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There's Always Room For Dessert, And Science Can Explain Why <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/person-eating-dessert.jpg" alt="person eating dessert"/>Oh, go on then.

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There's Always Room For Dessert, And Science Can Explain Why

You push back from the table after Christmas lunch, full from an excellent feast.

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Mouse Study Suggests Nose-Picking Has a Surprising Link With Alzheimer's <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Close-Up-Of-Girl-Picking-Nose-stock-photo.jpg" alt="A child picking their nose"/>Do you really need to pick it?

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Mouse Study Suggests Nose-Picking Has a Surprising Link With Alzheimer's

A study published in 2022 found a tenuous but plausible link between picking your nose and an increased risk of developing dementia.

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Ludicrous Lemon-Shaped World Is Like Nothing We've Ever Seen <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/lemon-world.jpg" alt="Ludicrous Lemon-Shaped World Is Like Nothing We've Ever Seen"/>Everything about this is wack.

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Ludicrous Lemon-Shaped World Is Like Nothing We've Ever Seen

A newly discovered exoplanet has to take the crown for the weirdest world we've ever spotted out there in the Milky Way galaxy.

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Ancient 'Wet Lava Ball' Exoplanet Defies Expectations <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/hot_exoplanet_superearth_header.jpg" alt="Bright planets"/>What is going on here?

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Ancient 'Wet Lava Ball' Exoplanet Defies Expectations

A molten lava world cloaked in a thick envelope of vaporized rock could be the strongest evidence we have yet of a rocky exoplanet with an atmosphe...

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AI's Big Red Button Doesn't Work, And The Reason Is Even More Troubling <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/HandPressingAStopButton.jpg" alt="AI's Big Red Button Doesn't Work, And The Reason Is Even More Troubling"/>"It's going to be really bad for humans."

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AI's Big Red Button Doesn't Work, And The Reason Is Even More Troubling

It's one of humanity's scariest what-ifs – that the technology we develop to make our lives better develops a will of its own.

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Mathematician Shares 10 Festive Brain Teasers That Anyone Can Try <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/ManDressedInElfHat.jpg" alt="Man wearing a green and red elf-style hat"/>Is your hat red or green?

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Mathematician Shares 10 Festive Brain Teasers That Anyone Can Try

Mathematics is a "science which requires a great amount of imagination", said the 19th-century Russian maths professor Sofya Kovalevskaya – a pio...

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Scientists Released Caged Mice Into The Wild, And an Incredible Thing Happened <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/MouseInTheWild.jpg" alt="A mouse exploring in grass"/>This may have implications for humans.

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Scientists Released Caged Mice Into The Wild, And an Incredible Thing Happened

Dozens of laboratory mice allowed to roam a large outdoor enclosure returned to a typical level of mouse anxiety after just one week, researchers o...

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Fusion Reactors Might Create Dark Matter Particles, Physicists Show <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/jet-tokamak.jpg" alt="Fusion Reactors Might Create Dark Matter Particles, Physicists Show"/>It's all in the neutrons.

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Fusion Reactors Might Create Dark Matter Particles, Physicists Show

Reactors designed to produce energy from the fusion of atoms could have an unexpected scientific side benefit.

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Humans May Actually Have Over 30 Senses, Scientists Say <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/33_senses_header.jpg" alt="woman standing outside with eyes closed"/>Here's how you can experience them all.

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Humans May Actually Have Over 30 Senses, Scientists Say

Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision.

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Plague Victims Among More Than 20 Skeletons Found at Tower of London <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/london_tower_bones_header.jpg" alt="skeleton recovered near london tower"/>What other secrets still lie buried there?

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Plague Victims Among More Than 20 Skeletons Found at Tower of London

In new excavations centered around the Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula on the grounds of the Tower of London, archaeologists have uncovered mor...

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US Official Time Standard Slowed Down Last Week Following Massive Storm <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/blurred_clock_header.jpg" alt="blue blurred clock"/>You probably didn't even notice.

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US Official Time Standard Slowed Down Last Week Following Massive Storm

When a massive windstorm in Colorado last Wednesday indirectly disconnected more than a dozen atomic clocks from their system, it threw out the US ...

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New Drug Stalls Alzheimer's Development in Breakthrough Trial <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/AstrocyteGraphic.jpg" alt="Illustration of a fibrous astrocyte"/>"These results are stunning."

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New Drug Stalls Alzheimer's Development in Breakthrough Trial

Growing evidence suggests that the key to treating Alzheimer's is catching it in its earliest stages.

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Titan May Not Be an 'Ocean World' After All – The Truth Is Stranger <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/titan-dione.jpg" alt="Bizarre Crystals in Titan's Lakes Could Break a Fundamental Rule of Chemistry"/>It could still host life, though.

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Titan May Not Be an 'Ocean World' After All - The Truth Is Stranger

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may not have a subsurface ocean after all.

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Our Universe Appears Lopsided, And It Could Break Cosmology Entirely <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/lopsided_universe_header.jpg" alt="graphic of big bang"/>Back to square one?

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Our Universe Appears Lopsided, And It Could Break Cosmology Entirely

The shape of the Universe is not something we often think about.

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Scientists Reveal a Simple Trick to Communicate With Your Cat <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/Smiling-Cat-on-Humans-Bed.jpg" alt="An orange cat squints its eyes and appears to be smiling while laying on a bed."/>It really works!

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Scientists Reveal a Simple Trick to Communicate With Your Cat

Cats have a reputation for aloofness (and floofiness), but if you and your feline friend aren't bonding, the problem might just be that you&#0...

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Vaccinating Boys Against HPV Could Eliminate Cervical Cancer <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/BoysVaccination.jpg" alt="Vaccinating Boys Against HPV Could Eliminate Cervical Cancer"/>Not just for women's health.

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Vaccinating Boys Against HPV Could Eliminate Cervical Cancer

Not enough young men are getting vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), and in some nations, it may be undermining the elimination of c...

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'Monster Stars' May Finally Have Been Glimpsed at The Dawn of Time <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/monster_popIII_stars_header.jpg" alt="artist's impression of a population III star"/>The seeds of something truly terrifying.

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'Monster Stars' May Finally Have Been Glimpsed at The Dawn of Time

One of the greatest mysteries the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was developed to investigate was the birth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs).

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Star's Death Plunge Reveals Spacetime Twisting Around a Black Hole <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/jet-tilt.jpg" alt="Star's Death Plunge Reveals Spacetime Twisting Around a Black Hole"/>Just as Einstein said it would.

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Star's Death Plunge Reveals Spacetime Twisting Around a Black Hole

A violent stellar disruption recorded in 2024 has given astronomers their most comprehensive evidence yet of a black hole twisting the very fabric ...

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Ancient DNA Reveals Surprising Truth of Beachy Head Woman's Identity <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/BeachyHeadWoman.jpg" alt="Ancient DNA Reveals Surprising Truth of Beachy Head Woman's Identity"/>She's not who we thought.

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Ancient DNA Reveals Surprising Truth of Beachy Head Woman's Identity

The curious skeleton of a Roman-era individual in Britain, nicknamed the Beachy Head Woman, is not who we thought she was.

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A German Engineer Has Become The First Wheelchair User in Space <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/12/engineer_wheelchair_space_header.jpg" alt="Michaela Benthaus, a German aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European Space Agency"/>"Congratulations, Michi!"

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A German Engineer Has Become The First Wheelchair User in Space

A German woman engineer on Saturday became the first wheelchair user to blast into space, taking a brief ride on a Blue Origin flight.