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These Five Simple Habits Are Key to Slowing Aging, Experts Reveal <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/OrangeSoledShoesRunningBoardwalkSea.jpg" alt="These Five Simple Habits Are Key to Slowing Aging, Experts Reveal"/>It doesn't have to be complicated.

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These Five Simple Habits Are Key to Slowing Aging, Experts Reveal

Society is fascinated with health, fitness and longevity.

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A Saliva Test Could Quickly Reveal Your Hidden Risk of Heart Failure <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Handing-over-a-saliva-sample-tube.jpg" alt="a young adult's hand passing over a saliva sample tube to an older person's hand"/>The sooner the better.

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A Saliva Test Could Quickly Reveal Your Hidden Risk of Heart Failure

Heart failure doesn&#039;t always mean game over, but it needs to be detected early.

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Astronomical First: Storm Seen Erupting on Another Sun, And It's a Monster <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/cme_other_star_header.jpg" alt="illustration of a cme on another star"/>Pity any planets standing in its way.

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Astronomical First: Storm Seen Erupting on Another Sun, And It&#039;s a Monster

Astronomers revealed Wednesday they have detected a storm on a star other than our Sun for the first time, discovering an explosion so violent it c...

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World's Top Infectious Killer Claimed 1.23 Million Lives Last Year, WHO Says <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/TB_leading_killer_header.jpg" alt="illustration of mycobacterium"/>There is hope.

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World&#039;s Top Infectious Killer Claimed 1.23 Million Lives Last Year, WHO Says

Tuberculosis remains the world&#039;s leading infectious killer, claiming an estimated 1.23 million lives last year, the UN health organisation sai...

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Brain Scans Reveal Surprising 'Tipping Point' Minutes Before We Fall Asleep <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/sleep.jpg" alt="Brain Scans Reveal Surprising 'Tipping Point' Minutes Before We Fall Asleep"/>It can predict almost exactly when you will nod off.

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Brain Scans Reveal Surprising &#039;Tipping Point&#039; Minutes Before We Fall Asleep

We really do &#039;fall&#039; asleep, a new study shows.

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Your IQ May Affect How Well You Can Hear Speech, Study Shows <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/ear-close-up.jpg" alt="Your IQ May Affect How Well You Can Hear Speech, Study Shows"/>It isn't always down to hearing loss.

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Your IQ May Affect How Well You Can Hear Speech, Study Shows

Sometimes science comes up with associations that initially sound surprising, but which make more sense the more you think about them: like a link ...

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Scientists Have Trained Bumblebees to Understand a Form of Morse Code <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/bumblebee.jpg" alt="Scientists Have Trained Bumblebees to Understand a Form of Morse Code"/>Learning your dits from your dahs.

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Scientists Have Trained Bumblebees to Understand a Form of Morse Code

In the latest test of the tiny workings of bumblebee minds, scientists have taught the fuzzy insects to tell the difference between patterns of lig...

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Constant Rain of Tiny Meteoroids Poses 'Silent Threat' to Future Moon Base <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/micrometeorite_impacts_header-.jpg" alt="impact of micrometeorite in rock from the moon"/>Don't let their itty-bitty size fool you.

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Constant Rain of Tiny Meteoroids Poses &#039;Silent Threat&#039; to Future Moon Base

The Moon has no atmosphere, no weather, and no wind.

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Amazon Lakes Became Hotter Than a Hot Tub, Killing Hundreds of Dolphins <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/PinkRiverDolphinAmazonFreshwater.jpg" alt="Amazon Lakes Became Hotter Than a Hot Tub, Killing Hundreds of Dolphins"/>"The volume of energy needed to achieve this... is jaw-dropping."

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Amazon Lakes Became Hotter Than a Hot Tub, Killing Hundreds of Dolphins

In 2023, a severe drought heated several Amazonian lakes until they became hotter than a hot tub.

