The human body is a walking wonder—packed with secret features, bizarre abilities, and mind-blowing facts that most people have never even heard of.From strange built-in defenses to mysterious inner ...

We’ll understand if you’re puzzled by the eerie image below. It’s a tiny piece of the Lassa virus, which can double a person over in pain, make their head swell and, in some cases, quickly result in ...

An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would ...

Thanks to a growing body of Antarctic research, scientists are beginning to understand what journeys on the coldest continent ...

It's pretty commonly known that education about the human body isn't as in-depth as it should be in traditional schooling. So Reddit user u/assassinmice was compelled to create this thread asking ...

Cat Bohannon's "Eve" is vaguely intimidating. Fine, more than a little intimidating. It's more than 600 pages, promising to cover 200 million years of human evolution. The young adult adaptation, just ...

The human body is truly amazing. Did you know that when we're born, we have around 300 bones, yet by the time we grow up, some of them fuse together and we're left with only about 206? What's more, ...

Share on Pinterest The human body experiences rapid changes around age 50, according to a new study. Maskot/Getty Images Past studies show that human aging doesn’t necessarily happen at the same pace ...

Stephanie Wright is a senior lecturer in environmental toxicology in the Environmental Research Group, School of Public Health, Imperial College London. Cassandra Rauert is a senior research fellow at ...