A new study found that the sea anemone, a member of the Cnidarian phylum, uses bilaterian-like techniques to form its body.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Hoping to someday stave off immune rejection after xenotransplantation, researchers at New York University's Langone ...

NASA has been studying the effects of space on human health for over 50 years, focusing on how zero gravity, lack of fresh ...

For example, in the 1890s, anatomist Robert Wiedersheim published a list of 86 human "vestiges," or body parts that had "lost their original physiological significance" to humans.

The study, published in the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, reads: ‘For over 500 years, Leonardo da Vinci’s geometric ...

Science of the Human Body" exhibit at Liberty Science Center teaches kids the science behind the body's nastier functions ...

In science fiction, spaceships moving at or beyond lightspeed enable all manner of universal exploration. But in Earth-bound reality, traveling at the speed of light (299,792,458 meters per second ...

NASA has listed the five largest dangers to humans in space. The difficulties are categorised under the term "RIDGE".

An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 researchers profiling more than 100 million cells.

As global temperatures rise and heat waves become more frequent and intense, understanding how to stay safe in the heat is no ...