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Watch Plasma Erupt in Full Color Inside a Fusion Reactor at 16,000 FPS
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Plasma born of heavy hydrogen blooms into brilliant pink, roiling and writhing around the doughnut-shaped chamber. Then, tiny grains of lithium tumble into the maelstrom, sparkling like scarlet fairy dust before bursting into streaks of vivid green-yellow light. Thanks to cutting-edge camera technology, we can watch this process in action as the plasma heats up inside Tokamak Energy's ST40 machine. Read on to find out more – and follow ScienceAlert for news that sparks your curiosity.
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Astronomers May Have Found a World in The Habitable Zone of The Hottest Star Yet
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Astronomers may have just made another milestone discovery in the search for intrinsically intriguing worlds: the hottest star to potentially host a habitable-zone planet, a giant world named HD 156295 b. Read on to find out more – and follow ScienceAlert for news that sparks your curiosity.
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Popular Supplement Could Have an Unexpected Downside, Study Finds
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"Fish oil supplements are everywhere, and people take them for a range of reasons, often without a clear understanding of their long-term effects," says neuroscientist Onder Albayram of Medical University of South Carolina. "But in terms of neuroscience, we still don't know whether the brain has resilience or resistance to this supplement. That's why ours is the first such study in the field." Read on to find out more – and follow ScienceAlert for more evidence-based health news.
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A Hidden Compound in 'Healthy' Plant-Based Foods May Be Fueling Gut Inflammation
ScienceAlert - David Nield
Some of the healthiest plant-based foods on the menu – including spinach, beetroot, rhubarb, almonds, and sweet potatoes – could be linked to …
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Physicists Find a Superconductor That 'Breaks' The Symmetry of Time – A First For Its Kind
ScienceAlert - Ivan Farkas
Under certain conditions – such as bone-brittling temperatures lower than that of deep space – superconductors can conduct electricity without …
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Revolutionary Feathered Dinosaur Discovery in China Suggests Flight Evolved Multiple Times
ScienceAlert - Jess Cockerill
An exquisitely preserved feathered raptor just discovered in north-eastern China could probably fly. It's also somewhat disrupted the evolutionary …
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High Blood Pressure May Directly Accelerate Osteoarthritis
ScienceAlert - David Nield
Osteoarthritis, where the cartilage in a joint gradually erodes away and leads to the painful friction of bone-on-bone, is the leading cause of …
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Physicists Quantum-Entangled a Levitating Speck of Glass With Light at Room Temperature
ScienceAlert - Michelle Starr
A new window into the quantum realm has just been opened by a single microscopic grain of glass levitating in a beam of light. In what may be the …
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A Vast Hole Almost The Size of Portugal Opened Up in Antarctica's Winter Sea Ice. Now We Know Why.
ScienceAlert - Jess Cockerill
Every winter, Antarctica roughly doubles in size as sea ice locks into place over the ocean. Typically, Breid Bay in East Antarctica is entirely …
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Nine Patients Received a Personalized Kidney Cancer Vaccine. None Had a Recurrence.
ScienceAlert - Esra Öz
How do you teach the immune system to recognize a cancer cell? Researchers are taking clues from the tumor itself, selecting unusual protein fragments …
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One of The World's Most Used Drugs May Lower Dementia Risk – But There's a Catch
ScienceAlert - Carly Cassella
One of the most widely used drugs in the world could help reduce dementia risk when taken daily – but only for some. An analysis of a large randomized …
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A Black Hole Could Spit Itself Out of Its Own Hair, Leaving a Boson Star Behind
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"We found a new way in which a hairy black hole can decay," the researchers told ScienceAlert. "The composite object separates into two independently viable objects: a black hole without hair and a self-gravitating lump of scalar matter: a boson star." Read on to find out more – and follow ScienceAlert for news that sparks your curiosity.

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Astronomers May Have Found a World in The Habitable Zone of The Hottest Star Yet

Popular Supplement Could Have an Unexpected Downside, Study Finds

Watch Plasma Erupt in Full Color Inside a Fusion Reactor at 16,000 FPS

A Black Hole Could Spit Itself Out of Its Own Hair, Leaving a Boson Star Behind

Popular Joint Supplement Linked to 25% Higher Dementia Risk

The Age You Reach Menopause May Be Linked to Your Future Brain Health

IBM Quantum Computer Does in 19 Seconds What Could Take a Supercomputer 110 Yrs

Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually

Record-Breaking Schrödinger's Cat Made From The Weirdest Atoms in Physics

Popular Supplement Increases Strength Even Without Exercise, Study Shows

2 New Stick Insect Species Found in Australia. One Was in Plain Sight.

Your Eyes Could Reveal How Fast You're Aging, Nearly 30,000 Scans Suggest

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Watch Plasma Erupt in Full Color Inside a Fusion Reactor at 16,000 FPS

Astronomers May Have Found a World in The Habitable Zone of The Hottest Star Yet

Popular Supplement Could Have an Unexpected Downside, Study Finds

A Black Hole Could Spit Itself Out of Its Own Hair, Leaving a Boson Star Behind