The brain’s sense of “this is my body” is tightly bound to conscious awareness – far more than many theories assume.

Wall St. Insights Many body parts can be transplanted or replaced with artificial equivalents, including corneas, livers, ...

Did you know that we are still discovering completely new parts of the human body? In the last decade, we've uncovered ...

Word spread among the Alutiiq children in Larsen Bay, Alaska: An anthropologist from Washington, D.C., would pay them 10 cents to find him human bones. Ales Hrdlicka, a Smithsonian anthropologist, ...

Certain drugs can produce an out-of-body experience, so can a pulse of electricity if it's sent to the right place in the brain. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on a brain area that seems to keep us ...

The truth about male nipples and armpit hair. June 4, 2014— -- intro: Every day, people have their tonsils, appendix, and wisdom teeth removed--and after the pain subsides, they proceed without a ...

What's the sweatiest part of your body? It's not your armpits--it's your upper back, according to a new study from the University of Loughborough. The least sweaty regions? Your hands, fingers, and ...