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UNBELIEVABLE: 6 - The Untold Story

42 Of The Most Bizarre And Unsettling Medical Posts Shared Online

The human body is pretty weird, isn’t it

Bored Panda · Oct 23, 2025

Ancient ‘salt mountains’ in southern Australia once created refuges for early life

Salt is an essential nutrient for the human body. But hundreds of millions of years before the first humans, salt minerals once shaped entire landscapes. They even determined where early life on Earth could thrive.

The Conversation · Oct 23, 2025

What is AI poisoning? A computer scientist explains

Poisoning is a term most often associated with the human body and natural environments.

The Conversation · Oct 20, 2025

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What's the strongest muscle in the human body?

Several muscles can claim the crown, depending on how you measure strength.

LiveScience · Oct 10, 2025

30 Things You’ve Seen A Thousand Times: Prove You Know What They Are Called

Think you have a sharp eye for detail and a sharper memory for words? This quiz is all about the everyday objects, sounds, and features of the human body that most people see daily but could never name. These words come from science, history, and languages around the world, and…

Bored Panda · Oct 6, 2025

What's the hottest temperature the human body can endure?

Researchers believe there's an upper limit to the temperature the human body can withstand — but many people could face deadly health problems before reaching that threshold.

LiveScience · Sep 25, 2025

35 Cool Human Body Things, As Shared By The People In This Online Thread

Do you want some reasons you should love your body?

Bored Panda · Aug 24, 2025

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35 Cool Human Body Things, As Shared By The People In This Online Thread

Do you want some reasons you should love your body?

Bored Panda · Aug 22, 2025

Wet-bulb temperature: how meteorologists assess heat stress levels

The measure mimics the process that cools the human body in a heatwave – and explains why high humidity is harder for us to weather

The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2025

Toxic convenience: what science tells us about plastic’s hidden costs

As talks aimed at finalising the first global plastics treaty continue in Geneva, mounting scientific evidence is revealing the full scale of the plastics crisis, from toxic chemicals in the production process to the effect of microplastics in the human body.

Radio France Internationale · Aug 8, 2025

Turin Shroud imprint might not be from human body, says groundbreaking new study

Brazilian designer’s research suggests relic is a ‘medieval work of art’

The Independent UK · Aug 7, 2025

What ‘starvation’ really means, for the human body and for Gaza

What does starvation do to the body? And is famine inevitable in Gaza?

Al Jazeera · Aug 4, 2025

Shroud of Turin wasn't laid on Jesus' body, but rather a sculpture, modeling study suggests

A 3D analysis comparing the way fabric falls on a human body versus a low-relief sculpture shows that the Shroud of Turin was not based on a real person.

LiveScience · Jul 31, 2025

Astronaut arteries are A-OK after living on the International Space Station, per a new study

Living in space changes the human body — but arteries seem particularly resilient to microgravity's effects.

Space · Jul 29, 2025

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Bored Panda · Jul 23, 2025

“They Are Death Machines”: 50 Things Doctors Wish That More People Knew

What's one thing that you wish everyone knew about how the human body works?

The Conversation · Jul 22, 2025

Floating babies, cosmic radiation and zero-gravity birth: what space pregnancy might actually involve

As plans for missions to Mars accelerate, so do questions about how the human body might cope. A return trip to the red planet would give more than enough time for someone to become pregnant and even give birth. But could a pregnancy be conceived and carried safely in space?…

Bored Panda · Jul 21, 2025

“Imagine The Smell”: 83 Items Found In Or On Patients That Made Medical Professionals Gasp

How much can the human body stretch, bend, or… store?

Bored Panda · Jul 17, 2025

“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (27 Stories)

Medical experts share random human body misconceptions their patients have had, and some stories will definitely make you want to raise your eyebrows.

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Bored Panda · Jul 15, 2025

21 Cool But Pretty Disturbing Facts About The Human Body That Not Many People Know About

How much do you know about your skeleton and nervous system? Here are some of the craziest facts about the human body that you might have never heard before!

The Conversation · Jul 8, 2025

The Shrouds: new Cronenberg film is an elusive meditation on death, grief and environmental ethics

Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is a leading figure in body horror, a film genre that explores disturbing and often grotesque aspects of the human body. Films such as The Fly (1986), eXistenZ (1999) and Crimes of the Future (2022) depict scenes of physical mutilation, illness and technological invasion to represent…

Bored Panda · Jun 30, 2025

57 Surgeons Share The Weirdest Facts About The Human Body

Do you think you have what it takes to be a surgeon?

The Independent UK · Jun 27, 2025

The unique human body part that evolution cannot explain

The human chin has long been fertile ground for arguments between scientists over its purpose

The Conversation · Jun 26, 2025

Why evolution can explain human testicle size but not our unique chins

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of our history.

Bored Panda · Jun 19, 2025

Nobody’s Perfect But These 48 Human Body Flaws Are Just Stupid

Why do our knees start giving out before we even hit 40?

The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2025

Abstract Erotic review – artworks as beguiling as they are compelling

With works by Alice Adams, Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois, this exhibition revisits a 1966 show of pieces delving into the psychosexual and the human body

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