A well-known Chinese epithet goes: ‘Mín yǐ shí wéi tiān’ (民以食為天) - “To the people, food is heaven”. Even though the line comes from an ancient text written about 2000 years ...
The human body has a number of mechanisms that prevent you from holding your breath until you suffocate. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The hand is where the mind meets the world. We humans use our hands to build fires and sew quilts, to steer airplanes, to ...
Robots have been working in the manufacturing industry since the 1950s, but their entry into the realm of medicine was not until the 1990s, along with a demand for minimally invasive surgery ...