sciencealert.comadded August 2026
ScienceAlertby David Nield23d 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 Cockerill23d 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 Cassella23d 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 Dockrill23d 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 Starr23d 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 Dockrill23d 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 Vartan24d 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 Starr24d 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 Cockerill24d ago
Chihuahuas are really weird dogs. We love them, but no doubt there's something a bit… quirky about those little guys.
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas24d 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 Cassella24d 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 Nield24d 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.
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas24d ago
The human brain is creatively malleable, producing breathtaking art such as The Starry Night (twice) and the Large Hadron Collider to reveal different sides of reality, including the...
ScienceAlertby David Nield24d ago
Underlying, less visible health problems sometimes manifest themselves through connected changes in the body that show up before any actual symptoms.
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz25d ago
Most plants turn toward the Sun. Sunlight means food, energy, and life. But a tiny plant discovered on the shaded floor of a Thai forest appears determined to break that basic rule.
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas25d ago
Copper is a much sought (and much stolen) metal because it powers the proliferation of data centers, electric vehicles, and energy infrastructure.
ScienceAlertby David Nield25d ago
We know, broadly speaking, that staying active keeps us healthy, and getting in a certain amount of steps each day is a simple way to go about it.
ScienceAlertby David Nield25d ago
The basics of evolution are pretty straightforward to grasp: organisms better equipped to survive and reproduce tend to have the advantage over others. These animals live on, while others don't.
ScienceAlertby Peter Dockrill25d ago
When a young boy reported to the emergency department with a mysterious form of 'spontaneous bruising' marking his abdomen, doctors were basically stumped.
ScienceAlertby Esra Öz25d ago
The eyes are said to be windows to the soul. Scientists now suspect they might offer a glimpse of something else, too: the rhythm of our attention. The clue is not necessarily in where we look.
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