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62,000 Penguins Starved to Death Off South Africa's Coast Last Decade. Here's Why. <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/FloofyBabyAfricanPenguinInCareWithSoftToy.jpg" alt="62,000 Penguins Starved to Death Off South Africa's Coast Last Decade. Here's Why."/>A shockingly common story.

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62,000 Penguins Starved to Death Off South Africa&#039;s Coast Last Decade. Here&#039;s Why.

A brutal confluence of environmental change and human fishing habits left tens of thousands of adult African penguins off South Africa&#039;s coast...

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Trove of 225 'Exceptional' Egyptian Figurines Solves Long-Standing Mystery <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/egypt_figurines_header.jpg" alt="Hundreds of 'Exceptional' Figurines in Egyptian Tomb Solve Ancient Mystery"/>"We knew right away it was going to be amazing."

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Trove of 225 &#039;Exceptional&#039; Egyptian Figurines Solves Long-Standing Mystery

A treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines has been discovered inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the Nile Delta, a rare fin...

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Russia Faces Space Mission Crisis After Severe Soyuz Launch Pad Accident <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/Soyuz-MS-28-at-site-316-ahead-of-launch.jpg" alt="A spacecraft on a launchpad against a bright blue sky"/>This could spell trouble for ISS missions.

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Russia Faces Space Mission Crisis After Severe Soyuz Launch Pad Accident

On November 27th, Russia&#039;s Baikonur Cosmodrome experienced a severe accident that has suspended Russia&#039;s ability to launch payloads and c...

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Startling Sounds From 6,000-Year-Old Shells Hint at Their Ancient Use <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/conches.jpg" alt="Startling Sounds From 6,000-Year-Old Shells Hint at Their Ancient Use"/>This will get your attention.

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Startling Sounds From 6,000-Year-Old Shells Hint at Their Ancient Use

Oddly shaped conch shells found at Neolithic archaeological sites dating back 6,000 years could have served as technology for producing an extremel...

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Prion-Like Brain Damage Can Occur Without Infectious Prions, Study Finds <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/brain-cells.jpg" alt="Prion-Like Brain Damage Can Occur Without Infectious Prions, Study Finds"/>This is sobering.

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Prion-Like Brain Damage Can Occur Without Infectious Prions, Study Finds

We may have been overestimating the role of a pathological class of misfolded protein in neurodegenerative disease.

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An Animal Expert Explains Why Your Dog Keeps Hiding Everything <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/HappyPupEnthusiasticallyDiggingWithDirtFlying.jpg" alt="An Animal Expert Explains Why Your Dog Keeps Hiding Everything"/>This makes a lot of sense.

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An Animal Expert Explains Why Your Dog Keeps Hiding Everything

Have you ever seen a dog focused on nuzzling their expensive treat under a blanket, behind a couch cushion, or into a freshly dug hole in the backy...

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Grim Signals of Future Antimicrobial Resistance Found Lurking in Sewage <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/Human_neutrophil_ingesting_MRSA.jpg" alt="A scanning electron micrograph of a human neutrophil ingesting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)"/>"Far more widespread around the world than we had expected."

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Grim Signals of Future Antimicrobial Resistance Found Lurking in Sewage

Dangerous bacteria and other disease-causing microbes are rapidly evolving ways to defy our best antibiotic medications, a phenomenon known as anti...

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A 180-Year Assumption About Light Was Just Proven Wrong <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/abstract_light_FE_header.jpg" alt="abstract image of twisting squares"/>"Light doesn't just illuminate matter, it magnetically influences it."

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A 180-Year Assumption About Light Was Just Proven Wrong

Scientists have recently discovered an interaction between an electromagnetic wave and its own magnetic component as it passes through a material, ...

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Is Working From Home Good For You? A New Study Reveals The Answer. <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/ManOnComputer.jpg" alt="Man On Computer"/>There's one key takeaway here.

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Is Working From Home Good For You? A New Study Reveals The Answer.

Working from home has become a fixture of Australian work culture, but its effect on mental health is still widely debated.

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Athletes Have a Mysteriously Higher Risk of Irregular Heartbeat <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/CloseUpWetManAdjustingGogglesUnderDramaticLighting.jpg" alt="Athletes Have a Mysteriously Higher Risk of Irregular Heartbeat"/>Too much of a good thing?

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Athletes Have a Mysteriously Higher Risk of Irregular Heartbeat

Exercise is one of the best things we can do for a healthy heart.

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Tinnitus Triggers Your Body's 'Fight or Flight' Response, Study Finds <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/tinnitus-ear-pain.jpg" alt="tinnitus ear pain"/>It's the first time we've seen this.

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Tinnitus Triggers Your Body&#039;s &#039;Fight or Flight&#039; Response, Study Finds

Chronic tinnitus may increase stress levels by keeping the body that much closer to a fight-or-flight response to sound, a new study suggests.

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Is The Y Chromosome Vanishing? A New Sex Gene May Be The Future of Men <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/MansEyeStaring.jpg"/>Big changes are coming.

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Is The Y Chromosome Vanishing? A New Sex Gene May Be The Future of Men

In 2002, evolutionary biologist Jenny Graves shared a controversial calculation.

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This Week in Science: Vampire Squid, a Galactic Tornado, And Much More! <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/vampire_squid_2_header.jpg" alt="a vampire squid"/>Our weekly science news roundup.

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This Week in Science: Vampire Squid, a Galactic Tornado, And Much More!

This week in science: the genetic secrets of the &#039;vampire squid from hell&#039;; a dinosaur superhighway; the longest known spinning structure...

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Oral Health And Diabetes Have a Crucial Link, Expert Reveals <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/man_brushing_teeth_header.jpg" alt="man brushing teeth"/>Understanding the connection is essential.

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Oral Health And Diabetes Have a Crucial Link, Expert Reveals

Imagine trying to enjoy your favourite meal but finding that your gums hurt, your mouth feels dry, and chewing has become uncomfortable.

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Supercomputer Creates One of The Most Realistic Virtual Brains Ever Seen <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/BrainNeurons-model.jpg" alt="Brain Neurons model"/>"The door is open."

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Supercomputer Creates One of The Most Realistic Virtual Brains Ever Seen

Getting a better understanding of how the brain works is tricky, as living brains aren&#039;t easily prodded and analyzed.

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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.