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A Rock Just Came Within 270 Miles of Hitting Earth – And We Only Noticed After <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/2025-tf.png"/>As close as the International Space Station.

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A Rock Just Came Within 270 Miles of Hitting Earth &ndash; And We Only Noticed After

Earth was grazed by a tiny asteroid last week, which passed about as close as the International Space Station (ISS).

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Huge Study Links 99% of Heart Attacks And Strokes With Four Risk Factors <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/12/HeartOnBackground.jpg" alt="Heart On Background"/>And we can modify them.

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Huge Study Links 99% of Heart Attacks And Strokes With Four Risk Factors

Heart attacks and strokes rarely occur without warning.

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Quantum Tunneling Experiments Earn Team The Nobel Prize in Physics <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/quan-tun-1_1024.jpg" alt="Quantum Tunneling Experiments Earn Team The Nobel Prize in Physics"/>'Enormously useful'.

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Quantum Tunneling Experiments Earn Team The Nobel Prize in Physics

Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for putting quantum mechanics int...

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Surprise Hair Loss Breakthrough: A Sugar Gel Sparks Robust Regrowth <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/07/HopefulManWithNoHair.jpg" alt="A man with a bald head and glasses looking up to the right"/>Results seen in mice within weeks.

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Surprise Hair Loss Breakthrough: A Sugar Gel Sparks Robust Regrowth

In 2024, scientists stumbled upon a potential new treatment for hereditary-patterned baldness, the most common cause of hair loss in both men and w...

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There Are 5 Profiles of Sleep – Here's What Yours Says About Your Health <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/06/sleep-apnea.jpg"/>It's not just total hours.

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There Are 5 Profiles of Sleep &ndash; Here&#039;s What Yours Says About Your Health

A team of scientists has identified five different sleep profiles that link the quality of a person&#039;s shut-eye with a variety of health, psych...

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Look Up! 2 Stunning Meteor Showers to Light Up October's Skies <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/family-stargazing.jpg" alt="a car parked on the side of the road in a remote field. the milky way and a meteor are visible in the night sky. a person sits on top of the car, another person sits beside it, both looking at the sky."/>Need more space? We've got you covered.

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Look Up! 2 Stunning Meteor Showers to Light Up October&#039;s Skies

Look up this month and you might be lucky enough to spot some of our sky&#039;s best celestial wonders – including not one, but two meteor showers.

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Ancient Signal Confirms What The Very First Animals Truly Looked Like <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/09/sponges-first-animals.jpg" alt="three large barrel sponges growing underwater. the background is pure blue. a small angelfish is swimming into the central sponge."/>This looks familiar.

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Ancient Signal Confirms What The Very First Animals Truly Looked Like

Ever since scientists began to understand evolution, they&#039;ve been arguing over the contentious question of what, exactly, the first animal loo...

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126,000 Years Ago a Mammal Dragged Its Butt And Left a Unique Fossil <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/RockHyraxHeadshotMouthComicallyAgape.jpg" alt="Mammal Dragging Its Butt Across The Ground Left a 126,000-Year-Old Imprint"/>Well this is different.

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126,000 Years Ago a Mammal Dragged Its Butt And Left a Unique Fossil

Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as "dassies", are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no discernible tails.

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Surprising Immune Cell Discovery Wins 2025 Nobel Prize. Here's The Science. <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/t_white_cell_header.jpg" alt="Surprising Immune Cell Discovery Wins 2025 Nobel Prize. Here's The Science."/>Congratulations!

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Surprising Immune Cell Discovery Wins 2025 Nobel Prize. Here&#039;s The Science.

Three scientists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how the body stops its own immune system from tur...

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One Major Pollutant in Fossil Fuels Has Been Linked With ALS <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/ExhaustFumes.jpg" alt="Car exhaust fumes"/>We need cleaner air.

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One Major Pollutant in Fossil Fuels Has Been Linked With ALS

A component of fossil fuel emissions could contribute to an increased risk of the neurodegenerative disease ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), ac...

