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An expert explains the challenges of a mission to Mars for younger readers.
When you read in the back seat of the car, your eyes tell your brain you’re still. But your ears can sense you’re moving. Your eyes and ears are having an argument that your brain is trying to settle.
Trying a new exercise routine? Strapping on a new wearable monitor? An expert in human physiology explains the ins and outs of your heart rate and why it’s a valuable number to understand.
Emerging evidence suggests that prolonged stress exposure can accelerate the ticking rate of an internal cellular clock. By doing so, stress can contribute to faster ageing and body deterioration.
Sit down to Thanksgiving dinner ready to amaze your companions with physiological facts about why different cuts of the turkey have different characteristics.
In his recent interview, Prince Andrew claimed that he had stopped sweating. Here’s what the research says about how and why our bodies do it.
New research suggests the clitoris is equally as important for reproduction as it is for sexual pleasure. But the evidence behind that claim is up for debate.
The marathons in next year’s Tokyo Olympics have been moved to Sapporo, because of concerns around Tokyo’s extreme heat. The move, though controversial, will reduce risks to the athletes’ health.
Our body is able to regulate its temperature very effectively, but heat waves can damage certain organs if we are not careful…
Can the brain’s conscious mechanisms exert a significant influence on the body’s autonomic functions? New research suggests yes – with possible implications for mental health.
Alongside with milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, soybeans and fish, shellfish are one of the eight allergens that account for 90% of food-related allergic reactions. What if a vaccine could exist?
Winter comes with colder temperatures. You and your body can work together to stay comfortable.
The US went crazy for Seabiscuit when he won his famous 1938 match race against War Admiral. Now researchers are investigating the thoroughbred’s DNA to see what made him such an unlikely success.
Death is inevitable for individuals and also for species. With help from the fossil record, paleontologists are piecing together what might make one creature more vulnerable than another.
There are many factors that set elite runners apart from other runners, including training volume, physiology, tendon function and running technique.
Diving without oxygen tanks requires you to enact some very weird and very strange and not all that well understood physiological feats just to stay alive.
Here’s how athletes at the Winter Olympics are able to perform in extreme cold.
It’s a long, hot summer’s day and you’re looking forward to an ice cream. But within seconds of your first bite, you feel a headache coming on: a brain freeze. What’s going on?
When seeing or hearing something poignant, many get the chills. But about one-third of the population doesn’t feel this sensation.
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Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Anatomy, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Exercise Physiology, Mississippi State University
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Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, University of Dayton
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Professor, Curtin School of Allied Health, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol
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Professor of exercise and work physiology, University of Montana
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Duncan Mitchell is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Health and Sport Science, University of Dayton
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Doctorant en Sciences du Mouvement Humain, Université Côte d’Azur
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Doctorant en Sciences du Mouvement Humain, Université Côte d’Azur
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Consultant Anaesthetist and Professor of Public Engagement and Innovation, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, UCL
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Dermatology, The University of Melbourne