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Almost $100 Billion Worth of Rare Earth Elements May Be Buried in The US <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/rees-art.jpg"/>Hiding in plain sight.

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Almost $100 Billion Worth of Rare Earth Elements May Be Buried in The US

The waste left over from spent fossil fuel may contain a treasure trove of rare-earth elements worth billions of dollars.

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Red Hair Gene Could Explain Why Some Wounds Never Heal <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/eye-red-hair.jpg" alt="Red Hair Gene Could Explain Why Some Wounds Never Heal"/>A mysterious link emerges.

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Red Hair Gene Could Explain Why Some Wounds Never Heal

Millions of people around the world live with wounds that simply won&#039;t heal.

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A Single 30-Minute Exercise Session Has an Immediate Antidepressant Effect <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/happy-jog.jpg" alt="A Single 30-Minute Exercise Session Has an Immediate Antidepressant Effect"/>Ugh, your mom was right.

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A Single 30-Minute Exercise Session Has an Immediate Antidepressant Effect

A single, half-hour session of moderate exercise is enough to confer an immediate mood-boosting effect, and now scientists have figured out why.

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This Common Drug Seems to Fight One of The Deadliest Brain Cancers <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/brain-cancer.jpg" alt="brain cancer"/>Solving a 70-year-old mystery.

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This Common Drug Seems to Fight One of The Deadliest Brain Cancers

Hydralazine has been used to treat high blood pressure for many decades, even though it&#039;s never been exactly clear how it works.

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'Supergiant' Gold Deposits Could Be Worth Over US$80 Billion <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Huge-Chunks-of-Gold.jpg" alt="Closeup of big gold nugget, with multiple nuggets in background"/>A monumental discovery.

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&#039;Supergiant&#039; Gold Deposits Could Be Worth Over US$80 Billion

Two large gold deposits discovered in China may hold a collective mass of over 2,000 metric tons (2,200 US tons) of the precious material – the ...

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Astronomers Found a Star That Makes No Sense <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/impossible_star_header.jpg" alt="artist's impression of a black hole and red giant star"/>It shouldn't exist.

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Astronomers Found a Star That Makes No Sense

Studying the light from stars tells us their temperature, composition, age, and evolutionary state.

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Mexico Reveals 314-Petaflop Supercomputer Named After Aztec Goddess <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Supercomputer-Visual-Close.jpg" alt="Illustration of servers in a data center, to represent breaking news about a high tech supercomputer being built"/>7× more powerful than any other in Latin America.

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Mexico Reveals 314-Petaflop Supercomputer Named After Aztec Goddess

The Mexican government will build a supercomputer with a processing capacity seven times greater than the current most powerful computer in Latin A...

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Scientists Pinpoint One Key Molecule Behind Exercise's Anti-Aging Power <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Woman-stretching-arms-into-air-on-a-beach.jpg" alt="Woman stretching arms into air on a beach at sunrise. To illustrate news that scientists found a molecule that simulates exercise benefits for slowing aging"/>"Potential for developing 'exercise in a pill' to promote healthy aging."

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Scientists Pinpoint One Key Molecule Behind Exercise&#039;s Anti-Aging Power

We know exercise is good for us, but scientists are still figuring out why, at the most fundamental and molecular level.

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Super-Rare 'Hybrid' Blood Type Discovered in Just 3 People <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/blood-vial-screen.jpg" alt="blood vial screen"/>Who else might have this?

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Super-Rare &#039;Hybrid&#039; Blood Type Discovered in Just 3 People

An investigation into why blood doesn&#039;t always behave as doctors expect has revealed a super-rare mutation in an extremely uncommon variation ...

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Scientists Restore Aging Blood Stem Cells to a More Youthful State in Mice <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Stem-cells-in-dish-held-by-gloved-hands-.jpg" alt="Scientist holding stem cells in a multiwell tray"/>A new approach to tackling age-related blood disorders.

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Scientists Restore Aging Blood Stem Cells to a More Youthful State in Mice

Deep within your bone marrow, a specialized set of stem cells is busy pumping out new blood cells to sustain your body.

