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…
“[The clutch] is like 1950s technology—it’s really boring,” Westerman said (“boring,” for grid operators, is the highest form of praise). “The marginal cost of putting this in is like nothing compared to the cost of the plant.”
A company called SSS has built these clutches for…
Europe’s wild bees and butterflies are facing an escalating extinction crisis, a new conservation assessment has warned, prompting urgent calls…
Therapies to alter behaviour could be the most effective first step to cure irritable bowel syndrome, more than existing go-to treatments, a…
