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New Link Connects Herpes to Alzheimer's. Here's What We Know. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/HerpesOnLip.jpg" alt="Herpes On Lip"/>Let's look at the evidence.

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New Link Connects Herpes to Alzheimer&#039;s. Here&#039;s What We Know.

A new study has found the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which causes cold sores, may be linked to the development of Alzheimer&#039;s disease.

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Mesmerizing Video Shows Cardiac Cells Building a Heart <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/heart-forming.jpg" alt="Mesmerizing Video Shows Cardiac Cells Building a Heart"/>Total timelapse of the heart.

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Mesmerizing Video Shows Cardiac Cells Building a Heart

Scientists have caught the intricate dance of cardiac cells coming together to build a heart, in a mesmerizing new timelapse taken during the devel...

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We Now Know What Switched The Lights on at The Dawn of Time <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/02/dwarf-galaxies.jpg" alt="We Finally Know What Turned The Lights on at The Dawn of Time"/>This changed everything.

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We Now Know What Switched The Lights on at The Dawn of Time

We finally know what brought light to the dark and formless void of the early Universe.

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Scientists Peered Inside The Echidna's Mysterious 'Pseudo-Pouch' <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/echidna-portrait.jpg" alt="Scientists Peered Inside The Echidna's Mysterious 'Pseudo-Pouch'"/>There's a lot going on in there.

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Scientists Peered Inside The Echidna&#039;s Mysterious &#039;Pseudo-Pouch&#039;

Spiny, snooty, and strange, echidnas are among Australia&#039;s wackiest animals.

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Light Travels Across The Universe Without Losing Energy. But How? <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/PulsarWithinSupernovaBubble.jpg"/>To infinity and beyond!

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Light Travels Across The Universe Without Losing Energy. But How?

My telescope, set up for astrophotography in my light-polluted San Diego backyard, was pointed at a galaxy unfathomably far from Earth.

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Sugar-Coated Particles May Protect Neurons From Alzheimer's Disease <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/BrainPlaques.jpg" alt="Alzheimer's disease"/>A new defense emerges.

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Sugar-Coated Particles May Protect Neurons From Alzheimer&#039;s Disease

Misfolded proteins thought to play a critical role in the progress of various neurodegenerative conditions could be prevented from forming toxic pl...

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Expert Explains How You Can Assess Whether You're Aging Well <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/aging_tests_header.jpg" alt="on one leg"/>Try these tests for yourself.

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Expert Explains How You Can Assess Whether You&#039;re Aging Well

A few years ago, a social media trend challenged people to see if they could stand up from the floor without using their hands.

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Bizarre Three-Eyed Predator Hunted The Ocean Half a Billion Years Ago <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/AncientPredatorZoomedOut.jpg" alt="An illustration of a bizarre creature with red flaps and three blue eyes"/>All the better to see you with…

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Bizarre Three-Eyed Predator Hunted The Ocean Half a Billion Years Ago

A predator that swam Earth&#039;s oceans more than half a billion years ago is unlike any creature that lives on our planet today.

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Being Bored Could Actually Be Good For Your Brain, Scientists Reveal <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/BrainScans-2.jpg" alt="Brain Scans"/>"Embrace the pause."

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Being Bored Could Actually Be Good For Your Brain, Scientists Reveal

We have all experienced boredom – that feeling of waning interest or decreased mental stimulation.

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Do Eyes Really See The World Upside Down? Here's The Science. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/GirlUpsideDown.jpg" alt="Girl Upside Down"/>You might be surprised.

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Do Eyes Really See The World Upside Down? Here&#039;s The Science.

Our eyes work thanks to light.

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Earth's Crust Is Hiding Vast Reserves of Hydrogen – Here's How We Can Find It <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/TectonicFault.jpg" alt="Tectonic plates"/>Enough for 170,000 years.

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Earth&#039;s Crust Is Hiding Vast Reserves of Hydrogen &ndash; Here&#039;s How We Can Find It

We already rely heavily on hydrogen gas as a fuel source, and it&#039;s considered key to reaching crucial carbon-neutral goals.

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Piles of Penguin Poop Could Surprisingly Help Cool Antarctica <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/penguins.jpg" alt="Piles of Penguin Poop Could Surprisingly Help Cool Antarctica"/>But they're still guano need our help.

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Piles of Penguin Poop Could Surprisingly Help Cool Antarctica

Antarctica&#039;s icy wilderness is warming rapidly under the weight of human-driven climate change, yet a new study points to an unlikely ally in ...

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'Forever Chemicals' Found in Popular US Beers, Above EPA Limits <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/beer-pfas.jpg" alt="'Forever Chemicals' Found in Popular US Beers, Above EPA Limits"/>Not PFAS in our pints!

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&#039;Forever Chemicals&#039; Found in Popular US Beers, Above EPA Limits

Humans love beer: worldwide, we can go through more than 187.9 million kiloliters (49.6 billion gallons) of it in just one year.

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Your Heart Begins to Suffer After Just 3 Nights of Bad Sleep <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2023/07/tired_man_depression.jpg" alt="man rubbing his eyes"/>Even in young, healthy adults.

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Your Heart Begins to Suffer After Just 3 Nights of Bad Sleep

We&#039;ve long known that a lack of sleep is bad for the heart – but scientists are now starting to understand exactly how it causes harm.

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New Jersey Hawk Develops Clever Hunting Strategy Using Traffic Signals <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/CollaredHawkLookingOverShoulderAtViewer.jpg" alt="New Jersey Hawk Develops Clever Hunting Strategy Using Traffic Signals"/>Street smarts.

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New Jersey Hawk Develops Clever Hunting Strategy Using Traffic Signals

A hawk in New Jersey has been seen using a clever, urban hunting strategy: taking sound cues from traffic signals to exploit cars for cover, before...

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NOAA Forecasts a Busy Hurricane Season For 2025. What's Fueling It? <img width="600" height="243" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2019-09/processed/hurricane-dorian-landfall_1_600.jpg" alt="Heat map of a hurricane"/>Here's how they predict months into the future.

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NOAA Forecasts a Busy Hurricane Season For 2025. What&#039;s Fueling It?

US forecasters are expecting an above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, with 13 to 19 named storms, and 6 to 10 of those becoming hurricanes.

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Experimental Therapy Suppresses Immune Reaction to Gluten in Mice <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/PipetteAndTestTubes.jpg" alt="Pipette And Test Tubes"/>New hopes for a treatment for celiac disease.

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Experimental Therapy Suppresses Immune Reaction to Gluten in Mice

In a promising new study, scientists have adapted an experimental cancer treatment to control celiac disease.

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Humans Are Evolving Right in Front of Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/10/monk-nepal.jpg" alt="Humans Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau"/>"This is a case of ongoing natural selection."

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Humans Are Evolving Right in Front of Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau

Humans are not yet done cooking.

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JWST Detects Most Distant Galaxy Yet, 280 Million Years After Big Bang <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/bright-galaxy-at-redshift-z14.44.jpg" alt="JWST Detects Most Distant Galaxy Yet, 280 Million Years After Big Bang"/>It's from the dawn of the Universe.

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JWST Detects Most Distant Galaxy Yet, 280 Million Years After Big Bang

The JWST has done it again.

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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.