Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

Scientists found a virus-like living entity in human bodies named "obelisks" - small loops of RNA, each a thousand genetic ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

The world groans under the weight of humanity. It seems as if the human spirit has gone haywire. Can we tackle this problem ...

It wasn’t a typical anatomy lab. The small group of people gathered around a table at Southwest Minnesota State University ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the ... the second language of the human genome – one not written in its chemical letters ...

The 'Jersey Shore' star’s college pic prompted a thoughtful conversation about self-image — and how “we’re so hard on ourselves” ...

Today, everyone's constantly judging everyone else. This behaviour that often stems from insecurity can deepen our sense of isolation. Experts share how awareness and empathy can help us change that ...

During a complicated bone surgery, every second matters. The longer a wound is open, the more likely it is to become infected ...

Cancer treatment has always been a balancing act—hit the tumor hard enough to kill it, but not so hard that the patient ...

Many unique shark species are facing extinction - threatening ocean ecosystems and wiping out millions of years of evolution.

For generations, humans have linked sensations in our gut to our instinct and mood. Now a growing body of science is looking at whether the trillions of microbes, such as bacteria, that live in the ...