The Orionid Meteor Shower Is About to Peak in a Moonless Sky : ScienceAlert
One of the most spectacular meteor showers in Earth’s skies is about to peak, and the observing conditions…
China Brought Something Unexpected Back From The Far Side of The Moon : ScienceAlert
Dust from the far side of the Moon has yielded an unexpected microscopic treasure we’ve never seen before.…
Embryo-Like ‘Blood Factories’ Could One Day Supplement Donations : ScienceAlert
Clusters of cells grown in the lab have been encouraged to produce human blood stem cells in a…
Scientists Just Discovered a Whole New Type of Connection Between Neurons : ScienceAlert
Super-resolution microscopes have revealed a whole new type of connection between neurons in mouse and human brains. In…
Losing Your Teeth Could Be a Deadly Warning, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
How fast we lose teeth in old age has been linked to a person’s risk of dying in…
Rare New Form of Diabetes Is Unique to Babies, Scientists Report : ScienceAlert
Scientists have identified a single gene that gives rise to a rare form of diabetes, unique to newborn…
Scientists Caught Sperm Ignoring A Major Law of Physics : ScienceAlert
Human sperm can swim through surprisingly viscous fluids with ease – and they seemingly defy Newton’s third law…
Older Men’s Sperm Carry More Mutations, And They May Turn Harmful : ScienceAlert
Potentially harmful DNA mutations can amass in men’s sperm as they age, new research has found, which may…
Male Brains Shrink Faster Than Female Brains, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
New evidence has found that male brains really may shrink faster than female brains with age. Among 4,726…
A Hidden Earth-Size World Could Lurk Far Closer Than ‘Planet Nine’ : ScienceAlert
A newly discovered warp in the outer Solar System may have been created by a small, rocky world,…