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Revolutionary Contact Lenses Let Human Eyes See Invisible Light <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/Participant-putting-contacts-in-CREDIT-Yuqian-Ma-Yunuo-Chen-Hang-Zhao.jpg" alt="Revolutionary Contact Lenses Let Human Eyes See Invisible Light"/>Even with your eyes closed.

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Revolutionary Contact Lenses Let Human Eyes See Invisible Light

Scientists in China have developed contact lenses that let wearers see light normally invisible to the human eye.

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Galaxy Speared With Black Hole's Radiation in First Ever 'Cosmic Joust' <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/cosmic-joust.jpg" alt="Galaxy Speared With Black Hole's Radiation in First Ever 'Cosmic Joust'"/>A violent galactic collision.

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Galaxy Speared With Black Hole's Radiation in First Ever 'Cosmic Joust'

The moment one galaxy spears another with a powerful beam of radiation shooting from its central black hole has been spotted in a distant galactic ...

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New AI Weather Tool Outperforms Global Forecasting Centers <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/ai_hurricane_forecast_header.jpg" alt="hurricane from space"/>"We're at the beginning of a transformation age."

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New AI Weather Tool Outperforms Global Forecasting Centers

Microsoft has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that beats current forecasting methods in tracking air quality, weather patterns, and...

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Jupiter Was Twice Its Current Ginormous Size, Scientists Discover <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/jupiter-bigger.jpg" alt="Jupiter Was Twice Its Current Ginormous Size, Scientists Discover"/>It was HUGE. And powerful.

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Jupiter Was Twice Its Current Ginormous Size, Scientists Discover

Jupiter's already the big kahuna of the Solar System, an absolute unit of a planet with a mass 2.5 times greater than all of the rest of the p...

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Couples Who Cuddle at Bedtime Have Lower Stress And Feel More Secure <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/LaughingCoupleCuddlingInBed.jpg" alt="Two young people laughing and cuddling"/>Hold on tight.

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Couples Who Cuddle at Bedtime Have Lower Stress And Feel More Secure

A bedtime cuddle with your partner could make a real difference to your feelings of stress and security, according to a new study closely analyzing...

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World-First Study Reveals How Lightning Sparks Gamma-Ray Flashes <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/LightningPurpleTone.jpg" alt="Purple-toned clouds and two lightning strikes"/>BOOM.

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World-First Study Reveals How Lightning Sparks Gamma-Ray Flashes

The very moment two electrical currents slam together to form a lightning bolt has been captured, revealing for the first time the role this proces...

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Your Sensitive Teeth May Exist So Ancient Fish Could Avoid Danger <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/teeth_sense_skate_header.jpg" alt="skate ct scan"/>Blame them for your toothaches.

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Your Sensitive Teeth May Exist So Ancient Fish Could Avoid Danger

Ever wondered why our teeth are so sensitive to pain or even just cold drinks? It might be because they first evolved for a very different purpose ...

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Expert Explains FDA's New COVID Vaccine Rules in The US <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/vaccine_FDA_newrules_header.jpg" alt="vaccine injection"/>It's controversial.

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Expert Explains FDA's New COVID Vaccine Rules in The US

On May 20, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration announced a new stance on who should receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Early Universe's Milky Way 'Twin' Looked Surprisingly Like Our Galaxy <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/barred-spiral.jpg" alt="Early Universe's Milky Way 'Twin' Looked Surprisingly Like Our Galaxy"/>We can't explain this.

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Early Universe's Milky Way 'Twin' Looked Surprisingly Like Our Galaxy

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder.

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The Speed of Your Eyes Could Hide Objects in Plain Sight <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/woman_looking_to_side_header.jpg" alt="woman's eye looking to one side"/>Don't blink.

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The Speed of Your Eyes Could Hide Objects in Plain Sight

A gently lobbed baseball is easy to see.

