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A study claims that C-sections are driving human evolution — but don't get...
If a newborn baby is too large or a woman's pelvis too narrow, it can be dangerous or deadly.In theory, these are the sorts of characteristics that evolutionary pressures might make less common over...
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Most forensic science is bogus
Forensic science has become a mainstay of many a TV drama, and it’s just as important in real-life criminal trials. Drawing on biology, chemistry, genetics, medicine and psychology, forensic evidence...
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Paris just made all public transportation free to decrease some of the worst...
When most people think about air pollution, they tend to imagine rapidly developing cities such as Delhi and Beijing.But urban areas in the Western world are equally having to deal with increasing...
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There's a lot we don't know about sexual reproduction
Sex is everywhere.Ads. Tinder. "Game of Thrones." Flowers in a garden.But just because we see it everywhere doesn't mean that we can definitively explain why it's everywhere.Sexual reproduction is a...
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There's no such thing as an alpha male
Eric Trump recently suggested that when his father, Donald Trump, bragged about grabbing women's genitals without consent, it was an example of "two alpha guys in a thing."In addition to shedding some...
View ArticleHere's one type of pimple you should pay attention to
Pimples can be unsightly and irritating, but Google search after Google search urges us to leave them alone. However, ingrown hairs can cause inflammation and bumps – and these kinds of blemishes...
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Here's what it's actually like to be colorblind
When you look at that blob above, what do you see?I don't see much of anything — just a bunch of reddish-brownish-greenish circles. (Ask me to tell you which ones are which and I'd have to think for a...
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Keeping your nights dark can provide a massive health boost
Today most people do not get enough sleep. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has called insufficient sleep an epidemic. While we are finally paying attention to the importance of...
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A deep-sea fisherman in Russia has been posting his nightmarish finds on Twitter
We like to say we know less about the ocean here on Earth than we do about the surface of Mars, because while we have a vague idea of its overall structure, we’ve only properly seen less than 0.05% of...
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Why You Wake Up With A Crick In Your Neck — And How To Avoid It
If you've never woken up unable to turn your head without pain, those of us with an intimate understanding of the term "crick in the neck" are extremely jealous.But why does it happen? Why are there...
View ArticleHere's why some men have red beards but not red hair
Scientists have figured out the specific gene mutation responsible for red hair — and why it's more common in beards than on heads.Follow BI Video: On TwitterJoin the conversation about this story »
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A surprising factor in the extinction of the dinosaurs may have been how long...
Approximately 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid or comet smashed into the Earth near what we now think of as the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. On the other side of the world, in India, at a place...
View ArticleHere’s why the new human organ everyone’s talking about is so important
Two researchers — Dr. Calvin Coffey and Dr. Peter O'Leary — are forever changing the way we understand an important tissue in the human body called the mesentery. In a recent study, Coffey and O'Leary...
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Your appendix might serve an important biological function after all
One of the first things you learn about evolution in school is that the human body has a number of 'vestigial' parts— appendix, wisdom teeth, tailbone — that gradually fell out of use as we adapted to...
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A supplement maker tried to silence a Harvard doctor — and put academic...
The dietary supplements had ominous names, like Black Widow and Yellow Scorpion. They contained an illegal and potentially dangerous molecule, similar in structure to amphetamines.But when a Harvard...
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A type of vampire bat has started feeding on humans in Brazil for the first...
Many mammals — like humans — can easily survive on a broad diet, getting nutrition from whatever plants or animals happen to be available and seem most delicious at the time.But some other creatures...
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Here's the science behind why it's so hard to maintain eye contact when...
Why do you glance off to the side when you speak? It's like you're trying to pull a word out of some blank space in the distance.Breaking eye contact mid-sentence is a strange habit, but almost...
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If you think you're too old to get fit, check out this record-breaking...
Many people take it as a given that after a certain point in our lives, we lose strength.Sure, if you never ran until your 40th birthday and then trained for a marathon over the next few years, you...
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How telling people about the side effects of a drug can make them sick
The phrase "First, do no harm"doesn't actually appear in the text of the Hippocratic Oath, yet it's frequently considered a fundamental principle of medicine.At the same time, we believe firmly in the...
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This GIF shows what a baby can see every month for the first year of its life
LONDON — Despite being able to appreciate art, fake cry and understand basic physics, it takes infants years to see clearly.Mr Romesh Angunawela — a consultant eye surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital in...
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