An Ancient Infection May Play a Critical Role in Our First Moments of Life : ScienceAlert
Fragments of DNA left by viruses that infected our distant ancestors may be ‘firestarters’ for new human life,…
Mitochondria Dump Their Rubbish DNA, And It Could Be Costing Us Our Health : ScienceAlert
Researchers have discovered a key molecular process that may contribute to chronic inflammation as we age. If this…
One Major Pollutant in Fossil Fuels Has Been Linked With ALS : ScienceAlert
A component of fossil fuel emissions could contribute to an increased risk of the neurodegenerative disease ALS (amyotrophic…
7 Baffling Space Mysteries We’re Dying For Scientists to Solve : ScienceAlert
Our cosmos seems, at times, like one impossibly vast factory, just pumping out mysteries. The deeper we peer,…
Stunning Double Ring System Is The Most Powerful Odd Radio Circle Found So Far : ScienceAlert
Astronomers have discovered a stunning dual-ring system deep in the cosmos – the most powerful and most distant…
DNA Study of 117-Year-Old Woman Reveals Clues to a Long Life : ScienceAlert
There’s no escaping the unrelenting passage of time, but supercentenarians who live to see their 110th birthday have…
Fresh Evidence of Complex Chemistry Found in The Alien Ocean of Saturn’s Moon : ScienceAlert
A fresh look at data collected by NASA’s Cassini probe nearly two decades ago has revealed new, complex…
Signal Hidden in a Gamma-Ray Burst Could Be a Strange Newborn’s First Heartbeat : ScienceAlert
Astronomers may have recorded the violent birth of one of the weirdest objects our Universe is capable of…
Earth Is at Risk From ‘Invisible’ Asteroids Lurking Near Venus : ScienceAlert
We could be overlooking an entire population of asteroids that pose a threat to Earth on the very…
Unusual Crater in The North Sea Result of a Cosmic Collision, Study Confirms : ScienceAlert
Sometime in the Middle Eocene epoch, nearly 50 million years ago, a large object hurtled through Earth’s atmosphere,…
First Stars Appeared in a ‘Pre-Heated’ Universe, Says Surprising Study : ScienceAlert
Our Universe was ‘pre-heated’ in its early moments, according to a new study from the International Centre of…
Physicists Simulated a Black Hole in The Lab, And It Then Began to Glow : ScienceAlert
A black hole analog could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by…