The unique and powerful visualization above, from the team at Our World in Data, highlights how many humans have ever lived, and how much of humanity is currently alive today. Quantifying Our Ancestors How many humans came before us? This is the question demographers like Toshiko Kaneda and Ca...
Like other species, we are the products of millions of years of adaptation. Now we're taking matters into our own hands.
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In other words, it jumped from one species to another. So begins the story of AIDS — perhaps. The tale of the "cut hunter" is just a theory, but it's considered one of the most plausible scenarios for how a simian immunodeficiency virus jumped from chimps to humans and became HIV. ...
How Alive are Tendons? Metabolic and Circulatory Activity Associated with Exercise in Humanscollagenprostaglandinbradykininmicrodialysisachilles tendonSummary The prelims comprise: Introduction Methods and results Clinical relevance and significance Future directions Acknowledgements...
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in the retina. the eye is a direct window onto the brain. nose. these are little bones that come off the nose, they're called turbinates, lined with specialized sensory epithelium. as we age, we're losing many of those cells in our olfactory nerve. we lose the smallest cells in the...
There's no doubt this is a long play. We won't be getting back to the moon until at least 2024. And while billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos want to turn humans into amultiplanetary speciesand have usliving in floating space colonies, that won't happen any time soon. ...
Tuning into the rhythms of nature feeds the soul and makes us come alive. It issues a powerful reminder that we are all part of something bigger, giving a fresh sense of perspective of our place in the world. “Today, our biggest problem is that we have separated ourselves from nature –...
Whereas humans have tissues that can regenerate and heal themselves, zombies do not. Their wounds, no matter how mild or severe, are permanent. Imagine, if you will, a paper cut that not only doesn't heal but actually becomes wider and deeper by the day. As the flesh continues to divide...