Cats Do Hear You When You’re Talking to Them Sweetly (They Just Don’t Care) : ScienceAlert
If your cat isn’t responding to your calls of adoration, you might want to consider whether they are just ignoring you. In a series of experiments on 16 house cats,…
New Report Lists 5 Reasons to Think Plastic Recycling Is a “Failed Concept” : ScienceAlert
Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as “fiction.”…
New technique for decoding people’s thoughts can now be done from a distance : ScienceAlert
Scientists can now “decode” people’s thoughts without even touching their heads, The Scientist reported. Past mind-reading techniques relied on implanting electrodes deep in peoples’ brains. The new method, described in…
Insect Swarms Can Electrify The Air as Much as a Thunderstorm : ScienceAlert
Half a century ago, the American mathematician Edward Lorentz famously inquired whether a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil might, through a chaotic domino effect, set off a tornado in…
Yosemite Valley’s Stunning Peaks Could Be Much Younger Than We Realized : ScienceAlert
Soaring thousands of feet above the meandering trails of the Yosemite Valley floor, monoliths with names like El Capitan and Sentinel Rock stand watch like mythological titans of old. Just…
Want Better Sleep? This One Piece of Advice Seems to Work For Almost Everybody : ScienceAlert
Many people struggle to get enough good quality sleep. Not only does this leave us feeling tired the next day, but over the long term poor sleep can actually have…
Study Suggests Spins of ‘Brain Water’ Could Mean Our Minds Use Quantum Computation : ScienceAlert
In the ongoing work to realize the full potential of quantum computing, scientists could perhaps try peering into our own brains to see what’s possible: A new study suggests that…
Does Faking a Smile Make You Happier? The Latest Findings Are In : ScienceAlert
Does faking a smile make you feel happier? That question has been debated since famed naturalist Charles Darwin published a book on the subject in 1872. “The free expression by…
How Particle Physics Could Reduce The ‘Collateral Damage’ of Cancer Treatments : ScienceAlert
Researchers at Europe’s science lab CERN, who regularly use particle physics to challenge our understanding of the universe, are also applying their craft to upend the limits to cancer treatment.…
Jumping Spiders May Have a Cognitive Ability Previously Only Found in Vertebrates : ScienceAlert
Teeny tiny jumping spiders, with their wondrous eyes, seem to be able to do something we’d only ever seen before in vertebrates: distinguishing between animate and inanimate objects. In a…
The Fishing Line Lost at Sea in a Year Could Wrap Around Earth 18 Times : ScienceAlert
Billions of hooks, millions of traps, and hundreds of thousands of kilometers of fishing line and nets fall into the ocean each year from commercial fishing ventures. Once lost to…
Electric Discharge From Plants May Be Changing Air Quality in Ways We Didn’t Expect : ScienceAlert
When lightning flashes above, plants on the ground may respond in kind. Scientists have long been aware that plants and trees can emit small, visible electric discharges from the tips…
Feeling Stressed Before You Get COVID May Increase Your Odds of Developing Long COVID : ScienceAlert
Millions of people are now suffering from long COVID, which presents with a staggering array of possible symptoms that can linger for months, or even years. To provide more answers…
Scientists Grow Fully Functioning Hair Follicles in New Lab First : ScienceAlert
We can add functional mouse hair follicles to body parts that scientists have successfully grown in the lab, outside the body. Using cells obtained from embryonic mice, for the first…
Ancient Egyptian Falcon Cult Reveals The Proper Etiquette For Boiling Heads : ScienceAlert
Remains of headless falcons found at an ancient Egyptian port on the coast of the Red Sea have revealed new details about a mysterious group known as the Blemmyes, and…
Ancient Virus Fragments in Our DNA Are Activating Where We Least Expect : ScienceAlert
Scattered among the genes passed down from long-gone relatives are scraps of the very viruses that attempted to hijack their bodies. Hunting for signs of these long-gone invaders in our…
A Fluffy ‘Marshmallow’ World Has Been Discovered With Incredibly Low Density : ScienceAlert
If exoplanet research is to be believed, the Milky Way galaxy could be like some sort of fantastical candy-land. First, there was the discovery of exoplanets with the density of…
Black Canada Lynx Caught on Camera For The First Time, And There’s Video : ScienceAlert
The smartphones in our pockets have changed our lives in a multitude of ways – not least because we always have a camera to hand to capture special occasions, strange…
Scientists Transformed Pure Water Into a Metal, And There’s Footage : ScienceAlert
Pure water is an almost perfect insulator. Yes, water found in nature conducts electricity – but that’s because of the impurities therein, which dissolve into free ions that allow an…
This Stunning New JWST Image Reveals Fresh Details in The Famous Pillars of Creation : ScienceAlert
One of the most anticipated images from the James Webb Space Telescope has finally arrived. With its segmented golden eye, the JWST has gazed deep into the heart of the…
The Black Death Shaped Human Evolution, And We’re Still in Its Shadow : ScienceAlert
An analysis of DNA extracted from medieval victims and survivors of the Black Death shows that the monumental plague that ravaged Europe in the 14th century continues to impact our…