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'Lost City' Deep Beneath The Ocean Is Unlike Anything Seen Before on Earth <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/LostCityCover_2026.jpg" alt="False color image showing underwater terrain of a 'lost city'"/>Now that we've found it, we can't afford to lose it.

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&#039;Lost City&#039; Deep Beneath The Ocean Is Unlike Anything Seen Before on Earth

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom.

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Scientists Identify Brain Waves That Define The Limits of 'You' <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/Brain-You.jpg" alt="Scientists Identify Brain Waves That Define The Limits of 'You'"/>Where to draw the line?

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Scientists Identify Brain Waves That Define The Limits of &#039;You&#039;

At what point do "you" end and the outside world begins? It might feel like a weird question with an obvious answer, but your brain has to work sur...

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Starfish Control Hundreds of Feet Without a Brain. Here's How. <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/common-starfish-tube-feet.jpg" alt="underside of a common starfish, showing its many pale orange tube feet, on a blue background"/>These tubes are made for walkin'.

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Starfish Control Hundreds of Feet Without a Brain. Here&#039;s How.

Starfish (aka sea stars) are master climbers.

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3 Hidden Signs You're Grinding Your Teeth, According to Experts <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/Woman-in-Pain-with-Toothache-1200x675.jpg" alt="A woman holding her jaw and grimacing"/>Here's what you can do about it.

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3 Hidden Signs You&#039;re Grinding Your Teeth, According to Experts

Day or night, many of us grind or clench our teeth, and don&#039;t even realise we&#039;re doing it.

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Shrews Can Shrink Their Brains by 30%. Here's How They Grow It Back. <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/eurasian-shrew.jpg" alt="a small brown shrew is about 1/3 of the size of the blue-gloved human hand it is sitting on."/>It's what's inside that counts.

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Shrews Can Shrink Their Brains by 30%. Here&#039;s How They Grow It Back.

In preparation for winter, the common shrew (Sorex araneus) shrinks its brain by 30 percent to conserve precious energy.

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How Do Sinkholes Happen, And Can We Predict Them? <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/sinkhole_header.jpg" alt="sinkhole in a parking lot"/>Something is going on in Philadelphia.

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How Do Sinkholes Happen, And Can We Predict Them?

In early January, a giant sinkhole formed at an intersection in the West Oak Lane neighborhood of North Philadelphia after a water main break.

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This Week in Science: A Cannabis Standard Measure, Bizarre Lifeforms, And More! <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/prototaxites_header.jpg" alt="Mysterious Giants Could Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists"/>Our weekly science news roundup.

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This Week in Science: A Cannabis Standard Measure, Bizarre Lifeforms, And More!

This week in science: Scientists propose new standard measures for cannabis use; mysterious ancient lifeforms don&#039;t comfortably fit on the tre...

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Ever Felt 'Hangry'? Scientists Now Know The Surprising Reason Why <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/hangry-woman.jpg" alt="hangry woman"/>Hunger alone doesn’t make you grumpy, but something else does.

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Ever Felt &#039;Hangry&#039;? Scientists Now Know The Surprising Reason Why

"Come on, little fella – we should get going now." But my son was not listening.

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Study Reveals How Much Exercise You Need Weekly To Control Blood Pressure <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/Young-person-running-over-a-rainy-parking-lot--1200x675.jpg" alt="High angle view of a runner's legs and their reflection in the water of a parking lot"/>You can do this.

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Study Reveals How Much Exercise You Need Weekly To Control Blood Pressure

When it comes to exercising for your heart&#039;s sake, you don&#039;t want to peak too early in life.

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Scientists May Have Found a Blueprint to Revive Old Cells <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/FibroblastTissue.jpg" alt="Dense fibrous connective tissue"/>A cell reset?

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Scientists May Have Found a Blueprint to Revive Old Cells

Many of the body&#039;s processes slow down or falter as we get older, including tissue regeneration.

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Peptide Treatment Protects Brains After Stroke, Mouse Study Finds <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/RedBrain.jpg" alt="Medical 3D illustration of a man with stroke symptoms"/>This could improve recovery rates.

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Peptide Treatment Protects Brains After Stroke, Mouse Study Finds

When someone is affected by a stroke, the standard treatment to restore blood flow to the brain can both save their life and cause additional damag...

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The US Is Bracing For a Major Winter Storm. Here's Where It Hits First. <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/People-walk-through-the-snow-in-Brooklyn.jpg" alt="People walking under a bridge in snowy weather"/>About 160 million people could be affected.

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The US Is Bracing For a Major Winter Storm. Here&#039;s Where It Hits First.

ATLANTA (AP) – Bread was flying off the shelves, salt was being loaded into trucks, and utility workers nervously watched forecasts Thursday as a...

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Earthquake Sensors Detect Sonic Booms From Incoming Space Junk <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/shenzhou-module.jpg" alt="Earthquake Sensors Detect Sonic Booms From Incoming Space Junk"/>They can hear it screaming through the sky.

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Earthquake Sensors Detect Sonic Booms From Incoming Space Junk

Scientists have just found a new way to track the uncontrolled reentry of falling space junk.

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Strange Metal From Beyond Our Planet Spotted in Ancient Treasure Stash <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/The-Treasure-of-Villena2026.jpg" alt="A collection of jewellery and other artifacts made of gold"/>More precious than gold.

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Strange Metal From Beyond Our Planet Spotted in Ancient Treasure Stash

Amidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects might be the most precious of all.

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Ancient DNA Reveals Twisted Roots of Syphilis Go Back 5,500 Years <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/Syphilis.jpg" alt="Ancient DNA Reveals Twisted Roots of Syphilis Go Back 5,500 Years"/>It's been with us for a while.

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Ancient DNA Reveals Twisted Roots of Syphilis Go Back 5,500 Years

The first known outbreak of syphilis in Europe began at the turn of the 16th century, but on the distant continent of South America, the pathogen&#...

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Giant Kangaroo Fossils Reveal a Surprise About How They Moved <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/kangaroo-hop.jpg" alt="Giant Kangaroo Fossils Reveal a Surprise About How They Moved"/>This isn't what we thought.

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Giant Kangaroo Fossils Reveal a Surprise About How They Moved

The image of kangaroos hopping their way across the Australian outback is iconic – and it turns out it might have been an even more impressive si...

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The Real AI Risk Isn't Mass Unemployment, Economist Warns <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/AI-helper.jpg" alt="The Real AI Risk Isn't Mass Unemployment, Economist Warns"/>Here's what's happening instead.

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The Real AI Risk Isn&#039;t Mass Unemployment, Economist Warns

People have become used to living with AI fairly quickly.

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Suni Williams Retires After Record Space Career And Final Ill-Fated Mission <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/SuniWilliamsOnDarkBackground.jpg" alt="Suni Williams smiling"/>A "trailblazer in human spaceflight."

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Suni Williams Retires After Record Space Career And Final Ill-Fated Mission

A NASA astronaut who was stuck in space for nine months because of problems with her spacecraft has retired after 27 years of service, the space ag...

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Mysterious Giants Could Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/prototaxites_header.jpg" alt="Mysterious Giants Could Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists"/>It’s like nothing around today.

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Mysterious Giants Could Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists

Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible ...

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Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging, Study Finds <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/TEMOfVaricellaZosterVirus.jpg" alt="A reddish colored virus particle seen under a microscope"/>The possibilities!

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Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging, Study Finds

Vaccines may do far more than prevent infections.