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Archaeologists Discover The Earliest Confirmed Adult Cremation <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/pyre-art.jpg" alt="Archaeologists Discover The Earliest Confirmed Adult Cremation"/>This is changing what we know about early humans.

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Archaeologists Discover The Earliest Confirmed Adult Cremation

In an ancient rock shelter in the heart of Malawi, archaeologists have found the world&#039;s oldest evidence of a funeral pyre for an adult.

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Swearing Provides Health Benefits (Especially if It's Not a Habit) <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/person_swearing_header.jpg" alt="woman biting bottom lip as if she's about to swear"/>Wtf?

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Swearing Provides Health Benefits (Especially if It&#039;s Not a Habit)

You stub your toe on the bedpost.

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What Is Biophobia? Your Guide to The Hidden Experience of Millions <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/Womans-Emotionless-Face-Tinted-Green.jpg" alt="A woman's face with a green tint to it"/>And what you can do to help.

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What Is Biophobia? Your Guide to The Hidden Experience of Millions

We&#039;re constantly told that spending time in nature is good for the body and the mind alike.

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This Stunning 'Blue Marble' Fruit Isn't Actually Blue – It's a Wild Optical Illusion <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/marble_berry1_header.jpg" alt="Bright blue berries"/>Nature has clever ways to trick your eyes.

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This Stunning &#039;Blue Marble&#039; Fruit Isn&#039;t Actually Blue &ndash; It&#039;s a Wild Optical Illusion

The fruit of Africa&#039;s marble berry (Pollia condensata) is a true living gemstone, sporting a stunning metallic blue sheen that never fades.

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Scientists Found a 'Yellow Brick Road' at The Bottom of The Ocean <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Yellow-brick-road-2025.jpg" alt="Bricks appearing on the seafloor"/>Where does it lead?

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Scientists Found a &#039;Yellow Brick Road&#039; at The Bottom of The Ocean

An expedition to a deep-sea ridge, just north of the Hawaiian Islands, revealed a surprise back in 2022: an ancient dried-up lakebed paved with wha...

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Most People Give Up New Year's Resolutions. Here's How to Turn Failure Positive. <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/give-up.jpg" alt="Most People Give Up New Year's Resolutions. Here's How to Turn Failure Positive."/>It's a matter of perspective.

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Most People Give Up New Year&#039;s Resolutions. Here&#039;s How to Turn Failure Positive.

Every year, many of us bravely announce our resolutions for the new year.

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Hubble Reveals Extreme Chaos Inside 'Dracula's Sandwich' <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/DraculasChivito.jpg" alt="Draculas Chivito system"/>The largest planetary birthplace ever found.

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Hubble Reveals Extreme Chaos Inside &#039;Dracula&#039;s Sandwich&#039;

As a young star develops, so too does a protoplanetary disk of dust and gas around it, ready to birth new planets.

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Why Do Songs Get Stuck in Your Head? A Psychologist Explains Earworms <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/HoldingEarsScrunchedFace.jpg" alt="Close up of frustrated brunette man holding hands over his ears"/>And how to get rid of annoying ones.

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Why Do Songs Get Stuck in Your Head? A Psychologist Explains Earworms

You&#039;re reading a report and trying to concentrate.

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'Mini-Brains' Reveal Hidden Signals of Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/WiredBrain.jpg" alt="Wired brain"/>They have unique neural signatures.

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&#039;Mini-Brains&#039; Reveal Hidden Signals of Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder

&#039;Mini-brains&#039; grown in the lab allow scientists to study brain wiring without interfering with brains in living people, and now a new stu...

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DNA Study of 117-Year-Old Woman Reveals Clues to Long Life <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/Portrait-of-the-worlds-oldest-person-2023-2024Maria-Branyas-Morera-from-1925.jpg" alt="A sepia tone portrait of a young woman"/>What can we learn from her?

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DNA Study of 117-Year-Old Woman Reveals Clues to Long Life

There&#039;s no escaping the unrelenting passage of time, but supercentenarians who live to see their 110th birthday have a peculiar ability to pos...

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Feeling The Post-Christmas Blues? These Simple Actions Can Help <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/depressed_man_xmas_header.jpg" alt="depressed man at xmas"/>You're not alone.

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Feeling The Post-Christmas Blues? These Simple Actions Can Help

For many people, the run-up to Christmas is filled with excitement and anticipation.

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Mathematician Shares Solutions For 10 Festive Brain Teasers <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/thinking_elf_solutions_header.jpg" alt="man in an elf costume thinking in front of a white board of mathematics symbols"/>Give them a go if you missed out!

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Mathematician Shares Solutions For 10 Festive Brain Teasers

Here are the answers to the festive maths quiz set on December 23.

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What Actually Is Fire? The Answer Is Stranger Than You'd Think <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/fire_on_beach_header.jpg" alt="campfire on the beach"/>A physicist explains.

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What Actually Is Fire? The Answer Is Stranger Than You&#039;d Think

Fire is an ancient technology that has helped shape human evolution.

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Amazon Is Shifting Into a 'Hypertropical' State Unseen For Millions of Years <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/amazon_setting_sun_header.jpg" alt="sun over the amazon"/>There's no modern comparison.

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Amazon Is Shifting Into a &#039;Hypertropical&#039; State Unseen For Millions of Years

A new study of the Amazon rainforest has found the region is shifting toward a &#039;hypertropical&#039; state as droughts become longer, hotter, a...

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Earth's Core Seems to Be Wrapped in Layers Like an Onion, Study Finds <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/EarthCore.jpg" alt="Structure layers of the Earth"/>A mystery wrapped in an enigma.

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Earth&#039;s Core Seems to Be Wrapped in Layers Like an Onion, Study Finds

Seismic waves passing through Earth&#039;s inner core have revealed much about our planet&#039;s iron center: how it&#039;s changing shape, reversi...

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Even Low Doses of Aspartame Could Have Alarming Health Effects, Study Finds <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/ArtificialSweetener.jpg" alt="Sweetener tablets and hand with box whit cup of tea"/>Zero sugar but at what cost?

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Even Low Doses of Aspartame Could Have Alarming Health Effects, Study Finds

The artificial sweetener aspartame can be found in everything from chewing gum to fizzy drinks and tabletop sweeteners.

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There's a Surprisingly Easy Way to Remove Microplastics in Drinking Water <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/young-person-drinking-water-from-a-glass.jpg" alt="Side view close up of a young person drinking water from a glass"/>You may already be doing it.

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There&#039;s a Surprisingly Easy Way to Remove Microplastics in Drinking Water

Tiny fragments of plastic are making their way deep inside our bodies in concerning quantities, particularly through our food and drink.

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South Asia's Dairy Intolerance Could Help Explain Our Ability to Drink Milk <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/water-buffalo.jpg" alt="South Asia's Dairy Intolerance Could Help Explain Our Ability to Drink Milk"/>A strange paradox.

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South Asia&#039;s Dairy Intolerance Could Help Explain Our Ability to Drink Milk

A curious and paradoxical intolerance for lactose across the South Asian subcontinent could help explain why the ability for adults to consume fres...

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World's Deepest Gas Hydrate Discovered Teeming With Life Off Greenland <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/gas_hydrate_life_header.jpg" alt="worm discovered in gas hydrate sediment"/>An oasis in the dark.

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World&#039;s Deepest Gas Hydrate Discovered Teeming With Life Off Greenland

A reserve of natural gas bubbling from a cage of ice discovered on the ocean floor to the west of Greenland may be the deepest gas hydrate cold see...

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Menopausal Weight Gain Starts Sooner Than You'd Think. Here's How to Act Early. <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/WomanHoldingPinkWeightsWearingBlackTights.jpg" alt="A woman crouched, holding two bright pink weights in one hand."/>Consider it a window of opportunity.

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Menopausal Weight Gain Starts Sooner Than You&#039;d Think. Here&#039;s How to Act Early.

You&#039;re in your mid-40s, eating healthy and exercising regularly.