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Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a carbon-fiber spine, can ...

Sweating keeps you cool. As sweat evaporates from your skin, heat energy is carried away from your body. This cooling system was likely crucial for early human ancestors, who lived in the hot African ...

THE third part of Professor Walmsley's “Manual of Practical Anatomy “is devoted to the dissection of the head and neck, for which a period of about ten weeks is suggested. The usual order of ...

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(3) Parabrachial nuclear complex. (4) Thalamus. Green arrows: Ascending projections. It is well established that sensations from the human body are carried in two major ascending pathways in the ...