A University of Nebraska-Lincoln research team has identified new microscopic players in the global carbon cycle, a discovery ...

The UK has been declared an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) - and bird "gatherings" have been banned in England and Wales in response to rising cases of bird flu. Strains of the virus have ...

BC's Philip Landrigan, M.D., and the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health present a sweeping new report showing plastic as a hazard at every stage of its life cycle Philip Landrigan ...

Until agriculture was developed around 10,000 years ago, all humans got their food by hunting, gathering, and fishing. As farming emerged, nomadic hunter-gatherers gradually were pushed off prime ...

Natural ways to boost metabolism can be fun and easy. Simple things like eating more protein, high-intensity interval training, lifting weights, avoiding skipping meals, drinking the right things, ...

On this episode of Hacking Humans, we are going old school with Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan sans T-Minus host Maria Varmazis (as she was hanging out with astronauts at the SpaceCom event). Not to ...

When the thyroid isn’t producing enough of certain hormones, metabolism slows down; when levels of these hormones are too high, metabolism increases. However, this doesn't mean that low levels of ...

Here, we review the role of the microbiome in human development, including evolutionary considerations ... physiological processes ranging from adiposity/obesity, to energy metabolism, blood pressure ...