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Easter Island's Biggest Mysteries Finally Have Answers <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/EasterIslandRapaNuiMoaiStatueCloseUpSunset.jpg" alt="Close up of Rapa Nui's (Easter Island's) Moai statue in front of colorful sky"/>"Even entrenched mysteries yield to methodical investigation."

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Easter Island&#039;s Biggest Mysteries Finally Have Answers

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma.

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Your Brain Goes Through 5 Distinct Epochs, Massive Study Finds <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/TurningPoints.jpg" alt="Your Brain Goes Through 5 Distinct Epochs, Massive Study Finds"/>Here's when to expect them.

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Your Brain Goes Through 5 Distinct Epochs, Massive Study Finds

The human brain is not a hard-wired machine but a malleable organ that is regularly re-shaping itself.

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Study Links Tattoos to 29% Higher Risk of Dangerous Skin Cancer <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/tattos_skin_cancer_header.jpg" alt="Man showing arm tattoos"/>The evidence is mounting.

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Study Links Tattoos to 29% Higher Risk of Dangerous Skin Cancer

Can tattoos protect your skin from the sun&#039;s harmful rays, or do they make things worse? A new study I conducted with colleagues suggests ther...

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Scientists Reveal What Black Friday Is Doing to Your Brain <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/black_friday_brain_header.jpg" alt="graphic of a brain with sparking energy"/>It's a psychological event.

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Scientists Reveal What Black Friday Is Doing to Your Brain

Every November, Black Friday arrives with big claims of massive savings and "one-day-only" deals.

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NASA Recorded Lightning Crackling on Mars For The First Time <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/mars-lightning.jpg" alt="NASA Recorded Lightning Crackling on Mars For The First Time"/>Zzzzap!

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NASA Recorded Lightning Crackling on Mars For The First Time

A lonely rover toiling among the sands of Mars has now answered an age-old question: If lightning crackles on the red planet and no one hears it, d...

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Scientists Reveal Turning Point When Your Body's Aging Accelerates <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Little-Girl-and-Senior-Woman-with-Faces-Pressed-Together-.jpg" alt="Close up showing the eyes of a young child and an elderly person, with their faces pressed side to side"/>Brace yourself.

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Scientists Reveal Turning Point When Your Body&#039;s Aging Accelerates

The passage of time may be linear, but the course of human aging is not.

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Supplement For High Blood Pressure Clears Signs of Alzheimer's in Mice <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/supplement_AD_plaques_header.jpg" alt="illustration of a neuron in blue tones"/>Safe and low cost.

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Supplement For High Blood Pressure Clears Signs of Alzheimer&#039;s in Mice

A build-up of sticky proteins in the brain is a key hallmark of Alzheimer&#039;s, thought to be closely linked to the disease&#039;s progression.

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First-of-Its-Kind Treatment Boosts Vision in Human Trial, Scientists Report <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/age-related-macular-degeneration-1.jpg" alt="First-of-Its-Kind Treatment Boosts Vision in Human Trial, Scientists Report"/>Closer to a cure.

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First-of-Its-Kind Treatment Boosts Vision in Human Trial, Scientists Report

Taking a photo of a friend? You&#039;ve probably got their face centered and focused.

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'Hidden' Volcanoes Pose The Greatest Threat to The World, Scientists Warn <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/Volcano-eruption-seen-from-space.jpg" alt="Volcano eruption seen from space, showing a huge white blob coming out of a crater"/>One just erupted after 12,000 years.

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&#039;Hidden&#039; Volcanoes Pose The Greatest Threat to The World, Scientists Warn

The next global volcanic disaster is more likely to come from volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely monitored than from the likes of famous ...

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Lions Have Two Distinct Roars, And One Could Aid in Their Survival <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/lion_roaring_header.jpg" alt="wild lion roaring"/>They're more complex than we thought.

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Lions Have Two Distinct Roars, And One Could Aid in Their Survival

The roar of an African lion is one of the most iconic sounds of the animal kingdom.