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FDA to Remove 'Black Box' Warnings From Menopause Hormone Therapy. Here's Why. <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/HRT_pills_blisterpacks_header.jpg" alt="hrt blister packs"/>A big win.

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FDA to Remove 'Black Box' Warnings From Menopause Hormone Therapy. Here's Why.

For more than 20 years, hormone therapy for menopause has carried a warning label from the Food and Drug Administration describing the medication&#...

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The Long-Term Impacts of Eating Disorders Are Far More Serious Than You Might Realize <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/woman-worried-mental-health.jpg" alt="The Long-Term Impacts of Eating Disorders Are Far More Serious Than You Might Realize"/>“Their consequences are under-recognized".

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The Long-Term Impacts of Eating Disorders Are Far More Serious Than You Might Realize

Eating disorders can take a serious toll on the body, prompting experts to call for overlooked long-term consequences to be addressed by healthcare...

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We May Have Bred Neurodiversity Into Our Pets, Expert Suggests <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/OverEnthusiasticLookingDoggoWithSoMuchEnergyItsFlying.jpg" alt="We May Have Bred Neurodiversity Into Our Pets, Expert Suggests"/>Not just a human thing?

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We May Have Bred Neurodiversity Into Our Pets, Expert Suggests

I live with several cocker spaniels.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 5 months ago

Children With Autism, ADHD, And Anorexia Share a Common Microbe Imbalance <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/gut_bacteria_imbalance_header.jpg" alt="enteric microbe illustration"/>Signs of a potential feedback loop.

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Children With Autism, ADHD, And Anorexia Share a Common Microbe Imbalance

A new, small study suggests children with autism, ADHD, and anorexia share similarly disrupted gut microbiomes, which, by some measures, have more ...

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NASA Is Tracking a Vast Anomaly Growing in Earth's Magnetic Field <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/NASA-anomaly-in-Earth-magnetic-field.png" alt="Giant colorful 'wrappings' shown on Earth"/>It's like a strange pothole in space.

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NASA Is Tracking a Vast Anomaly Growing in Earth's Magnetic Field

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies, stretching...

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NASA Discovered a Rock on Mars That Doesn't Belong There <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/MarsRock.jpg" alt="Phippsaksla rock on Mars"/>Hello stranger.

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NASA Discovered a Rock on Mars That Doesn't Belong There

More than five years into its mission, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is still ambling across the surface of the red planet, doing what any fi...

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NASA Is About to Drop Photos of 3I/Atlas At Its Weirdest <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/hst-atlas.jpg" alt="NASA Is About to Drop Photos of 3I/Atlas At Its Weirdest"/>We've been waiting for this.

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NASA Is About to Drop Photos of 3I/ATLAS At Its Weirdest

It's happening: We're finally getting a treasure trove of shiny new images of comet 3I/ATLAS, the third ultra-rare known object to enter ...

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Stress-Sensitive Neurons May Have a Powerful Effect on Our Entire Brain <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/stress_neuron_header.jpg" alt="abstract brain cell"/>Think calming thoughts.

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Stress-Sensitive Neurons May Have a Powerful Effect on Our Entire Brain

A small population of nerve cells appears to be responsible for blood flow and neural activity across the entire brain, findings that could have si...

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Lethal Dose of Plastic For Marine Animals Far Lower Than We Thought <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/puffin_lethal_dose_plastic_header.jpg" alt="puffin"/>"The science is clear."

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Lethal Dose of Plastic For Marine Animals Far Lower Than We Thought

Marine animals inevitably eat what we toss in the ocean, including pervasive plastics – but how much is too much? The bar is low, according to a ...

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Voids Detected Inside Giza Pyramid May Be Signs of a Hidden Entrance <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/pyramids.jpg" alt="Voids Detected Inside Giza Pyramid May Be Signs of a Hidden Entrance"/>What else could they be?

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Voids Detected Inside Giza Pyramid May Be Signs of a Hidden Entrance

Scans of the third-largest pyramid at Giza, the Menkaure pyramid, have revealed two anomalous pockets of nothing but air hiding behind its sloping ...

