The human body is approximately 99% comprised of just six elements: Oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, calcium, and phosphorus. Another five elements make up about 0.85% of the remaining mass ...

But that's not the case; the complex systems that make up our bodies have ... There are more hydrogen atoms in the human body than any other element, but it makes up just 9% to 10% of our bodies ...

Have you ever wondered how many elements there are in a human body? Would you be surprised to hear that today ... and then my mind started to wander (as is its wont) and I ended up blundering into ...

At the smallest level, the human body is made up of particles ... provides the origin of the lightest elements: hydrogen and helium, which still make up 98% of today's Universe.

Some of the elements used in fireworks are also ... scientists say Calcium is the most plentiful mineral in the human body and is used to make orange fireworks. Calcium enables a range of body ...

Stars that go supernova are responsible for creating many of the elements of the periodic table, including those that make up the human body. Planetary scientist and stardust expert Dr Ashley King ...

You might think of yourself as a collection of your macroscopic organs and the cells that make them up. That you ... made of just a few elements. By weight, the human body is: 65% oxygen, 18.5 ...

Astrophysicist Suzanna Randall explains where the elements in our body come from in this episode of "Starlight" from the European Southern Observatory. Credit: ESO Directed by: Martin Wallner ...

That’s the hardest substance in the human body ... strongest bones in your body. Bone is made of living tissue. Collagen and a mineral called calcium phosphate make up most of your bone structure.