This Formula Calculates How Many Calories You Burn If You’re Doing Absolutely Nothing
When it comes to dieting, here’s how to tally the so-called basal metabolic rate -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding Touch [Sponsored]
Ardem Patapoutian shared the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2020 for answering a basic question: How does touch actually work? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Why Extreme Heat Is So Deadly
Heat waves kill more people than any other type of severe weather in the U.S. And climate change is making them more frequent and unpredictable -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Weed Shouldn’t Be Banned for Elite Athletes, Some Experts Say
The disqualification of a leading U.S. Olympics candidate has brought the World Anti-Doping Agency’s marijuana prohibition under fire -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Problem with Pain Scores
Physicians often ask you to rate your agony on a scale from one to 10—but the response doesn’t necessarily say anything useful -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
‘Inflammation Clock’ Can Reveal Body’s Biological Age
Using machine learning, researchers created a tool that might help doctors improve people’s healthy lifespan -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Aging’s True Tactics
New research pins the maximum length of human life -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Your Brain Does Something Amazing between Bouts of Intense Learning
New research shows that lightning-quick neural rehearsal can supercharge learning and memory. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
What Is the Immune System, and How Does It Work?
Through evolution, we’ve gained an entire arsenal for fighting off potentially harmful microbes of all sorts. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Nutrition, Immunity and a Global Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on the importance of having a well-functioning immune system. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Gut Reactions: Microbes in the Digestive Tract Influence COVID Severity
Our resident bacteria help regulate the immune system and response to infections -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Why Are People with Obesity More Vulnerable to COVID?
Chronic inflammation and immune breakdown appear to be key reasons -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Can Vitamin D Help Protect against COVID?
Some studies suggest an impact, particularly for those who are vitamin-deficient. But for now, the jury is out -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Could Mitochondria Be the Key to a Healthy Brain?
Some researchers suspect these bacterial ancestors living within our cells may contribute to a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Decoded: What Are Neurons?
You have 86 billion of them inside you, but do you understand how hard it was for us to learn that? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Hormone Highs and Lows Follow a Seasonal Pattern
A newly discovered internal body clock creates annual peaks and valleys -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com