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A familiar sky rediscovered. 🔗 sciencealert.com/mysterious-…
Social tile: Mysterious Star Pattern in Famous Van Gogh Painting Solves a Century-Old Debate

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We need more research. 🔗 sciencealert.com/a-common-su…
A Common Supplement Displays a Concerning Link to Heart Failure

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We've seen these effects before. 🔗 sciencealert.com/herpes-viru…
Herpes Virus Appears to Hijack The Brain's Immune Cells, And It Could Have Serious Consequences

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There were bones and teeth. 🔗 sciencealert.com/scientists-…
Scientists Dug Into a Weird Patch on The Seafloor. They Unearthed a Watery Grave

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A timeline transformation. 🔗 sciencealert.com/new-fossil-…
New Fossil Confirms a Human Ancestor Appeared 200,000 Years Earlier Than Expected

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Less oxygen, better movement. 🔗 sciencealert.com/low-oxygen-…
'Low-Oxygen' Drug Combination Reverses Parkinson's Symptoms in Mice

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And it could get much worse. 🔗 sciencealert.com/one-quarter…
One-Quarter of Data Centers Are Located in Water-Stressed Areas, Study Shows

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"People who had more exposure to clinical obesity over decades had worse brain health." 🔗 sciencealert.com/obesity-lin…
Obesity Linked to Twice The Volume of Brain Abnormalities, Study Finds

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"We had to bring the salt marsh to the storm." 🔗 sciencealert.com/scientists-…
Scientists Transplanted 306 Square Meters of Wild Salt Marsh Into The World's Largest Wave Machine And Let a Simulated Extreme Storm Rip

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Annihilation free, baby! 🔗 sciencealert.com/physicists-…
Physicists Trapped a Particle of Antimatter And Kept It Caged For Months

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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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