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Sleep Helps Your Brain Prepare For The Future, And Now We Know How <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/cat-sleeping.jpg" alt="cat sleeping"/>Remember to go to bed.

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Sleep Helps Your Brain Prepare For The Future, And Now We Know How

Not only must your brain maintain a vast archive of existing memories, but it also has to keep track of new stuff each day.

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Your Fridge May Be an Incubator For Bacteria – Here's How to Prevent It <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/CloseUpOfMoldyTomatoGreenStalk.jpg"/>A no-breeding zone, please.

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Your Fridge May Be an Incubator For Bacteria &ndash; Here&#039;s How to Prevent It

The kitchen is often the heart of the home – a place where families gather and meals begin.

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The Oldest Evidence of Psychedelics in The Andes Predates The Inca <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/paraphernalia.jpg" alt="The Oldest Evidence of Psychedelics in The Andes Predates The Inca"/>Chemical traces from thousands of years ago.

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The Oldest Evidence of Psychedelics in The Andes Predates The Inca

In the Peruvian Andes, thousands of years ago, humans were making liberal use of psychoactive drugs.

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Scientists Shaved Roadkill to Find Out How Mammals Glow in The Dark <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/glowing-fur.jpg" alt="Scientists Shaved Roadkill to Find Out How Mammals Glow in The Dark"/>There's more than one way to shave a bandicoot.

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Scientists Shaved Roadkill to Find Out How Mammals Glow in The Dark

It turns out that a shocking number of mammals can glow in the dark.

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New Study Reveals an Easier Alternative to Intermittent Fasting <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/PlateAndCutleryArrangedLikeAclockWithFoodInSmallerPortionOfTime.jpg" alt="New Study Reveals an Easier Alternative to Intermittent Fasting"/>Research shows the metabolic effects are similar.

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New Study Reveals an Easier Alternative to Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting is not only a useful tool for weight loss, it&#039;s also shown to have many benefits for metabolic health – independent of ...

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Scientists Reveal What Happens in Your Brain When You Read <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/black-woman-reading-books-vintage.jpg" alt="Scientists Reveal What Happens in Your Brain When You Read"/>From words to worlds.

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Scientists Reveal What Happens in Your Brain When You Read

There&#039;s nothing quite like getting lost in an excellent book (or an article from your favorite science news site).

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Drinking And Insomnia Often Go Together, And This Could Be Why <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/CantSleep.jpg" alt="Can't sleep"/>Everything is connected.

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Drinking And Insomnia Often Go Together, And This Could Be Why

A new study gives us more insight into how stress, depression, insomnia, and heavy drinking are all linked.

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Does Champagne Really Lower Risk of Sudden Cardiac Arrest? Here's The Science. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/champagne.jpg"/>Too good to be true?

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Does Champagne Really Lower Risk of Sudden Cardiac Arrest? Here&#039;s The Science.

"My only regret in life is that I didn&#039;t drink enough champagne," the English economist and philosopher John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) is r...

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Menopause Symptoms May Be Early Warning Sign of Dementia, Study Shows <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/woman-with-headache.jpg" alt="Menopause Symptoms May Be Early Warning Sign of Dementia, Study Shows"/>They could be masking something worse.

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Menopause Symptoms May Be Early Warning Sign of Dementia, Study Shows

Hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness, urinary tract infections, irregular periods, low libido, trouble sleeping, brain fog, mood swings — a...

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Psychedelics Could 'Rewire' The Brain to Reduce Alcohol Consumption <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/psychedelics-brain.jpg" alt="Psychedelics Could 'Rewire' The Brain to Reduce Alcohol Consumption"/>A new kind of treatment?

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Psychedelics Could &#039;Rewire&#039; The Brain to Reduce Alcohol Consumption

Psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are gaining increasing attention in psychiatry.

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A Revolutionary New Algorithm Picks Your Biological Age From a Photo <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/MansEyesBlackAndWhite.jpg" alt="Mans Eyes Black And White"/>How old are you on the inside?

