Ancient Burial of a Young Girl Shows How We Carried Our Babies 10,000 Years Ago : ScienceAlert
A new look at an extremely rare infant burial in Europe suggests humans were carrying around their young in slings as far back as 10,000 years ago. The findings add…
Deep Brain Simulation Could Alleviate OCD When Other Treatments Have Failed : ScienceAlert
Imagine growing up tormented by fears and life-consuming rituals that make no sense to you or those around you. Then imagine the shame of being told by mental health providers…
Experts Estimate The Scale of The Nord Stream Pipelines Methane Leak : ScienceAlert
Planet-heating methane spewing into the atmosphere from the damaged Nord Stream pipelines only has a modest impact on climate change, say scientists, but sharply highlights the risks of fossil-fuel-driven greenhouse…
Amazing New Fossils Provide Earliest Known Traces of The Evolution of Our Jaws And Limbs : ScienceAlert
Road excavations in China’s Guizhou Province have unearthed a trove of ancient fish fossils. As a part of rock layers known as the Rongxi Formation, the new fossil bed is…
Superconductivity Model With 100,000 Equations Now Contains Just 4 Thanks to AI : ScienceAlert
Electrons whizzing through a grid-like lattice don’t behave at all like pretty silver spheres in a pinball machine. They blur and bend in collective dances, following whims of a wave-like…
A Rare Condition Makes Hair Truly Untamable, All Thanks to These Genes : ScienceAlert
It’s a hair condition that has frustrated parents for decades, now scientists believe they have found the genes responsible for “uncombable hair syndrome”. Yes, it really is a thing. Uncombable…
Shimmering ‘Lakes’ Under The South Pole of Mars Might Be Something Else Entirely : ScienceAlert
What scientists thought were lakes of liquid water hiding under the southern polar ice cap of Mars could turn out to be… just regular old rock. New analysis has found…
Behold, The Epic Last Images Taken by NASA’s Asteroid Redirection Test Spacecraft : ScienceAlert
Bullseye: A NASA spaceship on Monday struck an asteroid 7 million miles away in order to deflect its orbit, succeeding in a historic test of humanity’s ability to prevent a…
Fossil-Filled Australian Caves May Be 500,000 Years Older Than We Thought, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
South Australia’s Naracoorte Caves is one of the world’s best fossil sites, containing a record spanning more than half a million years. Among the remains preserved in layers of sand…
Diamond From 660 Kilometers Below Earth’s Surface Reveals a Water-Rich Environment : ScienceAlert
Deep below the surface of our world, far beyond our feeble reach, enigmatic processes grind and roil. Every now and then, the Earth disgorges clues to their nature: tiny chthonic…
Ancient Maya Cities Appear to Have Been Riddled With Mercury Pollution : ScienceAlert
Toxic levels of a pollutant commonly associated with the wastes of modern industry have been uncovered amid the most unlikely of archaeological sites. Long before conquistadors from far-off lands introduced…
Still Short of Breath? Here Are 3 Ways COVID-19 Can Damage Lungs Long Term : ScienceAlert
“I just can’t do what I used to anymore.” As pulmonologists and critical care doctors treating patients with lung disease, we have heard many of our patients recovering from COVID-19…
Engineers Gave a Car a Pair of Eyes to Make Future Roads Safer For Pedestrians : ScienceAlert
In one of the more unusual experiments we’ve seen recently, researchers attached a large pair of cartoonish googly eyes to the front of a small, self-driving vehicle – and it…
Watch a Tiny Robot Blob Transform Into Even Tinier Bits to Squeeze Through Cracks : ScienceAlert
Scientists have created a robot that can transform from a black glob into a swarm of tiny beads and back again. The inventors say that the robot’s ability to split…
Termites Love Global Warming So Much That They May Make It Worse, Says Study : ScienceAlert
When we consider termites, we may think of the danger they can pose to our houses once they settle in and start eating wood. But in fact, only about 4…
A Stunning New 3D Model of The Cat’s Eye Nebula May Help Us Solve Its Mysteries : ScienceAlert
The twisty eruption of a dying star has finally been revealed in all its 3D glory. A team of scientists led by a high school graduate has reconstructed the complicated…
