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The human body can survive without food for some time before starvation risks causing significant harm to the body.

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A program is collecting data from commercial space missions to help determine the effects of space flight on human health.

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Fever is a remarkable biological response, signaling the body’s active defense against internal threats. Far more than a ...

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...