Biology
Do insects feel pain like humans?
Some insects produce proteins when their bodies are subjected to pain, which have the same effect as humans in regulating how the brain perceives.
Humans
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Environment
How do humans change the world's rivers?
Over the past 40 years, humans have altered the world's largest rivers at an unprecedented rate.
Biology
Interesting study: Sleep-deprived mosquitoes are also 'lazy' to suck the blood of humans and animals
Mosquitoes need sleep to function properly, just like us. In fact, laboratory mosquitoes sleep between 16 and 19 hours a day, depending on the species and the level of a…
Science story
This working environment is harsher than on the space station, humans can only stay up to 90 days
How long would you want to live in a cramped house where the temperature is 38 degrees Celsius and the oxygen level is only 18%?
Alien
Russian Space Agency says: 'Humans may also be being studied by aliens'
The director of the Russian Space Agency thinks that there may be extraterrestrial life forms studying human civilization.
Conquer Mars
Can humans breathe on Mars?
Humans would die of asphyxiation if they breathed on Mars without a spacesuit, but that could change in the future thanks to NASA's oxygen-making device.
Archeology
Humans are shrinking for a scary cause?
55 million years ago, early horses went through a period of unusual body atrophy. We humans may be entering that phase by an unthinkable agent.
Health
Scientists grow hearts to transplant to humans
Hearts grown from pig organs and human cells could soon be used in organ transplants.
Oceanography
The truth about fish with teeth like humans
This fish is mainly commonly found along the east coast of North and South America. They are known for their incisors that look a lot like human teeth.
Archeology
Discovered that other humans built a 65,000-year-old 'art museum' in Spain
The Cueva de Ardales Cave in Malaga, Spain, is where two different human species left more than 1,000 works of art and bury their dead - a sort of splendid Paleolithic c…
Space science
Science predicts humans can set foot on Mars in 2038
In 2010, the current US President Obama gave a speech regarding NASA's plan to put a man on an asteroid by 2025.
Medicine - Health
New discovery about the middle ear of humans evolved from fish gills
Chinese scientists provide anatomical and fossil evidence that the origin of breathing tubes in vertebrates is from gills.
Conquer Mars
Humans will have to merge with robots if they want to live on Mars?
Mars - the fourth planet from the Sun - has been studied by NASA and SpaceX scientists for decades, with the goal of turning it into a 2nd Earth in the future.
Health
Gut bacteria may be the 'trigger' of different cravings in humans
The latest study by US scientists says that human gut bacteria may be the reason why people crave food.
Environment
Future temperatures challenge human survivability
The extreme heat that is testing the limits of human survival will continue to rise, challenging the body's ability to fight back and making many parts of the world unin…