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Cheaper, tougher, less toxic: new alloys show promise in developing artificial limbs

Titanium is a strong, resilient and relatively light metal. Its properties have also been well studied; scientists know a great deal about it. All of this makes it the ideal base for fashioning artificial limbs – particularly knees and hips – and teeth. It is less likely than other metals…

The Conversation

Nasa boss explains when humans will be living on the Moon after new rocket launch

The Artemis 1 rocket is carrying the Orion lunar spacecraft, which is manned with a model of the human body, used to measure the impacts of the flight on people in space

Daily Mirror

The weirdest sci-fi movie on Amazon Prime reveals the limits of a bizarre technology

Cryonics experts explain the real — and fake — science behind the Tom Cruise sci-fi flick, Vanilla Sky.

Inverse

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Police update after human body parts 'found in skip' at Leeds recycling plant

West Yorkshire Policeconfirmed on Monday that human body parts were found at Skelton Skips

Leeds Live

If you’re worried about the environment, consider being composted when you die

Would you rather be buried or cremated when you die?

Tribune News Service

From affordable options to see-through caskets, funeral directors gather in Baltimore to browse, buy and build up their profession

Amid vendors offering caskets, urns and other tools of the trade at the Baltimore Convention Center, Sam Sieber enthusiastically described how, through a scientific process, heated water can rapidly decompose a human body.

Tribune News Service

Ugandan lawmakers pass law to curb trade in human organs

Ugandan lawmakers passed legislation on Thursday to ban any trade in human body parts, after a series of media reports about criminals using force and trickery to take people's organs.

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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: Early medicine and surgery

Test your science quotient with this quiz

The Hindu

Why heat wave warnings are falling short in the U.S.

Unprecedented heat waves are on the rise as the climate gets hotter. But experts say the country's heat warning system may be leading the public to underestimate the dangers.

WEKU

Jameis Winston gave the most bizarre lecture on the human body and NFL fans laughed so hard

"You've got your wrists, and what are your wrists on the bottom half? Your ankles!"

USA Today Sports Media Group

Wife of Scots professor who donated body called process 'deeply impressive'

Professors explain how cadavers play vital role in medical teaching and research.

Daily Record

Man arrested for purchasing human body parts online

Officials say remains were stolen from University of Arkansas mortuary

The Independent UK

Issey Miyake, famed Japanese fashion designer, dies at 84

His down-to-earth clothing was meant to celebrate the human body regardless of race, build, size or age.

Chicago Sun-Times

Do the electric chair, firing squad violate SC Constitution? Trial underway over methods

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Department of Corrections officials who will oversee executions by the electric chair and firing squad in South Carolina do not have the expertise to know how electric voltages or bullets affect the human body to the point of death, argue attorneys who represent three men awaiting…

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Why hot days increase your risk of death

Not merely a problem of the developing world, extreme heat can kill in cities even when A/C is nearby

The Guardian - UK

Picture books for children – reviews

The human body is brought to life, difference is celebrated – and a very long dinosaur is tickled pink

The Independent UK

How an AP reporter broke the Tuskegee syphilis story

For four decades, the United States government enrolled hundreds of Black men in Alabama in a study on syphilis, just so they could document the disease’s ravages on the human body

The Conversation

Warsaw Ghetto's defiant Jewish doctors secretly documented the medical effects of Nazi starvation policies in a book recently rediscovered on a library shelf

Exactly 80 years ago, a group of starving Jewish scientists and doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto were collecting data on their starving patients. They hoped their research would benefit future generations through better ways to treat malnutrition, and they wanted the world to know of Nazi atrocities to prevent something…

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Goldilocks Cancer: Cancer Cells Thrive In Body’s Sweet Spots, Says Study

Cancer researchers have discovered how mutated cells can sense the Goldilocks sweet spots in a human body.

The Conversation

The human body has 37 trillion cells. If we can work out what they all do, the results could revolutionise healthcare

The average body contains about 37 trillion cells – and we are in the midst of a revolutionary quest to understand what they all do. Unravelling this requires the expertise of scientists from all different backgrounds – computer scientists, biologists, clinicians and mathematicians – as well as new technology and…

The Conversation

How hot is too hot for the human body? Our lab found heat + humidity gets dangerous faster than many people realize

Heat waves are becoming supercharged as the climate changes – lasting longer, becoming more frequent and getting just plain hotter. One question a lot of people are asking is: “When will it get too hot for normal daily activity as we know it, even for young, healthy adults?”

ABC News

Astronaut study reveals effects of space travel on human bone density

A study of bone loss in 17 astronauts who flew aboard the International Space Station provides a fuller understanding of the effects of space travel on the human body and steps that can mitigate it.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Astronaut Study Reveals Effects of Space Travel on Human Bones

A study of bone loss in 17 astronauts who flew aboard the International Space Station is providing a fuller understanding of the effects of space travel on the human body and steps that can mitigate it, crucial knowledge ahead of potential ambitious future missions. The research amassed new data on…

Benzinga

Hemp Eating Bees Don't Age Very Quickly, But What About Hemp Eating Humans?

This article was originally published on Cannabis.net and appears here with permission.

The Independent UK

Evolver review: Cate Blanchett takes us inside the human body in an epic VR experience

This ‘Journey of Life and Breath’ – currently on show in New York – is as beautiful as it is philosophical

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