You Gotta Have Heart
The heart is a muscle the size of your fist that's located in the center of the chest behind the breast-bone, or sternum. We generally say the heart is on the left side of the chest because about...
View ArticleAnatomy Ignorance: How Few People Can Locate The Heart
Do you know where your heart is located? How about your bladder?
View ArticleHow Do Breathalyzers Work? And What Do They Measure?
Ever wonder how a breathalyzer test actually works? Find out on this Moment of Science.
View ArticleTrue Love And Garlic
Garlic-lovers, and the unfortunate people who live with and love them, are well aware that your breath reeks for days after a serious garlic fest. Why don't tooth-brushing and mouthwash really help?...
View ArticleBlood Clots When You Fly?
Flying may just be more dangerous than you'd previously thought. "A Pain in Third Class" on this Moment of Science.
View ArticleAll About High Altitude Pulmonary Edema: HAPE
When fluid blocks the passage of oxygen into the lungs, the resulting suffocation is known as drowning, whether or not the person is submerged in water.
View ArticleAirhead Fish
We all know fish can't breathe, or well, at least not in the same way we do. Some fish out there don't need lungs to breathe air. One fish family, the anabantids, has evolved a special structure called...
View ArticleTwo Climbers Climbed Everest Without Supplemental Oxygen. How?
Although Everest had first been climbed in 1953, this was the first successful ascent to be made without supplemental oxygen.
View ArticleWhy Cigarette Smoke is Blue–or White
When someone is smoking a cigarette, aside from the hacking and coughing, have you ever noticed that the smoke curling off the tip of the cigarette is blue, but when the smoke is exhaled it's white? We...
View ArticleWilliam Harvey, Circulation, And History!
Through the early 1600s, physicians believed there were two kinds of blood, one made by the liver and one by the heart...
View ArticleBlowing Milk Out Of Your Nose
Have you ever laughed so hard that milk came out your nose?
View ArticleMarine Animals Have Interesting Sleeping Habits
Marine mammals don't sleep for a solid 8 hours a night, the way we do.
View ArticleWalking And Breathing
Lizards don't really breathe and walk at the same time. Does this mean that dinosaurs couldn't either?
View ArticleDetecting Odors Is Not Just for Your Nose
While we tend to associate olfaction with our noses and brains, other parts of our body also have a "sense of smell."
View ArticleDown The Wrong Tube
Have you ever wondered what's really going on when you choke on what you're eating or drinking?
View ArticleOne-Way Breathing: Not Just For Birds Anymore
Birds and many reptiles evolved a specialized way of breathing—one-way air flow.
View ArticleCan You Choke a Fly?
Stick with the fly traps or swatters...you can't choke out these pesky pilots.
View ArticleToo Cold to Exercise?
Not so! Your body acts as a heater and warms up cold air as you breathe it in.
View ArticleVampirism Or Decomposition
The belief in vampires is one of the most wide-spread of superstitions; "real-life" instances of vampirism having been documented for hundreds of years. How can all those eye-witnesses to these...
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