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21 Heartwarming Images Reveal The Human Side of Life in Space <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/HairwashingInSpace.jpg" alt="21 Heartwarming Images Reveal The Human Side of Life in Space"/>Here's how ISS astronauts really live.

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21 Heartwarming Images Reveal The Human Side of Life in Space

Ask any astronaut who has spent extended periods in the International Space Station what the most challenging part was, and they will probably say�...

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Sleep And Anxiety Medication Is Having a Curious Effect on Salmon Behavior <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/salmon_pharm_pollution_header.jpg" alt="atlantic salmon"/>A different kind of pollution.

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Sleep And Anxiety Medication Is Having a Curious Effect on Salmon Behavior

"Out of sight, out of mind" is how we often treat what is flushed down our toilets.

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A Tiny Piece of Mouse Brain Has Finally Been Mapped in Mindblowing Detail <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/BrainWiring.jpg" alt="Brain wiring"/>It took nine years to achieve.

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A Tiny Piece of Mouse Brain Has Finally Been Mapped in Mindblowing Detail

Trying to grasp the brain&#039;s complexity is a little like trying to comprehend the vastness of space – it feels way beyond our scope of unders...

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Earth's Oceans Were Once Green, Says Study of Volcanic Waters <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/GreenOceanHorizon.jpg" alt="Earth's Oceans Were Once Green, Says Study of Volcanic Waters"/>Could they change colour again?

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Earth&#039;s Oceans Were Once Green, Says Study of Volcanic Waters

Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space.

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Earth's First Crust May Have Looked Surprisingly Like The One We Have Today <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/ProtocrustLayer.jpg" alt="Protocrust layer"/>This is unexpected.

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Earth&#039;s First Crust May Have Looked Surprisingly Like The One We Have Today

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet&#039;s earliest surface formed, but a new study has found that Ea...

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Not Even America's Richest Live as Long as Some of Europe's Poorest <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/DollarBills.jpg" alt="Dollar bills"/>Money only gets you so far.

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Not Even America&#039;s Richest Live as Long as Some of Europe&#039;s Poorest

New research shows a significant gap in mortality rates between the US and Europe, with even the wealthiest Americans more likely to meet an early ...

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Rare Star Doomed to Explode Finally Confirms Astronomical Prediction <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/type-ia.jpg" alt="Rare Star Doomed to Explode Finally Confirms Astronomical Prediction"/>We've never seen this before.

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Rare Star Doomed to Explode Finally Confirms Astronomical Prediction

Every star that hangs upon the evening firmament will one day die, its lights snuffed and its fires cooling in the dwindling cosmic end times.

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The 'World's Most Advanced Microchip' Has Been Unveiled <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/TSMC2nmChipConceptVideoScreenshot.jpg" alt="A hand holding a very small computer chip"/>A major step forward.

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The &#039;World&#039;s Most Advanced Microchip&#039; Has Been Unveiled

On April 1, 2025, the Taiwanese manufacturer TSMC introduced the world&#039;s most advanced microchip: the 2 nanometre (2nm) chip.

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This Traditional African Diet Appears to Boost The Immune System <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/kilamanjero_diet_header.jpg" alt="This Traditional African Diet Appears to Boost The Immune System"/>The changes were rapid and profound.

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This Traditional African Diet Appears to Boost The Immune System

Africa&#039;s numerous cultures have long enjoyed a heritage of diets based on items known to be good for gut and metabolic health, including a ran...

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A Week of Swimming in Cold Water Can Change You on a Cellular Level <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/SwimmingMan.jpg" alt="Cold swimming"/>Amazing results!

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A Week of Swimming in Cold Water Can Change You on a Cellular Level

If you&#039;ve ever been cold water swimming, you&#039;ll know all about the short, sharp shock it gives your senses as you plunge in.

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'Largest' Rare Earth Metals Deposit Discovered in Kazakhstan <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/NeodymiumStoneCover-1.jpg" alt="'Largest' Rare Earth Metals Deposit Discovered in Kazakhstan"/>Huge potential.

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&#039;Largest&#039; Rare Earth Metals Deposit Discovered in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan discovered its largest deposit of rare earth metals, containing around one million tonnes of the elements that are seen as vital for the...

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Once Lush Sahara Was Home to a Surprisingly Unique Group of Humans <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/03/AncientHumanFromWhenSaharaWasLush.jpg" alt="Once Lush Sahara Was Home to a Surprisingly Unique Group of Humans"/>Then the sands came.

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Once Lush Sahara Was Home to a Surprisingly Unique Group of Humans

Currently a harsh, arid sandscape, it&#039;s hard to believe the Sahara was once studded with sparkling water bodies that nourished lush green sava...

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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&#039;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 &#039;Half-Ice, Half-Fire&#039; 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&#039;s Strikes Early. This Experimental Drug May Help.

Alzheimer&#039;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&#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...