Recent weeks have seen record-breaking heat on three separate continents. The United States clocked the largest number of heat warnings ever, parts of China simultaneously roasted, and Europe’s ...

A 16-year-old boy lifts a Volkswagen off his pinned neighbor. A mother fights off a polar bear to protect her children. A daughter heaves an overturned tractor from atop her father. These feats are ...

The surgeon made headlines for claiming he amputated his legs after developing sepsis, before a horrific truth involving body mutilation pornography and his connection to a man dubbed the "eunuch ...

A surgeon who falsely claimed his legs had been amputated due to illness rather than a self-inflicted injury for his own sexual gratification has been jailed for 32 months. Neil Hopper carried out ...

A vascular surgeon who carried out hundreds of amputation operations before having his own legs removed has admitted fraud and possessing extreme pornography from a man dubbed the “Eunuch Maker”. Neil ...

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It is well known that heat causes exhaustion in the body due to dehydration. But aging? A recent study concluded that extreme heat accelerates the aging of the human body, a worrying fact given the ...

A brain-imaging study of people with amputated arms has upended a long-standing belief: that the brain’s map of the body reorganizes itself to compensate for missing body parts. Previous research had ...

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New research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Cambridge University upends a long-standing belief about brain plasticity. A study published today in Nature Neuroscience shows ...