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 ...

Israel hits pots, missiles depots as rights groups sound alarm over worsening humanitarian conditions in northern Syria.

Syria’s new transitional Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir says one of his first goals is to “bring back the millions of Syrian refugees who are abroad”. Al-Bashir says Syrians need “stability and ...

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.