Carbon and the carbon cycle

YOUR QUESTIONS

Amazing answers to your curious questions

How a body can be used to nourish plant life

Our bodies are vessels for life, but in death they undergo a cascade of chemical and biological changes

Energy metabolism is the process where your body converts food into usable energy. It’s an ongoing interplay of digestion, absorption, cellular respiration and nutrient transport that fuels everything

Much of what we don’t understand about being human is simply in our heads. The brain is a befuddling organ, as are the very questions of life and death, consciousness, sleep, and much more