Sharks Can Hear Sounds Nearly 250 Feet Away, And Know Where They’re Coming From
Sharks Can Hear Sounds Nearly 250 Feet Away, And Know Where They’re Coming From (Reinhard Dirscherl/The Image Bank RF/Getty Images) But how are they doing it? ScienceAlert stories are written,…
Physicists May Have Finally Figured Out Why Pickles Glow
Physicists May Have Finally Figured Out Why Pickles Glow (Portland State University) It’s like a tiny, salty star. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by…
After 25 Years, Physicists Can Finally Measure The ‘Other’ Kind of Quantum Entanglement
After 25 Years, Physicists Can Finally Measure The ‘Other’ Kind of Quantum Entanglement (Albert Yarullin/iStock) One step closer to quantum computing? ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans,…
Scientists Discover a Genius Use For Leftover Steel Waste – And It Could Save Lives
Scientists Discover a Genius Use For Leftover Steel Waste – And It Could Save Lives (Christophe Lehenaff/Getty Images) Win-win-win. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated…
No Longer Just North And South: A New Material Joins The Third Type of Magnetism
No Longer Just North And South: A New Material Joins The Third Type of Magnetism (imagedb.com/Shutterstock.com) Best of both worlds magnetism. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans,…
Physicists Find a Superconductor That ‘Breaks’ The Symmetry of Time – A First For Its Kind
Physicists Find a Superconductor That ‘Breaks’ The Symmetry of Time – A First For Its Kind (sakkmesterke/iStock/Getty Images Plus) What is happening? ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by…
This Sea Creature Looks Like Poop. It May Also Live For 120 Years.
The black teatfish is the first sea cucumber estimated to have a lifespan that can exceed 100 years. (陳致維 Chih-Wei Chen/iNaturalist, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) But there’s a catch… ScienceAlert stories…
Almost All The Viruses Found in a Vast Deep-Sea Mining Zone Were New to Science
(sakchai vongsasiripat/Moment RF/Getty Images) Nearly 12,000 new viruses have been hiding on the seafloor. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don’t miss a…
Revolutionary Feathered Dinosaur Discovery in China Suggests Flight Evolved Multiple Times
The first Norellraptor barsboldi fossil is impressively well-preserved. (Wang et al., Nat. Comms., 2026) This is going to ruffle some feathers… ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans,…
Primate Communication May Follow Grammar Patterns Once Thought Uniquely Human
(Anup Shah/Stone RF/Getty Images) Breaking the “single-most important demarcation line in hominin evolution.” ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don’t miss a story,…
Earth’s Mysterious Black Diamonds May Have Begun With an Ancient Cosmic Impact
(James St. John/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0) No one has identified the rock in which they originally formed. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by…
Giant Study Identifies Dominant Force Driving Evolution on Earth Today : ScienceAlert
Mounting evidence suggests humans are now a major driving force of evolution on Earth. From selective breeding to environmental modifications, we’re altering so much of our world that we’re not…