Cole Stinebiser encountered at least one dead body — a deceased woman found in a home — during his brief career as a ...

Beneath the surface of your gut lies a vast network of neurons—as many as in your spinal cord. New research from the ...

People with higher muscle mass and a lower visceral fat-to-muscle ratio tend to have younger brains, according to research ...

Donating your body to medical science means it is used to benefit medical teaching and research. Donor bodies are used to teach medical and other health science students the relationship between syste ...

Takanori Takebe’s strange investigation into whether humans can use the gut for breathing has surprisingly sentimental origins: helping his dad.

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought ...

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought ...

These three fish are freaks, phantoms and mysteries of the deep. Here’s what we’ve learned from the rare glimpses we’ve had ...

Vestigial organs are anatomical structures that have lost all or most of their original evolutionary function. They represent remnants of organs that were functional in ancestral species but became ...

I sometimes try to picture when Addis Ababa truly wakes. Is it when the first cars start honking, or hours earlier, when the streets still belong to those who ...

Human Buddy is an animated show that explores the wonders of the human body in a fun and entertaining style, similar to SolarBalls and MrSpherical. The series focuses on various aspects of the human ...

For more than a century, medical students have memorized the same map of the human body, confident that every major structure ...