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ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Mysterious Radiation Belts Detected Around Earth After Epic Solar Storm <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/new-belts.jpg" alt="Mysterious Radiation Belts Detected Around Earth After Epic Solar Storm"/>"Wow, this is something really new."

Mysterious Radiation Belts Detected Around Earth After Epic Solar Storm

In May 2024, an epic solar storm rattled Earth so powerfully that its effects were felt even at the bottom of the ocean.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

COVID-19 May Be Linked With Higher Alzheimer's Risk, Study Finds <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/SARS-CoV-2.jpg" alt="SARS-CoV-2 virus"/>Similar to four years of aging, researchers say.

COVID-19 May Be Linked With Higher Alzheimer's Risk, Study Finds

Aside from the potential curse of long COVID, people who've had the SARS-CoV-2 virus may be more likely to develop high levels of biomarkers f...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

The Pandemic Did Not Affect The Moon After All, Scientists Say <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/MoonSky.jpg" alt="Moon in the sky"/>"It seems to be a bit of a stretch."

The Pandemic Did Not Affect The Moon After All, Scientists Say

Can a global pandemic affect temperatures on the Moon? A 2024 study linked worldwide lockdowns with a drop in heat radiation reaching the Moon from...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Humans Are Evolving Before Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/10/monk-nepal.jpg" alt="Humans Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau"/>"This is a case of ongoing natural selection."

Humans Are Evolving Before Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau

Humans are not yet done cooking.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Radioactive Dust Still Blows Over The Sahara From Cold War Nuclear Tests <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/NuclearTest.jpg" alt="Nuclear test"/>We're still feeling the effects.

Radioactive Dust Still Blows Over The Sahara From Cold War Nuclear Tests

The large Saharan dust cloud that blanketed Europe back in March 2022 contained some unexpected ingredients, according to a new study: chemical sig...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Bonobos Know Something You Don't Know, And Are Willing to Tell For a Price <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/BabyBonobo.jpg" alt="Baby bonobo"/>They're just like people.

Bonobos Know Something You Don't Know, And Are Willing to Tell For a Price

Previously thought to be an exclusively human skill, knowing when a friend could use a clue appears to be a talent we share with our primate cousins.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

New Non-Opioid Painkiller First in Decades to Win FDA Approval <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/neurone_sodium_channels_header.jpg" alt="artist impression neuron"/>A game changer.

New Non-Opioid Painkiller First in Decades to Win FDA Approval

A new non-opioid painkiller, suzetrigine, has just been approved by the US drug regulator, the FDA.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Scientists Simulated Bennu Crashing to Earth in September 2182. It's Not Pretty. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/asteroid-fall.jpg" alt="Scientists Simulated Bennu Crashing to Earth in September 2182. It's Not Pretty."/>Odds are only 0.04 percent.

Scientists Simulated Bennu Crashing to Earth in September 2182. It's Not Pretty.

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would be in for, hinting at w...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Claim '2 Degree Target Is Dead' Triggers Debate Over Climate Scenarios <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/polar_bear_2_deg_rise_header.jpg" alt="polar bear on ice"/>Could it really be that bad?

Claim '2 Degree Target Is Dead' Triggers Debate Over Climate Scenarios

Holding long-term global warming to two degrees Celsius – the fallback target of the Paris climate accord – is now "impossible," according to a...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Report Reveals World's Fourth Largest Lake Now a Deadly Desert <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/AralSeaAsSeenFromSpaceIn1997.jpg" alt="The World's Fourth Largest Lake Has All But Completely Dried Up"/>In just 60 years.

Report Reveals World's Fourth Largest Lake Now a Deadly Desert

Before the 1960s, the fourth largest lake on Earth glistened for miles across the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Hubble Reveals Cosmic Bullet That Gave The Bullseye Galaxy Its Record-Breaking Rings <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/bullseye.jpg" alt="Hubble Reveals Cosmic Bullet That Gave The Bullseye Galaxy Its Record-Breaking Rings"/>Caught in the act.

Hubble Reveals Cosmic Bullet That Gave The Bullseye Galaxy Its Record-Breaking Rings

Just like fingerprints and snowflakes, no two galaxies in the entire Universe are exactly alike.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Changes in a Greenland Glacier Hid a Grim Truth of Ice Sheet's Destruction <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/crumbling_greenland_ice_header.jpg" alt="greenland's ice sheets"/>We're running out of time.

Changes in a Greenland Glacier Hid a Grim Truth of Ice Sheet's Destruction

Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Scientists Discover a Fungus Turning Spiders Into Zombies <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/01/fungus-spider-cover.jpg" alt="a dead spider stand on a white rocky surface. its legs are long and brown. its body and face is completely obscured by a fuzzy white substance."/>Like something out of a nightmare.

Scientists Discover a Fungus Turning Spiders Into Zombies

A new species of fungus straight out of a nightmare has been found lurking on the ceiling of an abandoned gunpowder storeroom in Northern Ireland, ...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Study Reveals How Much Exercise You Need to Control Your Blood Pressure <img width="600" height="243" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2021-04/processed/GettyImages-492708704-Edit_600.jpg" alt="Here's how much exercise works best for controlling your blood pressure"/>You can do this.

Study Reveals How Much Exercise You Need to Control Your Blood Pressure

When it comes to exercise for heart health, you don't want to peak too early in life.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Remarkable Fossil Discovery Hints at Antarctic Origins of All Modern Birds <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/Vegavis-Landscape-%C2%A9-Witton-2025.jpeg" alt="illustration of a brown feathered diving water bird, swimming underwater while ammonites and fish flee. the water is brown and hazy."/>The debate continues.

Remarkable Fossil Discovery Hints at Antarctic Origins of All Modern Birds

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study has found.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Delayed REM Sleep May Be an Early Signal of Alzheimer's, Study Finds <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/01/SleepingWoman.jpg" alt="Sleeping woman"/>Another vital link.

Delayed REM Sleep May Be an Early Signal of Alzheimer's, Study Finds

Taking longer to drift into the dreaming phase – known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep – could be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease, ...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Cognitive Flexibility Could Help Boost Vaccine Uptake. Here's Why. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/10/girl_vaccination.jpg" alt="doctor holding cotton ball on girl's arm"/>This is important.

Cognitive Flexibility Could Help Boost Vaccine Uptake. Here's Why.

Making decisions about our health is a complex and sometimes difficult process.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Deodorant Can Generate Air Pollution That Rivals Urban Smog <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/10/man_using_deodorant_spray.jpg" alt="man using a deodorant spray"/>"I know this is difficult to hear."

Deodorant Can Generate Air Pollution That Rivals Urban Smog

Modern personal care products are formulated using a variety of ingredients to mask body odor, prevent perspiration, moisturize, hold our hair in p...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Something Awesome Happens if You Use Banana Peel as an Ingredient <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2022/08/BananaPeelCookies-1024x415.jpg" alt="Banana against a black background"/>We've been eating bananas wrong.

Something Awesome Happens if You Use Banana Peel as an Ingredient

Every time you peel a banana and dispose of the skin, you're throwing away a tasty, nutritious snack.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

World's Oceans on Verge of Being Too Acidic to Sustain Life, Scientists Warn <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/09/TurtleUnderwater.jpg" alt="Turtle Underwater"/>A crucial threshold we cannot cross.

World's Oceans on Verge of Being Too Acidic to Sustain Life, Scientists Warn

The world's oceans are close to becoming too acidic to properly sustain marine life or help stabilise the climate, a new report said on Monday.

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