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A Revolutionary New Algorithm Picks Your Biological Age From a Photo

Doctors often start exams with the so-called "eyeball test" – a snap judgment about whether the patient appears older or younger than their age, ...

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Ultra-Rare 'Asian Unicorn' Has Genome Sequenced, And It Could Mean Everything <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/saola_camtrap_retouched-1.jpg" alt="Ultra-Rare 'Asian Unicorn' Has Genome Sequenced, And It Could Mean Everything"/>A last-ditch chance for survival.

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Ultra-Rare &#039;Asian Unicorn&#039; Has Genome Sequenced, And It Could Mean Everything

Scientists have sequenced the genome of one of the rarest animals in the world: the &#039;Asian unicorn&#039;, which hasn&#039;t been seen in more ...

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Scientists Have a Radical Plan to Grab a Sample of Venus's Toxic Atmosphere <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/VenusView.jpg" alt="Venus view"/>A mission into hell.

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Scientists Have a Radical Plan to Grab a Sample of Venus&#039;s Toxic Atmosphere

Offering incredibly high temperatures, crushing pressure, and a thick mix of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, the atmosphere on Venus is deadly to...

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DNA Reveals Surprising Twist About Christopher Columbus <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/10/PortraitOfColumbus.jpg" alt="DNA Reveals a Surprise Twist About Christopher Columbus"/>Could the conspiracy theories be true?

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DNA Reveals Surprising Twist About Christopher Columbus

On 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher Columbus ordained in writing that his estate in the Italian port city of Genoa would be m...

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JWST Helps Decipher Mysterious Nature of Hot Alien World <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/CommonExoplanetSubNeptune.jpg" alt="A blue planet in front of a star"/>"We've unlocked a new way."

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JWST Helps Decipher Mysterious Nature of Hot Alien World

The idea that our Solar System is representative of other solar systems hasn&#039;t survived the age of exoplanet discovery.

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Brazilian Psychedelic Plant Emerges as Potential Depression Treatment <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/jurema-preta-plant.jpg" alt="Plant leaves and a small brown growth"/>"The response is rapid."

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Brazilian Psychedelic Plant Emerges as Potential Depression Treatment

Long used in Indigenous Brazilian rituals, the jurema preta plant, which contains a potent psychedelic, is gaining ground as a potential treatment ...

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Scientists Discover New Bacteria That Conduct Electricity Like a Wire <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/cable-bacteria.jpg" alt="Scientists Discover New Bacteria That Conduct Electricity Like a Wire"/> This could power a new era of bioelectric devices.

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Scientists Discover New Bacteria That Conduct Electricity Like a Wire

A newly discovered bacterium wiggling about in the mudflats of the Oregon coast could advance a new era of bioelectric devices.

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World's Richest 10% Caused Two-Thirds of Global Heating, Study Finds <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/OilRefineryPollutionTexas.jpg"/>"One of the most powerful levers we have to reduce future harm."

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World&#039;s Richest 10% Caused Two-Thirds of Global Heating, Study Finds

The world&#039;s wealthiest 10 percent of individuals are responsible for two-thirds of global warming since 1990, researchers said on Wednesday.

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Scientists Discovered a Cannabis Compound Inside a Totally Different Plant <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2023/06/TypeOfTremaMicranthaPlantFromBrazil.jpg" alt="A type of leafy green plant with green berries turning to red."/>Hiding in plain sight!

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Scientists Discovered a Cannabis Compound Inside a Totally Different Plant

Scientists have discovered cannabidiol, a compound in cannabis known as CBD, in a common Brazilian plant, opening potential new avenues to produce ...

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Scientists Discover Wild Birds Behaving Suspiciously Like Friends <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/birb-besties.jpg" alt="Scientists Discover Wild Birds Behaving Suspiciously Like Friends"/>Besties for life?

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Scientists Discover Wild Birds Behaving Suspiciously Like Friends

The ability to cooperate and work together is not unique to humans; indeed, it&#039;s one of the most successful strategies for collective survival...