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The critically endangered North Atlantic right whale is on the right track.| ScienceAlert
The critically endangered North Atlantic right whale is on the right track.| ScienceAlert
An ADHD diagnosis means a person is prone to impulsivity and distractibility, which can manifest...| Google News Content : ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News and Amazing Bre...
It rains on the Sun, the gigantic thermonuclear orb that burns with the multi-million-degree 'fires'...| Google News Content : ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News and Amazing Bre...
Say hello to ionocaloric cooling. It's a new way to lower temperatures with the potential...| Google News Content : ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News and Amazing Bre...
For the first time, astronomers have seen life's building blocks in ice beyond the borders...| Google News Content : ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News and Amazing Bre...
This week in science: The eerie origin of why people with schizophrenia hear 'voices in...| Google News Content : ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News and Amazing Bre...
Superagers retain sharp minds into their 80s and beyond, defying the idea that cognitive decline...| Google News Content : ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News and Amazing Bre...
A review of studies on fecal transplants alleviating symptoms of depression has found the treatment...| Google News Content : ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News and Amazing Bre...
A new exoplanet candidate has just burst onto the scene, and it may be one...| Google News Content : ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News and Amazing Bre...
NASA created a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black...| Google News Content : ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News and Amazing Bre...
There's something peculiar about dying star Betelgeuse.| ScienceAlert
Vascular dementia is caused by blood flow issues in the brain: it's one of the most common types of dementia, but not as well researched or understood as others.| ScienceAlert
Rice is a mainstay of dozens of different cuisines around the world, and pretty much the fuel that keeps uni students alive (alongside instant noodles).| ScienceAlert
It's the simplest trick in the pantry - pour sugar into a jar, run out of space, then tap the jar on a table to pack it down so you can fit in the rest of the bag.| ScienceAlert
Scientists have repaired a natural gateway into the brains of mice, allowing the clumps and tangles associated with Alzheimer's disease to be swept away.| ScienceAlert
Space can be hell, especially for delicate hardware.| ScienceAlert
The planet Venus is scorching hot beneath its suffocatingly thick atmosphere, much of its surface shaped by the surges and flows of volcanic activity.| ScienceAlert
Mercury is the innermost planet of the Solar System, taking just 88 Earth days to complete and orbit around the Sun, at an average distance of around 58 million kilometres. At this close proximity, standing on the planet's surface the Sun would appear three times larger than it does from Earth.| ScienceAlert
Venus, the Evening Star, may gleam prettily in our night sky, but up close it's about as inhospitable as a rocky planet can be, with sulphuric acid rains, a suffocating CO2 atmosphere, and a surface atmospheric pressure up to 100 times greater than Earth's.| ScienceAlert
New research has revealed a previously unknown source of magnetism deep within our planet's stupidly hot, squishy layers.| ScienceAlert
The Iron Age was one of the most significant epochs in human history, and researchers may have uncovered the secrets of how we left the Bronze Age behind – via a 3,000-year-old smelting workshop called Kvemo Bolnisi, in southern Georgia.| ScienceAlert
A study of around 500,000 medical records published in 2023 suggested that severe viral infections like encephalitis and pneumonia increase the risk of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.| ScienceAlert
It turns out that planets can live a very long time indeed.| ScienceAlert
It’s long been suspected that the underwear men use and the positions they hold their bodies in can affect sperm quality, and now new research has backed up the notion that men should be free and unfettered in the interest of having children.| ScienceAlert
Not everyone can see pictures in their minds when they close their eyes and summon thoughts - an ability many of us take for granted.| ScienceAlert
Life memories for most of us are like grains of sand, slipping through our fingers as we try to hold on to as many as we can.| ScienceAlert
There are many ways to boost brain power, from exercising more often to learning new skills.| ScienceAlert
Scientists are making encouraging progress in developing vaccines to treat cancer, but so far the therapies have been restricted to specific types of tumor.| ScienceAlert
Keeping a single amino acid in check could be critical in promoting weight loss as part of the body's typical metabolic processes, according to a new study.| ScienceAlert
Flaunting bizarrely blobby crowns, colorful helmets, or elaborately arching hats, treehoppers would fit right in at the most outrageous fashion show.| ScienceAlert
The discovery of a new kind of immune cell receptor could pave the way for a new type of T-cell cancer therapy that can attack a diverse range of cancers in human patients without requiring tailored treatment.| ScienceAlert
Scientists have discovered that brain cells that were once considered to be simple place-holders for neurons could actually play an important role in helping to regulate our circadian behaviour.| ScienceAlert
Male fertility rates have been plummeting over the past half-century.| ScienceAlert
A strange signal in the background hum created by a merger between two black holes could be the first ever detection of a system of three stellar-mass black holes locked in a gravitational waltz.| ScienceAlert
