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 USA is incredibly diverse, with widely varying experiences between individuals in different parts of the country and within the same community across racial, ethnic, and cultural groups.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israel has killed 48 Palestinians and wounded 201 in the latest 24-hour reporting period.

Developer Starry Studio has revealed some of the details of a balance update for Once Human, scheduled to release on December 19. The free-to-play open-world survival game launched in July 2024 ...

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 ...