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A Crucial Genetic Mutation Behind Crohn's Disease Has Finally Been Revealed <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/GutBacteria.jpg" alt="Gut bacteria illustration"/>Here's what we know.

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A Crucial Genetic Mutation Behind Crohn&#039;s Disease Has Finally Been Revealed

Mutations in a gene associated with Crohn&#039;s disease have been found to rob critical immune cells of their ability to switch modes, causing t...

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A Radical New Kind of Particle Accelerator Could Transform Science <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/glowing-blue-box.jpg" alt="Desktop Particle Accelerators Could Blast X-Rays From a Microchip"/>The future is ultra-compact.

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A Radical New Kind of Particle Accelerator Could Transform Science

A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I have found in a new r...

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One of Our Biggest Hopes For Alzheimer's Treatment Doesn't Seem to Work <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/AmyloidPlaques.jpg" alt="Amyloid-beta plaques in the brain"/>We're still learning about the disease.

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One of Our Biggest Hopes For Alzheimer&#039;s Treatment Doesn&#039;t Seem to Work

For decades, scientists have targeted the sticky protein clumps that amass in Alzheimer&#039;s brains as a potential way of treating the disease, b...

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Scientists Discovered a Time Crystal That Reveals a New Way to Order Time <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/crystal-star.jpg" alt="Scientists Discovered a Time Crystal That Reveals a New Way to Order Time"/>"We reveal the existence of new types of temporal order."

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Scientists Discovered a Time Crystal That Reveals a New Way to Order Time

A time crystal that beats to the rhythm of both order and chaos has revealed a new way in which matter can keep time.

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Giant Stars Are Eating Planets, And We Finally Know Why <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/star_destroying_planet_header-1.jpg" alt="illustration of a gas giant being torn apart"/>"Now we can see the impact of this directly."

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Giant Stars Are Eating Planets, And We Finally Know Why

As stars age, they expand.

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Some People Never Forget a Face, And Now We Know Their Secret <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/blueandredfaces2.jpg" alt="blue and red faces"/>What makes a face unique?

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Some People Never Forget a Face, And Now We Know Their Secret

Super-recognizers are aces at remembering faces, but how do they do it? A new study from researchers in Australia reveals that the people who never...

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This Week in Science: Awesome Auroras, Morse Code For Bees, And More! <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/TWIS-cover-Nov-9-15-1.jpg"/>Our weekly science news roundup.

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This Week in Science: Awesome Auroras, Morse Code For Bees, And More!

This week in science: The Sun puts on a stunning light show; a winning strategy for &#039;rock, paper, scissors&#039;; teaching bumblebees Morse Co...

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The Eye's Maximum Resolution Is Even Higher Than We Thought <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/human-eye-closeup.jpg" alt="human-eye-closeup"/>"No one had actually sat down and measured it."

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The Eye&#039;s Maximum Resolution Is Even Higher Than We Thought

What&#039;s the retinal resolution of the human eye, or how many pixels can we actually perceive? And is there any point in purchasing an expensive...

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It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What Is Inside Our Moon <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Half-of-the-Moon-on-a-black-background.jpg" alt="A half moon close up on black"/>The verdict is in.

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It&#039;s Official: Scientists Confirmed What Is Inside Our Moon

Well, the verdict is in.

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Scientists Identify Neurons Driving Anxiety – And How to Calm Them <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Neuron-and-axon-blue-purple-on-black.jpg" alt="Illustration of a neuron in bright blue, with purple myelin sheaths around an axon visible on the right"/>What if there is a way to reverse anxiety's effects?

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Scientists Identify Neurons Driving Anxiety &ndash; And How to Calm Them

Anxiety disorders are the world&#039;s most common type of mental health condition, impacting the lives of around 360 million people.

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Scientists Trace Lupus to One of The World's Most Common Viruses <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/EBV-illustration-on-blue.jpg" alt="Computer illustration of Epstein-Barr virus particle (orange) on a blue background"/>"This is the single most impactful finding to emerge from my lab in my entire career."

