Researchers studying tattoo ink accidentally stumbled upon evidence of a vast microscopic fluid network inside the human body that some scientists now believe could reshape medicine itself.

Scientists have discovered that the human body undergoes a dramatic internal transformation during extended fasting, with major changes appearing only after about three days without food. In a ...

Coffee is a much-loved beverage, with 2.25 billion cups consumed worldwide every day. Beyond its taste and social appeal (it ...

Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...

Many body parts can be transplanted or replaced with artificial equivalents, including corneas, livers, hearts, joints, and even entire faces. This technology will improve by leaps and bounds ...

In a recent study published in the journal PNAS, researchers examined the relationship between cell size and count across the human body, establishing a quantitative framework and uncovering ...

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Humans are hoping to colonize Mars in the near future, with NASA aiming to reach the Red Planet by 2040. But what will the long-haul space missions needed to get there do to the human body? Our ...

At a time of increasing anxiety about physical anatomy, figurative sculptors are breathing new life into one of the world’s oldest media. By Zoë Lescaze IT’S A CONFUSING time to have a body. On the ...

On March 2, 2016, at around 9 A.M. local time, in Kazakhstan, Scott Kelly plunged through the Earth’s atmosphere in a Soyuz spacecraft travelling at seventeen thousand miles an hour. As expected, ...