Posts about medicine
How the body ages: what changes inside you, decade by decade
Mike Munay
What changes in your body, mind and relationships as you age, and which everyday decisions quietly shape who you will be in twenty years.
How the body ages: what changes inside you, decade by decade
Mike Munay
What changes in your body, mind and relationships as you age, and which everyday decisions quietly shape who you will be in twenty years.
What happens to the human body in zero gravity
Mike Munay
If you're wondering what astronauts' daily lives are like when they go to space, how their bodies react, and how they perform basic tasks, you'll find out here.
What happens to the human body in zero gravity
Mike Munay
If you're wondering what astronauts' daily lives are like when they go to space, how their bodies react, and how they perform basic tasks, you'll find out here.
How does your body and mind change when you become a parent?
Mike Munay
Fatherhood doesn't just change your life: it rewires your brain and body. What happens is deeper, more biological, and less intuitive than you imagine.
How does your body and mind change when you become a parent?
Mike Munay
Fatherhood doesn't just change your life: it rewires your brain and body. What happens is deeper, more biological, and less intuitive than you imagine.
Hypnic jerks: the neuroscience of falling as you drift off
Mike Munay
That sudden jolt before sleep has a name, a brainstem origin and a possible evolutionary echo from our tree-dwelling ancestors. Here is the science.
Hypnic jerks: the neuroscience of falling as you drift off
Mike Munay
That sudden jolt before sleep has a name, a brainstem origin and a possible evolutionary echo from our tree-dwelling ancestors. Here is the science.
When light tricks your brain into sneezing
Mike Munay
One in four people sneeze in bright light. A neural crosstalk between the optic and trigeminal nerves is behind it. It is inherited and poorly understood.
When light tricks your brain into sneezing
Mike Munay
One in four people sneeze in bright light. A neural crosstalk between the optic and trigeminal nerves is behind it. It is inherited and poorly understood.
When F1 helped save the lives of thousands of babies
Mike Munay
Ferrari and Formula 1 inspired how to save babies, where coordination, rather than technique, determines survival.
When F1 helped save the lives of thousands of babies
Mike Munay
Ferrari and Formula 1 inspired how to save babies, where coordination, rather than technique, determines survival.
Do you become radioactive after radiation therapy? The truth is that almost no one explains it to you
Sara Navarro MD MSc
Can you spread radiation after radiotherapy? Find out what happens in your body, when there's a real risk... and when there isn't.
Do you become radioactive after radiation therapy? The truth is that almost no one explains it to you
Sara Navarro MD MSc
Can you spread radiation after radiotherapy? Find out what happens in your body, when there's a real risk... and when there isn't.
When surgeons stopped trusting the color white
Mike Munay
Operating rooms were once entirely white. Then surgeons’ vision began to distort. The real reason behind green and blue scrubs lies in how the eye adapts.
When surgeons stopped trusting the color white
Mike Munay
Operating rooms were once entirely white. Then surgeons’ vision began to distort. The real reason behind green and blue scrubs lies in how the eye adapts.