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Fragments of DNA left by viruses that infected our distant ancestors may be 'firestarters' for new human life, new research finds.

6 months ago sciencealert.com biology

NASA's X-59 Quiet Supersonic Jet Just Aced Its First Flight

5 months ago sciencealert.com engineering flight nasa

Scientists have identified a single gene that gives rise to a rare form of diabetes, unique to newborn babies

6 months ago sciencealert.com biology diabetes

A strange new phase of ice has been discovered during experiments with the world's largest X-ray laser

6 months ago sciencealert.com physics

Unexpectedly, X-rays reveal Betelgeuse's binary companion is a young, Sun-like star

6 months ago sciencealert.com astronomy

Cancer treatment has come a long way, but many of today's therapies still come with steep costs: not just financial, but physical and emotional too.

5 months ago sciencealert.com cancer physics

About 66 million years ago, a herd of herbivorous dinosaurs succumbed to drought – tragically, just hours or days before heavy rains fell.

5 months ago sciencealert.com anthropology

Earth was a broiling mass of lava and rock before it took the form that it has today, and scientists have for the first time discovered traces of that very early 'proto Earth', hidden away in the deepest and oldest rocks on our planet.

5 months ago sciencealert.com anthropology earth

A strange gamma-ray glow emanating from the heart of the Milky Way could be the long-sought fingerprint of dark matter particles annihilating each other, evidence suggests.

5 months ago sciencealert.com anthropology

New study identifies a link between changes in brain shape and declines in cognitive functions, such as memory and reasoning.

6 months ago sciencealert.com brain neuroscience