The microbiome isn’t what it used to be in many parts of the world. The shift of species may be affecting the well-being of ...

Scientists found that prolonged fasting triggers major changes throughout the body, but many of the most interesting effects only appeared after about three days without food. The results suggest ...

For well over a century, doctors dismissed a horseshoe-shaped structure next to the ovary as useless evolutionary junk, but ...

Most implants like pacemakers and insulin pumps work in isolation. To help them coordinate with each other, a team of Georgia Tech researchers built a networking system that sends signals through body ...

The T. Rex Had a Body Temperature Similar to Our Own, Study Finds NEW YORK (AP) — Using fossilized teeth, scientists have finally taken the T. rex's temperature — and it wasn't too different from our ...

Neuroscientists have made a major advance in modeling the human brain in mice, offering a new way to study conditions like cerebral palsy. Ethicists ask if it changes how these mice should be treated.

Plastics are everywhere. They are in our food packaging and kitchen tools, the clothes we wear, the air in our homes and workplaces, and in our watersheds and oceans. Although large-scale plastic ...

Many of the body's biggest flaws are the result of evolution building on old designs instead of starting over. Our spine, eyes, teeth, pelvis, and even certain nerves all reveal compromises that ...

Some discoveries change the way we view the human body. In 2021, researchers described what they saw when they had examined skin-biopsy samples that included tattoos: The ink particles had traveled ...

This time it’s personal . . . . It’s next to impossible to walk through “Costume Art,” the Met’s blockbuster fashion exhibition, as an impassive observer. Active looking is more than encouraged, it’s ...

Have you ever wondered which part of the human body might be the strongest? Is it your neck, your chest, or maybe your legs? The answer might be far stranger than you think! Traditionally, we think ...

The human body is often described as a marvel of “perfect design”: elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, when we look closer, a rather different picture emerges. Far from being a ...