The human body is a wonderous thing, especially when you consider how intricate and efficient each bodily system is. For instance, an adult’s blood vessels could encircle the earth 2.5 times if ...

Your kidneys are like filters. Your brain is like a computer. Your digestive system is like a tube. Your hands are controlled a bit like a marionette. These comparisons exist in part because doctors ...

Space X’s highly anticipated Polaris Dawn mission is set to launch later this summer – with an all-civilian crew. And a big part of their mission is researching how space changes the human body.

Researchers have uncovered strange and unprecedented entities living within the human body, entities they have named ...

The amount of plastic all around us is a rising threat to the health of all living things. According to the National Institute of Health, microplastic particles have been found to cause significant ...