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ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Chimps Can Revise Their Beliefs When Shown New Evidence, Study Finds <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/thinking-chimp.jpg" alt="Chimps Can Revise Their Beliefs When Shown New Evidence, Study Finds"/>It's not just a human ability.

Chimps Can Revise Their Beliefs When Shown New Evidence, Study Finds

Chimpanzees can change their minds when the facts no longer support their previous beliefs – a rational level of thinking that was once considere...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Decades of T. Rex Research Flipped: 'Teacup Tyrant' Confirmed as Separate Species <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/nanotyrannus.jpg"/>It ran with giants.

Decades of T. Rex Research Flipped: 'Teacup Tyrant' Confirmed as Separate Species

Fossilized predator bones found in the legendary Cretaceous dinosaur graveyard of Hell Creek did not belong to a baby Tyrannosaurus rex after all.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Expired Cans of Salmon, Decades Old, Preserve a Huge Surprise <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/Salmon-With-Worms.jpg"/>A real can of worms.

Expired Cans of Salmon, Decades Old, Preserve a Huge Surprise

Scientists have made some intriguing parasite discoveries in an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum. Canned salmon, well past its...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

'Dimming The Sun' Is Not Safe, Scientists Warn. It's Also Impractical. <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/earth-from-space.jpg"/>Risks that might spill beyond our control.

'Dimming The Sun' Is Not Safe, Scientists Warn. It's Also Impractical.

Spraying particles into Earth's atmosphere to try and cool a warming planet might sound like a good idea in theory, but it will only work if i...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

3 Witch Folklore 'Potions' That Actually Have Medical Significance Today <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/witch_herbs_potions_header.jpg" alt="woman behind a table with herbs"/>From spooky reputations to science.

3 Witch Folklore 'Potions' That Actually Have Medical Significance Today

As Halloween approaches, stories of witches and their potions resurface, often featuring eerie plants like belladonna, mandrake, and mugwort.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

NASA's X-59 Quiet Supersonic Jet Just Aced Its First Flight <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/X-59-First-Flight.jpg" alt="NASA/Lockheed Martin X-59 experimental quiet-supersonic jet lifting off over desert foothills, landing gear down, very long needle nose."/>"It's part of our DNA – the desire to go farther, faster and even quieter than anyone has ever gone before."

NASA's X-59 Quiet Supersonic Jet Just Aced Its First Flight

In partnership with NASA, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works has executed the first test flight of the X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

How Record-Breaking Hurricane Melissa Became a Monster Overnight <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/Hurricane-Melissa-in-Darkness-.jpg" alt="Satellite image showing a hurricane at night"/>The science behind the storm's sudden explosion in power.

How Record-Breaking Hurricane Melissa Became a Monster Overnight

Hurricane Melissa is tearing through the Caribbean, bringing record-breaking wind and torrential rain to Jamaica – the island's first ever c...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Stood The Test of Time <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/RomanConcreteCover-1.jpg" alt="The Pantheon in Rome lit up"/>Mystery solved!

We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Stood The Test of Time

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Dogs Reportedly Seen Turning Bright Blue in The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/blue-dog.jpg" alt="Dogs Reportedly Seen Turning Bright Blue in The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone"/>Bluey is a popular Halloween costume this year.

Dogs Reportedly Seen Turning Bright Blue in The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Dogs of an unnatural hue have been spotted running around the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Boosted 'Natural Killer' Cells Could Lead to Off-The-Shelf Cancer Immunotherapy <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/KillerCells.jpg" alt="Anti-cancer cells"/>A new approach emerges.

Boosted 'Natural Killer' Cells Could Lead to Off-The-Shelf Cancer Immunotherapy

Modifications to a type of immune cell programmed to recognize and kill cancerous tumors could make them even more effective assassins.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

One Type of Activity Is Particularly Effective at Keeping Your Brain Young <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/brain_health_tango2_header.jpg" alt="older woman younger man dancing"/>Time to get creative.

One Type of Activity Is Particularly Effective at Keeping Your Brain Young

Creative experience might enhance brain health, which could slow down the brain's ageing.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Greenland Is Writhing And Twisting Into a New Shape as It Drifts Northwest <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/GreenlandIce.jpg" alt="Greenland ice"/>Where ice meets rock (or doesn't).

Greenland Is Writhing And Twisting Into a New Shape as It Drifts Northwest

Greenland is writhing as eons of ice accumulation and steady melting cause its foundations to change shape.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Rare Two-Headed Flatworms Produce Topsy-Turvy Offspring, Scientists Discover <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/2-headed.jpg" alt="Rare Two-Headed Flatworms Produce Topsy-Turvy Offspring, Scientists Discover"/>Scientists try to make heads or tails of it.

Rare Two-Headed Flatworms Produce Topsy-Turvy Offspring, Scientists Discover

Flatworms are infamous in biology labs for their surreal ability to regenerate heads when you decapitate them.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

2 Factors Made Hurricane Melissa Dangerous – And They're on The Rise, Say Experts <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/G19_meso_18N-76W_band13_150fr_20251027-1916.jpg"/>"It's a bit of a terrifying situation."

2 Factors Made Hurricane Melissa Dangerous – And They're on The Rise, Say Experts

Fueled by abnormally warm Caribbean waters, Hurricane Melissa exploded into a Category 5 cyclone while moving at little more than a strolling pace ...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Prolonged Fasting Isn't a Cancer Cure. Here's What Might Happen Instead. <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/prolonged_fasting_header.jpg" alt="man drinking water"/>Biology isn't that simple.

Prolonged Fasting Isn't a Cancer Cure. Here's What Might Happen Instead.

Every few months, a new "miracle cure" for cancer trends on social media.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Study Links Mysterious Lights in The Sky to Historic Nuclear Tests <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/mystery-lights.jpg" alt="Study Links Mysterious Lights in The Sky to Historic Nuclear Tests"/>What are they?

Study Links Mysterious Lights in The Sky to Historic Nuclear Tests

Mysterious lights and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) in the 1940s and 1950s appear to be somehow linked to nuclear testing, sci...

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Scientists Built a Working Computer Memory Out of Shiitake Mushrooms <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/mushroom_memristor_header.jpg" alt="shiitake mushroom"/>“The future of computing could be fungal.”

Scientists Built a Working Computer Memory Out of Shiitake Mushrooms

A computer that relies on fungal mycelium to store information could one day be a low-cost alternative to the current generation of memory hardware.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

'Impossible' Life Found Beneath Arctic Ice Could Alter Climate Models <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/algae_sea_ice_arctic_header.jpg" alt="algae under sea ice"/>"We were wrong."

'Impossible' Life Found Beneath Arctic Ice Could Alter Climate Models

Scientists have discovered special life forms thriving under Arctic sea ice.

ScienceAlert (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Mystery of The Ocean's Missing Plastic a Step Closer to Being Solved <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/10/plastic_waste_beach_header.jpg" alt="plastic waste on a beach"/>It doesn't just vanish.

Mystery of The Ocean's Missing Plastic a Step Closer to Being Solved

Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea.

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.

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