sciencealert.comadded August 2026
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr25d ago
The biggest barrier to understanding the human brain is the human around it. Scientists can't exactly tinker around in someone's gray matter while that someone is still using it.
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz26d ago
When we look at the night sky, darkness seems to fill the spaces between the stars. But what if some of the most powerful objects in nearby galaxies are hiding inside that darkness – not because...
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill26d ago
Dinosaurs are not known to have a taste for cold climates. And yet, somehow, more than 250 fragments of massive dinosaur eggshells have been discovered in the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)...
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr26d ago
In the unexplored expanses deep below the ocean waves, life finds many ways to thrive. Sometimes that means evolving to metabolize volcanic chemistry instead of sunlight.
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas26d ago
Of all recorded weather disasters, hurricanes cause the most catastrophic amounts of personal loss and infrastructure damage across the US.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill26d ago
The sticky proteins amyloid-beta and tau are hallmark features of Alzheimer's disease, but they're not the only contributors to the condition.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill26d ago
The true scale of osteoporosis is difficult to fathom. The progressive bone-weakening disease is estimated to affect as many as 500 million people worldwide, triggering up to 37 million fragility...
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz26d ago
If you think you know what DNA looks like, there may be a surprise hiding in your blood. DNA instantly brings to mind its famous double helix.
ScienceAlertby David Nield26d ago
Chronic hip, knee, or shoulder pain often requires total joint replacement. That relieves the pain and restores mobility, but does it introduce other health risks?
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill27d ago
Under the ocean, things aren't quite so bright. Much of the Sun's rays bounce right off the ocean's surface, and the ones that do penetrate the water are absorbed and scattered over much shorter...
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella27d ago
A ubiquitous industrial chemical commonly used in food and beverage packaging may quietly mess with the body's insulin sensitivity when ingested.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill27d ago
Cultural warning: This article discusses the deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including through disease and frontier violence, and features images of deceased people.
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr27d ago
Quantum teleportation is poised to change the world. It sounds like science fiction – that the quantum state of one system can be transferred, or 'teleported', to another system a great distance...
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill27d ago
A powerful advance in cancer-fighting medicine has achieved an extraordinary new milestone. Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is an immunotherapy technique that involves taking a...
ScienceAlertby Starre Vartan27d ago
The phrase "water is life" is true – water makes all known life on Earth possible. It's also a key component in lubricating the super-slow movement of Earth's mantle layer, hydrating those rock...
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr27d ago
Something spooky has been spotted in CERN's Large Hadron Collider. In the cascade of debris that sprays out from high-energy collisions in the world's most powerful particle collider, physicists...
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill27d ago
Chihuahuas are really weird dogs. We love them, but no doubt there's something a bit… quirky about those little guys.
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas28d ago
Very few, if any, animals single-handedly represent an entire geological episode lasting nearly 100 million years. But Tyrannosaurus rex is no regular animal.
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella28d ago
The world's 'doomsday' seed banks could be a way to replant our planet after disaster, but only if their contents survive the years.
ScienceAlertby David Nield28d ago
It's difficult to avoid the discussions around AI at the moment – and how useful or otherwise it can be. Science and healthcare are two of the areas where the tech promises to be transformative.
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