It turns out the human body has a sort of junk drawer, too. We have a number of body parts that served an important purpose for our distant ancestors but are essentially useless now, yet continue to ...
Across parts of the Persian Gulf coast, South Asia and the American Southeast, a narrow band of extreme humid heat is now testing a physical limit that scientists once treated as a distant, worst-case ...
The human body fights staph infections by starving it of essential nutrients. Staph, it turns out, is remarkably good at changing what's on the menu. Staphylococcus aureus—the infamous agent behind ...
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The investigative minds at How to Survive analyze physics, biology, and real-world cases to determine whether the human body can survive a fall without a parachute. One common type of physical ...
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