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ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Hidden Detail in Crotch Solves a 500-Year-Old Leonardo Da Vinci Mystery <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/Vitruvian-Man-Painting.jpg" alt="A photo of artwork depicting the Vitruvian Man"/>Hiding in plain sight for centuries!

Hidden Detail in Crotch Solves a 500-Year-Old Leonardo Da Vinci Mystery

Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Italian polymath who painted the Mona Lisa, had a sophisticated geometric understanding far ahead of his time.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Scientists Explain Why 'Harmless' Sharks Devoured Swimmer in Chilling World First <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/dusky-shark.jpg" alt="Scientists Explain Why 'Harmless' Sharks Devoured Swimmer in Chilling World First"/>Exotourism could play a role.

Scientists Explain Why 'Harmless' Sharks Devoured Swimmer in Chilling World First

A species of shark never before documented killing humans has now done so, devouring a swimmer in a chilling first.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

DNA Finally Reveals What Really Killed Napoleon's Forces <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/Napoleon-Portrait.jpg" alt="Napoleon Portrait"/>It's not what we thought.

DNA Finally Reveals What Really Killed Napoleon's Forces

When Napoleon and his legion of multinational soldiers retreated from Russia in 1812 in the face of dwindling supplies and fierce Russian resistanc...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Turning Point in Heart Health Occurs at 1 Key Age (It's Younger Than You'd Think) <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/age_heart_health_header.jpg" alt="heart diagram"/>It's never too late.

Turning Point in Heart Health Occurs at 1 Key Age (It's Younger Than You'd Think)

Emerging adulthood – the life stage that unfolds around ages 18-25 – is full of major transitions, such as starting college or learning a trade...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Drug Combination Boosted Lifespan of Mice by 73%, But Only For One Sex <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/mice_aging_study_header.jpg" alt="mice in a tube"/>What's going on?

Drug Combination Boosted Lifespan of Mice by 73%, But Only For One Sex

A treatment that simultaneously targets two age-related pathways in frail adult mice has been shown to extend their lifespan by up to 73 percent in...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Bats in The US Can Glow Ghostly Green, And Scientists Have No Idea Why <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/glowing_bat_header.jpg" alt="glowing bat"/>Trick or treat?

Bats in The US Can Glow Ghostly Green, And Scientists Have No Idea Why

The glow-in-the-dark bats you're hanging to decorate for Halloween might be more biologically accurate than you thought.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Quantum Teleportation Was Achieved Over The Internet For The First Time <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/teleportation_internet_header.jpg" alt="Quantum Teleportation Was Achieved Over The Internet For The First Time"/>"Nobody thought it was possible.”

Quantum Teleportation Was Achieved Over The Internet For The First Time

In 2024, a quantum state of light was successfully teleported through more than 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) of fiber optic cable amid a torrent...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Does The Full Moon Really Affect Our Sleep? Here's The Science <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/full_moon_wolf_header.jpg" alt="howling at a full moon"/>Lunacy.

Does The Full Moon Really Affect Our Sleep? Here's The Science

Have you ever tossed and turned under a full moon and wondered if its glow was keeping you awake? For generations, people have believed that the Mo...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

ADHD Drugs Do Much More Than Help You Focus, Study Reveals <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/ritalin.jpg" alt="ADHD Drugs Do Much More Than Help You Focus, Study Reveals"/>It's changing lives.

ADHD Drugs Do Much More Than Help You Focus, Study Reveals

An ADHD diagnosis means a person is prone to impulsivity and distractibility, which can manifest in the form of substance misuse, traffic accidents...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

The Mystery of Rain on The Sun Can Finally Be Explained <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/corona_on_sun_header.jpg" alt="corona on the sun"/>Better pack an umbrella.

The Mystery of Rain on The Sun Can Finally Be Explained

It rains on the Sun, the gigantic thermonuclear orb that burns with the multi-million-degree 'fires' of fusion.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Scientists Invented an Entirely New Way to Refrigerate <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/new_type_refrigeration_header.jpg" alt="Scientists Invented an Entirely New Way to Refrigerate"/>This is super cool!

Scientists Invented an Entirely New Way to Refrigerate

Say hello to ionocaloric cooling.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

New Breakthrough Treatment Safely Kills Cancer Cells With Light <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/IllustrationOfDividingCancerCells.jpg" alt="New Breakthrough Treatment Safely Kills Cancer Cells With Light"/>Photothermal therapy.

New Breakthrough Treatment Safely Kills Cancer Cells With Light

Cancer treatment has come a long way, but many of today's therapies still come with steep costs: not just financial, but physical and emotiona...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

'Superager' Brains Defy Cognitive Decline. We Finally Know Their Secret. <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/ActualPhotoOfSuperAgersBrain.jpg" alt="'Superager' Brains Defy Cognitive Decline. We Finally Know Their Secret."/>"Earth-shattering."

'Superager' Brains Defy Cognitive Decline. We Finally Know Their Secret.

Superagers retain sharp minds into their 80s and beyond, defying the idea that cognitive decline is inevitable as we age.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Listen to The Creepy 'Sounds' From A Black Hole, Captured by NASA <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/perseus_cluster.jpg" alt="perseus cluster"/>This is eerie!

Listen to The Creepy 'Sounds' From A Black Hole, Captured by NASA

NASA created a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

One of The Most Endangered Whales Is Swimming Back From The Brink of Extinction <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/MotherCalf.jpg" alt="One of The Most Endangered Whales Is Swimming Back From The Brink of Extinction"/>A hopeful turn of events.

One of The Most Endangered Whales Is Swimming Back From The Brink of Extinction

The critically endangered North Atlantic right whale is on the right track.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Slow-Motion Video Shows Snake Bites Live You've Never Seen Them Before <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/BrightYellowBushViperBlackBackground.jpg" alt="Bright yellow venomous bush viper on black background"/>Incredible to see.

Slow-Motion Video Shows Snake Bites Like You've Never Seen Them Before

For more than 60 million years, venomous snakes have slithered across Earth.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

These Two Existing Drugs May Boost Brain Health, Scientists Say <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/brain-on-black-background.jpg" alt="These Two Existing Drugs May Boost Brain Health, Scientists Say"/>Promising new leads.

These Two Existing Drugs May Boost Brain Health, Scientists Say

A clinical trial testing a diabetes medication and an insulin nasal spray has found that both drugs, in combination and alone, safely tackle differ...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Scientists Reveal Surprising New Advice on How to Avoid Constipation <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/kiwi-fruit.jpg" alt="kiwi fruit"/>This changes things.

Scientists Reveal Surprising New Advice on How to Avoid Constipation

New guidelines on what to eat and drink if you have chronic (long-term) constipation have been making news in recent days.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Millions of Buildings Threatened by Rising Seas This Century, Study Warns <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/CityRelectedInWater.jpg" alt="City Reflected In Water"/>"It could continue to rise for many meters."

Millions of Buildings Threatened by Rising Seas This Century, Study Warns

Rising seas threaten millions of lives and livelihoods in coastal regions, along with untold swaths of vital infrastructure.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Exceptionally Preserved 'Dinosaur Mummies' Reveal First-Known Reptile Hooves <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/Edmontosaurus_mummy.jpg" alt="Exceptionally Preserved 'Dinosaur Mummies' Reveal First-Known Reptile Hooves"/>And a tragic backstory.

Exceptionally Preserved 'Dinosaur Mummies' Reveal First-Known Reptile Hooves

About 66 million years ago, a herd of herbivorous dinosaurs succumbed to drought – tragically, just hours or days before heavy rains fell.

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