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When researchers kept jumping spiders awake at night, the spiders caught up on sleep in a surprisingly familiar way. Learn more: sciencealert.com/spiders-can…
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A single dose of a toad venom psychedelic appeared to ease difficult-to-treat depression for weeks, but one expert has doubts. Learn more: sciencealert.com/scientists-…
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Carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has climbed higher than at any point in the last 2 million years. Learn more: sciencealert.com/global-warm…
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A small study found estrogen alone kept bone density stable after menopause, while adding testosterone boosted it in one spot. Learn more: sciencealert.com/testosteron…
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Something in this dead star's atmosphere soaks up other colors, leaving a ghostly green glow behind. Learn more: sciencealert.com/astronomers…
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Mice with Parkinson's-like symptoms moved better on a drug combo that limits something our brains depend on. Learn more: sciencealert.com/low-oxygen-…
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For patients still cancer-free six months into treatment, this personalized melanoma vaccine worked even better. Learn more: sciencealert.com/world-first…
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Women in a small study reported feeling psychedelics more strongly than men, and blood tests ruled out one possible explanation. 🔗 sciencealert.com/women-appea…
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Leftover coffee grounds could make concrete up to 30 percent stronger, once they go through one extra step. 🔗 sciencealert.com/scientists-…
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A squid-like creature from Jurassic Wyoming had the thickest body part of any belemnite known so far. 🔗 sciencealert.com/scientists-…
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A merchant shipwrecked off Australia in 1629 may have used the same playbook seen in toxic workplaces today. 🔗 sciencealert.com/the-worlds-…
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Lab experiments suggest excess RNA can damage one particular part of human cells, even before the immune system is activated. 🔗 sciencealert.com/too-much-rn…
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The Sun's corona is hundreds of times hotter than its surface, and lasers could help explain some of that heat. 🔗 sciencealert.com/scientists-…
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Speaking out loud can widen your pupils about as much as high-intensity cycling does. 🔗 sciencealert.com/talking-ins…
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Something has been moving uranium to the surface of mine waste that supposedly lay undisturbed for more than 80 years. 🔗 sciencealert.com/uranium-was…
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A possible culprit hiding around the urethra could help explain the most common prostate problem in men over 50. 🔗 sciencealert.com/scientists-…
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Imagine a clock whose hands run both ways at once. A preprint suggests a 2018 experiment already showed the quantum version. 🔗 sciencealert.com/physicists-…
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Squid can edit their RNA instructions without changing their DNA. In theory, that allows close to 10²⁴⁸ protein variants. 🔗 sciencealert.com/squid-are-e…
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Fatty liver disease affects around 30 percent of people. It may be five conditions, and genetics plays a significant role in one. 🔗 sciencealert.com/common-live…
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When the Colorado runs low, people turn to groundwater. The Upper Basin lost roughly 4.6 trillion gallons of it in one drought. 🔗 sciencealert.com/as-water-cr…
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