Scientists Discovered a Cannabis Compound Inside a Totally Different Plant <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2023/06/TypeOfTremaMicranthaPlantFromBrazil.jpg" alt="A type of leafy green plant with green berries turning to red."/>Hiding in plain sight!

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Scientists Discovered a Cannabis Compound Inside a Totally Different Plant

Scientists have discovered cannabidiol, a compound in cannabis known as CBD, in a common Brazilian plant, opening potential new avenues to produce ...

Scientists Discover Wild Birds Behaving Suspiciously Like Friends <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/birb-besties.jpg" alt="Scientists Discover Wild Birds Behaving Suspiciously Like Friends"/>Besties for life?

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Scientists Discover Wild Birds Behaving Suspiciously Like Friends

The ability to cooperate and work together is not unique to humans; indeed, it&#039;s one of the most successful strategies for collective survival...

Should You Be Worried About Aspartame? Here's What The Research Says <img width="600" height="243" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2022-03/processed/IcedColaPouredIntoAGlassOnBlackBackground_600.jpg" alt="Cola pouring into glass on black background"/>The complex truth, from an expert.

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Should You Be Worried About Aspartame? Here&#039;s What The Research Says

Sugar – sweet, satisfying, and everywhere.

Physicists Capture First-Ever Images of Free-Range Atoms <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/SnappingAtoms.jpg" alt="Atom camera"/>A groundbreaking snapshot of quantum behavior.

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Physicists Capture First-Ever Images of Free-Range Atoms

Free-range atoms, roaming around without restrictions, have been captured on camera for the first time – enabling physicists to take a closer loo...

Prescription Drug Combinations May Slow Alzheimer's, Study Suggests <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2023/10/PrescriptionMedsAmerica.jpg" alt="Prescription drug containers"/>But they could worsen symptoms in some.

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Prescription Drug Combinations May Slow Alzheimer&#039;s, Study Suggests

Millions of older adults take five or more prescription drugs every day to manage chronic illnesses.

Breakthrough Gravity Explanation Is a Step Closer to 'Theory of Everything' <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/space-time.jpg" alt="Breakthrough Gravity Explanation Is a Step Closer to 'Theory of Everything'"/>A journey is built on single steps.

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Breakthrough Gravity Explanation Is a Step Closer to &#039;Theory of Everything&#039;

A new way of explaining gravity could bring us a step closer to resolving the heretofore irresolvable differences it has with quantum mechanics.

History Crashes to Earth: The Long Journey of Venus Probe Kosmos 482 <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/SpaceCraftReEnteringEarthIllustration.jpg" alt="A satellite burning up as it travels through Earth's atmosphere. Pieces of the satellite are breaking off"/>Not your average space junk.

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History Crashes to Earth: The Long Journey of Venus Probe Kosmos 482

During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR launched 29 spacecraft towards Venus, the planet scientists call Earth&#039;s "t...

Children's Cancer Risk From Gas Stoves Nearly Double That of Adults <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/GasStove.jpg" alt="Gas stove"/>Action is needed.

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Children&#039;s Cancer Risk From Gas Stoves Nearly Double That of Adults

The gas stove in your home could be releasing toxic chemicals at cancer-causing levels, a new study shows.

A Simple Science Based Trick Really Can Delay Your Pot From Boiling Over <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/PotOfMilkOnGasStoveBoilingOver.jpg" alt="A Simple Science Based Trick Really Can Delay Your Pot From Boiling Over"/>Here's how.

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A Simple Science Based Trick Really Can Delay Your Pot From Boiling Over

One moment, your spaghetti is happily bubbling away in the pot.

This 134-Year-Old Patent Reveals The Proper Way to Hang Toilet Paper <img width="600" height="243" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2018-03/processed/ToiletPaperPatent_web_600.jpg" alt="This 124-year-old patent reveals the proper way to hang toilet paper"/>Over or under?

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This 134-Year-Old Patent Reveals The Proper Way to Hang Toilet Paper

The "over versus under" toilet paper argument has been waged in bathrooms everywhere since it was first invented.

