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Something Really Cool Happens When You Use Banana Peel as an Ingredient
Every time you peel a banana and dispose of the skin, you're throwing away a tasty, nutritious snack.
Pasta Is Healthier Than You Think, And It's Even Healthier as Leftovers
New year, new you, new diet.
We've Never Found Anything Like The Solar System. Is It a Freak in Space?
Since the landmark discovery in 1992 of two planets orbiting a star outside of our Solar System, thousands of new worlds have been added to a rapidly growing list of 'exoplanets' in the Milky Way…
ScienceAlert on Chronic Pain
Chronic Pain Has 9 Distinct Types, According to a Large New Body Mapping Study
The relentlessness of chronic pain wears you down. Beyond being a physical distraction in and of itself, it disrupts sleep, interferes with work and relationships, and can even alter the way we…
ScienceAlert on Psychedelics
Scientists Engineered a Bacterium That Poops Out Huge Amounts of Psilocybin
Scientists have found a new way to harvest psilocybin, the psychedelic compound typically found in mushrooms. They've engineered bacteria to produce psilocybin in their cells and poop it out, in gram…
ScienceAlert on Quantum Entanglement
Quantum Entanglement Has Now Been Directly Observed at a Larger Macroscopic Scale
Quantum entanglement is the binding together of two particles or objects, even though they may be far apart โ their respective properties are linked in a way that's not possible under the rules of…
ScienceAlert on Science
Humans Generate an 'Oxidation Field', And It Changes The Air Chemistry Around Us
There are all kinds of pollutants in the air around us.
Physicists Discover a New Way to 'See' Objects Without Looking at Them
Ordinarily, to measure an object we must interact with it in some way.
ScienceAlert on Space
Scientists Created a Black Hole in The Lab, And Then It Started to Glow
A new kind of black hole analog could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by the real thing.
Researchers Generated an Entire Virtual Universe, And You Can Even Download It
Astronomy is a bit different from many sciences because you only have a sample size of 1. The cosmos contains everything we can observe, so astronomers can't study multiple universes to see how our…
«The Uchuu simulationย is the largest and most detailed simulation of the Universe ever made. It contains 2.1 trillion 'particles' in a space 9.6 billion light-years across. The simulation models the evolution of the Universe across more than 13 billion years»
ScienceAlert on Time
Scientists Just Discovered an Entirely New Way of Measuring Time
Marking the passage of time in a world of ticking clocks and swinging pendulums is a simple case of counting the seconds between 'then' and 'now'.
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The Human Mind Is Not Meant to Be Awake After Midnight, Scientists Warn
In the middle of the night, the world can sometimes feel like a dark place. Under the cover of darkness, negative thoughts have a way of drifting through your mind, and as you lie awake, staring at…
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Eating Late Can Change How You Burn Calories And Store Fat, Depressing Study Finds
A new study suggests eating later in the day can directly impact our biological weight regulation in three key ways: through the number of calories that we burn; our hunger levels; and the way our…
An AI Just Independently Discovered Alternate Physics
Grab any physics textbook and you'll find formula after formula describing how things wobble, fly, swerve and stop. The formulas describe actions we can observe, but behind each could be sets of…
Weight Lifting in Old Age Does More Than Just Keep Your Muscles Strong
New research into weight lifting has revealed two insights: that the practice is able to strengthen the connections between nerves and muscles, and that this strengthening can still happen in the…
Want Better Sleep? This One Piece of Advice Seems to Work For Almost Everybody
Many people struggle to get enough good quality sleep.
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