It’s Not Just Mom’s Diet: Father’s Junk Food Habit May Shape His Unborn Baby : ScienceAlert
The more we find out about ultra-processed foods, the more we lose our appetite. These industrially formulated food…
Generative AI Could ‘Invent’ Biological Discoveries That Don’t Exist : ScienceAlert
An AI system could help scientists identify a promising new drug. But it could also convince them that…
Scientists Watched Carbon Dioxide Being Pulled Out of The Air to Form Graphite : ScienceAlert
Wouldn’t it be great if we could make a material we need for batteries by pulling carbon dioxide…
Avocados Switch Sex on a Daily Basis, And Researchers Finally Know How : ScienceAlert
At some point in evolutionary history, possibly around 400 million years ago, things started having sex. This adaptational…
Sharks With Headlights: Glowing Sharks Use Their Own Shine to Hunt Prey, New Evidence Suggests : ScienceAlert
In the deep, dim ocean, a world of eat-or-be-eaten, lighting up may seem like a counterintuitive survival strategy.…
As Ice Melts, Antarctica Is Leaking Mercury Into The Ocean : ScienceAlert
Across the last 200 years, Antarctica has been copping a whole lot of mercury pollution, despite humanity’s best…
Scientists Are Starting To Understand The ‘Largest Biomechanical Event on Earth’: Whales Hunting For Food on a Single Breath : ScienceAlert
When a blue whale dives below the waves, their heart rate plummets to conserve oxygen. Their massive hearts…
Physicists Shatter Quantum Entanglement Distance Record With 420 Kilometers of Optical Fiber : ScienceAlert
Maintaining a long-distance relationship may be difficult for humans, but it’s even more difficult for entangled states. The…
Ecosystems of Rock-Eating Fungus And Tardigrades Found Thriving Deep Within a Gas Shale : ScienceAlert
Just about every corner of Earth we look at seems to hold signs of life. Now, scientists have…
Some Dolphins Use Tools, And It Does Something Unique to Their Genes : ScienceAlert
A small population of dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia, do something very unique: They use a marine sponge…
Dark Matter May Be Transforming Into Weird Particles That Fill The Universe With Gravity : ScienceAlert
Bewilderingly, most of the matter in the Universe seems to be invisible. All the visible stuff like galaxies,…
The Brain Seems to Rearrange Itself as Tinnitus Becomes Chronic : ScienceAlert
If you’ve never had to endure the relentless clamor of tinnitus, the distress is hard to imagine. Many…