NASA Found Strange Holes on Mars. Scientists Aren't Sure What Made Them.
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr9 Sept 2026
Alone in a dried-up crater lake millions of miles from Earth, NASA's Curiosity rover has been tirelessly exploring for 14 years.
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top 36%Scientists Create a New Form of Ice at More Than 2,000 °C
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr9 Sept 2026
Water is one of the most commonplace, essential substances in the human world. We literally can't function without its properties as a near-universal solvent. It falls from the sky.
Scientists Had People Eat Tomato Paste For 3 Months. Their Brain Scans Looked Different.
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella9 Sept 2026
One of the world's most popular foods may be quietly changing how our brains function. Red tomatoes contain a bright pigment called lycopene, a potent antioxidant that can cross the blood-brain...
A New Study Put People on a Low-Plastic Diet. It Changed The Chemicals in Their Urine.
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella8 Sept 2026
Plastic is virtually unavoidable in 2026, but there may be ways to reduce your exposure to some of its associated chemicals.
A Neuroscientist Says Your Brain May Not Actually Make Decisions
ScienceAlertby David Nield8 Sept 2026
You may think you made a decision to read this article, but did you, really? What we consider to be making a decision might in fact be a different kind of brain interaction between what we...
Scientists Are Making Concrete With Human Poop – And It Gets 42% Stronger
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr8 Sept 2026
Concrete is, quite literally, the foundation of the modern world. Almost every construction project in the world uses the material in some form.
Scientists Uncover a Surprising Gut Connection in Fatal Asthma
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz8 Sept 2026
A fatal asthma attack appears to be a disaster contained entirely within the chest. The airways tighten, their lining swells, and mucus crowds the little space that remains.
WHO Issues New Guidelines on How to Reduce Dementia Cases by 45%
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr8 Sept 2026
We don't yet fully understand how or why dementia begins. The term covers a range of degenerative conditions that typically occur in later life and are usually characterized by a decline in...
One of America's Most Widely Consumed Ingredients Linked to Metabolic Changes And Obesity
ScienceAlertby David Nield8 Sept 2026
Soybean oil has become widespread in our diets in recent times – we're now consuming about 1,000x more of it than we were a century ago, due to its use as a cooking oil and as an ingredient in...
Over 40% of Earth Could Become 'Drylands' by 2100, Scientists Warn
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill8 Sept 2026
As the world gets hotter, many of its driest regions are expected to get even drier. When this happens, the boundaries of arid regions are expected to creep forward, transforming landscapes and...
Just One Extra Hour of Uninterrupted Sitting Raises Cancer Risk, Study Finds
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill8 Sept 2026
We've known for a long while that too much sitting isn't good for you. Numerous studies have shown just how damaging long hours of sedentary behavior can be.
Scientists Uncover Shared Genetic Roots of OCD, Tourette Syndrome, And Autism
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas7 Sept 2026
The prenatal to postnatal development of our brains involves a complex cascade of chemicals, branching brain-signaling pathways, and unfolding neural cells – the evolution of a universe in...
Drilling Accidentally Created a Methane Leak Beneath The South China Sea. Within a Year, Animals Helped 'Plug' It.
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella7 Sept 2026
In 2018, Chinese geologists created a methane leak in the South China Sea. They were trying to figure out how much natural gas might exist in marine sediments, so they drilled a hole in the...
Quantum Computers Just Passed a Test That Classical Computers Fundamentally Can't
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr7 Sept 2026
Quantum computers are supposed to have abilities far beyond conventional ones, but verifying that they actually do is surprisingly difficult – because checking their results can itself require...
Blocking One Immune Signal Reversed Signs of Aging in Mice
ScienceAlertby David Nield7 Sept 2026
Wear and tear on our bodies is inevitable as we get older, but what if we could slow it down? It might mean better health for a greater proportion of our lives, and a lower risk of age-related...
Scientists Identify a Nose-to-Brain Circuit That Links Anxiety And Breathing
ScienceAlertby Russell McLendon7 Sept 2026
Anxiety disorders are humanity's most common mental disorders, affecting some 359 million people globally.
A Shared Biology Underlies 5 Major Fatigue-Causing Illnesses, Scientists Suggest
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas7 Sept 2026
For some people, rising from bed or completing daily tasks can feel like extricating oneself from quicksand or the grip of a coiling anaconda.
A Warning Sign of Heart Attack And Stroke May Show Up on Your Face
ScienceAlertby David Nield7 Sept 2026
Atherosclerosis, the accumulation of fatty plaques in the arteries that causes restricted blood flow, is responsible for most heart attacks and strokes – but it often builds up slowly and silently...
Scientists Find a Fungus That Could Protect The Body From Radiation
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill7 Sept 2026
Mold isn't typically something you want growing inside your body. But in the case of Mucor racemosus, there may be compelling reasons to make an exception.
Arctic Rivers Are Defying What Scientists Thought They Knew About Erosion
ScienceAlertby David Nield6 Sept 2026
Scientists have to follow the data, even if it doesn't make sense. This is the situation that researchers recently found themselves in when analyzing the flow of rivers in the Canadian High Arctic.