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Biology
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During its winter hibernation, this rodent lowers its body temperature down to -2.9 °C through an astonishing process of biological supercooling.
Biology
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The bile pigment biliverdin dyes their muscles, bones, and tongue, turning a lethal waste product into an unusual cellular shield.
Biology
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A tiny North American rodent defies extreme survival by producing its own hydration from dry seeds
Animals
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The absolute record for non-stop migratory flight requires doubling body fat and cannibalizing its own viscera to shed weight.
Health and wellness
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Far from inhaling air symmetrically, your nervous system inflates and deflates your nostrils in a continuous relay to optimize your smell and protect your lungs.
Animals
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Discover how this unusual inhabitant of polar seas defied the laws of animal biology by surviving without red blood cells thanks to a giant heart and natural antifreeze.
Health and wellness
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How a small muscle band in your calf acts as a circulatory pump and an autonomous metabolic reactor.
Health and wellness
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Far from being simple salt water, crying triggered by intense feelings contains hormones like ACTH and endorphins to restore nervous balance.
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.
Health and wellness
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How a colony of microorganisms in your mouth turns vegetables into nitric oxide, the essential vasodilator for your arteries.