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An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...

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Let's imagine an astronaut suddenly collapses during a spacewalk and dies of cardiac arrest only minutes later. Thankfully, this has never happened. While 21 people have died in space, spacecraft ...

Tiny particles of plastic have been found everywhere — from the deepest place on the planet, the Mariana Trench, to the top of Mount Everest. And now more and more studies are finding that ...