Inside Chernobyl, a Fungus Has Been Quietly Feasting on Radiation : ScienceAlert
The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but that doesn’t mean every form of life finds…
Peculiar Bat Behavior Revealed in a 400-Year-Old Painting : ScienceAlert
For more than 400 years, an oil painting titled Air by Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elder has…
Fossil Kept in a Drawer For 40 Years Turns Out to Be Antarctica’s First Evidence of Dinosaurs : ScienceAlert
A fossil that has been sitting in a drawer for 40 years has turned out to be the…
There’s a Volcano in Antarctica Spewing Gold Crystals Into The Atmosphere : ScienceAlert
Lava. Ash. Horrifying death. All are known and expected outputs from an active volcano. But one volcano deep…
Heads Up: NASA to Launch ‘Daring’ Telescope Rescue Mission This Week : ScienceAlert
NASA will soon attempt something it’s never done before: Save a space telescope from falling back to Earth…
Mammoth Structure Found in Deep Space Challenges Our Understanding of The Universe : ScienceAlert
A massive structure detected in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved. In…
The ‘Shadow’ in Evolution That Explains Why Long Life Comes at a Cost : ScienceAlert
The world’s population is shifting. We’re living longer than ever before, with elderly people taking up a greater…
This Famously Weird ‘Pink Planet’ May Have Salty Clouds, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
Outlandishly alien worlds spark our collective cosmic imagination like nothing else. This never-ending variety includes super-Earths smack dab…
Giant Fire Tornadoes Could Help Clean Oil Spills, Scientists Say : ScienceAlert
Our oceans are under constant threat. In addition to plastic pollution, fentanyl-laden sewage, and skinny-dippers slathered in reef-harming…
Rumbles Deep Inside Mars Hint at a Vast, Ancient Magma System : ScienceAlert
For decades, our picture of Mars was of a dead desert world. Its magnetic field exists only in…
Asteroids May Have Delayed The Birth of Earth’s First Continents : ScienceAlert
The planet Earth we live on today bears very few traces of its infancy. The 500 million years…
Younger Adults May Be Aging Faster Than Previous Generations : ScienceAlert
The kids are growing up so fast these days, but maybe not in the way you think. A…