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NASA Is Watching a Huge, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2023/03/GiantColorfulAnomalyABoveEarth-1024x415.jpg" alt="Giant Colorful Anomaly ABove Earth"/>It's like a strange pothole in space.

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NASA Is Watching a Huge, Growing Anomaly in Earth&#039;s Magnetic Field

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth&#039;s magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet...

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A 30-Year Study May Have Found The Single Best Diet For Healthy Aging <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/HealthyEating.jpg" alt="Healthy eating"/>The results are in.

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A 30-Year Study May Have Found The Single Best Diet For Healthy Aging

Would you add a few more vegetables and whole grains to your diet in return for a healthy old age? A new study has broken down in detail the food g...

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Exercise Boosts Brain Function Across All Ages, Massive Study Confirms <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/VRExerciseGame.jpg" alt="Exercise Boosts Brain Function Across All Ages, Massive Study Confirms"/>Now with surprising options for activities!

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Exercise Boosts Brain Function Across All Ages, Massive Study Confirms

It doesn&#039;t matter what age you are or how tough your exercise plan is – whatever physical activity you are doing is probably helping your br...

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First-Ever Images of Neptune's Eerie Glow Finally Reveal Missing Aurora <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/neptune-glow.jpg" alt="First-Ever Images of Neptune's Eerie Glow Finally Reveal Missing Aurora"/>At last, we've completed the set.

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First-Ever Images of Neptune&#039;s Eerie Glow Finally Reveal Missing Aurora

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory.

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New Study Identifies Unexpected Part of Your Brain That's Uniquely Human <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/girl_chimp_header.jpg" alt="girl and chimp"/>It's called the arcuate fasciculus.

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New Study Identifies Unexpected Part of Your Brain That&#039;s Uniquely Human

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates.

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Venus Flytrap Wasp: 99-Million-Year-Old Amber Reveals Bizarre New Species <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/GrabbyAbdoWasp.jpg"/>"Nothing similar is known from any other insect."

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Venus Flytrap Wasp: 99-Million-Year-Old Amber Reveals Bizarre New Species

A previously unknown species of wasp with an abdomen reminiscent of a Venus flytrap has been discovered in 99-million-year-old Kachin amber, and en...

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Stunning Swirl in Europe's Skies Caused by Classified Space X Mission <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/space_x_swirl_sky_header.jpg" alt="swirl over europe"/>"Don't panic!"

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Stunning Swirl in Europe&#039;s Skies Caused by Classified Space X Mission

A stunning blue and white spiral spotted in skies across Europe late Monday was created by frozen fuel tumbling from a SpaceX rocket, according to ...

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Drug For Rare Disease Turns Human Blood Into Mosquito Poison <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/MosquitoInsect.jpg" alt="Mosquito"/>A last meal.

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Drug For Rare Disease Turns Human Blood Into Mosquito Poison

Scientists have a radical new plan for controlling mosquito numbers and fighting malaria: lacing human blood with a drug that&#039;s poisonous for ...

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Supermoon This Week Will Coincide With Rare 'Devil Horns' Solar Eclipse <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/solar-eclipse.jpg" alt="solar-eclipse"/>An extraordinary moment!

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Supermoon This Week Will Coincide With Rare &#039;Devil Horns&#039; Solar Eclipse

On March 29, the Moon is going to enter perigee – the point in its elliptical orbit that brings it closest to Earth.

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A 'Star Grinder' Swarm of Black Holes Could Lurk in Our Galaxy's Dusty Core <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/TwoBlackHolesMerging.jpg" alt="A 'Star Grinder' Swarm of Black Holes Could Lurk in Our Galaxy's Dusty Core"/>The horror.

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A &#039;Star Grinder&#039; Swarm of Black Holes Could Lurk in Our Galaxy&#039;s Dusty Core

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

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Researchers Disprove Their Own Work by Producing Power From Earth's Rotation <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/PlanetEarth.jpg" alt="Planet Earth"/>Is it really possible?

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Researchers Disprove Their Own Work by Producing Power From Earth&#039;s Rotation

A trio of US researchers claim to have successfully tested predictions that it&#039;s possible to harvest clean energy from the natural rhythms and...

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Largest Carbon Molecules Found on Mars Build The Case For Ancient Life <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/mars_cumberland_drill_molecules_header.jpg" alt="drill hole"/>What made them?

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Largest Carbon Molecules Found on Mars Build The Case For Ancient Life

Chains of up to a dozen carbon atoms have been detected in what appears to have been an ancient lakebed on Mars, contributing to a growing library ...

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'Red Princess': Mysterious Skeleton With Dyed Teeth Is a Scientific First <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/cinnabar-teeth.jpg"/>We've never seen this before.

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&#039;Red Princess&#039;: Mysterious Skeleton With Dyed Teeth Is a Scientific First

A young woman who lived and died more than 2,000 years ago left behind remains in China that are unlike any we&#039;ve seen previously.

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Male Octopuses Stun Females With Venom to Survive Mating, Study Finds <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/Hapalochlaena_fasciata_Toba3.jpg" alt="blue-lined octopus"/>An evolutionary arms race between the sexes.

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Male Octopuses Stun Females With Venom to Survive Mating, Study Finds

The blue-lined octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata) is only a few centimeters long, yet it may be one of the most dangerous marine animals on Earth.

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Scientists Finally Identified Where Gluten Reactions Start <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/08/woman_eating_pastry.jpg" alt="woman eating a pastry"/>Proof at last!

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Scientists Finally Identified Where Gluten Reactions Start

For roughly one in every hundred people, food containing even the smallest amounts of gluten can deliver a gutful of hurt and pose severe risks to ...

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The Entire Universe Could Exist Inside a Black Hole – Here's Why <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/jades-galaxies.jpg"/>Something is very wrong.

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The Entire Universe Could Exist Inside a Black Hole &ndash; Here&#039;s Why

When you peer out into the depths of the cosmos, a mystery lies there, waiting.

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Amazing 15-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossil Found in The Australian Desert <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/pish.jpg" alt="Amazing 15-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossil Found in The Australian Desert"/>Stomach contents and all.

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Amazing 15-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossil Found in The Australian Desert

An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the Lagerstätte that keeps on g...

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Parkinson's Gut Bacteria Link Suggests an Unexpected, Simple Treatment <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2023/04/microbes_epithelium_gut_AD-1024x415.jpg" alt="Artist's impression of microbes on the gut lining."/>Inching closer to the full picture.

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Parkinson&#039;s Gut Bacteria Link Suggests an Unexpected, Simple Treatment

Researchers have suspected for some time that the link between our gut and brain plays a role in the development of Parkinson&#039;s disease.

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This Ancient Scratch May Be One of Humanity's Oldest Rock Symbols <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/RockScratch.jpg" alt="This Ancient Scratch May Be One of Humanity's Oldest Rock Symbols"/>A message from the past?

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This Ancient Scratch May Be One of Humanity&#039;s Oldest Rock Symbols

It may look like just another random boulder, but this old Spanish rock bears engraved lines that could be an astounding 200,000 years old, accordi...

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Anti-Amyloid Drug May Delay Alzheimer's Symptoms in Those at Risk, Clinical Trial Finds <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/amyloid_plaque_642.jpg" alt="amyloid plaque"/>"I am highly optimistic now."

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Anti-Amyloid Drug May Delay Alzheimer&#039;s Symptoms in Those at Risk, Clinical Trial Finds

A method for slowing disease progress in Alzheimer&#039;s patients may also delay onset in people predisposed to the disease who are yet to show sy...