Astronomers have confirmed the earliest, most distant black hole yet – and it's surprisingly monstrous for its time.| ScienceAlert
From better sleep to healthier hearts, brains, bowels, and immune systems, studies keep finding strong associations between diets packed with fruits and vegetables and reduced risks of major diseases.| ScienceAlert
In a continued effort to catch neurodegenerative diseases early, researchers directed machine learning models to see if they could 'hear' Parkinson's disease in patients' voices.| ScienceAlert
A study's p-value is the probability that your measurements could occur even if there's no relationship with the variable you're testing. Smaller p-values suggest your observations are a good indication that the variables being tested and measured in your experiment are closely connected.| ScienceAlert
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to complex software that performs tasks in a way similar to human brains, often by sensing and responding to a feature of their environment.| ScienceAlert
Cancerous vocal fold lesions could exert a subtle influence over the sound of a person's voice, which could help catch laryngeal cancer earlier than current methods.| ScienceAlert
A tiny blob of gelatinous tissue sitting in a dish represents a giant leap forward in human brain research.| ScienceAlert
With just a splash of color, the red planet's horizons can look remarkably like our own – blue skies and all.| ScienceAlert
New research suggests that poor sleep may be a crucial missing piece in the Alzheimer’s puzzle, and could lead to new treatments for the debilitating memory loss associated with the disease.| ScienceAlert
Nobody likes missing out on a full night’s sleep, but it’s something lots of us have to contend with from time to time.| ScienceAlert
Mars is the fourth planet that orbits the Sun in our Solar System.| ScienceAlert
An asteroid is a relatively small chunk of rocky minerals that orbits the Sun, often described as a minor planet.| ScienceAlert
The oldest solid material on Earth has just been identified, and it predates the Solar System itself by at least a few hundred million years.| ScienceAlert
A piece of space rock that crashed into a home in Atlanta, Georgia, had been zooming around in space for longer than Earth has existed, a recent analysis has found.| ScienceAlert
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite, circling the planet at an average distance of roughly 385,000 kilometers (239,000 miles). With a diameter of just under 3,500 kilometers (about 2,160 miles), the cratered surface of the rocky object is one of the most recognisable objects in the sky.| ScienceAlert
Meteor showers are events seen from a planet's surface, where numerous meteors are seen within a short period of time radiating from roughly the same area of sky.| ScienceAlert
Not all Full Moons are created the same.| ScienceAlert
Scientists have finally laid eyes on the first white dwarf pulsar in the known Universe, and while the star is roughly the size of Earth, it's got 200,000 times more mass, and an electromagnetic field 100 million times more powerful.| ScienceAlert
Earth's skies are about to be graced by a full Moon, plump and shining in the sky, swimming across a lake of stars like a giant sturgeon.| ScienceAlert
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Over the past two centuries, vaccines have been critical for preventing infectious diseases.| ScienceAlert
Venus is the second planet orbiting our Sun in the Solar System.| ScienceAlert
We know sleep and diet are closely related, and a new study adds a few more intriguing details to the picture, showing links between specific types of foods, like those high in fiber or fat, and sleep quality.| ScienceAlert
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) describes a range of complex neurological conditions that affect an individual's social, communication, and motor skills.| ScienceAlert
Cancer is a type of disease defined by the uncontrolled division of cells at one or more locations in the body. This abnormal growth can affect a person's health in a variety of ways.| ScienceAlert
There's no easy way to rate dog intelligence.| ScienceAlert
Getting a good night’s sleep before an exam or a busy day at work has always been sound advice, and now new research helps to explain why sleep has such beneficial effects on our ability to recall information later.| ScienceAlert
Pulsars are compact, rapidly rotating objects that emit concentrated streams of radiation far across the cosmos.| ScienceAlert
Diabetes is an inability to maintain healthy levels of glucose in the blood, giving rise to numerous symptoms that can affect the entire body and can lead to potentially life-threatening complications.| ScienceAlert
Neanderthals were an extinct relative of modern humans once found across Europe, extending into Central and Southwest Asia.| ScienceAlert
A fever is any significant increase in an animal's body temperature triggered by its immune system.| ScienceAlert
Clinical trials are studies designed to test treatments and diagnostic tools on volunteers prior to use on patients.| ScienceAlert
Pandemics are states of disease that sharply increase in populations around the world with infections taking place more or less simultaneously.| ScienceAlert
Dark matter is a hypothetical invisible mass thought to be responsible for adding gravity to galaxies and other bodies.| ScienceAlert
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A virus is genetic material contained within an organic particle that invades living cells and uses their host's metabolic processes to produce a new generation of viral particles.| ScienceAlert
Coronaviruses are a family of viruses known for containing strains that cause potentially deadly diseases in mammals and birds.| ScienceAlert
Jupiter is the fifth planet that orbits the Sun, positioned between Mars and Saturn at an average distance of around 778 million kilometers (484 million miles). It's the largest of the Solar System's four 'gas giants' – massive planets largely made up of mostly light elements primarily in gas form.| ScienceAlert
