Cephalopods like squids may be as close to an alien intelligence as we'll ever know, with a diverse evolutionary lineage from ...

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) – previously known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease – affects around 30 percent of the global population and, as the name suggests, ...

When you picture lightning, it tends to be fairly straightforward – a jagged gash of light that splits the sky, disappearing ...

A new preprint study involving both macaque monkeys and humans suggests that the brain may be switching back and forth ...

The Southwestern US is in an ongoing megadrought that began in 2000, largely driven by overconsumption of water and climate change.

Humans and chimpanzees are remarkably similar, despite the major differences in how our societies have panned out.

A significant amount of Alzheimer's research is looking at ways to tackle the harmful clumps of amyloid-beta protein that ...

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig failed catastrophically, leading to the largest oil spill in the history of Earth's ...

Rebecca Dyer is the Assistant Editor at ScienceAlert. She holds a Bachelor of Medical Science with majors in neuroscience and ...

The Kondo effect is one of the most important in quantum physics, describing the strange interference that magnetic atoms can ...

Many things scattered throughout the Milky Way flicker, glow, and pulse in idiosyncratic ways. From the staccato static of a ...

Known as Truk Atoll back then, it was the site of Japan's main naval base in the South Pacific Theater during World War II.