You don't have to be a genius: anemones have been using human genes to form their bodies for 600 million years.

The human body has always been crowded with microscopic passengers, from bacteria to viruses and fungi. Over the past two ...

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Queensland and Imperial College London, has proposed a new framework for scientists detecting and measuring microplastics in the human ...

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...

A newly developed imaging method blends ultrasound and photoacoustics to capture both tissue structure and blood-vessel function in 3D.

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

I grew up in rural Colorado, deep in the mountains, and I can still remember the first time I visited Denver in the early ...

Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’ ...

The human body is extraordinarily complex, with several openings and a few exits. But exactly how many holes does each person have? It sounds like a simple enough question to answer — list the ...

Air pollution, like ozone and PM2.5, significantly damages nearly every major human body system, impacting cardiovascular, ...