Human Buddy is a new animated show that explores the wonders of the human body. With a fun and entertaining style reminiscent ...

Five vital organs are essential for life, but survival is more medically complex.

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

Illustration of a human body anatomy and internal organs. Each figure drawing is on a different layer. It’s probably not so much that pathologies themselves have changed that much during the last few ...

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 ...

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

Ultra-endurance athletes can push their bodies to extraordinary extremes, but even they run into a hard biological wall. Researchers tracked ultra-runners, cyclists, and triathletes over weeks and ...

Within seconds, oxygen vanishes, fluids boil, and tissue ruptures. This is the reality astronauts train never to face — the science of how the vacuum of space unravels the human body.

A multidisciplinary team has uncovered a key mechanism that allows the human bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae—responsible for ...

As humans prepare for longer missions to the moon and Mars, scientists are trying to understand how space affects the human body. One of the biggest concerns is space radiation — high-energy particles ...