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 ...

What you might perceive as a flaw could actually be your secret weapon in the charm department. Human beauty is wonderfully ...

When ultra-runners lace up for races that stretch hundreds of miles and days, they're not merely testing their mental grit ...

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

The research, published today in Current Biology, showed that ultramarathoners can burn an astounding 11,000 calories per day ...

In conversation with professor Alia Crum, Sakamoto explores the psychology of how our everyday mindsets shape meaning.

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

A new study reveals a metabolic ceiling - an upper limit to how much energy the human body can sustain over time, no matter ...

Inspired by the human eye, our biomedical engineering lab at Georgia Tech has designed an adaptive lens made of soft, ...

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 ...