Muscular, Skeletal and Excretory Systems

Learn about homeostasis and how the body regulates temperature, blood pressure, blood pH and blood sugar.

Learn how animals move themselves with the help of their muscles and skeletons.

Learn about organ transplantation - what it is, how it can save lives, how your immune system responds, and how the matching process works.

Learn how and where osmosis takes place in the digestive system and excretory system and the role of osmosis in kidney dialysis.

Why does drinking too much alcohol make people feel so bad? Read about four theories.

Astronauts can experience bone loss in space. To understand why, you need to know a bit about how bones are formed and maintained in your body.

Put on your running shoes and sharpen your pencil! Investigate the mathematical connection between work and power in this hands-on activity.

Snake venom can be dangerous for your circulatory system, nervous system or muscular system. But it can also be very useful in medicine.

Scientists are training artificial intelligence to diagnose injuries using x-rays and other medical imagery of you (and millions of others). What improvements and other changes might this bring to the health care system?

Learn about forensic pathology and other methods scientists use, like analysing the skeletal system, to identify the dead after a disaster.