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ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

Breakthrough Helps Scientists Grow More Realistic Human Brain Models <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/TinyBrain.jpg" alt="Hand holding a wooden spoon with a miniature human brain model"/>Could help reduce animal testing.

Breakthrough Helps Scientists Grow More Realistic Human Brain Models

Slicing up and analyzing real, living, three-dimensional brain tissue comes with some obvious complications – as in, it tends to be needed by its...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

Scientists Have Discovered a Special Type of Immune Cell That Slows Aging <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/senescent-cell.jpg" alt="Scientists Have Discovered a Special Type of Immune Cell That Slows Aging"/>Some immune cells turn into 'zombie assassins'.

Scientists Have Discovered a Special Type of Immune Cell That Slows Aging

Researchers led by a team from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel have just discovered a way to destroy harmful 'senescent' cel...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

This Is What Time You Should Eat Dinner During Winter <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/winter-dinner-1.jpg" alt="This Is What Time You Should Eat Dinner During Winter"/>When we eat is almost as important as what we eat.

This Is What Time You Should Eat Dinner During Winter

Once the clocks have gone back and darkness falls before many of us even leave work, the rhythms of winter can feel heavier — shorter days, darke...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

A Dangerous, Banned Substance Is Lurking in Trending Weight-Loss Pills <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/reductil_pills_header.jpg" alt="blue and white pills spilling onto a blue table"/>It's not quite what it seems.

A Dangerous, Banned Substance Is Lurking in Trending Weight-Loss Pills

It's the kind of promise that stops thumbs mid-scroll: "Take Molecule and forget food exists." Viral TikTok clips show influencers flaunting r...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

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.

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&#...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

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".

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...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

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?

We May Have Bred Neurodiversity Into Our Pets, Expert Suggests

I live with several cocker spaniels.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 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.

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 ...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

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.

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...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

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.

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...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

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.

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 ...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

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.

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...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

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."

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 ...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

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?

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 ...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

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.

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.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

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.

Ancient Indian Health Practice Really Can Help Fight Colds And Allergies

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

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

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?

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...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

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.

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...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

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.

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.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 4 months ago

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.

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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