The American Association for Anatomy (AAA) strongly opposes the buying and selling of body parts from Harvard Medical School's body donation program. We think it's wrong to treat human body donors like products to make money. We feel for the families who have been affected by this situation. Everyone deserves respect and dignity, even after...
Credit: Unsplash. If the (30 by 30) initiative, which has garnered support from over 100 countries, achieves its goals, approximately 30% of both land and ocean ecosystems will be designated as protected areas by 2030. These areas are intended to preserve biodiversity and mitigate the effects of climate change. However, a groundbreaking study conducted by...
"What we do frequently becomes easier not because the nature of the task changes, but because our ability to do it increases." Unknown Author. Fasting is a millenary activity. Exercised by several people worldwide. We may assume that all religions around the globe practice a certain kind of fast and that its benefits for the...
Credit: Unsplash. In the early 2000s, Jeff Bezos introduced the concept of mechanical turks, which involved hiring remote workers for menial tasks that computers found challenging. These workers were often paid low wages and collaborated with numerous others to complete small portions of larger computer projects. Bezos coined the term "artificial intelligence" to describe this fusion...
Credit: Canva The Cape of South Africa and its southern coast were once surrounded by thriving landscapes and abundant food, with long chains of caverns running along the area. Approximately 200,000 years ago, during a glacial phase known as Marine Isotope Stage Six (MIS6), these caves provided a refuge for a group of humans who...
Fluorescence staining of Arlo cells. The image shows the overlay of a staining of cell nuclei (gray) and the tight junction protein 1 (blue) and was taken with a confocal laser scanning microscope. Credit: HIPS/Boese There is a very long process before the approval of a medicine, a new drug or a healing substance. It...
Carol Yepes//Getty Images The human microbiome is threatened, which is not an excellent thing1 for your health or the rest of the world. A new documentary, The Unseen Extinction, highlights how the human microbiome-- also referred to as microorganisms and the bacteria living within the human body, most prevalent in the gut-- is on the verge...
Human group sizes can be predicted with methods from physics. Credit: Complexity Science Hub The scientists at the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) utilized their knowledge of the average number of friends each person has to successfully predict group sizes in a computer game. To achieve this, they employed a physics example of self-organization of particles...
Human and mouse neurons became connected via synapses. Credit: Giovanni Cancemi/Shutterstock.com Think of if lost, deteriorated, or diseased brain parts could be regrown in the laboratory and transplanted for a new lease on life. Scientists at the University of California San Diego have gotten us closer to that fact. Human cortical organoids (or 'mini-brains') transplanted...
(Dorit Bar-Zakay/Moment/Getty Images) Scientists think that old rock tools found in Brazil are the work of capuchin monkeys, not early human beings, the art and design website Artnet reported, mentioning an academic article. "We are confident that the very early archeological websites from Brazil might not be human-derived but might come from capuchin apes," wrote archaeologist...
