JWST Catches Record-Breaking Planet Sprouting Two Enormous Tails : ScienceAlert
About 880 light-years from Earth, a hot mess of an exoplanet is slowly spilling its atmosphere into space,…
Meat-Eating ‘Death-Ball’ Sponges : ScienceAlert
Sponges are some of the simplest and least dangerous animals on Earth, but a new species seems to…
Microplastics Can Spread Dangerous Pathogens, Scientists Warn : ScienceAlert
Scientists are hard at work trying to assess the scale of our microplastic pollution problem and the likely…
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…
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…
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…
Black Hole ‘UFO’ Caught at Critical Moment in Scientific First : ScienceAlert
For the first time, astronomers have caught the moment when a supermassive black hole flare triggers a mighty…
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…
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…
Scientists Discover The First Single Gene to Directly Cause Mental Illness : ScienceAlert
Genetics is rarely as straightforward as a single gene driving a lone health outcome. But a new study…
This Prehistoric Bird Choked to Death on 800 Rocks, And No One Knows Why : ScienceAlert
A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic paleontologists with a baffling…
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…