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Scientists Trace Lupus to One of The World&#039;s Most Common Viruses

One of the world&#039;s most common viral infections could underlie virtually every case of lupus, according to a recent study providing the strong...

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There's a Hidden Danger in Swallowing Pills, Expert Warns <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/pills_in_hand_header.jpg" alt="hand holding tablets"/>Here's how to avoid it.

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There&#039;s a Hidden Danger in Swallowing Pills, Expert Warns

Every year, people around the world take an astonishing 3.8 trillion doses of medicine.

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Breakthrough: Blue Origin Nails Booster Landing in Historic Mars Launch <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/blue_origin_new_glenn_header.jpg" alt="blue origin new glenn rocket seen from below"/>"Damn that was exciting!"

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Breakthrough: Blue Origin Nails Booster Landing in Historic Mars Launch

Jeff Bezos&#039;s Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket on Thursday with NASA twin spacecraft destined for Mars aboard, and in a b...

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Magnetic Fields Could Explain 'Impossible' Black Hole Merger <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/MergerOfImpossibleBlackHoles.jpg" alt="Magnetic Fields Could Explain 'Impossible' Black Hole Merger"/>A mass range that shouldn't exist.

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Magnetic Fields Could Explain &#039;Impossible&#039; Black Hole Merger

In 2023, gravitational wave detectors picked up the signature of a collision 7 billion light-years away.

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CT Scans Predicted to Result in 100,000 New Cancers Across The US <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Girl-with-eyes-closed-going-into-CT-scanner.jpg" alt="Girl with eyes closed going into CT scanner"/>It's important to get the full story.

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CT Scans Predicted to Result in 100,000 New Cancers Across The US

More Americans are receiving computed tomography (CT) scans than ever before, and while this technology can save lives, some scientists are concern...

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Don't Panic! 3I/ATLAS Isn't an Alien Death Probe, But It Is Wildly Unusual <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/3iatlasrainbow.jpg" alt="Don't Panic! 3I/ATLAS Isn't an Alien Death Probe, But It Is Wildly Unusual"/>Like how COOL is this.

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Don&#039;t Panic! 3I/ATLAS Isn&#039;t an Alien Death Probe, But It Is Wildly Unusual

Take a deep breath.

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These Five Simple Habits Are Key to Slowing Aging, Experts Reveal <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/OrangeSoledShoesRunningBoardwalkSea.jpg" alt="These Five Simple Habits Are Key to Slowing Aging, Experts Reveal"/>It doesn't have to be complicated.

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These Five Simple Habits Are Key to Slowing Aging, Experts Reveal

Society is fascinated with health, fitness and longevity.

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A Saliva Test Could Quickly Reveal Your Hidden Risk of Heart Failure <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Handing-over-a-saliva-sample-tube.jpg" alt="a young adult's hand passing over a saliva sample tube to an older person's hand"/>The sooner the better.

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A Saliva Test Could Quickly Reveal Your Hidden Risk of Heart Failure

Heart failure doesn&#039;t always mean game over, but it needs to be detected early.

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Astronomical First: Storm Seen Erupting on Another Sun, And It's a Monster <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/cme_other_star_header.jpg" alt="illustration of a cme on another star"/>Pity any planets standing in its way.

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Astronomical First: Storm Seen Erupting on Another Sun, And It&#039;s a Monster

Astronomers revealed Wednesday they have detected a storm on a star other than our Sun for the first time, discovering an explosion so violent it c...

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World's Top Infectious Killer Claimed 1.23 Million Lives Last Year, WHO Says <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/TB_leading_killer_header.jpg" alt="illustration of mycobacterium"/>There is hope.

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World&#039;s Top Infectious Killer Claimed 1.23 Million Lives Last Year, WHO Says

Tuberculosis remains the world&#039;s leading infectious killer, claiming an estimated 1.23 million lives last year, the UN health organisation sai...