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Particles That Don't Exist Could Be Key to Understanding Reality <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/virtual_particles_header.jpg" alt="abstract swirl of particles"/>The virtual truth.

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Particles That Don&#039;t Exist Could Be Key to Understanding Reality

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles.

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Turkana People Are Evolving to Thrive on a Diet That Would Make Others Ill <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/09/TurkanaWomenDiggingForWaterForAnimals.jpg" alt="Woman in a hole in the barren ground with a tin of water"/>Do not try this at home.

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Turkana People Are Evolving to Thrive on a Diet That Would Make Others Ill

The Turkana people of Northwest Kenya have adapted to one of the driest places on Earth by relying predominantly on the milk, meat, and blood from ...

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A Study of 500,000 Medical Records Linked Viruses With Alzheimer's Again And Again <img width="600" height="243" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2021-11/processed/AlzheimersDiseaseAmyloidPlaque_600.jpg" alt="Amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's Disease"/>The evidence is mounting.

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A Study of 500,000 Medical Records Linked Viruses With Alzheimer&#039;s Again And Again

A study of around 500,000 medical records published in 2023 suggested that severe viral infections like encephalitis and pneumonia increase the ris...

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Fragments of Bacteria in Our Gut May Lull Our Brains to Sleep at Night <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/peptidoglycan_bacteria_sleep_header.jpg" alt="bacterial cell"/>A special lullaby.

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Fragments of Bacteria in Our Gut May Lull Our Brains to Sleep at Night

Pieces of bacteria migrating from the gut to the brain may play a key role in sleep, scientists have discovered, suggesting that the oldest and mos...

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New Research Challenges Long-Standing Method For Treating Cancer <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/09/lymph_nodes_head1_header.jpg" alt="New Research Challenges Long-Standing Method For Treating Cancer"/>It's complicated.

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New Research Challenges Long-Standing Method For Treating Cancer

Removing lymph nodes during cancer surgery has saved countless lives in many tumour types.

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50-Year-Old Data Reveals Venus's Clouds Are Mostly Water <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/VenusSwirlingCloudsInBlueESA.jpg" alt="50-Year-Old Data Reveals Venus's Clouds Are Mostly Water"/>How did we miss this?

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50-Year-Old Data Reveals Venus&#039;s Clouds Are Mostly Water

Reanalyzing old data with our modern understanding seems to be in vogue lately.

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We Finally Know How The Lights Switched on at The Dawn of Time <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/02/dwarf-galaxies.jpg" alt="We Finally Know What Turned The Lights on at The Dawn of Time"/>This changed everything.

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We Finally Know How The Lights Switched on at The Dawn of Time

We may finally know what first lit up the cosmic dawn in the early Universe.

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Scientists Identified Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2023/10/period-brain3.png" alt="For The First Time, Scientists Show Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation"/>Period brain is real.

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Scientists Identified Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation

The constant ebb and flow of hormones that guide the menstrual cycle don&#039;t just affect reproductive organs – they also reshape the brain, an...

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Drugs Like Ozempic Quieten 'Food Noise,' in Our Brains, Study Finds <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/09/BigEat.jpg" alt="Eating cake off a fork"/>A massive relief for some.

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Drugs Like Ozempic Quieten &#039;Food Noise,&#039; in Our Brains, Study Finds

Obsessive, intrusive thoughts about eating – known as food noise – can be quieted through semaglutide drugs such as Ozempic, new research has r...

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The Strange Science Behind Ghostly Lights That Have Haunted Us For Centuries <img width="1024" height="415" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/09/Will-o-the-wisp_and_snake_by_Hermann_Hendrich_1823.jpg" alt="The Strange Science Behind Ghostly Lights That Have Haunted Us For Centuries"/>It's probably not lost spirits.

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The Strange Science Behind Ghostly Lights That Have Haunted Us For Centuries

Ghostly lights dancing in midair in swamps, forests, and even graveyards have been reported by cultures all over the world, for centuries.