Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

A strange, contagious cancer is threatening Tasmanian devils, but researchers’ fight is fueling breakthroughs in science, ...

The Forbidden Experiment” is about a totally unsocialized child who wandered into a French village in 1800 and the doctor who treated him ...

From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...

A joint research team led by Professors Jaesok Yu, Hoejoon Kim, and Sanghoon Lee of the Department of Robotics and ...

What if a doctor could inject an electricity-conducting liquid into the body, let it temporarily solidify to record nerve ...

Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types. Now, researchers have succeeded for the first time in recreating this ...

Research shows the battle to keep weight off isn’t about willpower—it’s biology. Here’s how scientists say we can work with our bodies, not against them. Our bodies evolved to survive famine, not ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine welcomes the historic decision by the Dutch Senate to phase out public funding for primate experiments at the Biomedical Primate ...

Putting people into sleep mode is a sci-fi concept that's a lot closer to becoming real than you might think. Erin Belback is part of an ongoing human trial backed by NASA that aims to replicate the ...

Researchers discovered that altering the body’s natural rhythm can help protect the brain from Alzheimer’s damage. By turning off a circadian protein in mice, they raised NAD+ levels and reduced ...

This course explores the history of the scientific study of the human body from ancient Greece and Rome to the present. It examines the ways in which different communities sought to study, control, ...