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Astronomers Just Discovered The Biggest Explosions Since The Big Bang <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/kaboom.jpg" alt="Astronomers Just Discovered The Biggest Explosions Since The Big Bang"/>"These ENTs are different beasts."

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Astronomers Just Discovered The Biggest Explosions Since The Big Bang

A never-before-seen type of giant space explosion – the biggest bangs since the Big Bang – has been accidentally captured by the Gaia space tel...

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Titan's Atmosphere 'Wobbles Like a Gyroscope' – And No One Knows Why <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/TitanSurface.jpg" alt="Titan atmosphere"/>"A new mystery."

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Titan&#039;s Atmosphere &#039;Wobbles Like a Gyroscope&#039; &ndash; And No One Knows Why

There&#039;s something very peculiar about the atmosphere surrounding Titan, Saturn&#039;s largest moon: rather than staying constantly fixed in li...

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Increased Toxicity Risk Identified For Children With ADHD, Autism <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2023/10/BPAMoleculeBrightOnDarkBlackground.jpg" alt="A molecule of BPA"/>Here's what we know.

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Increased Toxicity Risk Identified For Children With ADHD, Autism

The number of people being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has risen sharply in r...

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Our Atmosphere's Growing Thirst Is a Hidden Cause of Worsening Droughts <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/drought.jpg" alt="Our Atmosphere's Growing Thirst Is a Hidden Cause of Worsening Droughts"/>If it sucks up all the water, there's less for the land.

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Our Atmosphere&#039;s Growing Thirst Is a Hidden Cause of Worsening Droughts

Droughts are becoming more severe and widespread across the globe.

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Elusive LSD Fungus Finally Discovered on Flower <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/morning-glory.jpg" alt="Elusive LSD Fungus Finally Discovered on Flower"/>"People have been looking for this fungus for years."

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Elusive LSD Fungus Finally Discovered on Flower

An elusive fungus capable of generating quantities of a compound used to synthesize the hallucinogen LSD has finally been discovered on the morning...

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Coffee Could Be The Secret to Healthy Aging For Women, Scientists Discover <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/CoffeeOnBrightColoredTable.jpg" alt="Coffee mug and saucer on bright red table"/>Not just good for the soul.

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Coffee Could Be The Secret to Healthy Aging For Women, Scientists Discover

The daily ritual of imbibing a hot cup of freshly brewed and fragrant coffee isn&#039;t just good for the soul – it may be one of the ways to smo...

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A 'Crazy Idea' About Pluto Was Just Confirmed in a Scientific First <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/PlutoHazeAtmosphere.jpg" alt="Black and white close image of Pluto"/>This doesn't happen anywhere else in the Solar System.

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A &#039;Crazy Idea&#039; About Pluto Was Just Confirmed in a Scientific First

When the New Horizons spacecraft swept past Pluto and Charon in 2015, it revealed two amazingly complex worlds and an active atmosphere on Pluto.

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Texas Woman Dies From Brain-Eating Amoeba After Flushing Sinuses <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/Naegleria-fowleri-amoeba.jpg" alt="Microscope image of ameoeba"/>Take care with what you put in your nose.

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Texas Woman Dies From Brain-Eating Amoeba After Flushing Sinuses

A woman in Texas has died from a rare brain infection after flushing her nose with water stored in the tank of a recreational vehicle.

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Something Strange Happens to Your Eyes When You're Sexually Aroused <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/pupil_dilated_header.jpg" alt="eye pupil"/>Do you like what you see?

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Something Strange Happens to Your Eyes When You&#039;re Sexually Aroused

His gaze softens as he draws closer to you.

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A Giant Mouth Has Opened on The Sun And Even It Looks Surprised <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/coronal-face.jpg" alt="A Giant Mouth Has Opened on The Sun And Even It Looks Surprised"/>Burp.

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A Giant Mouth Has Opened on The Sun And Even It Looks Surprised

A giant mouth-like hole in the Sun about as wide as five Jupiters is blasting hot Sun breath in Earth&#039;s general direction.

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A Massive Cloud of Saharan Dust Is About to Hit The United States <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/dust_sahara_2020_header.jpg" alt="saharan dust"/>An Atlantic odyssey.

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A Massive Cloud of Saharan Dust Is About to Hit The United States

Dust from the Sahara desert will cloud the skies of the US southeast this week in an annual weather event that doesn&#039;t always reach the Americ...

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Why Do Some People Need Less Sleep? The Answer Lies in Our Genes. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/SleepingManWithBook.jpg" alt="man sleeping in bed with a book"/>Here’s what we know.

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Why Do Some People Need Less Sleep? The Answer Lies in Our Genes.

Have you ever noticed how some people bounce out of bed after just a few hours of sleep, while others can barely function without a solid eight hou...

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Just One Nation Produces Enough Food For Itself, Scientists Reveal <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/woman_holding_orange_header.jpg" alt="woman holding an orange"/>Trade is a good thing.

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Just One Nation Produces Enough Food For Itself, Scientists Reveal

Global politics don&#039;t feel particularly cooperative at the moment, but which countries could actually feed themselves independently if all int...

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Regular Exercise Reduces Death From Colon Cancer by 37%, Study Finds <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/man_running_sunset_header.jpg" alt="man running at sunset"/>A striking difference.

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Regular Exercise Reduces Death From Colon Cancer by 37%, Study Finds

New evidence has linked physical activity with improved colon health, underscoring the vital role of exercise in cancer prevention and care.

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Night Owls May Be at Higher Risk of Cognitive Decline. Here's Why. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/woman_working_night_header.jpg" alt="woman working at night on her laptop"/>Staying up late has a cost.

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Night Owls May Be at Higher Risk of Cognitive Decline. Here&#039;s Why.

We all have our own chronotype – a tendency to sleep at certain times, with early birds and night owls at opposite ends of the scale.

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Cannabis Compound Could Protect Us From Deadly Fungal Disease <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/tim-foster-A-rAZGIE2pA-unsplash.jpg" alt="Cannabis Compound Could Protect Us From Deadly Fungal Disease"/>The plant that keeps on giving.

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Cannabis Compound Could Protect Us From Deadly Fungal Disease

A dangerous fungal pathogen has proven no match for what may be one of the most useful plants in nature.

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Water Discovered Around a Young, Sun-Like Star For First Time <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/water_planetary_disk_header.jpg" alt="Water Discovered Around a Young, Sun-Like Star For First Time"/>A glimpse back in time.

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Water Discovered Around a Young, Sun-Like Star For First Time

For decades it was thought that water was prevalent in the outer reaches of the Solar System early in its history, with comets and asteroids delive...

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Leprosy Was Lurking in The Americas Long Before Colonization, Study Finds <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/AncientTooth.jpg" alt="Ancient tooth"/>A complicated history.

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Leprosy Was Lurking in The Americas Long Before Colonization, Study Finds

Historians have for a long time believed that leprosy was introduced to the Americas by European settlers, but the latest research offers strong ev...

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Does Retinol Reverse Signs of Aging? Here's The Science. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/retinol-skin-1.jpg"/>It's not for everyone.

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Does Retinol Reverse Signs of Aging? Here&#039;s The Science.

Retinol skincare products suddenly seem to be everywhere, promising clear, radiant and "youthful" skin.

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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&#039;ve experienced a lightning storm in your life: a wild, crashing affair, with forks of...