Our Skin Is Covered With Invisible Stripes
Let the zebras and tigers have their stripes. Humans have our own—they're called Blaschko's Lines.
Let the zebras and tigers have their stripes. Humans have our own—they're called Blaschko's Lines.
When you cut your skin, your body knows exactly what to do in order to heal the pesky wound as fast as possible. Eventually, a brownish rust colored scab forms over the cut. But what is a scab made of, and why do they just fall off?
The uvula is one of the weirdest looking features of the human body. Yet despite its infamy, scientists have spent centuries puzzling over its function.
The phenomenon has been studied for centuries.
Last week, a study by Chinese and American scientists revealed another reason to not pee in pools, which had more to do with chemistry than good manners.
The funny bone is actually the ulnar nerve, a nerve that runs from the neck all the way to the hand.
Some people are like homing pigeons: Drop them off anywhere, and they’ll find their way around. Other people, though, can’t tell when they’re holding a map upside down. Are the directionally challenged just bad learners? Or are some of us just lucky to be
If you’ve got a receding hairline, don’t be so quick to blame it on your baseball caps or your grandpa.
A couple of months into their development, fetuses begin peeing freely into the amniotic fluid that surrounds them in the womb.
When you speak, vibrations from your vocal cords resonate in your throat and mouth, and some get transmitted and conducted by the bones in your neck and head. The inner ear responds to these just like any other vibrations, turning them into electrical sig
Nope. Fortunately, your lungs are too large to fit through your trachea, so they’re not going to come flying out of your mouth. However, they don’t necessarily stay where they belong.
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.
Blushing is an involuntary reaction that seems to serve no purpose beyond making an embarrassing situation even worse.
Possibly the only thing worse than morning breath is the alarm clock itself, but no amount of brushing, flossing, or stinging mouthwash rinsing the night before seem capable of saving you from the stinking scourge. What gives?
Ethylene glycol is syrupy, odorless, and sweet-tasting, which makes it easy to mix into coffee, tea, soda, and juice drinks undetected.
Depending on who you ask, ingested creepy crawlies can vary from three, to eight, and even zero.
Last year, we talked about whether or not Grandma is right when she tells you to bundle up when you go outside, lest you catch a cold. We went over the fact that the cold and flu are caused by viruses, but that there was a little bit of evidence suggestin
It worked for Lance, so why wouldn’t it work for you?
What is it that makes a “midnight snack” so irresistible? Short answer: blame your ancestors.
Luckily for us, our bodies have procedures to counter the sun our bodies absorb.
There's a major difference between your body and your environment.
Despite urban legends claiming that waking a sleepwalker will send them into shock or give them a heart attack, it’s pretty much harmless. While you can wake them up, you probably shouldn’t, and that’s for both your benefit.
Head shrinking is rumored to have occurred all over the world, but documented only among a few indigenous South American tribes living in Peru and Ecuador. How do you take a flesh-and-bone head and shrink it?