Many aspects of our world, from the body mass of creatures in the animal kingdom to the population of cities across the globe, follow an intriguing mathematical pattern. Known as Zipf's law, the rule ...
July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded. It could even be the hottest month in human history. That heat has tested the limits of our very bodies to tragic effect: In 2003, an estimated 70,000 ...
The next best thing to real human cadavers rolled into the Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences this fall. Drawings in textbooks, PowerPoint presentations and online videos combined ...
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An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...
From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’t decompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human biology It can sometimes feel like health ...