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First Confirmed Death From Tick-Aquired Meat Allergy Prompts Warnings <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/lone_star_tick_header.jpg" alt="First Confirmed Death From Tick-Aquired Meat Allergy Prompts Warnings"/>Here’s what you need to know.

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First Confirmed Death From Tick-Acquired Meat Allergy Prompts Warnings

Four hours after eating steak during a family camping trip, a 47-year-old man from New Jersey became severely ill.

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Ancient Indian Health Practice Really Can Help Fight Colds And Allergies <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/woman_with_a_cold_header.jpg" alt="woman sneezing into a tissue"/>Here's what an expert says.

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Ancient Indian Health Practice Really Can Help Fight Colds And Allergies

It starts with a slight scratchiness at the back of your throat.

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We May Now Know Why Alzheimer's Erases Memories of Our Loved Ones <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/alzheimers_memory_pnn_header.jpg" alt="old black and white photograph of a woman's face held in an aging person's hands"/>Could this be treated?

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We May Now Know Why Alzheimer's Erases Memories of Our Loved Ones

The early stages of Alzheimer's disease often involve an insidious decline in short-term memory, along with mounting challenges such as mood s...

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Anti-Aging Injections Hide Environmental Costs We May Not Want to Pay <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Syringe-drawing-liquid-from-vial.jpg" alt="Blue-gloved hand holding a syringe and drawing up liquid from a vial"/>Our seemingly universal need to look younger is becoming a problem.

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Anti-Aging Injections Hide Environmental Costs We May Not Want to Pay

The increasing number of injectable cosmetic treatments and fillers carried out around the world is driven by a seemingly universal need to look yo...

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Strange Structures Found Lurking in The Blood of People With Long COVID <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/strange-structure.jpg" alt="Strange Structures Found Lurking in The Blood of People With Long COVID"/>This could change things.

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Strange Structures Found Lurking in The Blood of People With Long COVID

A hidden physical change in the body may be helping to drive the prolonged malaise some people experience after contracting COVID-19.

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World's Largest 'Modern' Crater Found Hiding in Plain Sight in China <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/china_impact_crater_header.jpg" alt="crater in China"/>Three times the size of the previous record holder.

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World's Largest 'Modern' Crater Found Hiding in Plain Sight in China

Nestled on a hillside in Guangdong Province near Zhaoqing City, the Jinlin crater managed to hide in plain sight until researchers identified it as...

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Your Vision Can Predict Dementia 12 Years Before a Diagnosis, Research Suggests <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/09/VisionDementia.jpg" alt="Your Vision Can Predict Dementia 12 Years Before a Diagnosis, Research Suggests"/>An early clue.

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Your Vision Can Predict Dementia 12 Years Before a Diagnosis, Research Suggests

The eyes are a window to the brain – and this outward extension of the central nervous system may reveal early signs of cognitive decline.

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Shock Discovery Reveals Sea Urchins Are Basically 'All Brain' <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/sea-urchin.jpg" alt="Shock Discovery Reveals Sea Urchins Are Basically 'All Brain'"/>These things are way more complex than we realized.

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Shock Discovery Reveals Sea Urchins Are Basically 'All Brain'

Sea urchins may just look like a ball of spikes waiting to be stepped on at the tide pool, but there's much more to these barbed beasts than j...

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Is Melatonin Bad For Your Heart? An Expert Explains The New Findings. <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/BlueGlowyTorsoWithHeartHighlightedRed.jpg" alt="Illustration of mans torso in glowy blue outlines with heart highlighted in red"/>The story isn't over.

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Is Melatonin Bad For Your Heart? An Expert Explains The New Findings.

A study presented at the American Heart Association's scientific meetings has raised concerns about melatonin, one of Britain's most comm...

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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's Disease Has Finally Been Revealed

Mutations in a gene associated with Crohn's disease have been found to rob critical immune cells of their ability to switch modes, causing t...