Most of us have heard the one about if you cross your arms over your chest you’re feeling defensive or if you’re fiddling with your hair while talking you feel nervous – but is...
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Surprising New Evidence Suggests Volcanoes Are Still Erupting on Venus : ScienceAlert
We have exciting new evidence that Venus is geologically active. Using radar images taken by the Magellan spacecraft during the early 1990s, scientists have found a volcanic vent that changed shape and grew over...
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Evolution Could Predate Life Itself, Protein Discovery Suggests : ScienceAlert
Scientists have carefully simulated conditions on Earth in the earliest part of its history, some 4.6 billion years ago, hoping to unlock a greater understanding of how amino acids brought the first ingredients for...
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Air Pollution Is Making Human Bones More Brittle, Study Suggests : ScienceAlert
A new study reports on a worrying link between higher levels of air pollution and faster bone loss through osteoporosis, a chronic skeletal condition that makes bones more fragile, and likely to break. The...
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Oldest Stone Tools Ever Found Were Not Made by Human Hands, Study Suggests : ScienceAlert
Archaeologists have revealed what could be the oldest stone tools ever found, and they think someone other than our closest Homo ancestors may have made them. Unearthed in 2016 at Nyayanga, Kenya, on the...
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Pets Help to Protect Your Brain as You Get Older, Study Suggests : ScienceAlert
Sometimes what’s good for your heart is also good for your brain. A recent study of US adults over 50 found that those who owned a pet for more than five years scored better...
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The Origins of Binary Black Holes May Be Hidden in Their Spins, Study Suggests : ScienceAlert
In a recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysical Letters, a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used various computer models to examine 69 confirmed binary black holes to help...
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Jawbone Discovery Suggests Modern Mammals Originated in The Southern Hemisphere : ScienceAlert
It has taken over two decades and one pandemic for paleontologists to unite the fossilized remains of the earliest mammal ancestors and find that their evolution which gave rise to modern humans, may have...
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Wild New Paper Suggests We Could Detect Gravitational Waves From Alien Megacraft : ScienceAlert
The question of whether intelligent alien life exists out there in the broader Milky Way galaxy could be answered by gravitational waves. According to a new paper penned by an international group of scientists...
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Attila The Hun Attacked Rome to Save His People From Starvation, New Study Suggests : ScienceAlert
It seems the Huns may not have been the cut-throat barbarians who had an “infinite thirst for gold”, as suggested by some classical historians. A new study reconstructing climate data from tree rings suggests...
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