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Topic: Anatomy

The Andromeda galaxy and an anatomy engraving (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Wanna escape Earth? Too bad space sucks

Levi Stallings
Dead body covered in sheet in hospital (Getty Images/MediaProduction)

The complex ethics of unclaimed bodies

Elizabeth Hlavinka
In this handout photo provided by NASA, (L-R) ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthais Maurer, NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron, are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX Shannon recovery ship shortly after having landed in the Gulf of Mexico on May 6, 2022 off the coast of Tampa, Florida. (Aubrey Gemignani/NASA via Getty Images)

Even short space trips alter human body

Susan Bailey - The Conversation
Silverback Gorilla (Getty Images/Edwin_Butter)

What gorilla faces reveal about humans

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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Serotine bat (Alona Shulenko, CC BY-SA)

These bat penises are too long for sex

Matthew Rozsa
Trimming a bush (Getty Images/Adene Sanchez)

The scientific mystery of pubic hair

Matthew Rozsa
Water on a blue background (Getty Images/Jose A. Bernat Bacete)

The science of squirting

Troy Farah
Man Sticking Out Tongue (Getty Images/Laurent Dambreville/EyeEm)

Iffy therapies turn to the tongue

Christina Szalinski - Undark
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A needle is placed in the blood and plasma donation centre of the Institute for Transfusion Medicine Suhl. The Minister of Health has called on the Thuringians to donate blood. With the return of hospitals to regular operations, the need is also increasing again, she said. (Martin Schutt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Human arm is "evolving," scientists say

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/fotostorm)

Baths are key to better sleep

Nicole Karlis
(Shutterstock/DedMityay)

Can we send thoughts brain to brain?

Jordan Harrod - Massive Science
This photo provided by the University of Pittsburgh, Center for Biologic Imaging shows colorized scanning electron micrograph of red blood cells. (University of Pittsburgh, Center for Biologic Imaging via AP) (AP)

Discovered: New structure in the body

Kirsty Vitarelli - WhoWhatWhy
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"Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart" by Mimi Swartz (Penguin Random House/Getty)

Is the heart "more than a pump"?

Nicole Karlis
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Brain stimulation for violent criminals?

Nicole Stock
(Getty/Ababsolutum)

Study: There may not be an age ceiling

Nicole Stock
(iStockphoto/lculig)

How sex may help us learn

Gina Mantica
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(AP/Eric Risberg)

How children experience pain

Kalina Michalska - The Conversation
(Shutterstock/Salon)

neuroscience and behavior

Danbee Kim, Goncalo Lopes
(University of Dundee)

The dead tell tales

Angelo Young
(Eleanor Haswell)

Jenny Kutner
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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-527452p1.html'>Nata-Lia</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Sarah Gray
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Marty Kaplan - Alternet
Mike Tyson and Charlie Sheen (AP/Eric Charbonneau)

Speaking of ears and savagery

Steven Church
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