We've Been Misreading a Major Law of Physics For 300 Years : ScienceAlert When Isaac Newton inscribed onto parchment his now-famed laws of motion in 1687, he could have only hoped we’d be discussing them three centuries […]

Scientists Discover Brain Circuit That Could Explain How Placebos Ease Pain : ScienceAlert Placebos offer the tempting possibility of pain relief without drugs or surgery, largely relying instead on expectations that pain will go away. As […]

Study Uncovers How Much Exercise You Need Weekly To Control Your Blood Pressure When it comes to exercise for heart health, you don’t want to peak too early in life. Recent research suggests that if you want to protect […]

Bumblebees: New Study Reveals Their Impressive Cooperative Skills For the second time this year, bumblebees have stepped up to scientists’ tests and shown that they can solve cooperative tasks that transcend […]

Most Precise Measure Ever Brings Us Closer to Knowing The 'Ghost' Particle's True Mass : ScienceAlert The resting mass of ghostly neutrinos is one of the most sought-after quantities in particle physics that scientists are one step closer to […]

Quantum Computing: Quantum Information Produced, Stored, And Retrieved The potential of quantum computing is immense, but the distances over which entangled particles can reliably carry information remains a massive […]

3,000-Year-Old Pottery Reveals Trade Networks in Australia Long Before Colonization Dozens of broken pieces of pottery dating between 2,000 and 3,000 years old have been unearthed on a windswept island on the Great Barrier Reef […]

Bacteria Responsible For Acne Were Genetically Modified to Treat It Instead : ScienceAlert Zits are the pits, shattering anyone’s confidence in a radiant pustule of pain. So the idea that the same bacterium thought to cause acne could […]

Study Reveals How Virus May Trigger Multiple Sclerosis : ScienceAlert Epstein-Barr virus, a common virus that infects most people at some point in their lives, has long been suspected as a trigger of multiple […]