KnowHow team explains: Sweating is a natural phenomenon that occurs so that our body temperature remains constant. When the heat is on and we perspire, we might feel that all that sweat hardly does any good to us. On the contrary, it does help in reducing our body temperature to a great extent.
The hypothalamus (a [...]
KnowHow team explains: Déjà vu (French for “already seenâ€) describes the experience of feeling that one has been through a particular situation previously. The term was coined by French psychic researcher, Émile Boirac, in his book L’Avenir des sciences psychiques (The Future of Psychic Sciences).
An absolute sense of familiarity and eeriness accompany déjà vu. The [...]
KnowHow team explains: Vertigo is a certain kind of dizziness, often wrongly used to describe a fear of heights (actually called acrophobia). Vertigo is not a disease, but only a symptom. It refers to the sensation of spinning or whirling one experiences when there is a disturbance in the body equilibrium — the feeling that [...]
When certain aquatic plants keep growing throughout their life, then why do we terrestrial animals stop growing? Well, a simple explanation is that that all animals, including humans, have evolved such that they stop growing at a size that balances energy efficiency and their competitive needs as they struggle to survive.
In humans, genes determine [...]
KnowHow team explains: It’s happened to all of us: tossing and turning sleeplessly while the person in the next room snorts and snarfs his way through the night. Why is it that a perfectly normal, healthy person makes such an awful noise?
While breathing during sleep, structures like the palate, uvula (fleshy conical lobe at the [...]
Doctors call it “borborygmiâ€. Sounds somewhat like the sound you hear, isn’t it?
Growling in the stomach is a common phenomenon all of us would have experienced sometime or the other. “The stomach muscles are in constant peristaltic motion to digest the food ingested and letting it flow into the intestines. In general, increased flow [...]
Ocimum tenuifolium (known as Holy basil in English, and Tulasi in Sanskrit), is a well known aromatic plant in the family Lamiaceae. Apart from its culinary uses, for which it is known across the world, it is also used as a medicinal plant, and has an important role within many traditions of Hinduism, wherein devotees [...]
