Human Body

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AlegreMENTE | Happy Brain: Celebrating Early Connections

Celebrate loving, playful connections together in a whimsical forest full of families of all kinds, both human and animal!
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Implants Smaller Than A Grain of Rice Could Treat Brain Diseases

What if brain implants didn’t require brain surgery? Deblina Sakar from MIT Media Lab is creating brain implants that are a million times smaller than a grain of rice.
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Lab-Grown Heart Cells That Actually Beat

Marie walks us through how scientists turn cells into induced pluripotent stem cells, also known as iPSCs, and guide them into becoming cardiomyocytes: heart cells that beat in rhythm just like yours.
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Optical Illusion: The Thatcher Effect

Alex Dainis breaks down the Thatcher Effect, an optical illusion that shows how your brain processes faces as complete, familiar patterns rather than as individual features.
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Can Young Blood Reverse Aging?

Can young blood reverse aging? In a recent breakthrough, researchers combined plasma serum and bone marrow from young donors to treat aging human skin cells in the lab.
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Could You Reprogram Life’s Genetic Code?

Could scientists make artificial life using simpler DNA language? Life typically uses 64 of these codons to build proteins, but scientists wanted to see if bacteria could do with fewer.
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Your Brain Invents Color You Don’t See

Would you be surprised to learn the strawberries in this picture aren’t actually red? A pixel-by-pixel color analysis reveals no red at all, yet your brain still sees it.
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Immune to Every Virus? Science Says It’s Possible

What if you were immune to all viruses? A small number of people carry a rare genetic mutation that causes their bodies to produce interferons, virus-blocking proteins, all the time, keeping them immune without activating the rest of the immune system.
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Is Diabetes Cured? Shocking Trial Results

Was the cure for diabetes just discovered? This cell-based therapy could be a major step forward in regenerative medicine—and a powerful alternative to daily insulin injections.
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New Cell Structure Discovered: Meet the Hemifusome

Alex Dainis explains how scientists used a 3D microscope called cryo-electron tomography, and discovered the hemifusome, a new part inside animal cells found in humans, monkeys, rats, and mice.
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How Space Affects Vision: NASA’s Mission to Fix It

Astronauts on the ISS often develop space-associated neuro-ocular syndrome (SANS), where fluid shifts toward the head cause swelling in the optic disc and even reshape the eye itself, leading to vision problems.
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Is Your Breath Unique like a Fingerprint?

Insoo Hyun, PhD shares that because your brain controls how you breathe, your nasal airflow is surprisingly unique—like a fingerprint.
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Find Your Dominant Eye with this Simple Test!

Right eye or left eye? Which eye is doing more of the heavy lifting? Alex Dainis shows you how to find out which eye is leading the way—with a simple Eye Dominance Test you can try at home.​​
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Does Your Mind Go Blank? Here's What Your Brain's Actually Doing

What’s actually happening in your brain when you suddenly go blank? 🧠 Scientists now think “mind blanking” might actually be your brain’s way of hitting the reset button.
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Could Google’s MedGemma AI Transform Healthcare?

Google has released an open-source medical AI called MedGemma AI, and it’s already making waves in hospitals across the globe. This tech isn’t just reading X-rays. It’s analyzing years of patient history, interpreting pathology slides, and one model...