Category: 7. SciTech

The woman long blamed for her role in the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is getting a modern makeover.

The Spanish called her Marina,…

A New Orleans family clearing their overgrown garden made an astonishing discovery: beneath a tangle of weeds lay a mysterious marble tablet…

Switching to a high-fat diet containing foods such as fish, berries and nuts could help improve brain health in people at an increased risk of…

A recent study of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has detected several organic compounds that had never been recorded there before. The findings, published this month in Nature Astronomy, provide new clues about the interior chemical composition of this icy world, as well as new hope that it…

Clubbed fingers – where the tips become bulbous and nails curve downward – can be a subtle sign of underlying disease. They can be associated with low oxygen levels in the blood over time. 

While heart disease is one possible cause, particularly congenital heart defects or infective…

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…