Scientists Find Parasites in Almost Every Fish From a Recent Tuna Haul – 96% Were Infected
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella3 Sept 2026
A fatty tuna that is often used for sashimi or canning may be swimming with parasites more often than not.
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top 37%The Human Body May Age in Two Major Bursts, And a New Study Reveals What Drives Them
ScienceAlertby Starre Vartan3 Sept 2026
Aging is inevitable, but it's certainly not consistent. We might think aging proceeds in a steady, linear fashion, with each day, week, and month marching us sedately into our Golden Years, but new...
Rare Ancient Treasure Trove Stolen – But Thieves Left Behind a Piece of Metal From Beyond Our World
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr3 Sept 2026
One of the most special treasure collections in the world has been stolen. At 5.16 am on the morning of August 27, an alarm rang out at a sports center in the Spanish city of Villena, drawing...
A Hidden Source of Chronic Pain May Be Lurking Inside Your Skull, Study Finds
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill2 Sept 2026
For a long time, scientists thought that immune cells produced in our bone marrow flocked to the brain when it needed protection from injury or infection.
Astronomers Spot an Uncannily Geometric, 10-Sided Structure in Saturn's Atmosphere
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr2 Sept 2026
Saturn, apparently, has been hiding its talents. For decades, humanity has puzzled over the gas giant's enormous hexagon swirling around its north pole – a six-sided atmospheric structure unlike...
Haunting Encounter With Rare Bigfin Squid Caught 2 Miles Under The Waves
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr2 Sept 2026
In the liminal darkness of the water column deep under the sea, an entire ecosystem thrives. Under pressure, temperature, and light conditions deeply inhospitable to humans, life has found many...
Everyone Assumes DNA Shapes Your Personality. It Turns Out Something Else Is Doing Most of The Work
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr2 Sept 2026
One of the biggest existential questions an individual can ask is "What makes me, me?" Identical twins have near-identical genetics, yet can still develop quite different personalities – about as...
Scientists Discover Two Superconducting States Hiding as One
ScienceAlertby David Nield2 Sept 2026
As much as we now know about superconductivity – where a material conducts electrical charge without resistance or heat loss – there remain long-standing mysteries about how the phenomenon works.
Breaking: Physicists May Have Found The Best Evidence of Dark Matter Yet
ScienceAlertby Michael Irving2 Sept 2026
In an experiment deep underground, a tiny flash of light may, ironically, mark the first detection of dark matter.
Humans Are Surprisingly Good at Predicting When They Will Die – With One Big Bias
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz2 Sept 2026
How old do you think you will live to be? Your answer may be more revealing than you realize. A study that tracked older adults in Japan for up to 28 years suggests people have a surprisingly...
Scientists Uncover a Surprising Way Fructose May Promote Obesity
ScienceAlertby David Nield2 Sept 2026
With obesity rates increasing at alarming rates, researchers are amassing as much data as they can on the many risk factors and drivers of the condition.
1 in 3 Men in Their 30s Already Have This Silent Disease. By 70, Almost Everyone Does.
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr1 Sept 2026
Sometimes health can feel a bit like a thunderclap. You're living your life as healthy as a horse, then boom, out of nowhere, illness strikes. Some ills genuinely do strike suddenly.
Scientists Put Sensors on Narwhals. They Revealed Something Troubling Beneath Greenland's Glaciers
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill1 Sept 2026
If you're out of your element, sometimes it's best to get a local to show you around. Narwhals – elusive, toothed whales famous for their bizarre unicorn-like tusks – spend much of their lives...
A Brain Implant in Korea Was Just Controlled From The US
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz1 Sept 2026
Could a scientist intervene in a brain experiment on the other side of the world without leaving their desk?
20 Years Ago, Women Got a Preventative Cancer Treatment. Now It's Protecting Men Too.
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella1 Sept 2026
It is highly likely that a preventative cancer treatment, originally targeted at women, is now also protecting men.
This New Zero-Cal Sugar Is 3,500 Times Sweeter Than Sucrose – But Doesn't Spike Insulin
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella1 Sept 2026
Artificial sweeteners might have zero calories, but that doesn't mean they have zero impact on the body.
If Your Dog Is Blinking at You, It May Be Trying to Tell You Something, Science Suggests
ScienceAlertby Starre Vartan1 Sept 2026
We love our dogs and we know they love us back. But you might wonder if they are really paying much attention to us – or merely waiting for us to drop a piece of cheese.
A Mysterious Island Has Emerged in a Canadian Lake
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill1 Sept 2026
A floating island loaded with green, healthy-looking trees has been spotted drifting around Williston Lake in Canada, and we've never seen anything like it.
The US Only Diagnoses 7% of Its Human Rabies Cases, Study Finds
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill1 Sept 2026
In February of last year, authorities confirmed the details of a grave medical accident. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) diagnosed a fatal rabies infection in a patient from...
Breakthrough Evidence: Nuclear Fusion 'Flaw' Could Actually Be Part of The Solution
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas31 Aug 2026
Fusion power aims to provide a revolutionary energy source, but achieving it remains perennially around the technological corner.