Hidden Forests Found Deep Beneath The Ocean Cover Twice The Area of India : ScienceAlert
Amazon, Borneo, Congo, Daintree. We know the names of many of the world’s largest or most famous rainforests. And many of us know about the world’s largest span of forests,…
There’s An Intriguing Link Between US Presidents And The Wars They Wage : ScienceAlert
Wars begin, continue and end for a whole host of different reasons, but the personalities of the people in charge have a role to play. According to a new study…
Fascinating Study Gives a Unique Glimpse Into How Dogs See The World : ScienceAlert
Putting cute dogs in an MRI machine and watching their brains while they watch home movies might sound like a rollicking good time just for its own sake. As a…
How Can You Protect The Living From Vampires? These Are The Tricks People Really Used : ScienceAlert
Archeologists recently uncovered an example of a “vampire” burial in Poland with a sickle around the body’s neck to keep it from rising from the grave. But there are other…
Clams Tell Us Why Earth Tipped Into a Mini Ice Age Hundreds of Years Ago : ScienceAlert
Some scientists are becoming clam ‘whisperers’ to better predict when our planet’s climate will tip over into dangerous territory. A tight-lipped bivalve might sound like an odd creature for researchers…
Ancient Poop Suggests Humans Tended Animals 2,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought : ScienceAlert
Clues within ancient animal poop challenge the current prevailing theory that humans tamed plants before beasts. Researchers found the preserved dung in question alongside buried remains of ancient hunter-gatherer dwellings…
Scientists Find Weird Connection Between Lunar ‘Wobble’ And Mangrove Canopies : ScienceAlert
The Moon‘s gravitational pull on our planet’s tides is just one of Earth’s many steady thrums of life. Now researchers have found that lunar cycles not only synchronize the timing…
Prehistoric Puke Reveals a Stomach-Churning Banquet From Millions of Years Ago : ScienceAlert
Hundreds of millions of years ago, a carnivorous critter gorged on a feast of prehistoric amphibians – and puked up its meal afterward. Now, paleontologists have unearthed the regurgitation and…
A Core Principle of General Relativity Just Passed Its Strictest Test Yet : ScienceAlert
A core principle of Einstein’s general theory of relativity has just passed its most stringent test yet. Using a specially designed satellite, an international team of scientists measured the accelerations…
It’s Not Just The Amazon Being Torn Apart. These Are The Forests The World Is Losing : ScienceAlert
The devastating destruction that’s happening across the Amazon might be what comes to your mind first when thinking about deforestation – but it’s by no means the only place where…
The Time of Day You Eat Could Make a Difference to Your Mental Health : ScienceAlert
Grinding away at a job while everybody else sleeps can put your mental health at risk. According to new research, confining your dining to daytime hours might help reduce the…
The World Stands to Save Trillions of Dollars if We Just Quit Carbon Right : ScienceAlert
Motivation to act on climate change often comes in one of two forms; the metaphorical threat of a stick or the lure of a carrot. For years now, scientists have…
Forest Islands in The Amazon Host Unique Ecosystems, But They’re Doomed : ScienceAlert
Built in the 1980s, the Balbina Dam is one of dozens of large dams across rivers in the Amazon Basin. Such dams might leave behind seemingly green patches of forest,…
Los Angeles Death May Be The First Confirmed Monkeypox Fatality in The US : ScienceAlert
A Los Angeles County resident with a severely weakened immune system has died of monkeypox, the Los Angeles Department of Public Health reported Monday (September 12). The US Centers for…
Scientists Say They’ve Found The Most Effective Way to Soothe a Crying Baby : ScienceAlert
As any frustrated parent knows, there’s no magic way to get a crying baby to calm, let alone fall asleep. But a small new study has now highlighted a simple…
Repeated Concussions Can Actually Thicken The Skull, New Evidence in Rats Shows : ScienceAlert
Past research in humans shows that damage to our squishy brain tissue is already done with even just one knock to the head. But repeated concussions can also thicken the…
Dramatic Orca Footage Reveals a Rare Hunting Technique Used to Trap And Kill Prey : ScienceAlert
Dramatic footage showed killer whales using a rare hunting technique to trap and kill a seal in the icy waters surrounding Antarctica. The video, part of the BBC’s new Frozen…
Earth Could Be Even More Habitable. We’d Just Need to Shift Jupiter’s Orbit : ScienceAlert
We have exactly one world, in all the Universe, that we know for a fact to be hospitable to life: ours. So when we’re looking for habitable planets in other…
Physicists Just Entangled A Pair of Atomic Clocks Six Feet Apart : ScienceAlert
Few things in the Universe keep the beat as reliably as an atom’s pulse. Yet even the most advanced ‘atomic’ clocks based on variations of these quantum timekeepers lose count…