younger, according to your test.
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill6 Sept 2026
In a surprisingly common disorder known as trichotillomania, people compulsively pull out their own hair as a way of self-soothing.
ScienceAlertby David Nield6 Sept 2026
Identifying distinctive types of conditions like diabetes is helpful in two ways. It means treatments can be personalized more precisely to individuals, and gives researchers a better idea of how...
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill6 Sept 2026
We've made some drastic changes to ocean ecosystems in the past century. One of the stranger patterns to appear in this is a global proliferation of tentacled creatures known as cephalopods, and in...
ScienceAlertby David Nield5 Sept 2026
Around 2 percent of the world's population has to live with the severe hair loss and associated psychological toll that comes with alopecia areata, a condition caused by the immune system...
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas5 Sept 2026
Parents strive to support their children's physical and mental well-being, whether it's constant cross-town drives to karate, mashing a million peas, or absorbing countless CoComelon marathons.
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill5 Sept 2026
This Earth of ours still holds untold wonders, even if it can sometimes feel like we've seen it all.
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz5 Sept 2026
You probably don't think twice about putting on your socks – until your back makes it the hardest part of getting dressed. When ordinary movements become painful, even a little relief can matter.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill5 Sept 2026
Among mere mortals, a select few have an incredible gift for longevity – it's something we only see in about 0.01 percent of the world's population.
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr5 Sept 2026
Some seven centuries ago, a man in Scotland had a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day indeed. There he was, going about the business of living, when something interrupted.
ScienceAlertby David Nield5 Sept 2026
GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic are never out of the headlines for long. They've proven to be very effective for managing weight loss and type 2 diabetes, but questions persist around...
ScienceAlertby Starre Vartan5 Sept 2026
If you've ever stood staring at a wall of supplements, wondering whether that bottle of fish oil, vitamin D, or saffron might lift your mood, you're not alone.
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr4 Sept 2026
For nearly five centuries, the Krasheninnikov volcano in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula had not erupted. Nor did it seem particularly interested in doing so.
ScienceAlertby Starre Vartan4 Sept 2026
"It's great to have great sex and hot-fudge sundaes," says cognitive scientist Laurie Santos, who studies the science of well-being at Yale University.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill4 Sept 2026
A huge amount of evidence has shown that plant-based diets aren't only good for losing weight. Study after study has found that eating a diet rich in plant-based food is great for improving your...
ScienceAlertby Michael Irving4 Sept 2026
This Week in Science: Enriching bread with spinach, a GPS glitch, a new Parkinson's test, and more!
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz4 Sept 2026
He had been athletic and healthy. Then came years of exhaustion, pain, memory problems, and psychiatric symptoms. Eventually, he had to leave college.
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