Giant Microbes

You are made of about 30 trillion cells. More amazing: your body is also home to an estimated 40 trillion bacteria! This microbial melting pot is m...

Get your Valentine’s heart pounding with our new Heart Cell plush doll that includes a heartbeat sound chip inside! Your heart keeps you alive, bod...

If you're tryin' to hold back your feelings and if you feel like I feel, then understand me, you've got to be here sugar! If you're in the mood for...

History is marked by epidemics and plagues, but some of them stand out as unique for their severity and impact on future generations.Plagues From H...

Feeling under the weather and not up for school? Rough night and just can’t get to work? Perhaps you really have a fever and body aches. These Sick...

You can feel in your bones that you would not go far without your skull. This bony framework supports and protects your brain and face. The adult s...

Millions of people break a bone each year, and most of us will at some point in our lives. For the young, a broken wrist is the most common. For th...

COVID-19 has arrived and quickly spread globally along with confusion, rumors and fear. Scientists investigate therapies and vaccines as nations “g...

The gallbladder is a small organ nestled under the liver. It acts as a bag to store and concentrate bile, a dark green to yellowish brown fluid pro...

Breaking out is hard to do. Learn the facts.An unusual gag giftGreat for health education classesA memorable way to convey important information.

Hip replacements are the most common type of arthroplasty, or joint replacement, and one of the most successful operations in medicine. The numbers...

Kissing this frog can give you warts. But, the new HPV vaccine can be a real prince.Great teaching tool for health education classesA memorable way...

A kiss is just a kiss -- unless she's around! 95% of the population has encountered this sweetie pie. Find out who gets her special love.Funny gag ...

Mouthwash maven Dr. Joseph Lister lent his name to this food-borne bacterium that pregnant women in particular should avoid.

The life of the party, his best trick is to hold his breath until he turns blue! Invite him to your next bash and he's sure show you a bloody good ...

Trilobites were wonderful creatures that went extinct before dinosaurs ever lived! They were arthropods that evolved over 500 million years ago in ...