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When Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Beijing in September 2025, he told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that repeated organ transplants might make a person "get younger" and even live to 150

14 days ago sciencealert.com china health

A species of shark never before documented killing humans has now done so, devouring a swimmer in a chilling first.

13 days ago sciencealert.com health

Dust samples from moon's far side show debris from rare, water-rich meteorites

19 days ago sciencealert.com astronomy

It rains on the Sun, the gigantic thermonuclear orb that burns with the multi-million-degree 'fires' of fusion

14 days ago sciencealert.com health

The glow-in-the-dark bats you're hanging to decorate for Halloween might be more biologically accurate than you thought

13 days ago sciencealert.com health

Superagers retain sharp minds into their 80s and beyond, defying the idea that cognitive decline is inevitable as we age

15 days ago sciencealert.com health

Reducing cholesterol levels might not just be good for your heart; they might also be effective at reducing your risk of dementia, according to a comprehensive meta-analysis involving close to a million participants.

17 days ago sciencealert.com health

Physicists Predict When The Universe Will End in a Reverse Big Bang

31 days ago sciencealert.com physics universe

A discovery about Saturn's moon Titan has challenged what scientists thought was a basic rule of chemistry

17 days ago sciencealert.com astronomy

Study of 15,000 blood samples shows a rise in antibiotic-resistant superbugs in newborn babies

27 days ago sciencealert.com health

Flatworms can regenerate from almost any fragment – even a severed head can grow itself a whole new body in a matter of days

25 days ago sciencealert.com

Scientists Invented an Entirely New Way to Refrigerate

14 days ago sciencealert.com

For people with abnormally high blood sugar levels, losing weight is often proposed as the primary approach to preventing full-blown diabetes from developing

18 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology diabetes

The Southern Ocean has been dutifully gobbling up a century's worth of carbon dioxide and heat released by human activities, but when we finally let go of our fossil fuel habit…

13 days ago sciencealert.com health release

Strange, sinuous gullies etched into the dunes of Mars are finally giving up their secrets

14 days ago sciencealert.com health

For the first time, astronomers have seen life's building blocks in ice beyond the borders of our galaxy.

15 days ago sciencealert.com health

A new analysis of 51 fossilized hominid teeth found lead has haunted us for almost 2 million years – but modern human brains seem better equipped to deal with it than Neanderthals.

24 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology

Mosquitoes have been discovered in Iceland in a first for the island nation, which has long been one of the world's mosquito-free places, a researcher told AFP Monday.

18 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology

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

33 days ago sciencealert.com biology

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

10 days 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

20 days ago sciencealert.com biology diabetes

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

25 days ago sciencealert.com physics

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

24 days 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.

15 days 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.

16 days 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.

18 days 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.

17 days ago sciencealert.com anthropology

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

27 days ago sciencealert.com brain neuroscience

A specific subset of children with autism may experience positive outcomes from taking memantine, a drug used to slow Alzheimer's disease, according to the results of a small clinical trial.

39 days ago sciencealert.com autism disease neuroscience trial

Microplastics May Be Tied to Vascular Dementia Cases

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