Human Body

Here’s a totally silly look at the absurd ways that our bodies fail us. Aisha Madu’s short animation, Bodily…

It may not look like it but the image of a feather you see above is actually comprised of thousands and thousands of…

It's one of the most addictive things humans can do. Everyone does it. And it feels so good when you get to do it.…

Common in the US, rare in Europe and now championed in Africa, male circumcision is hotly debated. Are the gains…

The human body is such a magnificent thing. Just check out this video that shows how our immune system works. When a…

Yikes. Here's an animation that uses knives, botox needles and liposuction to completely makeover a woman's body…

Since the early days of medicine, it's been a huge challenge to communicate anatomical discovery with an audience…

If you ask men and women what they think the perfect body is, you're going to get two very different answers. It's…

It's a pumping lung in a box, basically. Al Jazeera America specifies that its more properly known as the Organ Care…

Don't worry, what you're looking at isn't exactly real but actually a full replica of fatty tissue in a human body.…

As Minute Earth rightly points out, we could avoid a lot of flesh wounds by having thicker armored skin like a pangol…

Scale is kind of important when comparing two things. By some measures, one human body is way smaller than the whole…

No, this isn't footage from a particularly grotesque alien invasion film. It's stroboscopic footage from a…

Say some maniacal world leader finally hits the big red button. Or maybe a terrorist takes out the local nuclear…

Those who are easily distracted from the task in hand may have "too much brain".

Lightpainting requires a certain sort of skill to get the sort of marvellous results we've seen previously, but…

Scientists have found the reason why our body temperature is 98.6° Fahrenheit (37°C). Apparently it's the perfect…

Scientists have discovered that shorter people burn more energy when they walk than tall people do. By measuring…

Currently, if a cardiac patient's heart rate gets too high the implanted defibrillator in their chest gives them a…

"While the human body has never been equaled [in] all-around master engineering, a number of glaring weaknesses do…