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 ...

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.

But we’ve learned quite a lot of fascinating things about the human body this year, too, in relation to topics ranging from eye and uterus transplants to vitamin D levels and aging.

If the human body were just a blob made up of a singular type of cell, then perhaps there would be at least some element of truth to the popular misconception – every seven years or so, they ...