I’m sharing three fun trivia questions about the human body—perfect to test your science smarts! See if you know which lung ...

Body beliefs—unspoken assumptions we inherit from family, culture, medicine, and lived experience—shape not only how we see ...

A prestigious award. A social media ban. A devastating flood. What do you remember from the week that was?

Scientists in Sweden have created a new pill designed to help the body burn fat and control blood sugar in a different way than popular GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic. While injectable GLP-1s work by ...

Trichy: Samskrita Sahitya Parishad, a cultural body promoting Sanskrit, will host a quiz competition for school and college students at Mahatma Gandhi.

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From the diaphragm to the pelvic floor, scientists say improving your core strength can protect your spine and help you move with ease into older age. Exercises like the plank train the body’s full ...

The more we move, the more our muscle cells begin to make a memory of that exercise. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you ...

Sitting, standing, and moving between the two seem almost involuntary, but your body's muscles are working hard to make these motions happen. Your skeleton has over 600 muscles attached, and many of ...

You rely on your back and biceps to haul grocery bags to your kitchen, and on your core to keep you steady as you do so. But none of those muscles would even be in business if it weren’t for your ...

The joints in your body are enveloped by muscles that coordinate their movements. These muscle groups counterbalance each other and work together to complete a movement. The muscles on either side of ...

It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. There are a total of 538 electoral votes up for grabs. Walmart recalled nearly 10,000 cases of apple juice sold in 25 states that were ...