Of all of the nature documentaries David Attenborough has voiced over, there’s one species that we’ve yet to hear him discuss. So today we’ll be taking a deep dive into the weird world of Homo sapiens ...

Your mind is performing incredible feats right now that would seem like magic if you truly understood them. While you’re reading these words, your brain is processing millions of bits of information, ...

No, they’re not vampires, but people with a mutation of the DEC2 gene can fall short on sleep yet feel fine. For the 1 percent of the population with this mutation, around six hours a night is fine—an ...

A groundbreaking discovery has revealed that human stem cells can enter a dormant state similar to diapause, an ability previously thought to exist only in certain mammals. Researchers successfully ...

Crack open any biology textbook, and you’ll find tidy diagrams, clean labels, and plenty of comforting facts about the human body. Muscles flex, neurons transmit, and vital organs perform their ...

The truth is that we love learning weird things. It becomes even more fascinating when those weird things involve human behavior and the strange ways our bodies work without us even realizing it.

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