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It's 🔬 time again....Instant noodles? Big Bird's feathers or Velcro 🔬. Wrong answers highly encouraged.

We're playing for kudos and good feels again, so what do you think this is?

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Inside a Krabby Patty? Jungle gym padding?

Happy 🔬 Monday Microscope Mystery! We're playing for kudos and good feels again, so what do you think this is?

Wrong answers highly encouraged

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🔬 Monday Microscope Mystery is back — guesses belowIt branches.

It grows. And those tiny spheres are an important clue. But what exactly are you looking at?

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Happy Monday! Time for our weekly guessing game: what do you think this is? 🔬

Tiny alien landscape? World's fanciest lasagna? Secret headquarters for dust bunnies?

Best guess in the comments 👇

Answer drop tomorrow 4 August 2026.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 8

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Monday's here, and so is your weekly existential crisis: what are you looking at? 🔬 Zoom in. Add your best guess below, we issue bragging rights tomorrow.

4 weeks ago | [YT] | 3

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From penis-fencing worms to ballroom birds, nature makes human courtship seem positively prudish. Check out our new article on the love rituals of the animal kingdom for a taste of truly weird wooing.

www.sciencealert.com/valentines-day-the-weirdest-l…

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A study published in 2025 by the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified a turning point at which aging accelerates, with signs of rapid change appearing in the biochemistry of various tissues, especially blood vessels.

Around which age did they find this occurs?

8 months ago | [YT] | 9

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Man Keeps Rock For Years, Hoping It's Gold. It Turned Out to Be Way More Valuable.

In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia. Here's the incredible story about his prize discovery.

Read more: www.sciencealert.com/man-keeps-rock-for-years-hopi…

8 months ago | [YT] | 15

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Which exercise gives you the best night's sleep according to a 2025 meta-analysis of 30 randomized controlled trials?

9 months ago | [YT] | 8

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Tinnitus and sleep may be connected in the brain

Those who have never endured the relentless ringing of tinnitus can only dream of the torment. In fact, a bad dream may be the closest some get to experiencing anything like it.

The subjective sound, which can also be a hissing, buzzing, or clicking, is heard by no one else, and it may be present constantly, or may come and go.

Neuroscientists at the University of Oxford now suspect that sleep and tinnitus are closely intertwined in the brain.

Read more to learn about the latest research: www.sciencealert.com/tinnitus-is-somehow-linked-to…

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