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Astronauts Reveal The Shocking Beauty of Lightning From Space <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/lightning-from-above.jpg" alt="lightning from space"/>A different point of view.

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Astronauts Reveal The Shocking Beauty of Lightning From Space

If you live on this planet Earth, odds are good that you've experienced a lightning storm in your life: a wild, crashing affair, with forks of...

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June's Full Moon Will Be The Lowest in The Sky For Decades. Here's Why. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/moon_horizon_2_header-1.jpg" alt="full moon blue sky with cherry blossom"/>It's like a lunar roller coaster.

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June's Full Moon Will Be The Lowest in The Sky For Decades. Here's Why.

Not all Full Moons are created the same.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 7 months ago

Meditation And Mindfulness Have a Dark Side We Often Overlook <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/07/DarkFigureMeditatingOnBeachAtSunset.jpg" alt="A silhoutted person meditating art sunset with back to viewer"/>Adverse effects are not rare.

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Meditation And Mindfulness Have a Dark Side We Often Overlook

Since mindfulness is something you can practice at home for free, it often sounds like the perfect tonic for stress and mental health issues.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 7 months ago

A Specific Kind of Birth Control May Increase Stroke Risk <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/birthcontrolpills.jpg" alt="birth control pills"/>We need to know more.

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A Specific Kind of Birth Control May Increase Stroke Risk

For millions of women, combined hormonal contraceptives are a part of their daily life – providing a convenient and effective option for preventi...

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2-Year-Old Prodigy Joins 'High IQ' Club Mensa as Youngest Member Ever <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/boyreadingbook.jpg" alt="boy reading book"/>Truly astounding!

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2-Year-Old Prodigy Joins 'High IQ' Club Mensa as Youngest Member Ever

At an age most children struggle to make it through the alphabet, two-year-old British toddler Joseph Harris-Birtill can already read full books.

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Dramatic Collapse of Swiss Glacier a Chilling Warning, Experts Say <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/TownUnderLandslide.jpg" alt="town under landslide"/>Here's what we know.

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Dramatic Collapse of Swiss Glacier a Chilling Warning, Experts Say

The collapse of the Swiss Birch glacier serves as a chilling warning of the escalating dangers faced by communities worldwide living under the shad...

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South Africa Is Rising Up Out of The Ocean, Scientists Reveal <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/Ai-Ais-Richtersveld-Transfrontier-Park-SA.jpg" alt="dry earth at Ai-Ais Richtersveld Transfrontier Park in South Africa"/>A new theory emerges.

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South Africa Is Rising Up Out of The Ocean, Scientists Reveal

As climate change intensifies, South Africa is not only becoming hotter and drier; it's also rising by up to 2 millimeters per year, according...

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Traces of Mysterious Ancient Human Population Discovered in Colombia <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/WorldMap.jpg" alt="Americas map"/>Who were they?

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Traces of Mysterious Ancient Human Population Discovered in Colombia

Colombia sits on the land through which Homo sapiens first spread from Central America to South America more than 14,500 years ago, making it a cru...

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An Extreme Drop in Oxygen Will Eventually Suffocate Most Life on Earth <img width="600" height="243" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2021-03/processed/earth-glow_600.jpg" alt="Earth with a glowing horizon"/>The end of the road.

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An Extreme Drop in Oxygen Will Eventually Suffocate Most Life on Earth

For now, complex life flourishes on our planet thanks to its supply of oxygen.

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Here's How to Detect a Fake Smile, According to Science <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2023/04/CloseUpOfMonaLisaFace-1024x415.jpg" alt="Close Up Of Mona Lisa Face"/>Your brain knows the difference.

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Here's How to Detect a Fake Smile, According to Science

You've probably heard the claim that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile.

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Uploading The Human Mind Could Become a Reality, Expert Says <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/ExpandingBrainHookedUpToWiresPulsingLights.gif" alt="Uploading The Human Mind Could Become a Reality, Expert Says"/>Can our brains live forever online?

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Uploading The Human Mind Could Become a Reality, Expert Says

Is it possible to upload the consciousness of your mind into a computer? – Amreen, age 15, New Delhi, India The concept, cool yet maybe a little ...

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Sloths The Size of Elephants Roamed America, Before Abruptly Vanishing <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/BradypusTorquatusVulnerableSlothSpecies.jpg" alt="Close up of a fuzzy sloth face"/>Genes tell their story.

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Sloths The Size of Elephants Roamed America, Before Abruptly Vanishing

Massive Megatherium sloths once stood as large as Asian elephants, ripping foliage off treetops with prehensile tongues like today's giraffes.

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What Makes Someone a Narcissist? Scientists Just Found a Big Clue <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/narcissist.jpg"/>An interesting pattern emerges.

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What Makes Someone a Narcissist? Scientists Just Found a Big Clue

Narcissism has become the armchair diagnosis of the decade.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 7 months ago

Your Salad Could Be Carrying Microplastics From Soil Into Your Body <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/PlantWithPlasticInSoil.jpg" alt="Green plant with plastic on it"/>A "creeping danger".

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Your Salad Could Be Carrying Microplastics From Soil Into Your Body

Tiny plastic particles are making their way into our soils, carrying with them hazardous additives and pollutants.

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Study Reveals Plague's Evolutionary Hack to Survive 3 Pandemics <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/PlagueBacteriaOnBrightGreenMacrophages.jpg" alt="Macrophages in bright green, infected with blue Yersinia pestis bacteria"/>"We finally better understand what the plague is."

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Study Reveals Plague's Evolutionary Hack to Survive 3 Pandemics

The bacteria that cause the plague evolved to become less deadly over time, allowing it to continue infecting people in three separate pandemics ov...

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Cephalopods Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children <img width="600" height="243" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2021-03/processed/cuttlefren_600.jpg" alt="Cuttlefish"/>We, for one, welcome our new cuttlefish overlords.

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Cephalopods Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children

An eye-opening experiment on cephalopods reinforces why it is so important for us to not underestimate animal intelligence.

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One Key Way of Consuming Sugar Could Spike Your Diabetes Risk <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/Woman-drinking-a-bright-red-drink-.jpg" alt="Woman drinking a red beverage from a bottle"/>Some sweet treats may be more dangerous.

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One Key Way of Consuming Sugar Could Spike Your Diabetes Risk

Not all sugary treats hit the same.

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Remains of 3,000-Year-Old Maya City Discovered in Guatemala <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/LosAbuelos.jpg" alt="Two stone sculptures in the form of small humans"/>Who was this 'ancestral couple'?

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Remains of 3,000-Year-Old Maya City Discovered in Guatemala

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Maya city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and monuments that point to it...

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Parasite Infecting Up to 50% of People Can Decapitate Human Sperm <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/ToxoplasmaCyst.jpg" alt="Toxoplasma Cyst"/>Could this explain plummeting male fertility?

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Parasite Infecting Up to 50% of People Can Decapitate Human Sperm

Male fertility rates have been plummeting over the past half-century.

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This May Be The World's Oldest Human Fingerprint, And That's Not All <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/WorldsOldestFingerprintAndRockCollage.jpg" alt="A rock with a yellow box highlighting the fingerprint, and a large image of the fingerprint"/>It's so much more than that.

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This May Be The World's Oldest Human Fingerprint, And That's Not All

Around 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal dipped their finger in ocher and stamped the very center of a pebble.