This Blood Signal Could Warn You of Alzheimer's 10 Years Before Symptoms <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/BloodOnTestSlide.jpg" alt="A Blood Marker Could Give Us a Decade of Early Warning For Some Alzheimer's Cases"/>Be prepared.

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This Blood Signal Could Warn You of Alzheimer&#039;s 10 Years Before Symptoms

Detecting Alzheimer&#039;s disease earlier means better support and more treatment options, and gives scientists extra opportunity to study the dis...

World First: Neuralink Patient Makes YouTube Video With Brain Implant <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/NeuralinkChip.jpg" alt="Neuralink Chip"/>An epic achievement!

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World First: Neuralink Patient Makes YouTube Video With Brain Implant

The first nonverbal Neuralink patient to receive the chip implant is offering a glimpse into how he uses the technology – editing and narrating a...

Scientists Say Dogs And Cats Are Evolving to Look More Alike. But Why? <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/dogandcat.jpg" alt="Dogs And Cats Are Evolving Along Similar Lines, Thanks to Us"/>Signs of convergence are showing.

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Scientists Say Dogs And Cats Are Evolving to Look More Alike. But Why?

Domestication has made cats and dogs more diverse, but also curiously alike – with serious implications for their health and welfare, new researc...

NASA Reveals 'Higher Than Expected' Sea Level Rise in 2024 <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/NASAGraphSeaLevelChange.jpg" alt="NASA Graph Sea Level Change"/>"The rate of rise is getting faster and faster."

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NASA Reveals &#039;Higher Than Expected&#039; Sea Level Rise in 2024

As global warming continues to melt Earth&#039;s glaciers, sea level rise hits all new heights.

Scientists Reveal a Surprising New Theory on Where Echidnas Came From <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/echidna-water.jpg" alt="close-up photo of an echidna standing on a sandy shore, its beak touching the water."/>This is basically unheard of.

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Scientists Reveal a Surprising New Theory on Where Echidnas Came From

New analysis of a 100-million-year-old fossil embedded in a rocky cove in Australia suggests echidnas may have evolved from swimming ancestors.

The Opposite of Déjà Vu Can Happen, And It's Even More Uncanny <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2023/09/WomanWithSurprisedEyesInBlue.jpg" alt="Woman With Surprised Eyes In Blue"/>The weird world of jamais vu.

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The Opposite of D&eacute;j&agrave; Vu Can Happen, And It&#039;s Even More Uncanny

Repetition has a strange relationship with the mind.

Vast Hoard of Ancient Treasure Discovered on a Hill in Hungary <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/SomloHill.jpg" alt="Vast Hoard of Ancient Treasure Discovered on a Hill in Hungary"/>Like a story straight out of mythology.

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Vast Hoard of Ancient Treasure Discovered on a Hill in Hungary

Archaeologists have discovered a hilltop in western Hungary that contains a vast hoard of ancient treasure dating back more than 3,000 years.

Almost Every Speck of Light in This Incredible Image Is a Galaxy <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/cosmos-web-header.jpg" alt="An area of deep space with thousands of galaxies in various shapes and sizes on a black background. Most are circles or ovals, with a few spirals. More distant galaxies are redder in colour and smaller, down to being mere dots, while closer galaxies are a bit larger and white or blueish. A few gold-coloured galaxies are bunched closely together in the centre. Bright stars surrounded by spikes lie in our galaxy."/>Those aren't stars.

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Almost Every Speck of Light in This Incredible Image Is a Galaxy

If you ever want to get a bit of perspective, there&#039;s very little that&#039;s more humbling than a good deep field image – and JWST has just...

Mathematician Finds Solution to One of The Oldest Problems in Algebra <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/AlgebraSolution.jpg" alt="Algebra solution"/>"This is a dramatic revision."

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Mathematician Finds Solution to One of The Oldest Problems in Algebra

Solving one of the oldest algebra problems isn&#039;t a bad claim to fame, and it&#039;s a claim Norman Wildberger can now make: The mathematician ...

The Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower Is Just About to Peak <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/eta-aquariids.jpg" alt="The Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower Is Just About to Peak"/>Don't miss it!

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The Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower Is Just About to Peak

It&#039;s time to get outside and look at the night sky: the Eta Aquariid meteor shower is about to peak.