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The human liver is a very vital organ. It is so important that if it stops functioning even for a single day, a person will simply die. The liver weighs around 3 pounds and is reddish-brown in [...]

Around four to five thousand litres of blood flow through the human kidneys every day. The blood contains toxic molecules taken up with food and/or metabolic degradation products that the human [...]

Remarkably, neuroscience tells us three things about the mind: the mind is metaphysically simple, the intellect and will are immaterial, and free will is real. In the middle of the twentieth [...]

Stages in chick embryo development One of the greatest miracles of nature is the transformation of the egg into the chick. A chick emerges after a brief three weeks of incubation. The complexity [...]

IN HIS EPIC encyclopedia Natural History, the great Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder wrote of the bonnacon, a sort of bull whose defensive strategy was to hit its foes with blasts of dung “so [...]

The Wisdom of Creation is the Great Teacher Today there are many inventors and design engineers that are looking at the natural world and the creatures that live in it for solutions to complex [...]

Two great achievements occurred in 1953, more than half a century ago. The first was the successful ascent of Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world. Sir Edmund Hillary and his guide, [...]

11 Arguments and their Responses for the Scientific Method and Basic Philosophy.    1. Positing God is not a solution: who created God? God is the eternal, ultimate cause of existence. [...]

Frog spit might be some of the catchiest spit on the planet. That’s according to new research on frog saliva, which shows that the sticky stuff is tailor-made to grab bugs. It helps to [...]

Venus Flytraps – Creepier Than We Imagined! When it comes to digesting its prey, this plant is a calculating killer. If you accidentally get transformed into a fly, and get caught in a [...]