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We have two types of hair, says dermatologist Elizabeth Houshmand. Vellus hairs, or “peach fuzz,” cover virtually our entire ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

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Goosebumps reveal your body's ancient survival instincts. Discover why your skin reacts to cold, fear, and even music.

In trials using phantom and living subjects in room-temperature settings, the PTG platform showed fully passive and reliable detection of human vital signs such as temperature, heart rate and ...

To build the map, researchers at Columbia University and the University of Bordeaux took a slice of a frozen human brain and, ...

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A human body contains 46 chromosomes which exist in a pattern of ... She further explains that individuals with Down syndrome occasionally present two rare variations of the condition: Mosaic Down ...

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