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Brown Rice Has More Arsenic Than White – Here's Why You Shouldn't Avoid It <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/brown-rice.jpg"/>There's a bigger dietary danger.

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Brown Rice Has More Arsenic Than White – Here's Why You Shouldn't Avoid It

Brown rice contains more arsenic than white rice, according to a recent study from the US.

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84% of Earth's Coral Reefs in Crisis as Worst Bleaching Event on Record Hits <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/CoralReefBleachingWithBackgroundDiver.jpg"/>Disastrous for people and the planet.

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84% of Earth's Coral Reefs in Crisis as Worst Bleaching Event on Record Hits

An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis that could kill off...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Scientists Calculated How Much Meat You Can Sustainably Eat in a Week <img width="600" height="243" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2019-02/processed/eatingextinction_600.jpg" alt="We are eating the planet's last 'megafauna' to extinction"/>Could you make the change?

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Scientists Calculated How Much Meat You Can Sustainably Eat in a Week

When it comes to eating meat, it sometimes seems impossible to strike a balance between doing the right thing for your body, and for the planet.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Hubble Celebrates 35 Years by Gifting Us 4 Breathtaking Cosmic Images <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/Hubble-Pic-Collage.jpg" alt="Hubble Celebrates 35 Years by Gifting Us 4 Breathtaking Cosmic Images"/>"A new window to the Universe."

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Hubble Celebrates 35 Years by Gifting Us 4 Breathtaking Cosmic Images

This week brings the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th birthday – but instead of getting presents, the Hubble team is giving out presents in the...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Study Reveals a Shocking Amount of Plastic in The Arteries of Stroke Patients <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/03/CrossSectionOfCoronaryArteryAtherosclerosis.jpg" alt="Tissue section of clogged coronary artery, stained purple as viewed under microscope."/>"Wow and not good."

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Study Reveals a Shocking Amount of Plastic in The Arteries of Stroke Patients

Tiny, microscopic bits of plastic have been found almost everywhere researchers look – including throughout the human body.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Scientists Say They Found a New Color Humans Have Never Seen Before <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/ConeOzPrototype.jpg" alt="Scientists Say They Found a New Color Humans Have Never Seen Before"/>Wait, what?

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Scientists Say They Found a New Color Humans Have Never Seen Before

For the first time, humans might have glimpsed a rainbow of color that lies just beyond our sight – including a "blue-green of unprecedented satu...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

This Melting Planet Laid a Trail of Destruction Over 5 Million Miles Long <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/MIT-Disintegrate-Planet-01-press.jpg" alt="This Melting Planet Laid a Trail of Destruction Over 5 Million Miles Long"/>"The extent of the tail is gargantuan."

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This Melting Planet Laid a Trail of Destruction Over 5 Million Miles Long

Astronomers have discovered one of the least habitable planets ever.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Red Planet's Core May Explain Strange Mystery of Ancient Magnetic Field <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/MarsCoreRender.jpg" alt="Red Planet's Core May Explain Strange Mystery of Ancient Magnetic Field"/>A new theory emerges.

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Red Planet's Core May Explain Strange Mystery of Ancient Magnetic Field

Scientists have known for a while that Mars currently lacks a magnetic field, and many blame that for its paltry atmosphere – with no protective ...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Most Bees Nest in The Ground. Offering Rocks And Gravel Is a Simple Way to Help Them Thrive. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/bee-closeup.jpg" alt="bee closeup"/>This could be huge.

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Most Bees Nest in The Ground. Offering Rocks And Gravel Is a Simple Way to Help Them Thrive.

Of the more than 20,000 bee species in the world, 70% nest in the ground.

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NASA Reveals Stunning Closeup of Bizarre-Looking Asteroid <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/asteroid-black-and-white.jpg" alt="asteroid black and white"/>"Strikingly complicated geology."

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NASA Reveals Stunning Closeup of Bizarre-Looking Asteroid

NASA's Lucy spacecraft made a successful flyby of the second asteroid on its must-see list over the weekend, and sent back imagery documenting...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 11 months ago

Strange Bacteria That Can't Live Alone Hint at Early Steps to Complex Life <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/StrangeBacteriaTinyMultiCellular.jpg" alt="Strange Bacteria That Can't Live Alone Hint at Early Steps to Complex Life"/>They team up in an entirely unexpected way.

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Strange Bacteria That Can't Live Alone Hint at Early Steps to Complex Life

All bacteria exist as single cells at some point in their lives – except for one kind, known as multicellular magnetotactic bacteria (MMB), that is.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 11 months ago

Origins of Earth's Water May Not Be as Complicated as We Thought <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/earth_waters_above_header.jpg" alt="earth and oceans"/>A long-held theory overturned?

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Origins of Earth's Water May Not Be as Complicated as We Thought

Given the seeming paucity of moisture in the leftover remains of Earth's building blocks, planetary scientists have long assumed our planet&#0...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 11 months ago

New Form of Dark Matter May Explain Milky Way's Core Mysteries <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/center_milky_way_header.jpg" alt="milky way center"/>One answer to two galactic puzzles?

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New Form of Dark Matter May Explain Milky Way's Core Mysteries

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 11 months ago

Strongest Evidence of Alien Life Yet Found 124 Light-Years Away <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/life_exoplanet_sig_header.jpg" alt="exoplanet illustration"/>We have questions.

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Strongest Evidence of Alien Life Yet Found 124 Light-Years Away

Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our Solar System, though othe...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 11 months ago

Ghostly Rings of Dying Star Captured in Never-Before-Seen Detail by JWST <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/planetary-nebula-NGC-1514-2025.jpg" alt="What looks like a single large, bright star (but is two) shines with bright purple diffraction spikes at the center of a large, diffuse cylinder of gas and dust that is tipped to the right"/>This is amazing!

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Ghostly Rings of Dying Star Captured in Never-Before-Seen Detail by JWST

NGC 1514 is a planetary nebula about 1500 light-years away.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 11 months ago

Major Problem in Physics Could Be Fixed if The Whole Universe Was Spinning <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/iotw2025a-1500.jpg" alt="Major Problem in Physics Could Be Fixed if The Whole Universe Was Spinning"/>Like a record, baby.

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Major Problem in Physics Could Be Fixed if The Whole Universe Was Spinning

Earth rotates, the Sun rotates, the Milky Way rotates – and a new model suggests the entire Universe could be rotating.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 11 months ago

A 5-Minute Workout Each Day Can Still Make a Huge Health Difference <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/ChairSquat.jpg" alt="Chair squats"/>Set the timer.

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A 5-Minute Workout Each Day Can Still Make a Huge Health Difference

New research adds to a mounting body of evidence showing that even a small amount of daily exercise can make a difference.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 11 months ago

Pornography's Prevalence Could Have a Dire Impact on Our Brain, Studies Show <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/man_watching_computer_header.jpg" alt="man watching computer screen"/>The dark side of pleasure.

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Pornography's Prevalence Could Have a Dire Impact on Our Brain, Studies Show

While pornography has been present throughout human history in various forms, such as ancient erotic art to more modernized motion pictures, resear...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 11 months ago

'Landmark Moment': New Breast Cancer Treatment Approved in UK <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/WomenWithBreastCancerHuggingGirl.jpg"/>The payoff from decades of research.

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'Landmark Moment': New Breast Cancer Treatment Approved in UK

A new drug that helps slow the spread of an incurable type of breast cancer has been approved for use in Britain's state-run National Health S...

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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�...