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Shallow Holes in Our Ancestor's Teeth Might Not Be a Disease as Thought <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/pitted-teeth.jpg" alt="Shallow Holes in Our Ancestor's Teeth Might Not Be a Disease as Thought"/>Trait or defect?

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Shallow Holes in Our Ancestor&#039;s Teeth Might Not Be a Disease as Thought

The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution.

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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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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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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...

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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&#039;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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Your Stress Could Be a Hidden Trigger For Future Dementia <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/dementia_and_stress_header-e1748487234380.jpg" alt="man who is stressed"/>Here's what you can do about it.

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Your Stress Could Be a Hidden Trigger For Future Dementia

The probability of any American having dementia in their lifetime may be far greater than previously thought.

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China's Tianwen-2 Launches to Grab First 'Living Fossil' Asteroid Samples <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/The-asteroid-Kamooalewa.jpg" alt="china's asteroid probe"/>That's not all it's doing.

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China&#039;s Tianwen-2 Launches to Grab First &#039;Living Fossil&#039; Asteroid Samples

China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country&#039;s first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them home for research,...

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Scientists Discover West Nile Virus in The UK For The First Time <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/BlackCulexMosquitoWestNileVirus.jpg" alt="Black culex mosquito close up on red fabric"/>How did it get there?

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Scientists Discover West Nile Virus in The UK For The First Time

For the first time, traces of the West Nile virus have been found in mosquitoes in the UK, according to a report published this week by the UK Heal...

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Earth's Core Holds a Vast Reservoir of Gold, And It's Leaking Toward The Surface <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/molten-metal.jpg" alt="Earth's Core Holds a Vast Reservoir of Gold, And It's Leaking Toward The Surface"/>"We realized that we had literally struck gold!"

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Earth&#039;s Core Holds a Vast Reservoir of Gold, And It&#039;s Leaking Toward The Surface

Earth&#039;s core is rich with gold, and it&#039;s leaking out through the mantle and into the crust, new research has found.

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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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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&#039;s Radiation in First Ever &#039;Cosmic Joust&#039;

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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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&#039;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&#039;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.