Category: 7. SciTech

Anxiety is a complex and common mental health condition impacting millions worldwide. It affects people in different ways, with some individuals finding anxiety overwhelming and interfering in their everyday lives.

How can you spot when it becomes a problem? And what causes anxiety in the first…

Sexual desire is often confused with both libido and arousal. These three terms are usually spoken about and used interchangeably but are rarely fully understood.

Libido is commonly used to describe sex drive, but its usually seen to be binary – so its either high or low. Arousal is the…

A major review involving more than 62,500 adults suggests that following certain diets could cut your risk of cognitive decline in old age by as much as 40 per cent.

Scientists at Shandong University in China analysed 15 studies of people over 60 and found that those following the Mediterranean…

Per Shiffman and Wester, an “overwhelming majority” of respondents said that Bluesky has a “vibrant and healthy online science community,” while Twitter no longer does. And many Bluesky users reported getting more bang for their buck, so to speak, on Bluesky. They might have a lower…

Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have unearthed a remarkable set of 11,500-year-old carved stone animals – a fox, a vulture, and a wild…

Personality traits, such as psychopathy and narcissism are replacing the old notion of ‘evil’.

It’s hard to think of acts more despicable than the brutal attacks, kidnappings, rapes and murders carried out by the psychopath Ted Bundy, for example. Especially as when he faced justice for…

The verifiably oldest ever person in the world is Jeanne Louise Calment, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days old. 

It’s incredible to imagine what Calment and today’s supercentenarians (people who are 110 years old or older) have witnessed in their lifetimes. Just think what it…