Meat-Eating ‘Death-Ball’ Sponges : ScienceAlert
Sponges are some of the simplest and least dangerous animals on Earth, but a new species seems to…
Sun’s Ghost Particles Finally Caught Transforming Atoms : ScienceAlert
Thousands of meters underground, in the chthonic depths of Earth’s crust, scientists have at long last caught solar…
One Critical Factor Predicts Longevity Better Than Diet or Exercise, Study Says : ScienceAlert
What you gain in a day by staying up late might be curtailing how long you live, according…
NASA Confirms It Has Lost Contact With Mars Orbiter MAVEN : ScienceAlert
NASA has officially lost contact with a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars since 2014. The MAVEN spacecraft…
Rock Used as Doorstop For Decades Revealed to Be Worth Over $1 Million : ScienceAlert
They say one person’s trash is another’s treasure, but a chunk of ‘rock’ used to keep a door…
Study Reveals Surprisingly Obvious Reason Why Exercise Reduces Cancer Risk : ScienceAlert
There’s a lot of evidence that more exercise helps reduce cancer risk – but why are the two…
62,000 Penguins Starved to Death Off South Africa’s Coast Last Decade. Here’s Why. : ScienceAlert
A brutal confluence of environmental change and human fishing habits left tens of thousands of adult African penguins…
A Fasting-Style Diet Seems to Result in Dynamic Changes to Human Brains : ScienceAlert
Scientists looking to tackle our ongoing obesity crisis have made an important discovery: Intermittent calorie restriction leads to…
Prion-Like Brain Damage Can Occur Without Infectious Prions, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
We may have been overestimating the role of a pathological class of misfolded protein in neurodegenerative disease. Called…
A 180-Year Assumption About Light Was Just Proven Wrong : ScienceAlert
Scientists have recently discovered an interaction between an electromagnetic wave and its own magnetic component as it passes…
Complex Life May Be a Billion Years Older Than We Thought : ScienceAlert
The origins of complex, nucleated cellular life – everything from amoebas to humans – may date back a…
‘Tornado’ of Galaxies Could Be The Longest Spinning Structure Ever Seen : ScienceAlert
A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a…