In this stanza, Darwin links oxygen to warmth and heat–an apt metaphor, since without either life ceases to function. However, we now know that life exists in a relatively narrow range of temperature ...

Most people who try to hitch a free flight hiding in a jet’s wheel-well die in the attempt, like the person whose body was discovered on Christmas Eve after a flight from Chicago landed on Maui. But ...

A research volunteer sits in a water-immersion tank designed to simulate underwater conditions. With support from the Office of Naval Research, Dr. Blair Johnson (not pictured), of the University at ...

Charlottesville, VA (March 19, 2013). Researchers at the Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota, and Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation (Minneapolis, Minnesota) report that the ...