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Flight Surgeon Apollo explains what happens to the human body while pulling Gs in a fighter.

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Sitting in a restaurant, you reach for the ketchup bottle, eyeing the basket of fries in front of you. You give the bottle a ...

A rough morning after a night of drinking often sends people straight to the medicine cabinet, reaching for ibuprofen to ...

Scientists have created an AI-powered system that can scan and map an entire mouse body in extraordinary detail — and it just uncovered a surprising new effect of obesity. Beyond disrupting metabolism ...

The first time the placebo effect really got under my skin was when I read that roughly one-third of people with irritable bowel syndrome improve on placebo treatments alone. Usually this statistic is ...

The science academies of G7 member countries have identified international space governance as a pressing issue for the G7 ...

Fruit flies react strangely when gravity gets stronger. For humans, a fruit fly weighs almost nothing. Yet when scientists ...

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For decades, one of the most prominent public health messages has been that smoking kills. But another everyday habit, far less dramatic and far more socially acceptable, may also be damaging our ...

Dehydration occurs when the body loses more fluids than it consumes. In the summer season, most people do not hydrate enough.