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Complex Life May Be a Billion Years Older Than We Thought <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/Illustration-of-a-human-cell.jpg" alt="Illustration of a human cell, with colorful organelles, on a black background"/>A new analysis suggests it evolved in surprising ways.

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Complex Life May Be a Billion Years Older Than We Thought

The origins of complex, nucleated cellular life – everything from amoebas to humans – may date back a lot further in Earth&#039;s history than ...

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This Prehistoric Bird Choked to Death on 800 Rocks, And No One Knows Why <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/stoopid-birb.jpg" alt="yellow arrow pointing at a fossil"/>What the heck was it trying to do?

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This Prehistoric Bird Choked to Death on 800 Rocks, And No One Knows Why

A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic paleontologists with a baffling medical mystery.

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Mysterious Figurine With Stitched Lips Found at 11,000-Year-Old Site <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/statues_turkiye_header.jpg" alt="statue and pillar"/>A lost Neolithic world Is emerging from Türkiye’s Stone Hills.

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Mysterious Figurine With Stitched Lips Found at 11,000-Year-Old Site

On the windswept hills overlooking Türkiye&#039;s vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life might have looke...

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An Existing Vaccine Could Slow Dementia And Cut Death Risk by 30% <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/VaccinePlaster.jpg" alt="Vaccine in the arm"/>Two promising findings.

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An Existing Vaccine Could Slow Dementia And Cut Death Risk by 30%

A shingles vaccination program that began in Wales in 2013 has led to two discoveries that give fresh hope to efforts to treat dementia: The vaccin...

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Your Gut Could Be Quietly Controlling Your Sleep, Research Shows <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/man_sleep_gut_health_header.jpg" alt="man sleeping"/>Good sleep starts long before you get into bed.

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Your Gut Could Be Quietly Controlling Your Sleep, Research Shows

You might think good sleep happens in your brain, but restorative sleep actually begins much lower in the body: in the gut.

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New Tick-Borne Disease Discovered in Dogs May Pose a Risk to Humans <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/rickettsia_species_header.png" alt="rickettsia bacteria"/>Authorities are watching closely.

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New Tick-Borne Disease Discovered in Dogs May Pose a Risk to Humans

Several dogs in the US have died following infections by a newly discovered tick-borne disease from the same genus responsible for &#039;spotted fe...

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Your Driving Choices Could Be Hiding Signs of Future Cognitive Decline <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/map_car_MCI_header.jpg" alt="man and woman with a map near a car"/>It's the small things.

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Your Driving Choices Could Be Hiding Signs of Future Cognitive Decline

Early signs of cognitive decline may influence our driving habits, making our choices in travel times and routes a potential indicator of future me...

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Close Brush With 'Cosmic Dog' May Still Be Seen at Solar System's Edge <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/canis_major_header.jpg" alt="constellation canis major"/>Bad dog!

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Close Brush With &#039;Cosmic Dog&#039; May Still Be Seen at Solar System&#039;s Edge

About 4.5 million years ago, a great cosmic dog kicked past our Solar System – and its effects may still be seen today.

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Computers Made From Human Brain Tissue Are Coming. Are We Prepared? <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/brain_tissue_computer_header.jpg"/>Is ‘organoid intelligence’ the next step in AI?

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Computers Made From Human Brain Tissue Are Coming. Are We Prepared?

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention:...

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'Tornado' of Galaxies Could Be The Longest Spinning Structure Ever Seen <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/filament-lorge.jpg" alt="'Tornado' of Galaxies Could Be The Longest Spinning Structure Ever Seen"/>Whee!

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&#039;Tornado&#039; of Galaxies Is The Longest Spinning Structure Ever Seen

A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a huge strand of galaxies...

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Almost All Space Telescope Images Could Soon Be Contaminated, NASA Warns <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/Starlink.jpg" alt="Almost All Space Telescope Images Could Soon Be Contaminated, NASA Warns"/>This is what half a million satellites looks like.

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Almost All Space Telescope Images Could Soon Be Contaminated, NASA Warns

Light from the half a million satellites that humanity is planning to launch into Earth&#039;s orbit in the coming years could contaminate almost a...

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18,000 Tracks Discovered in World's Largest Dinosaur Tracksite <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/Theropod-track.jpg" alt="18,000 Tracks Discovered in World's Largest Dinosaur Tracksite"/>Walking, running, even swimming.

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18,000 Tracks Discovered in World&#039;s Largest Dinosaur Tracksite

An expanse of ancient rock in the high-altitude Torotoro National Park in Bolivia has been revealed as the largest dinosaur tracksite ever recorded.

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Owning a Smartphone at Age 12 Is Linked to These Health Issues in Kids <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/SmashPhone.jpg" alt="Hammer breaking the screen of a mobile phone"/>Think of the children.

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Owning a Smartphone at Age 12 Is Linked to These Health Issues in Kids

We&#039;re fast learning how smartphones impact childhood, and the findings of a new study about young tweens on the cusp of adolescence make for s...

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DNA Analysis Reveals Two Routes Ancient Humans Used to Reach Australia <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/aboriginal-child-portrait.jpg" alt="DNA Analysis Reveals Two Routes Ancient Humans Used to Reach Australia"/>Genomics catches up with archeology.

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DNA Analysis Reveals Two Routes Ancient Humans Used to Reach Australia

The first humans arrived upon the landmass now known as Australia around 60,000 years ago along two distinct routes, according to a new genomics st...

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Young Ants Beg For Death When Sick, New Study Reveals <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/Lasius_neglectus_header-1.jpg" alt="adult ants surrounding a pupa"/>Nature: the ultimate horror show.

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Young Ants Beg For Death When Sick, New Study Reveals

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said Tuesday, adding that quee...

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First Detailed Look at a Tsunami From Space Reveals Unexpected Feature <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/wave.jpg" alt="First Detailed Look at a Tsunami From Space Reveals Unexpected Feature"/>A new frontier in tsunami warnings.

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First Detailed Look at a Tsunami From Space Reveals Unexpected Feature

A satellite has tracked a tsunami in greater detail than ever before, which could help improve models of these giant waves and allow for better pre...

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Suicidal Thoughts Prompt New Warnings From Health Authorities For GLP-1 Drugs <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/semaglutide_pen_header.jpg" alt="close up of a semaglutide injection pen in man's hands"/>Talk to your doctor.

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Suicidal Thoughts Prompt New Warnings From Health Authorities For GLP-1 Drugs

The rise of GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro has been nothing short of meteoric.

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December's Full Supermoon Rises Under Ideal Photography Conditions <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/full-moon-oregon.jpg" alt="December's Full Supermoon Rises Under Ideal Photography Conditions"/>Crack open a cold one.

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December&#039;s Full Supermoon Rises Under Ideal Photography Conditions

The last full Moon of 2025 is going to rise with all the panache conferred by a simultaneous perigee.

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Curiosity Cracked Open a Rock on Mars And Revealed a Big Surprise <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Curiosity-Views-Sulfur-Crystals-Within-a-Crushed-Rock.jpg"/>A first on the red planet!

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Curiosity Cracked Open a Rock on Mars And Revealed a Big Surprise

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

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How Long Poop Stays in Your Body Could Impact Your Health, Study Finds <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/loo-roll.jpg" alt="How Long Poop Stays in Your Body Could Impact Your Health, Study Finds"/>It makes a difference.

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How Long Poop Stays in Your Body Could Impact Your Health, Study Finds

Whether poop speeds through your gut like a bullet train or takes a more smell-the-roses approach could have more profound implications for your ov...