If you're one of the many people who saw the first 'Avatar' flick you probably wondered: what happened to Jake Sully's human ...

So the mathematician's answer is that humans have either seven or eight holes. In the end, the question is not just about ...

Some people believe we know everything about such thing as our body, since we study biology at school, read books, and watch popular videos on YouTube. Well, this is far from being true. The human ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...

Your anatomy operates like a machine, it's success hinging on the work of over 70 organs, each with a unique function. From the heart's blood-pumping ability to the liver's filtering power, each ...

Superheroes may only exist in comics and movies, but some of these regular human abilities definitely qualify as superpowers. No, they’re not vampires, but people with a mutation of the DEC2 gene can ...

An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...

In a recent study published in the journal PNAS, researchers examined the relationship between cell size and count across the human body, establishing a quantitative framework and uncovering ...

University of Manchester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The average body contains about 37 trillion cells – and we are in the midst of a revolutionary quest to understand what ...

On March 2, 2016, at around 9 A.M. local time, in Kazakhstan, Scott Kelly plunged through the Earth’s atmosphere in a Soyuz spacecraft travelling at seventeen thousand miles an hour. As expected, ...

Human composting is the practice of breaking down human remains into fertile soil. The green burial movement, which is at the forefront of human composting, is an initiative dedicated to offering more ...