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Your Stress Could Be a Hidden Trigger For Future Dementia <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/dementia_and_stress_header-e1748487234380.jpg" alt="man who is stressed"/>Here's what you can do about it.

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Your Stress Could Be a Hidden Trigger For Future Dementia

The probability of any American having dementia in their lifetime may be far greater than previously thought.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 9 months ago

China's Tianwen-2 Launches to Grab First 'Living Fossil' Asteroid Samples <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/The-asteroid-Kamooalewa.jpg" alt="china's asteroid probe"/>That's not all it's doing.

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China's Tianwen-2 Launches to Grab First 'Living Fossil' Asteroid Samples

China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country's first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them home for research,...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Scientists Discover West Nile Virus in The UK For The First Time <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/BlackCulexMosquitoWestNileVirus.jpg" alt="Black culex mosquito close up on red fabric"/>How did it get there?

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Scientists Discover West Nile Virus in The UK For The First Time

For the first time, traces of the West Nile virus have been found in mosquitoes in the UK, according to a report published this week by the UK Heal...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Earth's Core Holds a Vast Reservoir of Gold, And It's Leaking Toward The Surface <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/molten-metal.jpg" alt="Earth's Core Holds a Vast Reservoir of Gold, And It's Leaking Toward The Surface"/>"We realized that we had literally struck gold!"

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Earth's Core Holds a Vast Reservoir of Gold, And It's Leaking Toward The Surface

Earth's core is rich with gold, and it's leaking out through the mantle and into the crust, new research has found.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

New Link Connects Herpes to Alzheimer's. Here's What We Know. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/HerpesOnLip.jpg" alt="Herpes On Lip"/>Let's look at the evidence.

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New Link Connects Herpes to Alzheimer's. Here's What We Know.

A new study has found the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which causes cold sores, may be linked to the development of Alzheimer's disease.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Mesmerizing Video Shows Cardiac Cells Building a Heart <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/heart-forming.jpg" alt="Mesmerizing Video Shows Cardiac Cells Building a Heart"/>Total timelapse of the heart.

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Mesmerizing Video Shows Cardiac Cells Building a Heart

Scientists have caught the intricate dance of cardiac cells coming together to build a heart, in a mesmerizing new timelapse taken during the devel...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Galaxy Speared With Black Hole's Radiation in First Ever 'Cosmic Joust' <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/cosmic-joust.jpg" alt="Galaxy Speared With Black Hole's Radiation in First Ever 'Cosmic Joust'"/>A violent galactic collision.

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Galaxy Speared With Black Hole's Radiation in First Ever 'Cosmic Joust'

The moment one galaxy spears another with a powerful beam of radiation shooting from its central black hole has been spotted in a distant galactic ...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Jupiter Was Twice Its Current Ginormous Size, Scientists Discover <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/jupiter-bigger.jpg" alt="Jupiter Was Twice Its Current Ginormous Size, Scientists Discover"/>It was HUGE. And powerful.

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Jupiter Was Twice Its Current Ginormous Size, Scientists Discover

Jupiter's already the big kahuna of the Solar System, an absolute unit of a planet with a mass 2.5 times greater than all of the rest of the p...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Couples Who Cuddle at Bedtime Have Lower Stress And Feel More Secure <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/LaughingCoupleCuddlingInBed.jpg" alt="Two young people laughing and cuddling"/>Hold on tight.

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Couples Who Cuddle at Bedtime Have Lower Stress And Feel More Secure

A bedtime cuddle with your partner could make a real difference to your feelings of stress and security, according to a new study closely analyzing...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

World-First Study Reveals How Lightning Sparks Gamma-Ray Flashes <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/LightningPurpleTone.jpg" alt="Purple-toned clouds and two lightning strikes"/>BOOM.

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World-First Study Reveals How Lightning Sparks Gamma-Ray Flashes

The very moment two electrical currents slam together to form a lightning bolt has been captured, revealing for the first time the role this proces...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Your Sensitive Teeth May Exist So Ancient Fish Could Avoid Danger <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/teeth_sense_skate_header.jpg" alt="skate ct scan"/>Blame them for your toothaches.

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Your Sensitive Teeth May Exist So Ancient Fish Could Avoid Danger

Ever wondered why our teeth are so sensitive to pain or even just cold drinks? It might be because they first evolved for a very different purpose ...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Expert Explains FDA's New COVID Vaccine Rules in The US <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/vaccine_FDA_newrules_header.jpg" alt="vaccine injection"/>It's controversial.

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Expert Explains FDA's New COVID Vaccine Rules in The US

On May 20, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration announced a new stance on who should receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Sitting Could Be Shrinking Your Brain (And Exercise May Not Help) <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/woman_sitting_lounge_header.jpg" alt="woman sitting holding her head"/>Go stretch your legs.

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Sitting Could Be Shrinking Your Brain (And Exercise May Not Help)

Sitting might be a comfortable and convenient way to spend much of your day, but a new study of older adults suggests it can lead to brain shrinkag...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Dark Streaks on Mars May Not Be Signs of Flowing Water Like We Thought <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/streaks_on_mars_header.jpg" alt="image of slope on mars with streaks"/>Bittersweet news.

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Dark Streaks on Mars May Not Be Signs of Flowing Water Like We Thought

It was big news years ago when Mars orbiters found streaks of what appeared to be water running down Martian cliffs and crater walls.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Your Voice Could Hide The Tell-Tale Signs of Parkinson's Disease <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/older_women_talking_header.jpg" alt="older women talking"/>Listen to your body.

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Your Voice Could Hide The Tell-Tale Signs of Parkinson's Disease

In a continued effort to catch neurodegenerative diseases early, researchers directed machine learning models to see if they could 'hear'...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Harvard Paid $27 For a 'Copy' of The Magna Carta. It Turned Out to Be The Real Thing. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/HarvardMagnaCarta.jpg"/>"This is a fantastic discovery."

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Harvard Paid $27 For a 'Copy' of The Magna Carta. It Turned Out to Be The Real Thing.

A "copy" of the Magna Carta, the medieval English document that has formed the basis of constitutions around the world, owned by Harvard Law School...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

A Distinct New Form of Diabetes Has Been Officially Recognized <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/new_diabetesT5_header.jpg" alt="person's finger being pricked for diabetes test"/>Introducing type 5.

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A Distinct New Form of Diabetes Has Been Officially Recognized

Type 5 diabetes has just been recognised as a distinct form of diabetes by the International Diabetes Federation.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

Mountain Range Hiding Beneath Antarctica's Ice Frozen in Time, Study Finds <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/mountains_sonar_antarctica_header.jpg" alt="hidden mountains"/>Preserved through the ages.

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Mountain Range Hiding Beneath Antarctica's Ice Frozen in Time, Study Finds

Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

'Perfect Storm': Expert Reveals Why Pollen Allergies Are Getting Worse <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/girl-with-hay-fever.jpg" alt="girl with hay fever"/>Intensifying for decades.

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'Perfect Storm': Expert Reveals Why Pollen Allergies Are Getting Worse

Evolution has fostered many reproductive strategies across the spectrum of life.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 10 months ago

New Signals Hint at a Lost Ocean of Water Concealed Within Mars <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2022/12/ocean-on-mars-1024x415.jpg" alt="Artist impression of a close up view of Mars with oceans"/>The mystery of the red planet's missing water may be solved.

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New Signals Hint at a Lost Ocean of Water Concealed Within Mars

Evidence is mounting that a secret lies beneath the dusty red plains of Mars, one that could redefine our view of the Red Planet: a vast reservoir ...