Humans in The Andes Have Evolved a Strange Digestive Superpower : ScienceAlert
For all humanity’s success as a species at the top of its game, it’s likely that we’ll never…
Mysterious Wall Stone Turned Out to Be an Unexpected Treasure : ScienceAlert
It all started with a simple landscaping project. Retired chicken farmer Mihail Mihailidis just wanted to build a…
JWST Reveals a Hidden Structure in The Heart of The Squid Galaxy : ScienceAlert
A brightly gleaming galaxy streaked with dramatic dust lanes and glittering pockets of star formation is more than…
PCOS Is Officially Renamed, After Decades of Misinformation : ScienceAlert
First, it was named after two men. Then, it was named for a false premise. At last, after…
A Massive Volcano Destroyed Methane in The Sky, And Scientists Are Stunned : ScienceAlert
A cataclysmic volcanic eruption is one of the most violent and disruptive things our planet can do. Vast…
NASA’s Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotors Have Broken The Sound Barrier in Tests : ScienceAlert
When a helicopter’s rotor blades approach the speed of sound, things can get a little dicey. Above about…
New Daily Steps Goal Shows You Don’t Need 10,000 to Keep The Weight Off : ScienceAlert
Hitting a weight-loss target is something to celebrate. But for many people, the biggest challenge begins afterward, keeping…
A SpaceX Rocket Is About to Slam Into The Moon, Scientist Says : ScienceAlert
The Moon is constantly accosted by impacts from the Universe at large. Later this year, our closest neighbor…
A Mother’s Brain Is Profoundly Rewired by Pregnancy, Scans Show : ScienceAlert
Up until the 1970s or so, the human brain was assumed to be ‘hardwired’ like a computer, its…
Stardust Trapped in Antarctic Ice Reveals Earth’s Journey Through The Cosmos : ScienceAlert
This glittering spaceship Earth and the Solar System it inhabits are not fixed in space, but whirl, slowly…
Newton’s Law of Gravity Just Passed Its Biggest Test Ever : ScienceAlert
The motion of galaxy clusters in the distant Universe has just yielded the largest-scale test yet of the…
Elusive Quantum Material Turns Out to Be Something Even Stranger : ScienceAlert
For decades, scientists have been searching for quantum spin liquids (QSLs) – materials thought to possess several special…