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Scientists 'Tattoo' Tardigrades in Nanotechnology Breakthrough <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/tardigrade-tattoo.jpg" alt="Scientists 'Tattoo' Tardigrades in Nanotechnology Breakthrough"/>For science!

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Scientists 'Tattoo' Tardigrades in Nanotechnology Breakthrough

A new technique has allowed researchers to tattoo patterns onto the tiny bodies of living tardigrades.

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A Strange Phrase Keeps Turning Up in Scientific Papers, But Why? <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/BooksInLibrary.jpg"/>This is really weird.

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A Strange Phrase Keeps Turning Up in Scientific Papers, But Why?

Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy".

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Scientists Spotted Signs of a Hidden Structure Inside Earth's Core <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2023/02/EarthsInnermostInnerCore-1024x415.jpg" alt="Earths Innermos tInner Core"/>A lost chapter in our planet's history.

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Scientists Spotted Signs of a Hidden Structure Inside Earth's Core

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, is Earth's history.

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Just 15 Extra Minutes of Sleep Is Linked to Brain Benefits in Young People <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/SleepingGirl.jpg" alt="Young girl sleeping"/>Every minute of shut-eye counts.

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Just 15 Extra Minutes of Sleep Is Linked to Brain Benefits in Young People

We know sleep quality is vital for good health, that adolescence is an important time for brain development, and that teens don't always get a...

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'Bone Collector' Caterpillar Wears Dead Bugs to Steal Prey From Spiders <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/BoneCollectorCaterpillarAndSpider.jpg" alt="'Bone Collector' Caterpillar Wears Dead Bugs to Steal Prey From Spiders"/>Ever seen a cannibalistic carnivore dressed in insect body parts?

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'Bone Collector' Caterpillar Wears Dead Bugs to Steal Prey From Spiders

We all need a way to get along in this wild, wicked world, and a rare insect found only on a mountainside on O'ahu has found an incredible str...

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Smart Brain Implants Can Now Adapt to Optimize Parkinson's Treatment <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/03/lewy_bodies_parkinsons.jpg" alt="lewy bodies in a neuron"/>A surgical observation in 1987 led to this.

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Smart Brain Implants Can Now Adapt to Optimize Parkinson's Treatment

Although the brain is our most complex organ, the ways to treat it have historically been rather simple.

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Rare 'Smiley Face' Moon About to Hit The Sky With Venus And Saturn <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/smiley-moon.jpg" alt="Rare 'Smiley Face' Moon About to Hit The Sky With Venus And Saturn"/>You should go look at it. It's fun.

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Rare 'Smiley Face' Moon About to Hit The Sky With Venus And Saturn

There are a lot of things in Earth's night sky, and every now and again, they line up in such a way to give us all a little bit of a giggle.

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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 ...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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.