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Giant Prehistoric Kangaroos in Australia Were Doomed, And Now We Know Why <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/FossilTeeth.jpg" alt="Fossil Teeth"/>Paradise lost.

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Giant Prehistoric Kangaroos in Australia Were Doomed, And Now We Know Why

Large kangaroos today roam long distances across the outback, often surviving droughts by moving in mobs to find new food when pickings are slim.

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Wild Chimps Caught on Camera Sharing Alcoholic Fruit <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/Low-Res_Chimpanzees-sharing-fruit.-Credit-Bowland-et-al.-2.jpeg" alt="wild chimpanzees sharing fermented breadfruit"/>"Could they be getting similar benefits?"

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Wild Chimps Caught on Camera Sharing Alcoholic Fruit

Remote cameras in Africa have captured the first images and video of wild chimpanzees eating and sharing fermented fruit that contains alcohol.

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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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This Ancient Herb Is Trending For Health Benefits, But Beware The Risks <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/ashwagandha-1.jpg" alt="This Ancient Herb Is Trending For Health Benefits, But Beware The Risks"/>Don't believe everything you see on TikTok.

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This Ancient Herb Is Trending For Health Benefits, But Beware The Risks

Depending on who you follow on social media, you may have come across talk of a little-known herb called ashwagandha over the past year.

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Earth's Rotation Is Slowing Down, And It Could Explain Why We Have Oxygen <img width="600" height="243" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2021-08/processed/moon-iss_600.jpg" alt="Earth's rotation is slowing down, and it could be why we have oxygen for life"/>Everything is connected.

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Earth's Rotation Is Slowing Down, And It Could Explain Why We Have Oxygen

Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have gotten progressivel...

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Scientists Engineer Bacteria to Make Soil And Crops 'Glow' Different Colors <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/GlowingBacteriaConceptIllustration.jpg" alt="Scientists Engineer Bacteria to Make Soil And Crops 'Glow' Different Colors"/>But invisible to the naked eye.

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Scientists Engineer Bacteria to Make Soil And Crops 'Glow' Different Colors

Checking the health of soil could soon be as simple as asking the local bacteria.

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Ice Age Humans Were Experts at Wielding Fire, Study Finds <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/fire-lgm-nigst-abb.jpg" alt="archaeological site where researchers discovered hearths from the late Upper Paleolithic"/>Yet we find surprisingly few of their hearths.

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Ice Age Humans Were Experts at Wielding Fire, Study Finds

Learning to control fire was a game-changer for ancient humans, who could use it to cook food, see at night, and endure cold weather, among other t...

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Dementia in Younger People Is Often Overlooked. Here Are 5 Key Reasons. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/NeuronsRedBrainDegenerationDementia.jpg" alt="Dementia in Younger People Is Often Overlooked. Here Are 5 Key Reasons."/>Hiding in plain sight.

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Dementia in Younger People Is Often Overlooked. Here Are 5 Key Reasons.

Around 57 million people worldwide have dementia.

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Massive Study Links 15 Factors to Early Dementia Risk <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/01/BrainFade.jpg" alt="Fading blue brain"/>"It reveals that we may be able to take action."

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Massive Study Links 15 Factors to Early Dementia Risk

While dementia is much more common in older adults, hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with young-onset dementia (YOD) each year, and an...

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Mattresses Could Be Exposing Kids to Dangerous Chemicals While They Sleep <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/SleepingBaby.jpg" alt="Toddler sleeping"/>A not-so-safe environment.

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Mattresses Could Be Exposing Kids to Dangerous Chemicals While They Sleep

Children's mattresses may be giving off chemicals associated with damage to the brain, according to new research – a discovery which raises ...

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Why Aren't Humans as Hairy as Other Mammals? Here's The Science. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/FluffySpikyHairedSquirrel.jpg"/>We must have a good reason to not grow fur coats.

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Why Aren't Humans as Hairy as Other Mammals? Here's The Science.

Have you ever wondered why you don't have thick hair covering your whole body like a dog, cat or gorilla does? Humans aren't the only mam...

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Ancient Body Paint May Have Been Prehistoric Sunscreen, Study Says <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/HandsOchre.jpg" alt="Ancient Body Paint May Have Been Prehistoric Sunscreen, Study Says"/>Intense UV radiation far worse than today.

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Ancient Body Paint May Have Been Prehistoric Sunscreen, Study Says

Ochre body paint may have been a form of prehistoric sunscreen that helped early humans survive a sudden increase in ultraviolet (UV) radiation aro...

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First Utterly Alone Black Hole Confirmed Roaming The Cosmos <img width="600" height="243" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2022-06/processed/lone-black-hole_600.jpg" alt="A Rogue Black Hole Roaming Our Galaxy May Have Just Been Confirmed"/>Even objects this attractive can get lonely.

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First Utterly Alone Black Hole Confirmed Roaming The Cosmos

A lonely black hole roaming the cosmos in solitude has been confirmed for the first time.

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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.