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Read these 11 fun facts and you’ll know why: 1. The body has billions of nerve cells ... numbers of the axons and dendrites can vary. The human nervous system is defined as two parts.

What do you know about the endocrine system? In school, we learned that hormones and the glands that produce them comprise ...

It turns out that, as well as training and other factors, body shape plays a role when it comes to running performance in certain climates. Let’s look at this interesting research. The ...

It’s a journey of innovation, persistence, and human ingenuity that continues to wow us. Two decades ago, smartphones were just emerging, and now we have wearable devices like smartwatches that ...

Test your smarts against this one-minute video, where Ask Smithsonian host Eric Schulze uncovers the facts behind five popular myths about the human body. 3play_processed Ask Smithsonian Explore ...