Have dreams of working in the medical or veterinary fields? UW’s human and animal physiology minor might be for you. This program equips students with the skills, education and experience needed to ...

Ultra-endurance athletes can push their bodies to extraordinary extremes, but even they run into a hard biological wall.

Education: PhD Exercise Science; M.S. Exercise Science; B.S. Exercise Physiology & Human Performance with a Minor in ...

Research offers a novel perspective on how vertebrates may regulate flexibility in coping with stress. How we respond to stress has been a source of scientific research since the term was introduced ...

A bitter winter storm is sweeping across the north-east of North America this weekend, and is expected to bring significant snow to New York City for the first time in two years. Low temperatures ...

The human body undergoes numerous adaptations when it leaves Earth’s gravity. Researchers are studying how to minimize those physiological changes in astronauts and in people on Earth with similar ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...

The human biology major will provide students with a broad biological understanding of our species, from molecules, genes, and cells to tissues, organ systems and organism/environment interactions.