Hannah Ashworth

If you're planning a burial at sea, the rate at which your body to break down largely depends on whether you pick a tropical or temperate ocean.

Scratching an itch is just a distraction tactic for your nervous system.

Not only does sugar pack a lot of calories per gram, it also has effects on your hormone levels.

A lot of people don't apply sunscreen before swimming, but is this necessarily a good idea?

Until we can get more exciting varieties of eumelanin and pheomelanin, you'll just have to stick with blue hair dye.

Being "winded" is technically a hard blow or blunt trauma to the solar plexus, which causes pain & difficulty breathing, but why do we have this reaction?

Were all those school matrons forcing kids to eat their liver, "for their own good", mistaken?

Read my lips... these facial features are more than just for looks.

Drinking alcohol does make you hungrier - but what does alcohol do to the brain to make you feel this way?

Ever wonder why you sometimes get starry eyed after a particularly bad bump on the head? It's all down to phosphenes.

Pins and needles, needles and pins, but what is that tingling from your hands come within?

Everyone knows the dangers of staying in the sun for too long, but does sitting near a window have the same ageing affects on your skin?

When you have a fever, your body tries to compensate for a higher target temperature on your internal thermostat.

Stick to your recommended calorie intake & you'll likely burn off most of this through normal living, but when it comes to exercise, it depends what you do!

If you're caught talking to yourself it can be embarrassing, but is it something to be worried about?

We have evolved to have no use for a tail, and a tail you don’t use is just another limb that needs energy to grow and another thing for predators to grab.

Laughing may have evolved to make us feel better, as well as serving a social function.

When dreaming stops you sleeping... all sorts of odd brain activity and bodily responses can occur.

Over time, scars from accidents and injuries can fade, but why doesn't the skin return to its original state?

The exact cause of the photic sneeze reflex isn't understood but there are some theories for this kind of reaction.

Listen up scaredy-cats! Your irrational fears may just have some basis in biology.

Eating cheese at night is said to give you nightmares, but the reason why isn't so spooky.

Beans, beans, are good for your heart, the more you eat, the more oligosaccharides your gut bacteria have to digest.

There are so many myths about meat, including whether it sits in your gut for ages after you eat it.