sciencealert.comadded August 2026
ScienceAlertby David Nield22d ago
Non-physicists might hear of 'the Hall effect' and think it relates to the way time elongates when trying to get young children out of the front door, or the phenomenon where you always forget your...
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill22d ago
The rhythms of prehistoric cyclones and other extreme weather events could be mapped using the shell on a land snail's back, according to new research led by a team at the University of Queensland...
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella22d ago
The female brain does something unexpected in the transition to menopause. It's entirely natural for gray matter in the brain to gradually shrink as a person ages.
ScienceAlertby Starre Vartan22d ago
Antarctica is famous for being a continent buried under ice. But beneath those frozen expanses may lie evidence of mountains that once rivaled today's Himalayas, and which profoundly shaped the...
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz22d ago
Could changing your diet really turn back your body's clock? Not the wrinkles on your face or the gray in your hair.
ScienceAlertby Fiona MacDonald24d ago
You can now listen to the exact sound of Earth's magnetic field falling apart. Around 41,000 years ago, our planet's magnetic field did something dramatic: It flipped.
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill24d ago
The brain is an immeasurably complex organ, and we're only just scratching the surface of how it even comes into existence.
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr24d ago
According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravity does not discriminate. Matter, antimatter – it's all the same as far as gravity is concerned, and it all should fall in exactly the...
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz24d ago
The brain keeps one of the strictest guest lists in the body. Oxygen and nutrients may enter. Toxins, germs, and other substances traveling through the blood are turned away.
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella24d ago
Two remote Indigenous communities in the Bolivian Amazon are said to have some of the lowest rates of dementia in the world.
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr24d ago
When you gaze into the abyss, so Nietzsche proclaimed, sometimes the abyss gazes back into you. And if you pummel Earth's crust with the most powerful class of explosives humanity has ever devised...
ScienceAlertby David Nield24d ago
Since a 19th century theory put forward by German physiologist Ewald Hering, color scientists have considered the hues red, yellow, green, and blue to be special – something you can still see in...
ScienceAlertby David Nield25d ago
Quantum computers already exist and are advancing quickly, but scientists predict there's much, much more to come from them – and a new study points the way to another significant step forward in...
ScienceAlertby Michael Irving25d ago
Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought. An active rift has reached a "critical threshold" and will soon break apart, forming a new ocean.
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz25d ago
You stumble into the kitchen half awake and start brewing coffee. Before you have taken a single sip, the aroma fills the room. The morning seems more manageable. But what just happened?
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill25d ago
A German WW1 submarine known as SM UC-30 was returning home in April 1917 when it hit a British mine and sank.
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella25d ago
Scientists have identified two simple body measurements that together are linked to nearly double the risk of death. Neither one is BMI.
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella25d ago
A surprising link between oral health and the brain is growing stronger by the year. In a long-term study in Japan, bleeding and receding gums were linked to a substantially higher risk of...
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr25d ago
Our beautiful big round ball of a planet is not, in fact, a perfect sphere. As it spins about on its axis, whirling around the Sun, rotation causes it to bulge at the equator and flatten at the...
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr25d ago
In the darkest depths of Earth's oceans, surprises are expected. For humans, it's one of the most inhospitable environments our planet has to offer, and we've seen very little of what's down there...
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