In the animal kingdom, there aren’t many of us with large brains. Besides humans, only whales and dolphins, elephants, and semi-aquatic mammals like seals, sea lions, and walruses have large brains relative to their size. Primates closely related to us, like chimpanzees and gorillas, surprisingly do not.
If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
What’s the easiest way to export an illegal drug? Export a slight variation of that drug.
On May 17, sources confirmed that the legendary rock singer Chris Cornell had died. Millions of people grieved his loss.
Today (Apr. 24), as almost 40,000 runners laced up their sneakers and made their way to the start line of the London Marathon, British astronaut Tim Peake wished his fellow runners good luck before beginning the race himself, 249 miles above the Earth.
With proper treatment, HIV is no-longer the imminent death sentence it once was. This means that patients with HIV are living longer than ever before—long enough to contract age-related illnesses.
Alpine cheeses may have been one of our obsessions for over 3,000 years.
At any given time, you’re only about half your human self.
Sugar is easy to find in most of the things you eat—if you’re familiar with the more than 50 aliases it uses.
This week, researchers from the Danish Meteorological Institute had to double-check their instruments to make sure they were working properly. It was hard to believe that 12% of the Greenland ice sheet was melting this early in the year; the previous record was set in 2010 when 10% of the ice sheet was melting in May.
The Zika virus definitively causes brain damage and microcephaly, a congenital birth defect in which infants are born with abnormally small heads and brains, according to the US Centers for Disease Control.
Ian Burkhart relished his independence as much as any other college freshman. But after a diving accident on a beach vacation with friends, he lost his ability to take care of himself at even a basic level. Burkhart broke his neck and damaged his spinal cord in a way that left him with limited mobility in his shoulders, and unable to move his hands and lower extremities. He was 19.
Decades ago, people cut down trees in the Los Tuxtlas rainforest in Mexico to make room for pastures.
In comic books, superheroes can fly or read minds, but for most of us, not getting sick would be pretty heroic.
When we think about our weight it’s often tied to how much fat we have in our bodies.
Skin is our largest organ, our first line of defense against infections, and our temperature regulator. But because it does so many vital jobs, it’s difficult to recreate in the lab for patients who may need it for skin grafting.
Even if you’ve gotten enough rest, if your nearby coworker yawns there’s a good chance you will, too.
The operating room is not a quiet place. There’s the sound of surgeons talking, the beep of the heart rate monitor, and then there might be the vocal stylings of a pop artist.
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Diseases like thyroid cancer, type-1 diabetes, and HIV, are extremely difficult to detect in the early stages. But that might be about to change.
Teachers and scientists know that sometimes it’s easier to use pictures to explain complicated concepts rather than words.
There may be a simple way to manufacture the soothing effects of the great outdoors.
To sit or to stand? That is the question. At least around the office, where standing desks have become popular in recent years.
Promising to avoid synthetic and processed ingredients in products is difficult.
