Even if you think you learned everything that you needed to know way back in biology class, everyone has knowledge gaps. And ...

Your anatomy operates like a machine, it's success hinging on the work of over 70 organs, each with a unique function. From the heart's blood-pumping ability to the liver's filtering power, each ...

So the mathematician's answer is that humans have either seven or eight holes. In the end, the question is not just about ...

Venture just outside Leiden in the Netherlands, and you'll spot a gigantic 115-foot-tall orange human figure looming beside ...

An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...

University of Manchester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The average body contains about 37 trillion cells – and we are in the midst of a revolutionary quest to understand what ...

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 ...

Superheroes may only exist in comics and movies, but some of these regular human abilities definitely qualify as superpowers. No, they’re not vampires, but people with a mutation of the DEC2 gene can ...

The processing center of our brains, the hypothalamus, is constantly trying to keep our bodies at a constant 37°C (98.6°F). Temperature receptors in the skin can help monitor the temperature, and when ...

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, ...

Human composting is the practice of breaking down human remains into fertile soil. The green burial movement, which is at the forefront of human composting, is an initiative dedicated to offering more ...