sciencealert.comadded August 2026
ScienceAlertby Starre Vartan29 Aug 2026
It's a bit dizzying if you think about it: We're hurtling through space on a rock that both spins on its axis and rotates around the Sun.
ScienceAlertby David Nield29 Aug 2026
With health problems related to poor diets and obesity continuing to become more widespread, researchers are hunting for the specific biological mechanisms behind preferences for fatty foods – and...
ScienceAlertby Fiona MacDonald29 Aug 2026
In 1988, archaeologists cracked open a lead coffin inside the Château de Laval in northwestern France and found something peculiar.
ScienceAlertby Michael Irving28 Aug 2026
Polish countryside, 17th century. A young woman from high society is buried in a remote cemetery away from the village, because of the manner of her death.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill28 Aug 2026
It's estimated that more than a million vehicle collisions with deer occur in the US every year. While the vast majority of these incidents don't involve harm to humans, around 60,000 cases each...
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella28 Aug 2026
Scientists have figured out how to secretly enrich white bread with spinach – and it could have an immediate and measurable impact on the body's insulin response.
ScienceAlertby Michael Irving28 Aug 2026
This Week in Science: Reversing Alzheimer's damage, the safest place on Earth, and more! First up: Oceanographers exploring a sonar blip assumed they'd find a shipwreck.
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr28 Aug 2026
The world changed forever on 6 August 1945. That was the day humanity first deliberately turned the most powerful weapon ever conceived upon itself – when the US unleashed an atomic bomb on the...
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr28 Aug 2026
NASA rovers Curiosity and Perseverance have photographed some pretty strange objects on the surface of Mars.
ScienceAlertby David Nield28 Aug 2026
As strange cases of mistaken identity go, this story is a difficult one to beat. A fossil dating back some 324 million years has turned out to be a completely new species of insect, rather than a...
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas28 Aug 2026
Unicorns, Bigfoot, and banshees have been scientifically debunked, but ghosts are real – kind of.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill27 Aug 2026
The iconic 'Doomsday Vault' – aka Norway's Svalbard Global Seed Vault – is perhaps the world's best-known seed bank.
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz27 Aug 2026
Earth has survived asteroid impacts, volcanic catastrophes, ice ages, and dramatic changes in the Sun's brightness. Yet it has remained habitable for billions of years.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill27 Aug 2026
There are numerous kinds of diets that can help you to lose weight if you're overweight or obese, and if all you want to do is shed some pounds, you have options.
ScienceAlertby Starre Vartan27 Aug 2026
The Socotra variety of the desert rose (Adenium obesum) looks like a tree that a child might draw.
ScienceAlertby Fiona MacDonald27 Aug 2026
You already know the feeling: You've had maybe four hours of sleep, you've got a full day ahead of you, and coffee is only going to get you so far.
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr27 Aug 2026
Empty space is never actually truly empty. Even a quantum field in its lowest-energy state, the vacuum, has unavoidable fluctuations that arise from the Heisenberg uncertainty principle: Certain...
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella27 Aug 2026
Youth isn't enough to protect your heart. Last year, researchers examining a cohort of young adults in the US made an "ominous" observation.
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill27 Aug 2026
Toxic flame-retardant compounds that were banned two decades ago continue to contaminate sediments and soils across Europe, a new study shows.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill26 Aug 2026
Almost half of all habitable land on Earth is used for agriculture, and most of that is dominated by livestock farming, which not only monopolizes land, but has numerous negative impacts on the...
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