The Tonga Eruption’s 50 Million Tons of Water Vapor May Warm Earth For Months to Come : ScienceAlert
More than eight months after the underwater volcano near Tonga erupted on Jan. 14, scientists are still analyzing the impacts of the violent blast, and they’re discovering that it could…
Wolves Really Can Become Attached to Humans Like Dogs Can, Adorable Study Finds : ScienceAlert
Few animals show as much affection and loyalty as dogs. But a new study offers evidence that the same human-to-animal attachment can develop in wolves, too. While earlier studies have…
A New FRB Signal Has Buzzed Nearly 2,000 Times in Just Two Months, Raising a Mystery : ScienceAlert
We have detected a strange new signal from across the chasm of time and space. A repeating fast radio burst source detected last year was recorded spitting out a whopping…
There Are New FDA Safety Warnings About Breast Implants. Here’s What We Know : ScienceAlert
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now warning that breast implants filled with either silicone or saline may, on rare occasions, give rise to cancer in the scar…
There’s Trouble Bubbling Up in Newly Formed Alaskan Lakes, And Scientists Are Worried : ScienceAlert
Lakes appearing in Alaska because of melting permafrost are “belching” methane into the atmosphere, a scientist working with NASA said. These lakes, called thermokarsts, are so full of the climate-damaging…
Why House Fly Barf Is an Overlooked Potential Vector of Disease : ScienceAlert
The next time a fly lands on your food, you might want to consider throwing that bite away. A new review suggests the muck that flies regurgitate could very well…
A Weird Blob of Hot Gas Is Whizzing Around Sagittarius A* With ‘Mind-Blowing Velocity’ : ScienceAlert
In the wacky gravitational environment in the heart of our galaxy, astronomers have found a gas blob orbiting our supermassive black hole at superspeed. Its characteristics are helping astronomers probe…
We Have Our First Look at Neptune’s Rings in 33 Years, And They’re Glorious : ScienceAlert
The first picture of Neptune to be taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals the latest, greatest details of the ice giant’s atmosphere, moons, and rings in infrared wavelengths.…
Does IQ Decline as We Age? One Type of Intelligence Peaks in Your Twenties : ScienceAlert
Many of us are familiar with the idea that as we get older, we become less mentally agile; but is this something that can be measured – does our IQ…
Experiment Reveals What 1 Hour in Nature Does to The Human Brain : ScienceAlert
Human history has unfolded largely in bucolic settings, with sprawling savannas and forested river valleys hosting our ancestors for millions of years. By comparison, cities represent a radical new kind…
The Remains of This Recently Found Ancient Structure Are Even Older Than The Pyramids : ScienceAlert
Archaeologists digging near Prague have discovered the remains of a Stone Age structure that’s older than Stonehenge and even the Egyptian pyramids: an enigmatic complex known as a roundel. Nearly…
One of The World’s Largest Organisms Is Disintegrating. Here’s How We Might Save It. : ScienceAlert
While the Pando colony looks like a tightly packed swathe of aspen trees, it’s largely considered to be one gigantic plant. One of the heaviest, oldest, and largest organisms in…
The Real Reason For Using Flight Mode Is Not What You Think : ScienceAlert
We all know the routine by heart: “Please ensure your seats are in the upright position, tray tables stowed, window shades are up, laptops are stored in the overhead bins,…
Early Puberty in Girls Surged in The Pandemic, And We May Finally Know Why : ScienceAlert
Among the laundry list of health problems COVID has inflicted on the world’s population, one of the more perplexing could be an increase in the number of girls experiencing what…
Scientists Don’t Know What to Do With This Weird ‘Blue Goo’ Ocean Organism : ScienceAlert
Unidentified deep-sea “blue goo” creatures recently left scientists scratching their heads after they spotted the mysterious blobs hanging out on the seafloor in the Caribbean. During a live stream of…
The Frogs Vanished, Then People Got Sick. This Was No Harmless Coincidence. : ScienceAlert
Since the global pandemic began in 2020, the world has become ever more aware that the health of our species is closely intertwined with other animals. Today, the conversation is…
