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Scientists at the Pasteur Institute discovered a molecule in our own mouths capable of blocking pain with astonishing efficacy and without causing addiction.
Health and wellness
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To maintain transparency and allow clear vision, the eye dispensed with capillaries and absorbs gas dissolved in the tear film.
Health and wellness
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Your body performs an automatic double inhalation every five minutes to keep your lungs from deflating and to calibrate your nervous system.
Health and wellness
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Science shows that emitting a simple vocal hum ventilates the paranasal sinuses, neutralizes pathogens, and optimizes cellular oxygenation.
Science and technology
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Microscopic nanobots designed to repair tissues and fight diseases
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The human body's most resilient muscle and its secrets of longevity
Health and wellness
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Discover how the AIRE protein recreates a library of your entire body to eliminate lymphocytes capable of attacking you by mistake.
Nature
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With sonic pulses reaching 236 decibels underwater, sperm whales use the spermaceti organ as an acoustic cannon capable of stunning prey and vibrating living tissue.
Health and wellness
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With a temperature that exceeds the rest of the body by nearly one degree, it functions as a silent biochemical furnace.
Health and wellness
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Far from being an expendable organ, it houses a tactical reserve of millions of cells ready to deploy in a vascular crisis.
Health and wellness
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Discovered in 2012, this nocturnal circuit shrinks neurons by 60% to flush out toxins linked to neurodegenerative diseases.
History
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The potent laxative prescribed to the explorers in 1804 left an indestructible chemical trace that mapped their journey two centuries later.