The Secrets of Extreme Breath Holding
Adults Biology
Humans can hold our breath longer than we think by taking advantage of our body’s innate survival instincts - and then ignoring them.
What Happens If Your Stomach Gets Removed?
Adults Biology
Can you survive without a stomach? What happens when your stomach is gone?
The wild world of carnivorous plants
Adults Biology
Venus fly traps, bladderworts and sundews, oh my! Learn about carnivorous plants and their predatory antics to lure, trap and digest prey.
How to biohack your cells to fight cancer
Adults Biology
Check out the science of biohacking, where biologists go into a patient’s genetic code and reprogram their immune system to recognize and fight cancer cells.
What Happens When You Go To Sleep High?
Adults Biology
Dude. Sleeping high does what?
Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields?
Adults Biology
Research has found some human brains can pick up on rotations of geomagnetic-strength fields as evidenced by drops in alpha wave power following stimulus.
You Are A Fish
Adults Biology
With our current understanding of evolutionary history and our strategy of cladistic naming, if we wanted to have both goldfish and sharks under a single group called "fish", then mammals must also be called fish.
What Happens When You Freeze To Death?
Adults Biology
Good reason to stay inside during this Polar Vortex!
Could A Plant Grow Inside You?
Adults Biology
Plants can live in all kinds of environments...even inside the your body?
Aliens under the Ice – Life on Rogue Planets
Adults Biology
Out in the vast coldness of outer space, there are planets that travel alone through darkness without the boundaries of a system. Here’s how this can happen – and why these frozen deserts might secretly harbor alien life.
Can animals be deceptive?
Adults Biology
A male firefly emits a series of enticing flashes. He hopes a female will respond and mate with him.
Do Fish Pee?
Adults Biology
You know you’ve wondered. Do fish actually pee? And what does that make the ocean… one big toilet?
Why Is The Very Hungry Caterpillar So Dang Hungry?
Adults Biology
Because it's hoarding protein. Not just for itself, but for the butterfly it will become and every egg that butterfly will lay. And it's about to lose its mouth... as it wriggles out of its skin during metamorphosis.
Non-Invasive Brain Surgery
Adults Biology
Scientists have combined ultrasound, viruses and synthetic drugs to control regions of the brain.
What If You Only Ate Chips?
Adults Biology
What if you only consumed potatoes forever?
Can We Get Older Without Aging?
Adults Biology
Nothing is guaranteed in life except death, taxes, and entropy. What do other life forms have to teach us about staying alive as we get old, and will we ever conquer death?
Why Are Fewer People Getting Appendicitis?
Adults Biology
There are many other unforeseen health changes that seem to be related to the forces of modernization, like the increase in rates of diabetes, Crohn’s disease, and ADHD.
Why is meningitis so dangerous?
Adults Biology
In 1987, thousands of people gathered in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage. But what started out as a celebration led to a worldwide health crisis: more than 2,000 cases of meningitis broke out, spreading across Saudi Arabia and the rest of the world.