sciencealert.comadded August 2026
ScienceAlertby David Nield8 Sept 2026
Soybean oil has become widespread in our diets in recent times – we're now consuming about 1,000x more of it than we were a century ago, due to its use as a cooking oil and as an ingredient in...
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill8 Sept 2026
As the world gets hotter, many of its driest regions are expected to get even drier. When this happens, the boundaries of arid regions are expected to creep forward, transforming landscapes and...
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill8 Sept 2026
We've known for a long while that too much sitting isn't good for you. Numerous studies have shown just how damaging long hours of sedentary behavior can be.
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas7 Sept 2026
The prenatal to postnatal development of our brains involves a complex cascade of chemicals, branching brain-signaling pathways, and unfolding neural cells – the evolution of a universe in...
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella7 Sept 2026
In 2018, Chinese geologists created a methane leak in the South China Sea. They were trying to figure out how much natural gas might exist in marine sediments, so they drilled a hole in the...
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr7 Sept 2026
Quantum computers are supposed to have abilities far beyond conventional ones, but verifying that they actually do is surprisingly difficult – because checking their results can itself require...
ScienceAlertby David Nield7 Sept 2026
Wear and tear on our bodies is inevitable as we get older, but what if we could slow it down? It might mean better health for a greater proportion of our lives, and a lower risk of age-related...
ScienceAlertby Russell McLendon7 Sept 2026
Anxiety disorders are humanity's most common mental disorders, affecting some 359 million people globally.
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas7 Sept 2026
For some people, rising from bed or completing daily tasks can feel like extricating oneself from quicksand or the grip of a coiling anaconda.
ScienceAlertby David Nield7 Sept 2026
Atherosclerosis, the accumulation of fatty plaques in the arteries that causes restricted blood flow, is responsible for most heart attacks and strokes – but it often builds up slowly and silently...
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill7 Sept 2026
Mold isn't typically something you want growing inside your body. But in the case of Mucor racemosus, there may be compelling reasons to make an exception.
ScienceAlertby David Nield6 Sept 2026
Scientists have to follow the data, even if it doesn't make sense. This is the situation that researchers recently found themselves in when analyzing the flow of rivers in the Canadian High Arctic.
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill6 Sept 2026
There's no effective treatment for dementia, and cases keep growing. The best bet at the moment is to reduce your risk, which is higher for people with type 2 diabetes.
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella6 Sept 2026
An 'old-fashioned' disease of kings is experiencing a modern resurgence. Today, gout is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis worldwide. And it's on the rise, even among young people.
ScienceAlertby Carly Cassella6 Sept 2026
If you have a bad night of sleep and wake up feeling unrefreshed, your sleep tracker may offer little indication as to why.
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz6 Sept 2026
Imagine being 50 and watching your biological age fall to 45. Five years younger, according to your test.
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill6 Sept 2026
In a surprisingly common disorder known as trichotillomania, people compulsively pull out their own hair as a way of self-soothing.
ScienceAlertby David Nield6 Sept 2026
Identifying distinctive types of conditions like diabetes is helpful in two ways. It means treatments can be personalized more precisely to individuals, and gives researchers a better idea of how...
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill6 Sept 2026
We've made some drastic changes to ocean ecosystems in the past century. One of the stranger patterns to appear in this is a global proliferation of tentacled creatures known as cephalopods, and in...
ScienceAlertby David Nield5 Sept 2026
Around 2 percent of the world's population has to live with the severe hair loss and associated psychological toll that comes with alopecia areata, a condition caused by the immune system...
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