HB Mag Health Research Team

Your body has no active way to dump extra iron. It absorbs what it needs and holds onto the rest, which is why iron overload is treated by removing iron rather than by flushing it out. The main medical treatment is therapeutic phlebotomy — regularly drawing off blood, which carries iron out with it. Chelation … Read more

Your body needs to lose heat to fall asleep, and your pillow is one of the main places that heat gets trapped. Making a pillow cold — with a chillable insert, a cold pack, a brief stay in the freezer, or a cooling fabric cover — can help you feel more comfortable at bedtime. The … Read more

An adult human body has 206 bones. That number is a standard count found in anatomy textbooks and medical references. Babies are born with far more separate bone pieces — roughly 270 to 300 — and many of them fuse together as a child grows, which is why the adult total is lower. The count … Read more

Iron is a mineral your body cannot make on its own, so every bit of it has to come from food or supplements. You get iron naturally by eating two different forms of it — heme iron from animal foods and non-heme iron from plants — and the single biggest thing you can do to … Read more

Predicting whether a substance will dissolve in a given liquid comes down to three tools that work at different scales. Classic solubility rules sort compounds into broad categories based on a few well-known exceptions. Physical models use thermodynamics and measured properties to estimate how much will dissolve. Machine learning models learn patterns from large datasets … Read more

Making a realistic dinosaur tail comes down to three things: the right silhouette, a surface that reads as skin rather than fabric, and a natural curve. Start with a lightweight foam core shaped to taper from wide base to narrow tip. Cover it with a textured skin layer, add a flexible spine so it bends … Read more

You cannot fully prepare for a parent’s death, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. What you can do is reduce the shock, say the things that matter while there is still time, and build support around yourself before the crisis hits. Preparation does not make grief smaller. It makes the ground under … Read more