NASA has shared detailed insights on how space travel affects the human body, from radiation exposure to gravity changes.

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 ...

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.

And when I started medical school and started exploring the human body, I basically, as you said, brought that same perspective of a naturalist and a traveler discovering some new terrain. In this ...

Lungs are among the heaviest organs in the human body. The right lung typically weighs about 1.4 pounds (0.6 kg), while the left lung is slightly smaller and weighs approximately 1.25 pounds (0.56 ...

From 1950 until 2015, plastic production grew about 8.4 percent each year on average, according to an estimate published in the journal Science.Scientists have reported finding microplastic ...

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 ...

Human body communication (HBC) uses the human body to transmit power and data, much like the internet. Because it's a smaller and closed network, it has the benefit of being more secure and power ...

Interaction is the heart of Maryland Science Center human body exhibit ‘You - The Inside Story’ lets kids use all their senses to learn about how the body works. March 30, 2022 More than 3 ...