During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).
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This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
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To prove that stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria and not by stress, a researcher consumed an entire laboratory beaker full of bacterial culture. After this, he did indeed develop stomach ulcers, and won the Nobel Prize for his discovery.
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Green tea is able to stop the scent of garlic or onion from causing bad breath.
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Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.
Examples of convergent evolution.
Evolution of Density
Cranial capacity has increased approximately fourfold over the last 3.5 million years of hominin evo
The S-curve in the human vertebral column--a result of the evolution of bipedality--makes humans hig