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'Hidden' Volcanoes Pose The Greatest Threat to The World, Scientists Warn <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Volcano-eruption-seen-from-space.jpg" alt="Volcano eruption seen from space, showing a huge white blob coming out of a crater"/>One just erupted after 12,000 years.

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&#039;Hidden&#039; Volcanoes Pose The Greatest Threat to The World, Scientists Warn

The next global volcanic disaster is more likely to come from volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely monitored than from the likes of famous ...

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Lions Have Two Distinct Roars, And One Could Aid in Their Survival <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/lion_roaring_header.jpg" alt="wild lion roaring"/>They're more complex than we thought.

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Lions Have Two Distinct Roars, And One Could Aid in Their Survival

The roar of an African lion is one of the most iconic sounds of the animal kingdom.

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'Exciting' New Cancer Blood Test Results Hide a Concerning Problem <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/cancer_blood_test2_header.jpg" alt="blood tubes in a rack"/>An expert explains.

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&#039;Exciting&#039; New Cancer Blood Test Results Hide a Concerning Problem

Progress in cutting the global toll of cancer remains painfully slow, but a new blood test has sparked unusual levels of hope.

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Dark Matter May Have Finally Been Detected in Our Galaxy's Glow <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/fermi-sky.jpg" alt="Dark Matter May Have Finally Been Detected in Our Galaxy's Glow"/>Is this it?

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Dark Matter May Have Finally Been Detected in Our Galaxy&#039;s Glow

A strange, never-before-seen glow in the halo of our galaxy may be the strongest dark-matter breadcrumb yet.

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Nasal Drops Could Help Fight a Common And Deadly Brain Cancer <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/GlioblastomaBrainCancerColorisedCT.jpg" alt="Nasal Drops Could Help Fight a Common And Deadly Brain Cancer"/>Hope for a safer, more effective treatment.

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Nasal Drops Could Help Fight a Common And Deadly Brain Cancer

Researchers have developed nasal drops that travel along the nerves of the nose into the central nervous system to fight the deadliest brain cancer.

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Stressed? Your Body Thinks You're Fighting Lions Every Day, Say Anthropologists <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/StressedMan.jpg" alt="Businessman standing on rooftop in city after work"/>We weren't built for cities.

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Stressed? Your Body Thinks You&#039;re Fighting Lions Every Day, Say Anthropologists

Rising cases of chronic stress could be down to a mismatch between modern living and our own biology, according to a new study.

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What if a Tiny Black Hole Shot Through Your Body? A Physicist Did The Math <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/black-hole-svs.jpg"/>New fear unlocked.

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What if a Tiny Black Hole Shot Through Your Body? A Physicist Did The Math

If you&#039;ve ever wondered what would actually happen if a microscopic black hole tunneled straight through your body, answers have finally arrived.

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The Universe Could 'End' With a Dark Eternity, an Astrophysicist Explains <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/end-of-the-universe_header.jpg" alt="shadow of a man looking at a starry sky"/>Things could get weird before then.

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The Universe Could &#039;End&#039; With a Dark Eternity, an Astrophysicist Explains

Whether the Universe will &#039;end&#039; at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity&#039;s cosmic home for a...

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Your Dog Probably Still Has Some Wolf DNA in Its Genome, Study Finds <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/chihuahua.jpg" alt="Your Dog Probably Still Has Some Wolf DNA in Its Genome, Study Finds"/>Even chihuahuas.

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Your Dog Probably Still Has Some Wolf DNA in Its Genome, Study Finds

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware – they probably have some wolf in them.

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New Dementia Pill Clears First Major Safety Hurdle, Trial Reports <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/BrainFade.jpg" alt="Dissolving multi colored cubes flying to the human brain"/>There's huge potential here.

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New Dementia Pill Clears First Major Safety Hurdle, Trial Reports

A new pill for treating dementia is delivering promising "topline" results in early-stage clinical trials, according to a recent press release by i...

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A Taste For Cheese May Reveal Your Future Risk of Dementia <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/CheesePlate.jpg" alt="Cheese on a plate"/>A tasty clue.

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A Taste For Cheese May Reveal Your Future Risk of Dementia

We don&#039;t yet have a cure for dementia, but we do have a growing list of factors that may influence risk – including exercise, diet, drinking...

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We May Be Moving Faster Through The Universe Than We Thought <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/person-milky-way.jpg" alt="silhouette of a person looking up at the night sky"/>This could have profound consequences.

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We May Be Moving Faster Through The Universe Than We Thought

Our Solar System orbits the galactic center at an estimated 792,000 kilometers per hour, taking 225 million Earth years to complete one galactic year.

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Breakthrough Simulation Maps Every Star in The Milky Way in Scientific First <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/galaxy-simulation.jpg" alt="A bright yellow-orange line of light across a purple haze"/>Astrophysicists have dreamed of achieving this for decades.

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Breakthrough Simulation Maps Every Star in The Milky Way in Scientific First

The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and sometimes violent death.

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Genetic 'Ghosts' of a Long-Lost People Found in South America <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/ghost_dna_argentina_header.jpg" alt="argentinian woman"/>"A new group of people we didn't know about before."

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Genetic &#039;Ghosts&#039; of a Long-Lost People Found in South America

Traces of a previously unknown group of people, genetically distinct from their neighbors, have persisted for at least 8,000 years in the central S...

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World's First Death From H5N5 Bird Flu Strain Reported in US <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/bird_flu_2nd_death2_header.jpg" alt="H5N1 virus particle in red"/>"The risk to the public remains low."

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World&#039;s First Death From H5N5 Bird Flu Strain Reported in US

A resident of Washington state has died after contracting a rare strain of bird flu previously only reported in animals, state health officials sai...

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Human Evolution Is Still Happening, And Here's The Evidence <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/inuit-woman.jpg" alt="inuit woman"/>We never stopped.

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Human Evolution Is Still Happening, And Here&#039;s The Evidence

Many people believe that we humans have conquered nature through the wonders of civilization and technology.

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A Daily Sprinkle of Cumin Seeds Can Help Lower Cholestrol, Study Finds <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/black_cumin_header-.jpg" alt="black cumin seeds on a wooden spoon"/>Nature's medicine.

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A Daily Sprinkle of Cumin Seeds Can Help Lower Cholesterol, Study Finds

A black seed, long used in cooking and traditional medicine, has shown promise in lowering cholesterol levels in a new clinical trial.

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Earth's Continents Are Slowly Peeling Away Below, And Here's Why <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/earth_and_mantle_header.jpg" alt="earth from above with a cutaway view displaying a heated interior"/>An age-old mystery.

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Earth&#039;s Continents Are Slowly Peeling Away Below, And Here&#039;s Why

Geoscientists have solved an age-old mystery of oceanic volcanism and plate tectonics, explaining why some islands contain so much continental mate...

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Rare Earth Element Crystals Found Forming in a Plant For The First Time <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/BlechnumOrientale.jpg" alt="Low angle view of Blechnum orientale hard fern plants"/>An incredible discovery.

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Rare Earth Element Crystals Found Forming in a Plant For The First Time

Scientists have just discovered an incredible superpower hidden away in the tissues of the fern Blechnum orientale, a plant that can collect and st...

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An Amazing Thing Happens in The Brain When We See Someone Touched <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/HandTouchingHandWithMoodyOrangeLightingOnBlack.jpg" alt="An Amazing Thing Happens in The Brain When We See Someone Touched"/>It only takes milliseconds.

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An Amazing Thing Happens in The Brain When We See Someone Touched

Touch is fundamental to how we perceive our own bodies and connect with others.