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Why Humans Lost the Ability to Wiggle Each Toe Separately and What We Gained Instead

What muscles feet have, how your brain controls them, and how humans evolved all play a part in why people can’t easily move individual toes.

Why can’t I wiggle my toes one at a time, like my fingers?

What muscles feet have, how your brain controls them, and how humans evolved all play a part in why people can’t easily move ...

Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not – why is that?

If a pig embryo infused with human cells truly became something close enough to count as a member of the human species, then ...

Brendan Fraser and Dwayne Johnson on Their Life-Changing ‘Mummy’ Friendship, Loneliness and Learning to Stop Trying So Hard: ‘Why Am I Doing This?’

Brendan Fraser and Dwayne Johnson go deep on their friendship after 'The Mummy' and new roles in 'The Smashing Machine' and ...
Public Radio East

Weird Science: Citizen science and monkey sweat help NC researcher determine whether current obsession with skincare routines may be doing more harm than go…

Dr. Julie Horvath is the head of the Genomics & Microbiology Research Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences ...