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ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Losing Just One Night's Sleep Changes Your Immune System, Study Finds <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/woman_sleeping_table_header.jpg" alt="Losing Just One Night's Sleep Changes Your Immune System, Study Finds"/>It gets ugly fast.

Losing Just One Night's Sleep Changes Your Immune System, Study Finds

We all know sleep is important, but it takes up so much time.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

World First: Scientists Printed Penises For Pigs And Restored Their Erections <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/PigPenisImplant.jpg"/>They were functional just weeks later.

World First: Scientists Printed Penises For Pigs And Restored Their Erections

A 3D-printed penis implant has restored erectile function to rabbits and pigs in a world first.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Chewing Wood Could Give Your Brain an Unexpected Boost <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/man_chewing_pencil_header.jpg" alt="man chewing on a wooden pencil"/>Mind the splinters.

Chewing Wood Could Give Your Brain an Unexpected Boost

Maybe dogs who chew sticks are on to something.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Misdiagnosis of Chronic Conditions as 'In Your Head' Causes Lasting Damage <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/MisdiagnosingChronicConditionsAsPyschosomaticCausesDamage.jpg" alt="Misdiagnosis of Chronic Conditions as 'In Your Head' Causes Lasting Damage"/>"I still can’t forget these words."

Misdiagnosis of Chronic Conditions as 'In Your Head' Causes Lasting Damage

Feeling disbelieved when knowing that there is something very wrong with your body can have devastating and long-term consequences.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Intuitive Machines Is Set For Lunar Landing – With Hopping Drone, Ice Drill, And 4G <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/AthenaMoonImageBrightened-.jpg"/>"It’s not déjà vu – there’s another Moon landing this week!"

Intuitive Machines Is Set For Lunar Landing – With Hopping Drone, Ice Drill, And 4G

A drill to search for ice.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Sunken Continents Near Earth's Core Could Unbalance Our Magnetic Field <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/EarthsMagneticFieldVanAllenBeltsNASA.jpg" alt="Sunken Continents Near Earth's Core Could Unbalance Our Magnetic Field"/>A churning world.

Sunken Continents Near Earth's Core Could Unbalance Our Magnetic Field

Continent-sized structures of mineral protruding from the lower mantle towards Earth's outer core may be contributing to an instability of our...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Radio Telescopes Are Revealing a Trove of Faint Circular Objects in The Sky <img width="128" height="52" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/OddRadioCirclesASKAP-e1741136366444.jpg" alt="Two circle shapes in space"/> <img width="1024" height="408" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/OddRadioCirclesASKAP-1024x408.jpg" alt="Two circle shapes in space"/>Near-perfect circles in our messy Universe.

Radio Telescopes Are Revealing a Trove of Faint Circular Objects in The Sky

Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can't.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Woman With Down Syndrome Had Alzheimer's Without Dementia in Surprise Case <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/brain_ds_alzheimers_header.jpg" alt="generic brain scan image"/>A fascinating life.

Woman With Down Syndrome Had Alzheimer's Without Dementia in Surprise Case

Cognitive decline is a too-common feature of old age among those born with Down syndrome.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Earth's Strongest Ocean Current Could Slow by 20% as Antarctica Melts <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/antarctica_red_sky_header.jpg" alt="red sky over antarctica"/>The consequences will be profound.

Earth's Strongest Ocean Current Could Slow by 20% as Antarctica Melts

Flowing clockwise around Antarctica, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the strongest ocean current on the planet.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

3 Out of 5 Adults Will Be Classified Overweight by 2050, Study Finds <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2022/09/ObesityTape-1024x415.jpg" alt="Measuring tape around a waist"/>Obesity sets in earlier with each generation.

3 Out of 5 Adults Will Be Classified Overweight by 2050, Study Finds

A comprehensive new report estimates that the proportion of the global population who are overweight or obese has doubled since 1990.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Remarkable Drone Footage Reveals How Narwhals Use Their Tusks <img width="1024" height="414" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/NarwhalsBobbingAboutInWaterTusksOut.gif" alt="Remarkable Drone Footage Reveals How Narwhals Use Their Tusks"/>More than legend.

Remarkable Drone Footage Reveals How Narwhals Use Their Tusks

With a fabled ability to purify tainted water or heal ailments, the narwhal's spiraling tusk was highly coveted during the Middle Ages when it...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Fast Radio Burst Traced Back to The Last Place We Expected <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/magnetar-eso.jpg" alt="Fast Radio Burst Traced Back to The Last Place We Expected"/>"That was definitely surprising!"

Fast Radio Burst Traced Back to The Last Place We Expected

The mystery of fast radio bursts (FRBs) just got a little bit weirder.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Giving Up Your Phone For Just 3 Days Can Reshape Your Brain Activity <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/PhoneUse.jpg" alt="Phone use"/>It's in your hands.

Giving Up Your Phone For Just 3 Days Can Reshape Your Brain Activity

How far away is your phone right now? When did you last look at it? For many of us, these digital devices are almost constantly in our hands, and a...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

First US Measles Death in 10 Years: Expert Explains How to Protect Yourself <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/Measles-Virus.jpg" alt="Measles Virus"/>There's a way to stop the outbreak.

First US Measles Death in 10 Years: Expert Explains How to Protect Yourself

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Viral Footage of Robot Headbutting Woman Raises Safety Questions <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/robot_headbutting_woman_header.jpg" alt="robot at lantern festival"/>Who's to blame?

Viral Footage of Robot Headbutting Woman Raises Safety Questions

Humanoid robots are supposed to be our loyal assistants, but we saw another side to them the other day.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Study Reveals How Earth's Orbit Triggers Ice Ages, And There's One in The Next 11,000 Years <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/ice-shelf.jpg" alt="Study Reveals How Earth's Orbit Triggers Ice Ages, And There's One in The Next 11,000 Years"/>An amazing pattern emerged.

Study Reveals How Earth's Orbit Triggers Ice Ages, And There's One in The Next 11,000 Years

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up ag...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Destructive Forces of Ancient Glaciers May Have Given Complex Life a Boost <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/melting_glacier_header.jpg" alt="Destructive Forces of Ancient Glaciers May Have Given Complex Life a Boost"/>The crushing power of ice.

Destructive Forces of Ancient Glaciers May Have Given Complex Life a Boost

Imagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

Tardigrade Protein Could Soon Make Cancer Patients More Radiation Proof <img width="600" height="243" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/articles/processed/tardigrade_600.jpg" alt="Scientists fired tardigrades out of a gun to see if they can survive space impacts"/>Take it from a pro.

Tardigrade Protein Could Soon Make Cancer Patients More Radiation Proof

When it comes to surviving radiation, tardigrades really know their stuff, shrugging off doses that would annihilate most other life forms.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 1 year ago

NASA's Experimental Hybrid Hydrogen Engine Could Finally Cut Flight Emissions <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/02/flying_over_water_header.jpg" alt="plane flying over ocean"/>Swapping carbon for water.

NASA's Experimental Hybrid Hydrogen Engine Could Finally Cut Flight Emissions

Air travel produces around 2.5 percent of all global CO2 emissions, and despite decades of effort in developing alternative fuels or more efficient...

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.

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