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Smithsonian : Ask Smithsonian: What’s the Longest You Can Hold Your Breath? A dive into the science shows it is possible to override t...

Slow-Mo Video: How Food Is Eaten -- Popular Science Saveur assistant editor Anna Stockwell is a woman of many talents -- she cooked a whole ...

Sititng. CREDIT: Dreamstime Sitting Is Deadly, Mounting Research Reveals -- Live Science Did you hit the gym today? If so, you probably feel...

Never Stop Sweating Jetportal is Jeffrey Montes on Flickr FYI: How Much Can A Human Body Sweat Before It Runs Out? -- Popular Science It all...

Participants in a University of Florida study use ankle weights to increase strength and balance. Researchers say muscle deterioration is a ...

Not quite as fast as the speed of light (Image: Seiko Press Service / Getty) From New Scientist: Last year, Usain Bolt stunned athletics fan...

Tapio Videman is a researcher in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine. (Credit: Photo courtesy the University ...

From The Telegraph: Loneliness can increase blood pressure if you are over 50, according to a new university study. Lack of connection with ...

From ABC News: New Study on 'Neuroplasticity' Shows How Quickly Brain Adapts When Sight, Hearing Cut Off. Four bikers headed off dow...

The human gut: home to numerous species of unknown microbes. Science Photo Library From The Independent: Scientists have decoded the DNA of ...

Image: The human gut is a virtual zoo, full of a wide variety of bacteria, a new study found. And scientists say that's a good thing. Th...

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From Times Online: It is popularly known as the selfish hormone, which courses through male veins to promote egotistical and antisocial beha...

From Live Science: The human body may be equipped with a separate sensory system aside from the nerves that gives us the ability to touch an...

From Science Daily: Science Daily (Nov. 29, 2009) — How does our biological system know that it is supposed to operate on a 24-hour cycle? S...

From Live Science: We not only hear with our ears, but also through our skin, according to a new study. The finding, based on experiments in...

From Future Pundit: High cholesterol isn't as dangerous as a combination of obesity, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar (insulin ...

Serge Bloch From The New York Times: If you’ve ever had a problem with rodents and woken up to find that mice had chewed their way through t...

Largest and smallest species of eyelid geckos appear here in proportion, though somewhat smaller than life size. Credit: Zuzana Starostová ...

From BBC: Our internal body clocks are shaped by the weather as well as by the seasons, scientists have discovered. Researchers used compute...