Your kitten is in the kitchen. She’s about to step on the hot cooker. You have only seconds to act. Accessing the signals coming from your eyes, your brain quickly calculates when, where, and at what speed you will need to leap to stop her. Then it orders your muscles to spring in...
Hands. One of the most important parts of your body. Seriously—how would you manage without them? As hand therapists, we have an intimate relationship with hands, working with thousands of hands every year. There are so many facts about human hands that keep us in awe of this critical bo...
Amazing Facts 神奇的事实Lemons can have more sugar than strawberries.People lose up to 100 hairs a day.Seeing the colour red can make your heart beat faster.About three quarters of our brain is water.Humans can make 1,000 different facial expressions.More men are colour-blind than women.基础...
strengths comes from the rich diversity of people. People who struggled to get here, or who struggled because they were forced to come here. America is still a young country, and like all nations, has had growing pains. How much do you know about its struggles, its people, and its ...
The answer is our brains.The human brain is a fantastic body part that controls everything from your breathing to your memories and imagination.Below are several more surprising facts about this natural supercomputer.The brain does not fully grown until age 25. Scientists have discovered that ...
10 amazing scientific facts about lists People like lists of things. They're everywhere on the internet. You name any subject matter you can think of, odds are there's a list about it. Nowhere is safe. Even here, on the Guardian Science section, one of the most popular articles in rece...
If you didn't have a tongue, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between gourmet cheese and envelope glue. But tasting is only icing on the cake when it comes to what this organ can do. Here are five amazing facts about the tongue. ...
tells us is that they crawl along the ocean floor with their heads poking out in front of them like snails while propelling themselves with jets of water shot out through their feet (which you might know as tentacles). This article will explore some of the more amazing facts about ...
Some amazing facts about India and Indians. India was an economically powerful region until the time of British invasion in the 17th Century
A vast amount of what we know about the brain has come from things going wrong. One of the most famous cases is that ofPhineas Gage. He was known as a responsible, upstanding worker. But when an accident at work caused a metal rod to go through his skull, the damage to his frontal ...