Category: 7. SciTech

Scientists have uncovered what is believed to be a vast, hidden freshwater aquifer stretching along the US East Coast, from New Jersey to…

A total lunar eclipse “blood moon” was visible from parts of the UK on Sunday evening.

The country’s stargazers got the chance to see the…

High blood pressure is a major health concern, increasing the risk of heart disease, stroke and kidney problems. As a GP, I’m often asked how to manage it, and my advice always includes exercise. But how much is enough?

A 2021 study followed over 5,000 adults for 30 years, shedding light on…

We all stink some of the time, when bacteria get stuck in the sweat produced by our apocrine glands.

The problem is that our senses can become accustomed to common smells, even the dodgy ones. It’s called nose blindness or olfactory fatigue.

It’s the reason you can’t smell your dog in the…

The cause of death of two young pterosaurs that had baffled researchers has been revealed by paleontologists in Germany in what they have…

Dinosaur life wasn’t all peaches and cream before the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth. Some were plagued by much smaller dangers long before.

A new study has found evidence that a potentially deadly bone disease endangered the lives of numerous long-necked dinosaurs in what is now Brazil,…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.

Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them will doom most forms of…

The liquid state of matter requires a relatively narrow range of temperature and pressure to exist. Put simply, as pressure is lowered, the boiling and freezing (or melting) points of matter begin to converge.

In space, where the pressure is essentially (but not quite) zero, these transition…