The Orbit of a Sun-Like Star Reveals The Nearest Black Hole Ever Found : ScienceAlert
In 1916, Karl Schwarzchild theorized the existence of black holes as a resolution to Einstein’s field equations for his Theory of General Relativity. By the mid-20th century, astronomers began detecting…
JWST’s First Glimpse of Mars Reveals The Red Planet in a New Light : ScienceAlert
The James Webb Space Telescope has made incredible headway, peering farther across space and time than any telescope that came before. But it’s also showing us the Universe closer to…
Scientists Are About to Fire Up The Most Powerful Laser in The US : ScienceAlert
The most powerful laser in the US right now is getting turned on to send its first pulses this week – enabling researchers to get a new level of insight…
How Many Ants Live on Earth? Scientists Came Up With an Answer : ScienceAlert
Have you ever wondered exactly how many ants live on Earth? Possibly not, but it’s certainly a question we’ve asked ourselves. Our research published today provides an approximate answer. We…
A Robot on Mars Detected The Tremors of Meteorites Hitting The Red Planet : ScienceAlert
An instrument designed to detect seismic activity on Mars has just revealed an incredibly cool new ability, detecting faint tremors from meteorites impacting the red planet. By combining data collected…
REM Sleep May Exist to Heat Your Brain Up From The Inside : ScienceAlert
Even if the content of your dreams isn’t hot or steamy, slipping into rapid eye movement (REM) sleep might still warm you up from the inside, according to a new…
This Is How Much Fossil Fuel The World Is Sitting on, And It’s a Time Bomb : ScienceAlert
Burning the world’s remaining fossil fuel reserves would unleash 3.5 trillion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions – 7 times the remaining carbon budget to cap global heating at 1.5 degrees…
Scientists Created ‘Living’ Synthetic Cells by Harvesting Bacteria For Parts : ScienceAlert
Researchers at the University of Bristol in the UK have taken a major step forward in synthetic biology by designing a system that performs several key functions of a living…
Researchers Say It’ll Be Impossible to Control a Super-Intelligent AI : ScienceAlert
The idea of artificial intelligence overthrowing humankind has been talked about for decades, and in 2021, scientists delivered their verdict on whether we’d be able to control a high-level computer…
Astronomers Think They’ve Figured Out How to Predict When a Supernova Will Occur : ScienceAlert
In a recent study submitted to High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, a team of researchers from Japan discuss strategies to observe, and possibly predict precursor signatures for an explosion from Local…
Study Shows How Microplastics Can Easily Climb The Food Chain. Should We Be Worried? : ScienceAlert
It begins with plants sucking synthetic contaminants up from the soil. Then insects munching on those greens get their fill of nanoplastics, followed by anything that eats them. Just as…
The Unfortunate Reason a Woman Swallowed 55 AA And AAA Batteries : ScienceAlert
Doctors in Ireland removed 50 batteries from a woman’s gut and stomach after she swallowed them in an apparent act of deliberate self-harm. The woman, 66, was treated at St.…
Byzantine Records of Solar Eclipses Have Refined Measurements of Earth’s Spin : ScienceAlert
Records of solar eclipses from a millennium and a half ago have allowed scientists to refine measurements of Earth’s changing rotation. A painstaking review of historical documents from the Byzantine…
There’s One Simple Strategy to Reduce Alcohol Intake, Scientists Say, And It Works : ScienceAlert
Researchers have found an effective method of getting people to cut down on their drinking: Highlight the increased risk of cancer that comes with it, and pair that with counting…
Let’s Break Down The Delicate And Life-Changing Science Behind Uterus Transplants : ScienceAlert
The opportunity to conceive, carry and give birth to a biologically related child is a deep desire for many women and their partners. Since the introduction of IVF in 1978,…
A Single Personality Trait May Determine if Male Albatrosses Get Divorced : ScienceAlert
Most albatrosses mate for life but shy males who avoid confrontation are more likely to get dumped, researchers said Wednesday, adding it was the first time personality had been shown…