Category: 9. Sci/Tech

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,…

If you’ve watched the movie KPop Demon Hunters and see the word “golden”, what happens?

Pause and think about it for a moment.

For those unfamiliar, nothing will come to mind. But if you’ve heard the song of the same name, you may start hearing…

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…

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…

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…