Category: 7. SciTech

At each stage in our lives, we dwell in a certain corner of social media – and the 40-plus mums around the table at my Friday morning coffee club are no exception.

Our feeds, once filled with parenting hacks and recipe boxes, are now awash with anti-bloat capsules and menopause…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost. You may end up spending too much…

Around the world, women outlive men by an average of around 5.4 years. A distinction in life expectancy between sexes is surprisingly common among other mammals, too, though it’s not fully understood why.

An international research team has now uncovered the evolutionary roots of this…

That annoying flicker in your eyelid? It’s usually nothing to worry about. Known as myokymia, this harmless twitch is linked to tiredness, stress, caffeine or screen time. 

Sometimes women wonder if it’s hormonal, but while hormonal shifts in perimenopause can cause muscle tension, anxiety…