Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

Source: Photo by Min Ah KIM, World Body Painting Festival 2013 I have to admit: I am a sucker for reality TV. It feels so good to watch something “easy” after a day of teaching and researching at my ...

Students weren’t sure what to expect when their teacher stood in front of the classroom and started to undress. Debby Heerkens, a gym and biology teacher at Groene Hart Rijnwoude school, in the small ...

This lesson plan teaches students how the human body self-regulates to maintain a stable internal environment despite changes in the external environment -- a process called homeostasis. Most of the ...

Humans are complex organisms made up of trillions of cells, each with their own structure and function. Scientists have come a long way in estimating the number of cells in the average human body.