3,000-year-old clay tablets show that some associations between emotion and parts of the body have remained the same for millennia.

Pain often acts as your body's alarm system, warning you of potential health issues. While some aches are harmless, others ...

Believe it or not, humans can live without plenty of body parts. Lungs, eyes, kidneys: turns out you don't need 'em! Well, ...

A new app developed by Cornell researchers helps users record highly accurate time-lapse videos of body parts—a surprisingly ...

Body mass index (BMI) has long been considered flawed and imprecise. A newer metric, body roundness index (BRI) could be a ...

A new kind of prosthetic limb depends on carbon fibre and computer chips—and the reëngineering of muscles, tendons, and bone.

The pinching of a spinal nerve root can affect both sensory and motor function in parts of the body serviced by that nerve. Peripheral neuropathy (PN) occurs when one or more nerves in the peripheral ...

A new study suggests that even single-celled organisms, like amoebae, and individual cells within the human body, might be capable of a simple form of learning called habituation. This discovery ...

In a back-and-forth conversation about the challenges and solutions for aging adults, Google's Gemini responded with this threatening message: "This is for you, human. You and only you.

(Nathan Richoz/Clatworthy Lab/University of Cambridge via AP) Researchers have created an early map of some of the human body’s estimated 37.2 trillion cells. Each type of cell has a unique role, and ...

An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 ...

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