HS-LS1-2

Develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems that provide specific functions within multicellular organisms.

  1. Animals

    Secrets of the world’s extreme divers

    For emperor penguins and other animals, being able to hold their breath the longest could be in the blood

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Fat weighs heavy on the brain

    New study shows obesity interferes with memory, thinking and reasoning.

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  3. Animals

    Eating can be skin deep

    In the laboratory, bottom-dwelling hagfish absorb nutrients through the skin.

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  4. Life

    Full-body taste

    Turns out that the tongue isn’t the only place where the body can taste what you ate.

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  5. Plants

    Carnivorous plants say ‘cheese’

    It took high-speed cameras to reveal how the bladderwort gets lunch.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    A framework for growing bone

    A promising new material could help encourage damaged or broken bones to grow back.

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