
BIOLOGY
Most of these home remedies work by overwhelming the vagus nerve, which causes hiccups when it becomes irritated, with another sensation.
Let’s part the underpants-shaped veil surrounding urination information. Let’s learn about peeing.
If you’ve got a receding hairline, don’t be so quick to blame it on your baseball caps or your grandpa.
From the conjoined livers from a pair of Siamese twins to slides of Albert Einstein’s brain, Philadelphia's Mütter Museum houses dozens of strange artifacts from medical history.
At this invisible line, two related species of millipedes meet, but don’t mix—and no one knows why.
A couple of months into their development, fetuses begin peeing freely into the amniotic fluid that surrounds them in the womb.
According to forest rangers who were led to a hilltop grow site by under-the-influence animals in Italy, deer who’ve consumed marijuana plants are “unusually frisky” and “abnormally high-spirited.” This got us wondering what kind of effect marijuana had o
Some entomologists, the scientists that study insects, have a work life that presents a challenge: they’ve devoted their careers to creepy-crawly animals, work with them every day, sometimes get up close and personal with them and are maybe even fond of t
If you ever noticed an odd smell when around your grandparents, you're not alone. Like other body odors, this “old person smell” is produced when chemicals from the skin glands get broken down into small odorous molecules that waft away into the air.
The fruits and veggies in your crisper right now might look pretty dead, but they’re actually still alive—and they’re keeping track of time.
There are many surgeons who say that they first discovered their life’s passion standing over a dissected frog in a middle or high school biology class. But, apart from inspiring the medical professionals of tomorrow, what is the purpose of dissection? An
There's a major difference between your body and your environment.
Large animals tend to live longer than smaller ones. But this isn't the case for most breeds of dog. What gives?
In 2008, an international team of scientists was trudging through the forests of Vietnam’s Bidoup-Nui Ba National Park when they found a frog they didn’t recognize. Actually, no one recognized it, at least not formally. It was new to science and the speci
There are plenty of intrepid scientists doing strange-sounding field work. Here are two.
Why did the meerkat cross the road? To get to the other side. How did the meerkat cross the road? Like a chicken.