The short answer is we have evolved to have nails because they help us pick things up (like food) and pick things off (like bugs).
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Leonardo’s interest in the human form and replicating human bodily movement foreshadow ideas present in modern robotics.
Many diets make the case that eating certain types of foods will improve your health while redeeming our society and saving the planet.
Your stomach works very hard with some other body parts to break down food into small pieces. Your body takes in what it needs and the rest is turned into poo.
As gas from your stomach comes up your food pipe, it makes the surface of the upper part of your oesophagus rattle and vibrate. It is a bit like windows that rattle during a windy storm.
Don’t try this at home, kids.
More and more people are trying veganism, but how does the human body respond to losing animal products from its diet?
Protesters have urged a boycott of Sydney’s current Real Bodies exhibition, over claims that it could display remains of executed Chinese political prisoners.
A century ago, utopian thinkers and practitioners predicted the coming of a nude world of liberated bodies.
In the future, traps for mosquito that spread the dengue and chikungunya virus could be made from the carbon dioxide in human breathe as well as body odour.
Our obsession with gut health, diet and well-being is far from new: the Victorians had very similar concerns.
A history of Ayurvedic medical concepts is being exhibited at London’s Wellcome Collection.
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Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
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