Scott Sheffield has been teaching anatomy at the university level for over 21 years. He has passionately and carefully produced the site "Get Body Smart - Human Anatomy and Physiology". This site ...

Ultra-endurance athletes can push their bodies to extraordinary extremes, but even they run into a hard biological wall.

The human body undergoes numerous adaptations when it leaves Earth’s gravity. Researchers are studying how to minimize those physiological changes in astronauts and in people on Earth with similar ...

THE title “Human Physiology,” which alone appears on the back of this book, is misleading, and even the title as given above would scarcely prepare a reader for what he will find. The preface, however ...

Just call him professor Guinea Pig. Adapting to remote learning this quarter, professor Rich Cardullo is performing all the experiments for his human physiology laboratory course — on himself.

Space physiologists have an interest in upper body exercise since in the weightless state astronauts do a substantial amount of work with their arms and hands. Upper body exercise elicits a peak ...

Research offers a novel perspective on how vertebrates may regulate flexibility in coping with stress. How we respond to stress has been a source of scientific research since the term was introduced ...