sciencealert.comadded August 2026
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas28d ago
The human brain is creatively malleable, producing breathtaking art such as The Starry Night (twice) and the Large Hadron Collider to reveal different sides of reality, including the...
ScienceAlertby David Nield28d ago
Underlying, less visible health problems sometimes manifest themselves through connected changes in the body that show up before any actual symptoms.
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz28d ago
Most plants turn toward the Sun. Sunlight means food, energy, and life. But a tiny plant discovered on the shaded floor of a Thai forest appears determined to break that basic rule.
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas29d ago
Copper is a much sought (and much stolen) metal because it powers the proliferation of data centers, electric vehicles, and energy infrastructure.
ScienceAlertby David Nield29d ago
We know, broadly speaking, that staying active keeps us healthy, and getting in a certain amount of steps each day is a simple way to go about it.
ScienceAlertby David Nield29d ago
The basics of evolution are pretty straightforward to grasp: organisms better equipped to survive and reproduce tend to have the advantage over others. These animals live on, while others don't.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill29d ago
When a young boy reported to the emergency department with a mysterious form of 'spontaneous bruising' marking his abdomen, doctors were basically stumped.
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz29d ago
The eyes are said to be windows to the soul. Scientists now suspect they might offer a glimpse of something else, too: the rhythm of our attention. The clue is not necessarily in where we look.
ScienceAlertby David Nield29d ago
The search is on for natural sources of hydrogen that could potentially fast-track humanity to a low-carbon energy future.
ScienceAlertby Fiona MacDonald29d ago
On 12 December 2022, an orbiter traveling 251 kilometers (156 miles) above the southern highlands of Mars photographed a hill.
ScienceAlertby Michael Irving29d ago
On a small, isolated island of Japan, lives a tiny population of Tsushima leopard cats (Prionailurus bengalensis euptilurus).
ScienceAlertby Michael Irving29d ago
Physicists have conducted a worldwide hunt for dark matter. Literally – they turned Earth itself into a giant detector.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill29d ago
We usually think of aging as something that catches up with us later in life. Biologically speaking, however, the story may begin much earlier.
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella12 Sept 2026
A puncture to the heart may be shockingly insidious. Doctors in China have shared an extremely rare case in which they found a 36-millimeter-long sewing needle stuck into the left ventricle of a...
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz12 Sept 2026
You can't change the age written on your ID. But what about the age of your body? A drug designed with the help of artificial intelligence made the blood profiles of people with lung disease look...
ScienceAlertby Starre Vartan12 Sept 2026
Our relatively stable global climate is governed by an incredibly complex set of factors, all interacting with each other in dynamic and changeable ways – but there are a couple of really big, key...
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill12 Sept 2026
After a long day at work, it can be a struggle to resist the urge to just order food delivery instead of checking the fridge first.
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill12 Sept 2026
Biology – the study of living things – can admittedly be a little reductive at times. It's easy to miss important connections depending on how you look at an organism.
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr11 Sept 2026
There are people who say they can leave their own bodies. Not "I was beside myself!" or "I jumped out of my skin!"
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr11 Sept 2026
In the mosses and lichens of the world – the in-between places, where living conditions rapidly fluctuate – lives a tiny animal with an extraordinary survival skill.
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