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ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Norway's Melting Glaciers Are Spilling Out Troves of Lost Artifacts <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/archeologists_norway_glacier_header.jpg" alt="Norway's Melting Glaciers Are Spilling Out Troves of Lost Artifacts"/>Anybody lost a mitten?

Norway's Melting Glaciers Are Spilling Out Troves of Lost Artifacts

Mysterious and fascinating artifacts are surfacing on melting glaciers across the planet.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

More People Are Risking Medical Advice From Chatbots. Here's Why. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/woman_sick_phone_AI_header.jpg" alt="woman with tissue on her nose, looking at her phone"/>There are safer ways.

More People Are Risking Medical Advice From Chatbots. Here's Why.

More people are turning to generative artificial intelligence (AI) to help them in their daily and professional lives.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Researchers Discover a Serious Hidden Risk With Many Generic Drugs <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/GenericDrugs.jpg" alt="Researchers Discover a Serious Hidden Risk With Many Generic Drugs"/>"Not as safe as the FDA wants you to believe."

Researchers Discover a Serious Hidden Risk With Many Generic Drugs

Generic drugs have saved billions of dollars and benefited countless lives by making existing medicines more affordable.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

NASA Has Some Good News About The Asteroid That Could Hit Earth <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/asteroid_passing_earth_odds_fall_header.jpg" alt="asteroid near earth"/>The latest projections are in.

NASA Has Some Good News About The Asteroid That Could Hit Earth

The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5 percent, according to new...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Your Takeaway Food Packaging Could Increase Your Risk of Heart Failure <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/PlasticTakeawayContainer.jpg" alt="Your Takeaway Food Packaging Could Increase Your Risk of Heart Failure"/>A hidden health hazard.

Your Takeaway Food Packaging Could Increase Your Risk of Heart Failure

Disposable plastic containers could be leaching dangerous chemicals into your takeaway food, potentially increasing your risk of cardiovascular dis...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Study Reveals How This Artificial Sweetener May Cause Heart Damage <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/AddingSugar.jpg" alt="Sugar pouring"/>"We have to know the long-term health impact."

Study Reveals How This Artificial Sweetener May Cause Heart Damage

The common artificial sweetener aspartame could be putting consumers at greater risk of heart disease through a newly discovered chemical trigger o...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Scientists Put a Human Language Gene Into Mice And Changed Their Voice <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/MouseBrain.jpg" alt="Scientists Put a Human Language Gene Into Mice And Changed Their Voice"/>Squeak squeakin' squeak squeakity.

Scientists Put a Human Language Gene Into Mice And Changed Their Voice

A new contender for a human 'language gene' can change the way that mice squeak when it is incorporated into their DNA.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Going Gluten Free Could Come at a Cost to Your Nutrition And Your Pocket <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/SayingNoToBread.jpg" alt="Going Gluten Free Could Come at a Cost to Your Nutrition And Your Pocket"/>It's a medical necessity for some.

Going Gluten Free Could Come at a Cost to Your Nutrition And Your Pocket

US consumers often pay more for gluten-free products, yet these items typically provide less protein and more sugar and calories compared with glut...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

A Global Oxygen Crisis Is Putting Millions of Lives at Risk <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/ChildWithOxygenMaskHeldToFaceByAdult.jpg" alt="A Global Oxygen Crisis Is Putting Millions of Lives at Risk"/>Here's what we can do about it.

A Global Oxygen Crisis Is Putting Millions of Lives at Risk

Every year around 374 million children and adults need access to medical oxygen to survive.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

'Missing' Planet to Join a Rare Cosmic Lineup This Week <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/planets_lining_up_orrery_header.jpg" alt="lineup of planets"/>See for yourself.

'Missing' Planet to Join a Rare Cosmic Lineup This Week

One planet was missing from the sunset lineup… until now.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

30-Million-Year-Old Hypercarnivore Skull 'Dream Find' For Paleontologists <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/Hypercarnivore.jpg" alt="30-Million-Year-Old Hypercarnivore Skull 'Dream Find' For Paleontologists"/>Terror of Egypt's lost forests.

30-Million-Year-Old Hypercarnivore Skull 'Dream Find' For Paleontologists

In Fayum, Egypt, where now lies a barren desert, a lush forest once stood, teeming with life.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Earthquakes Under Alaskan Volcano Could Be Sign It's About to Erupt <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/MountSpurr.jpg" alt="Mount Spurr"/>It's 50-50 right now.

Earthquakes Under Alaskan Volcano Could Be Sign It's About to Erupt

Mount Spurr in Alaska – rising some 3,370 meters or 11,070 feet above sea level – could be about to erupt, with the number of small and recen...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Cars Make One Thing Even More Toxic Than Diesel Fumes, Study Reveals <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2023/02/TrafficJam-1024x415.jpg" alt="Traffic jam"/>An issue facing every kind of car.

Cars Make One Thing Even More Toxic Than Diesel Fumes, Study Reveals

Exposure to air pollution is associated with around seven million premature deaths per year across the world.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Scientists Just Found The Best Way to Get Your Dog's Attention <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/dogonground.jpg" alt="dog on ground"/>The perfect method.

Scientists Just Found The Best Way to Get Your Dog's Attention

Struggling to get your dog to fetch your slippers? Scientists who strapped eye-tracking helmets to a bunch of dogs have found the perfect tactic to...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Identifying Chemicals in Our Environment Could Help Medicines Work Better <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/medications_environment_header.jpg" alt="Identifying Chemicals in Our Environment Could Help Medicines Work Better"/>It's a personal thing.

Identifying Chemicals in Our Environment Could Help Medicines Work Better

Your genes play a major role in determining your height, hair and eye color, and skin tone, but they don't tell the entire story of who you are.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Can a Supplement Really Help You Control Your Pesky Eye Floaters? <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2023/07/ExtremeCloseUpOfBlueGreenHumanEye.jpg" alt="An extreme close-up of a human eye."/>A look at the science.

Can a Supplement Really Help You Control Your Pesky Eye Floaters?

If you look up at the sky on a clear day, you might notice little cobweb-like structures drifting across your field of vision.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Revealed: Women Face Much Higher Risk of Long COVID, But Why? <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/WomanInMirror.jpg" alt="woman in mirror"/>One step closer to solving the puzzle.

Revealed: Women Face Much Higher Risk of Long COVID, But Why?

About 5% of people who catch COVID have long-lasting symptoms.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Some Drugs Seem to Lower Risk of Dementia. A Neuroscientist Explains Why. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2023/10/HandHoldsPills.jpg" alt="Hand Holding a pill"/>Existing medicines may offer a protective effect.

Some Drugs Seem to Lower Risk of Dementia. A Neuroscientist Explains Why.

There's currently no cure for dementia.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

'Astonishing': Hottest January on Record Stuns Scientists <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/HelicopterFightsBlaze.jpg" alt="Helicopter Fights Blaze"/>We haven't seen this before.

'Astonishing': Hottest January on Record Stuns Scientists

Last month was the hottest January on record, blitzing the previous high and stunning climate scientists who expected cooler La Nina conditions to ...

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.

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