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Climate Change Could Wipe 40% Off Global Economy, Study Predicts <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/economy-climate-change-header.jpg" alt="drought landscape"/>We didn't consider a crucial factor.

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Climate Change Could Wipe 40% Off Global Economy, Study Predicts

The damage climate change will inflict on the world's economy is likely to have been massively underestimated, according to new research by my...

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New 'Half-Ice, Half-Fire' Phase of Matter Found Lurking in a Magnet <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/ice-on-fire.jpg" alt="New 'Half-Ice, Half-Fire' Phase of Matter Found Lurking in a Magnet"/>Sneaky.

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New 'Half-Ice, Half-Fire' Phase of Matter Found Lurking in a Magnet

An exotic state of matter has been found lurking within a previous exotic state that was discovered in a magnetic compound last decade.

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Protein That Calms Waking Hair Follicles Could Lead to Alopecia Treatment <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/BaldHead.jpg" alt="Balding head"/>Shhhh ... everything is ok.

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Protein That Calms Waking Hair Follicles Could Lead to Alopecia Treatment

A new study has identified a protein that appears to be essential for hair growth and hair follicle protection.

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Sometimes Alzheimer's Strikes Early. This Experimental Drug May Help. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/MiddleAgedWoman.jpg" alt="middle aged woman"/>It could slow cognitive decline in younger people affected.

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Sometimes Alzheimer's Strikes Early. This Experimental Drug May Help.

Alzheimer's disease is usually associated with old age.

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Dangerous Fungal Infection Sees a Dramatic Increase in US Hospitals <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/CandidaAuris.jpg" alt="Candida auris fungus"/>The surge is continuing.

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Dangerous Fungal Infection Sees a Dramatic Increase in US Hospitals

Cases of the fungal infection Candida auris are rising rapidly and coming from more sources too, a new US study reveals.

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A Huge Discovery in Morocco Could Rewrite The History of Africa <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/archaeologists-digging-edit.jpg" alt="A Huge Discovery in Morocco Could Rewrite The History of Africa"/>A breakthrough for archaeology.

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A Huge Discovery in Morocco Could Rewrite The History of Africa

A new archaeological discovery at Kach Kouch in Morocco challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb (north-west Africa) was an empty land befo...

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Huge Trees Hiding in Plain Sight May Be a Species Totally New to Science <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/OldGrowthTanzania.jpg" alt="Huge Trees Hiding in Plain Sight May Be a Species Totally New to Science"/>A secret kept for thousands of years.

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Huge Trees Hiding in Plain Sight May Be a Species Totally New to Science

A species of old-growth tree that is totally new to science has been hiding out in a narrow slice of mountain rainforest in Tanzania.

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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's Magnetic Field

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth'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'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'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'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'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'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 'Devil Horns' 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 'Star Grinder' Swarm of Black Holes Could Lurk in Our Galaxy'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's Rotation

A trio of US researchers claim to have successfully tested predictions that it'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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'Red Princess': 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've seen previously.