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A face built from 315,000-year-old bones. It would not stand out in today's crowd. But compare the fossil's ancient braincase to the modern-looking face, and something doesn't add up. 🔗 sciencealert.com/scientists-…
Scientists Have Reconstructed The Face of The Oldest Known Homo Sapiens, And It Looks Very Familiar

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No external clock. Thirty vibrations per second spontaneously fell into one synchronized wave across an entire structure. The asymmetry that drove the self-organization was built right into each unit. 🔗 sciencealert.com/a-strange-n…
A Strange New Time Crystal Emerges From Synchronized Vibrations

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One night of sleep. One ECG lead. AI trained on 16,000 patients found heart failure risk up to 133 percent higher in those whose hearts showed subtle shifts during the lightest sleep stage. 🔗 sciencealert.com/the-way-you…
The Way You Sleep Can Reveal Your Risk of Heart Failure Up to 10 Years in Advance

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One in four depressed people feel like they're perpetually jet-lagged. It's a distinct brain subtype — and standard antidepressants often don't work for it. What does is something most doctors haven't considered. 🔗 sciencealert.com/researchers…
Researchers Identify New ‘Circadian’ Subtype of Depression Affecting 1 in 4 Patients

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Squeezable leg cuffs, timed to your heartbeat. Seventy-eight percent of early Alzheimer's patients improved after six months. The reason may come down to blood flow — and how little the brain gets. 🔗 sciencealert.com/this-heart-…
This Heart Treatment From The 1970s Could Also Improve Memory in Alzheimer's Patients

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Eighty years in an Austrian library. Physicists just found a three-page Schrödinger manuscript he never published — and it reveals his true position on quantum reality was not what most people believed. 🔗 sciencealert.com/a-lost-schr…
A Lost Schrödinger Manuscript Reveals a Surprising Twist in Quantum Physics

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Your cat's calm may be yours, too. Owners with higher oxytocin tended to have cats with higher oxytocin — and less anxiety. How petting plays into this link is still unclear. 🔗 sciencealert.com/cats-and-th…
Cats And Their Owners Seem to Share A Weird, Hormonal Connection

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One in nine heavy ultraprocessed food eaters showed silent brain vascular injury on MRI. No symptoms. But the association nearly vanishes with one small change to how the diet is measured. 🔗 sciencealert.com/eating-more…
Ultraprocessed Food May Be Silently Damaging Your Brain's Blood Vessels

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Water clings to a hotspot on tau proteins. When it's released, they lock into disease-spreading fibrils. Covering the hotspot stopped the process. That makes it a potential drug target for Alzheimer's. 🔗 sciencealert.com/water-may-b…
Water May Be a Hidden Trigger Behind The Spread of Alzheimer's in The Brain

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Not inert. Microplastics in water spontaneously generate hydroxyl free radicals — warping red blood cells and clumping proteins in human bodily fluids. The surprising cause is why the water-repellent ones do the worst damage. 🔗 sciencealert.com/microplasti…
Microplastics Are Chemically Active, And Could Cause Biological Harm

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Eight billion snow crabs. A marine heatwave later, only 1 billion remained. In 2025, hybrids surged 13.4 times above historical numbers. What enabled their takeover was tied to the collapse. 🔗 sciencealert.com/in-2025-tra…
In 2025, Trawlers Suddenly Started Pulling Up Rare Hybrid Crabs in Record Numbers in The Bering Sea. Now We Know Why

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Old blood cells became 60 years younger in 50 days. Scientists converted them directly into brain stem cells — no middle step. The surprising part is what they used to trigger the transformation. 🔗 sciencealert.com/old-blood-c…
Old Blood Cells Have Been Transformed Into Brain Stem Cells That Get Younger As They Age

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A Patrick Star lookalike went viral during a live-streamed deep-sea expedition off Argentina. Two weeks later, researchers named 57 new species from the same trip. Every single copepod they checked was one. 🔗 sciencealert.com/viral-deep-…
Viral Deep-Sea Expedition Found a Real-Life Patrick From SpongeBob, And 57 New Species

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We're in 'cosmic lockdown'. 🔗 sciencealert.com/the-univers…
The Universe Seems to Be Stuck in Place by a Strange Quantum Phenomenon

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ADHD is more serious than it sounds. 🔗 sciencealert.com/adhd-drugs-…
ADHD Drugs May Reduce The Risk of Early Death, Major Study Finds

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The gut is the body's 'second brain' after all. 🔗 sciencealert.com/probiotics-…
Probiotics May Protect From Signs of Early Cognitive Decline, Clinical Trial Finds

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Just keep going. 🔗 sciencealert.com/how-many-st…
How Many Steps a Day Does It Take to Sharpen Your Attention? A 14-Year Study Hints at The Range

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Whee! 🔗 sciencealert.com/giant-phant…
Giant 'Phantom' Jellyfish Found With Entourage of Fishy Passengers Hitching a Ride

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Relief without the steroids. 🔗 sciencealert.com/a-saline-in…
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It was predicted 20 years ago. 🔗 sciencealert.com/new-form-of…
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