Ever looked in the mirror and wondered what incredible, and sometimes unsettling, secrets your own body might be holding?

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Olympic sport is built on the promise of faster, higher and stronger. But as records tighten, experts are asking whether the ...

A new imaging breakthrough combines ultrasound and light-based techniques to generate vivid 3D images that show both tissue ...

Muscles make up nearly 40% of the human body and power every move we make, from a child's first steps to recovery after ...

The human body is extraordinarily complex, with several openings and a few exits. But exactly how many holes does each person have? It sounds like a simple enough question to answer — list the ...

As much as we would like to, we don't have all the answers.

In this week’s episode of Space Minds, we explore how microgravity accelerates aging—and guest Dr. Nadia Maarouf shares her insights on the phenomenon and what she’s doing to help protect astronauts.

From molecular chaperones to mitochondrial failure, discover how heat reshapes the human transcriptome and drives the biological cascade that links rising temperatures to organ injury and public ...

On March 2, 2016, at around 9 A.M. local time, in Kazakhstan, Scott Kelly plunged through the Earth’s atmosphere in a Soyuz spacecraft travelling at seventeen thousand miles an hour. As expected, ...