A Space Probe Brushed Past a Martian Moon to Take a Peek Inside : ScienceAlert
The long-standing mystery about the origin of the Martian moons could be a step closer to being solved. A space probe has come within dozens of kilometers of the larger…
Cats May Be Harboring Crime Scene DNA, Scientists Say : ScienceAlert
Ever feel like your cat might know a little more than it lets on? Well, you may be onto something. New research suggests that our little feline friends could be…
The City of Atlanta Banned E-Scooters in 2019. The Impact Was Profound : ScienceAlert
Going electric with our transportation options is a crucial part of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and e-scooters are one mode of transport emerging as an alternative to gas-powered cars for…
Human Adaptability to Climate Change Might Not Be All It’s Cracked Up to Be : ScienceAlert
Humans may be just as vulnerable to environmental change as other animals, according to our new research analyzing genetic data from more than a thousand people who lived across Europe…
Rhino Horns Aren’t What They Used to Be, And We Only Have Ourselves to Blame : ScienceAlert
Centuries of illustrations and photographic images suggest intensive hunting and poaching have altered the appearance of rhinos. Arranged like a conservation flipbook, the photographs alone reveal a steady decline in…
Black Holes in Quantum States Have Surprisingly Weird Masses : ScienceAlert
For the better part of a century, quantum physics and the general theory of relativity have been a marriage on the rocks. Each perfect in their own way, the two…
Hubble Caught The Gasps of a Dying Star Echoing Through a Nearby Galaxy : ScienceAlert
The last screams of light emitted by a dying star have been preserved in a series of eerily beautiful images, slowly echoing across the cosmos. The Hubble Space Telescope has…
‘Potentially Hazardous’ Monster Asteroid Is The Largest Seen in Years : ScienceAlert
Astronomers peering into the twilight sky have found three previously unknown near-Earth asteroids. One of which is the largest potentially hazardous asteroid discovered in eight years. It measures roughly 1.5…
Scientists Just Discovered an Entirely New Way of Measuring Time : ScienceAlert
Marking the passage of time in a world of ticking clocks and swinging pendulums is a simple case of counting the seconds between ‘then’ and ‘now’. Down at the quantum…
The Last Maya City Reveals a Trove of Buried Secrets And Spanish Bullets : ScienceAlert
Ceramics, human burial grounds, and bullets from Spanish guns are among artifacts that have been uncovered by archaeologists in Guatemala at the site of the last Maya city to resist…
Scientists Invented a Simple 4-Minute Test For Creativity, And You Can Try It Out : ScienceAlert
What makes a person more creative than another? Creativity is difficult to define and perhaps even trickier to measure, but, in 2021, scientists think they came up with a remarkably…
The Surreal Mystery of Namibia’s ‘Fairy Circles’ May Finally Be Solved : ScienceAlert
Sprawling across a remote swath of the Namib Desert, rugged grasses eke out a living from the region’s meager rainfall. The growth of so much grass in such a harsh…
Scientists Think They’ve Cracked The Mystery of This Cute Octopus And Its ‘Shell’ : ScienceAlert
Long after its ancestors deleted their genetic code for a tough coat of armor, a seafaring octopus has reinvented a recipe for making a shell. A recent genetic analysis of…
Deep Rumbles on Mars Hint at Volcanic Magma Seething Below The Surface : ScienceAlert
Rumbles detected deep inside Mars have promoted speculations over volcanic activity on the red planet from “possible” to “likely”. After studying a cluster of marsquakes detected by NASA’s InSight lander,…
Want to Lower Your Stress? It May Just Take 4 Weeks of Eating These Kinds of Food : ScienceAlert
When it comes to dealing with stress, we’re often told the best things we can do are exercise, make time for our favorite activities, or try meditation or mindfulness. But…