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Scientists Create Digital Twin of Earth, Accurate to a 1-Kilometer Scale <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Digital-Earth-Concept-Image-Blue-and-Green.jpg" alt="Computer illustration of Earth to demonstrate near-kilometer climate modeling resolution"/>The 'holy grail' of weather forecasting and climate modeling is here.

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Scientists Create Digital Twin of Earth, Accurate to a 1-Kilometer Scale

Weather forecasting is notoriously wonky - climate modeling even more so.

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Your Heart Health in Middle Age Could Predict Your Later Dementia Risk <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/heart-.jpg" alt="Your Heart Health in Middle Age Could Predict Your Later Dementia Risk"/>Organs don't work in isolation.

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Your Heart Health in Middle Age Could Predict Your Later Dementia Risk

For generations, medicine treated the heart and brain as separate domains.

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There's One Critical Thing You Can Do to Keep Alzheimer's Symptoms at Bay <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Deep-sleep-Alzheimers_header-.jpg" alt="man having a cat scan"/>Start tonight.

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There&#039;s One Critical Thing You Can Do to Keep Alzheimer&#039;s Symptoms at Bay

Deep sleep could forestall the declines in brain health that can eventually lead to Alzheimer&#039;s disease, the most common form of dementia.

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Microscopic Engine Hotter Than The Sun Probes Limits of Physics <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/bright-light.jpg" alt="Microscopic Engine Hotter Than The Sun Probes Limits of Physics"/>What even is this.

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Microscopic Engine Hotter Than The Sun Probes Limits of Physics

A tiny, particle-sized engine that runs at temperatures approaching the innermost core of the Sun could open a window into the smallest extremes of...

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The world&#039;s number one science news website has a new way for you to experience the latest in discovery, technology, and innovation – we&#03...

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Ancient Chinese Medicine Ingredient Restored Healthy Fat Metabolism in Diabetic Mice <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/diabetes_berry_header-.jpg" alt="red berries on a bush"/>A fundamental health reset.

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Ancient Chinese Medicine Ingredient Restored Healthy Fat Metabolism in Diabetic Mice

A berry used in traditional folk medicine holds a remarkable power to restore healthy fat metabolism as well as insulin sensitivity in a diabetes m...

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Alzheimer's May Hijack Your Cells' Clocks, Hinting at New Treatments <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/BrainClock.jpg" alt="Paper clock in the shape of a head"/>Time is of the essence.

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Alzheimer&#039;s May Hijack Your Cells&#039; Clocks, Hinting at New Treatments

The daily rhythm of genetic activity varies between individual cell types in ways that depend on their states of health, a recent study has found, ...

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Study Links Gum Disease With White Matter Damage in The Brain <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/WhiteBrain.jpg" alt="White brain floating in mid air with shadow on white background"/>Healthy mouth, healthy brain?

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Study Links Gum Disease With White Matter Damage in The Brain

Poor health in one part of the body often leads to problems elsewhere.

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Coffee Study Challenges Advice on Common Heart Condition <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/coffee_heartbeat_header-.jpg" alt="coffee pouring into a mug with a heart on it"/>A major rethink.

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Coffee Study Challenges Advice on Common Heart Condition

Coffee is associated with increased alertness and faster heart rates, so people with atrial fibrillation – the most common irregular heartbeat c...

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Sweeping Tooth Fillings Ban Will Change Dentistry Around The World <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/dental_fillings_ban_header-.jpg" alt="coloured x-ray image of dental fillings in teeth"/>"A safer future for all communities."

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Sweeping Tooth Fillings Ban Will Change Dentistry Around The World

Countries agreed Friday to phase out the use of mercury-based dental amalgams in tooth fillings by 2034, in a move that will change dentistry aroun...

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Our Brains Evolved Powerful Mechanisms To Protect Our Weight <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Brain-is-wired-to-keep-fat-.jpg" alt="person standing on a set of scales"/>We evolved to 'remember' times of plenty.

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Our Brains Evolved Powerful Mechanisms To Protect Our Weight

For decades, we&#039;ve been told that weight loss is a matter of willpower: eat less, move more.