Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3 am and wonder if something’s wrong. It might help to know that this is a deeply human experience.

For most of human history, a…

At BBC Science Focus, we love a good invention – the weirder, wackier and more wonderful, the better (bonus points if it’s actually useful, too).

So, while exploring GITEX Global, and Expand North Star – one of the world’s largest…

If you’ve ever looked something up on Wikipedia (and who hasn’t?), there’s a fair chance you’ve read the work of Steven Pruitt. Known online by his operatic pseudonym ‘Ser Amantio di Nicolao’, Pruitt has made more than six million edits…

A newly discovered protein from Earth’s toughest animal is inspiring breakthrough therapies for cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Tardigrades, often called water bears or moss piglets, are microscopic creatures that can survive just about…

Protein has long been hailed as a crucial supplement for anyone pursuing health. From building muscle to boosting metabolism or keeping hunger at bay, protein is the latest badge of health in a long line of dietary obsessions that once included…

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Fueled by unusually warm waters, Hurricane Melissa this week turned into one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded. Now a new rapid…

But in some ways, the proof was a bit unsatisfying. Jitomirskaya and Avila had used a method that only applied to certain irrational values of alpha. By combining it with an intermediate proof that came before it, they could say the problem was…

Mr Olympia Arnold Schwarzenegger has long been a vocal advocate for the importance of sleep. “You grow,” he says, “when you sleep, not when you train.” Professional athletes often follow strict sleep programmes designed around their…