Bacteria Play Previously Unknown Role in Kidney Stones, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
Kidney stones have plagued humans since antiquity, yet despite our long history with them, we’ve apparently overlooked a…
Discovery of Colossal ‘Super-Jupiters’ Puzzles Scientists : ScienceAlert
Jupiter may be the king of planets in our Solar System, but in other star systems across the…
Trapping Anyons in a Single Dimension May Reveal New Types of Particle : ScienceAlert
Restricting a strange class of particles known as anyons to one dimension could force them into adopting one…
Giant Study Reveals The Secret to Heart Health, And It’s Not Low-Carb or Low-Fat : ScienceAlert
The key to heart health isn’t cutting down on pasta or potatoes, new evidence suggests; it’s not even…
Lightning ‘Whistler’ Detected on Mars For The First Time, Scientists Report : ScienceAlert
The radio ‘howl’ of a lightning-like discharge has been detected at Mars for the first time. While orbiting…
Peak Mental Sharpness Can Boost Your Productivity by 40 Minutes a Day : ScienceAlert
A new study gives us an idea of how much extra working time you may expect to squeeze…
Oldest Fossilized Butthole Found in 290-Million-Year-Old Reptile : ScienceAlert
Once, long ago, a little reptile going about its business plopped itself down in the mud before getting…
Life May Have Started as Sticky Goo, Long Before Cells Even Existed : ScienceAlert
Scientists have many theories about how Earth’s raw materials turned into living cells, but a new proposal is…
Scientists Simulated The Big Bang’s Aftermath, And Found The Universe Was Like Soup : ScienceAlert
Immediately after the Big Bang boomed, the Universe was a trillion-degree ‘soup‘ of unimaginably dense plasma. In a…
This Extreme Radiation-Resistant Organism Evolved a Remarkable Ability : ScienceAlert
In places like Chernobyl and Fukushima, where nuclear disasters have flooded the environment with dangerous radiation, it makes…
Scientists May Have Found The Key Cellular Process Behind Aging in Animals : ScienceAlert
A study on worms led by researchers from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in the US has uncovered…
Scientists Think Greenland’s Ice Is Churning Like Molten Rock : ScienceAlert
Deep inside the Greenland ice sheet, radar images have revealed strange, plume-like structures distorting the layering deposited over…