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Sitting Could Be Shrinking Your Brain (And Exercise May Not Help) <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/woman_sitting_lounge_header.jpg" alt="woman sitting holding her head"/>Go stretch your legs.

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Sitting Could Be Shrinking Your Brain (And Exercise May Not Help)

Sitting might be a comfortable and convenient way to spend much of your day, but a new study of older adults suggests it can lead to brain shrinkag...

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Dark Streaks on Mars May Not Be Signs of Flowing Water Like We Thought <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/streaks_on_mars_header.jpg" alt="image of slope on mars with streaks"/>Bittersweet news.

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Dark Streaks on Mars May Not Be Signs of Flowing Water Like We Thought

It was big news years ago when Mars orbiters found streaks of what appeared to be water running down Martian cliffs and crater walls.

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Alarming Sea Level Rise Expected Even With 1.5°C Warming Limit <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/houses_rising_waters_header.jpg" alt="houses and rising waters"/>Let's not make it worse.

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Alarming Sea Level Rise Expected Even With 1.5°C Warming Limit

Rising seas will severely test humanity's resilience in the second half of the 21st century and beyond, even if nations defy the odds and cap...

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Tales of Viking Pregnancy Reveal The Fierce Side of Norse Mothers <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/pregnant_womman_silhouette_header.jpg" alt="silhouette of a pregnant woman against a sunset"/>Overlooked, but not silent.

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Tales of Viking Pregnancy Reveal The Fierce Side of Norse Mothers

Being pregnant in the Viking Age was surely no picnic, but this experience has been largely ignored, in part because there are very few records to ...

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Want to Live to 100? These Four Habits Might Help Get You There. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/surfer_100_header.jpg" alt="old man surfing"/>Having the right genes helps too.

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Want to Live to 100? These Four Habits Might Help Get You There.

A 115-year-old Surrey woman named Ethel Caterham has officially been handed the title of the oldest living human alive.

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Common Energy Drink Additive Could Be Fueling Growth in Leukemia <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/ManDrinking.jpg" alt="Man drinking an energy drink"/>A health warning.

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Common Energy Drink Additive Could Be Fueling Growth in Leukemia

Taurine is an amino acid occurring naturally in the body, and found in energy drinks as well as foods like fish and meat – and while it has certa...

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Bright Streak Appears Over US During Aurora Storm, Mystifying Skywatchers <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/white-beam.jpg" alt="Bright Streak Appears Over US During Aurora Storm, Mystifying Skywatchers"/>It's not STEVE.

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Bright Streak Appears Over US During Aurora Storm, Mystifying Skywatchers

On the night of Saturday 17 May, skywatchers across the US as far south as New Mexico were treated to a peculiar sight: a brilliant stream of whiti...

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Your Voice Could Hide The Tell-Tale Signs of Parkinson's Disease <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/older_women_talking_header.jpg" alt="older women talking"/>Listen to your body.

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Your Voice Could Hide The Tell-Tale Signs of Parkinson's Disease

In a continued effort to catch neurodegenerative diseases early, researchers directed machine learning models to see if they could 'hear'...

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World's First Bladder Transplant Gives Cancer Patient New Hope <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/XrayOfAbdomenWithDyeThatMakesUrinaryTractShow.jpg" alt="World's First Bladder Transplant Gives Cancer Patient New Hope"/>“I was a ticking time bomb.”

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World's First Bladder Transplant Gives Cancer Patient New Hope

US surgeons successfully performed the world's first human bladder transplant on 4 May 2025.

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9 Glorious Mysteries of Nature Continue to Attract Curiosity <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/Eternal-flame-falls.jpg" alt="9 Glorious Mysteries of Nature Continue to Attract Curiosity"/>Some answers lead to more questions.

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9 Glorious Mysteries of Nature Continue to Attract Curiosity

Whether it's the cause of a flamingo-pink lake or the source of splotchy circles in the desert, nature holds countless secrets that scientist...