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Climate Change Is Threatening Eye Health. Here's Why. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/eye-closeup.jpg" alt="Climate Change Is Threatening Eye Health. Here's Why."/>A disturbing pattern is emerging.

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Climate Change Is Threatening Eye Health. Here's Why.

For five months in 2017, farmworker Alka Kamble experienced blurred vision in one of her eyes but didn't consult an ophthalmologist.

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'Super-Earths' May Be Surprisingly Common, Scientists Reveal <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/illustration-super-earth-exoplanet.jpg" alt="artist's impression of super-Earth exoplanet"/>There could be way more than we realized.

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'Super-Earths' May Be Surprisingly Common, Scientists Reveal

Earth-like exoplanets might be more common throughout the Milky Way than previously believed, astronomers report in a new study.

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Poor Oral Hygiene Could Be Taking a Toll on Your Heart, Expert Says <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2023/11/OralHealthBubonicPlague.jpg" alt="Wild Hypothesis Links The Bubonic Plague to Modern Oral Health"/>The effects can be far-reaching.

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Poor Oral Hygiene Could Be Taking a Toll on Your Heart, Expert Says

The mouth is often described as a window to overall health – and for good reason.

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AI Detects an Unusual Detail Hidden in a Famous Raphael Masterpiece <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2023/12/PaintingClose.jpg" alt="Painting close up"/>"The computer sees far more deeply than the human eye."

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AI Detects an Unusual Detail Hidden in a Famous Raphael Masterpiece

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye, and an AI neural network identified something unusu...

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Fungi on Your Skin Could Produce a Potent Antibiotic to Fight Infections <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/FungiSkinMicrobiome.jpg" alt="Fungi on Your Skin Could Produce a Potent Antibiotic to Fight Infections"/>Thank you, co-existing microorganism.

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Fungi on Your Skin Could Produce a Potent Antibiotic to Fight Infections

A deadly superbug that sometimes claims the lives of more than a million people globally a year may have a nemesis that lives right under your nose.

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Scientists Don't Know Why Consciousness Exists, And a New Study Proves It <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/PaintingOfHumanFigureLookingAtGiantBrainInGreenFieldUnderBlueSky.jpg" alt="Scientists Don't Know Why Consciousness Exists, And a New Study Proves It"/>Two huge theories go head to head.

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Scientists Don't Know Why Consciousness Exists, And a New Study Proves It

"Theories are like toothbrushes," it's sometimes said.

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The First Synthetic 'Mini Prion' Could Help Study Diseases Like Alzheimer's <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/FibrilScan.jpg" alt="Fibril scan"/>A huge step forward.

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The First Synthetic 'Mini Prion' Could Help Study Diseases Like Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions can sometimes feature damaging clumps of tau proteins that have become deformed.

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Men Tend to Fall in Love Faster Than Women, New Study Shows <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/HeartHands.jpg" alt="Heart hands"/>Love changes everything – but how quickly?

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Men Tend to Fall in Love Faster Than Women, New Study Shows

It sets your heart racing, it puts butterflies in your stomach, and is a non-stop distraction for your mind – but that feeling we call love is so...

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Here's Why You Should Try 'Jeffing' to Run Longer And Farther <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/jeffing.jpg" alt="Here's Why You Should Try 'Jeffing' to Run Longer And Farther"/>You might be a runner after all.

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Here's Why You Should Try 'Jeffing' to Run Longer And Farther

Even if you're a runner, you may not have heard the term "Jeffing" before.

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Childhood Adversity May Damage The Brain's White Matter, Study Finds <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/YoungKid.jpg" alt="Upset kid"/>"Much more pervasive throughout the brain than we'd thought."

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Childhood Adversity May Damage The Brain's White Matter, Study Finds

Hardships in childhood could have lasting effects on the brain, new research shows, with adverse events such as family conflict and poverty potenti...

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This Sunlight Trick Can Reduce Morning Fatigue, Study Suggests <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/sunrise-window-1.jpg" alt="view of sunrise through a window"/>Catch some rays before you rise.

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This Sunlight Trick Can Reduce Morning Fatigue, Study Suggests

If you often feel exhausted in the morning, you might be one of the millions worldwide experiencing chronic sleep deprivation.

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Expert Reveals 2 Crucial Things to Track For Lasting Weight Loss <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/3DillustrationSugarCubesFloatingInBlood.jpg" alt="Expert Reveals 2 Crucial Things to Track For Lasting Weight Loss"/>It's not just watching body weight.

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Expert Reveals 2 Crucial Things to Track For Lasting Weight Loss

More than 2.5 billion adults worldwide are currently overweight or obese, according to estimates from the World Health Organization.

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A Food Scientist Explains The Best Way to Peel a Boiled Egg <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/PeeledEggshellRemainsBacklit.jpg" alt="A Food Scientist Explains The Best Way to Peel a Boiled Egg"/>Science can help!

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A Food Scientist Explains The Best Way to Peel a Boiled Egg

We've all been there – trying to peel a boiled egg, but mangling it beyond all recognition as the hard shell stubbornly sticks to the egg wh...

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Legendary Female Free-Divers Reveal Evolution in Action on South Korean Island <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/haenyeo.jpg" alt="Legendary Female Free-Divers Reveal Evolution in Action on South Korean Island"/>Humans ain't done cookin'.

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Legendary Female Free-Divers Reveal Evolution in Action on South Korean Island

To survive on this wild planet we call home, humans need to adapt.

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Scientists Build First-Ever 'Black Hole Bomb' Analog <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/black-hole-vfx.jpg" alt="Scientists Build First-Ever 'Black Hole Bomb' Analog"/>We can explain.

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Scientists Build First-Ever 'Black Hole Bomb' Analog

Researchers have created the first laboratory analog of the 'black hole bomb', a theoretical concept developed by physicists in the 1970s.

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Landmark Study Finds Semaglutide Effectively Treats Serious Liver Disease <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/SemaglutideDrug.jpg" alt="Semaglutide drug"/>Impressive results from a clinical trial.

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Landmark Study Finds Semaglutide Effectively Treats Serious Liver Disease

Semaglutide is the key component of weight loss and diabetes drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, and an international team of researchers has now discov...

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This Severe Brain Disorder Is Common But Often Goes Undiagnosed <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/AbstractBrainImage.jpg" alt="Abstract Brain Image"/>A kaleidoscope of symptoms.

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This Severe Brain Disorder Is Common But Often Goes Undiagnosed

Imagine suddenly losing the ability to move a limb, walk or speak.

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Something in The Back of Your Eye Could Reveal Whether You Have ADHD <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/EyeScan.jpg" alt="Eye scan"/>A radical new way to identify the condition.

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Something in The Back of Your Eye Could Reveal Whether You Have ADHD

An accurate diagnosis of ADHD is crucial in bringing clarity and the right support to people who need it, but current diagnosis methods are time-co...

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NASA Reveals First-of-Its-Kind Image of Mars Rover Seen From Space <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/04/curiosity-trail-with-arrow.jpg" alt="curiosity trail with arrow"/>A bold explorer on a lonely frontier.

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NASA Reveals First-of-Its-Kind Image of Mars Rover Seen From Space

Since August 2012, a lonely robot has been traversing the rocky surface of Mars on a mission of science.

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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.