Science writer Mary Roach chronicles both the history and the latest science of body part replacement in her new book. She ...

A team of University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers have identified a pathway to help the human body defend itself ...

In his hand he holds a beating heart, which he is busy severing from the blood vessels connecting it to its body. The organ is being removed from a pig—an animal whose ... As Mary Roach tells us in ...

In a recent interview, Roach spoke from her home in Oakland’s Glenview neighborhood. She says the entry points to writing “Replaceable You” were two stories that could be considered prototypes for ...

Join curious siblings Dana and Danny on their most exciting adventure yet—inside the human body! From the beating heart to the thinking brain, the breathing lungs to the digesting stomach—Dana and ...

Emma Stone takes her craft seriously — so seriously, in fact, that her commitment to one role temporarily altered her body. The Oscar-winning actor, known for films like “Easy A,” and Disney’s ...

It might sound like sci-fi, but doctors in China have taken a bold step forward in xenotransplantation - transplanting organs between species. In a remarkable first, surgeons in Guangzhou Medical ...

Just like shrimp, prawns are used in a variety of cuisines and can be prepared in many ways. While prawns have nutritional benefits, they’re a source of cholesterol and may be contaminated by ...

Nervous systems coordinate effectors across the body during movements. We know little about the cellular-level structure of synaptic circuits for such body-wide control. Here, we describe the ...

Abstract: This paper addresses the challenge of novel view synthesis for a human performer from a very sparse set of camera views. Some recent works have shown that learning implicit neural ...