Hacker News with Generative AI: Human Body

Trillions of Viruses Live in Your Body. A.I. Is Trying to Find Them. (nytimes.com)
The viruses we know best are the ones that make us sick — the influenza viruses that send us to bed and the smallpox viruses that may send us to the grave.
Viruses, Artificial Intelligence, Human Body, Science, Health
6 points by bookofjoe 16 days ago | 1 comments
Gravitational Effects of Small Primordial Black Hole Passing Through Human Body (arxiv.org)
The gravitational effects of a primordial black hole (PBH) passing through the human body are examined, with the goal of determining the minimum mass necessary to produce significant injury or death.
Physics, Black Holes, Space, Human Body, Medical
101 points by bookofjoe 18 days ago | 102 comments
The Human Alphabet (publicdomainreview.org)
In Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (1868–69), we are told how “Demi learned his letters with his grandfather, who invented a new mode of teaching the alphabet by forming letters with his arms and legs, thus uniting gymnastics for head and heels.” Composed across more than half a millennium, the images gathered below also unite contortion and composition, and seem to celebrate the innate humanness of writing, which tops the list of qualities that distinguish our dear species most distinctly
History, Literature, Art, Human Body
31 points by crescit_eundo 24 days ago | 12 comments
Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains (nature.com)
Rising global concentrations of environmental microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) drive concerns for human exposure and health outcomes.
Science, Environmentalism, Health, Human Body
20 points by perfunctory 33 days ago | 1 comments
'Obelisks': New class of life has been found in human digestive system (sciencealert.com)
Peering into the jungle of microbes that live within us, researchers have stumbled across what seem to be an entire new class of virus-like objects.
Microbiology, Biology, Human Body, Viruses
476 points by unkeen 69 days ago | 134 comments
'Obelisks': New Class of Life Has Been Found in the Human Digestive Sys (sciencealert.com)
Peering into the jungle of microbes that live within us, researchers have stumbled across what seem to be an entire new class of virus-like objects.
Biology, Microbiology, Viruses, Human Body, Science
10 points by SMAAART 75 days ago | 1 comments
Brain cells in the in the abdomen help form the gut-brain connection (npr.org)
Not all brain cells are found in the brain.
Neuroscience, Biology, Health, Human Body
28 points by rbanffy 75 days ago | 5 comments
New forms of life discovered inside human bodies (earth.com)
Every time we think we’re close to fully understanding the human body, something fresh and unexpected shows up.
Biology, Human Body, Science, Discovery
5 points by thunderbong 77 days ago | 0 comments
Atlas of cells transforms understanding of human body (bbc.co.uk)
An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report.
Biology, Science, Human Body, Research
10 points by JohnHammersley 108 days ago | 0 comments
Teeth (thepointmag.com)
Teeth are our meeting place with the outside world, the point of attack. Crystalline and mineral in nature, teeth show us at our most mollusk-like. The fact that we can grow them, lose them and grow them again (if only once) seems to ally us with reptiles and the largest of the cartilaginous fish. Yet few things mark us more intimately as mammals than our teeth.
Biology, Evolution, Human Body
5 points by gmays 143 days ago | 1 comments
The Vagus Nerve's Crucial Role in Creating the Human Sense of Mind (wired.com)
It is late at night. You are alone and wandering empty streets in search of your parked car when you hear footsteps creeping up from behind. Your heart pounds, your blood pressure skyrockets. Goose bumps appear on your arms, sweat on your palms. Your stomach knots and your muscles coil, ready to sprint or fight.
Neuroscience, Psychology, Vagus Nerve, Human Body, Fear
39 points by bookofjoe 160 days ago | 1 comments
Cells are dying. All the time (knowablemagazine.org)
Billions of cells die in your body every day. Some go out with a bang, others with a whimper.
Biology, Human Body, Health, Science
7 points by rntn 165 days ago | 0 comments
Cough or sneeze? How the brain knows what to unleash (nature.com)
‘Sneeze neurons’ activated by triggers such as pollen or a viral infection send an achoo signal, whereas cough neurons induce a hack.
Neuroscience, Biology, Health, Human Body
41 points by gnabgib 183 days ago | 39 comments
The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection (quantamagazine.org)
Neuroscience, Human Body, Health
379 points by jandrewrogers 190 days ago | 173 comments
What to Know About Calcification of the Pineal Gland (webmd.com)
Pineal Gland, Health, Medical Conditions, Human Body
7 points by Frummy 207 days ago | 5 comments
The human x-ray scientists (thequackdoctor.substack.com)
Medicine, Science, Human Body
11 points by Vigier 240 days ago | 2 comments
Fusion of 2 sisters into a single woman suggests human identity not in our DNA (elpais.com)
Genetics, Identity, Science, Biology, Human Body
16 points by bookofjoe 304 days ago | 12 comments