skin
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A Detailed Description Of Why Human Skin Is Amazing
As pangolin. But the energy needed to generate and maintain that armour wasn’t evolutionarily worth it for us to expend because we put so much fuel into our enormous brains. We can think of ways to escape danger or make intelligent plans to avoid dangerous situations in the first place. And we do have scales,…
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Giz Explains: How Sunscreen Works (And Why You’re Wrong About It)
Your skin shouldn’t look like a package of pork cracklins after spending the day outdoors; that’s why we invented sunscreen. However, there’s a right way and a wrong way to slather on your protection — screw it up and you could get burned.
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Scientists Use Skin To Replace Brain Cells Destroyed By Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s disease is an incurable degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. But now a team of scientists from Johns Hopkins has grown the brain cells, which are usually destroyed by the disease from skin stem cells, and they’re confident it will help them develop new treatments.
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Scratching Your Ankle Is The Most Pleasurable Itch-Scratching Relief Of All
Scientists have made the shocking discovery that it’s your ankle, not your back, that feels the most awesome to scratch when you are itchy.