Funny NSFW Animations Show the Absurd Ways Our Bodies Can Go Wrong
Here’s a totally silly look at the absurd ways that our bodies fail us. Aisha Madu’s short animation, Bodily…
This feather is actually made up of thousands of naked human bodies
It may not look like it but the image of a feather you see above is actually comprised of thousands and thousands of…
MRI video reveals what it actually looks like when you crack your joints
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.…
The Troubled History Of The Foreskin
Common in the US, rare in Europe and now championed in Africa, male circumcision is hotly debated. Are the gains worth…
Watch white blood cells swarm and attack a parasite
The human body is such a magnificent thing. Just check out this video that shows how our immune system works. When a…
Plastic surgery looks really horrible in this animation (because it is)
Yikes. Here's an animation that uses knives, botox needles and liposuction to completely makeover a woman's body until…
29 Anatomical Models That Will Haunt Your Dreams Tonight
Since the early days of medicine, it's been a huge challenge to communicate anatomical discovery with an audience…
Here are the perfect male and female bodies, according to men and women
If you ask men and women what they think the perfect body is, you're going to get two very different answers. It's…
How a human lung is kept alive and breathing for a transplant
It's a pumping lung in a box, basically. Al Jazeera America specifies that its more properly known as the Organ Care…
A single pound of human body fat looks horrifyingly vile
Don't worry, what you're looking at isn't exactly real but actually a full replica of fatty tissue in a human body. Not…
A Detailed Description of Why Human Skin Is Amazing
As Minute Earth rightly points out, we could avoid a lot of flesh wounds by having thicker armored skin like a pangolin.…
Your Body Isn't That Much Smaller Than The Whole World
Scale is kind of important when comparing two things. By some measures, one human body is way smaller than the whole…
Behold the bizarre alien creature that is the human vocal cords
No, this isn't footage from a particularly grotesque alien invasion film. It's stroboscopic footage from a…
What Nuclear Radiation Does To Your Body
Say some maniacal world leader finally hits the big red button. Or maybe a terrorist takes out the local nuclear…
Easily Distracted People May Have Too Much Brain
Those who are easily distracted from the task in hand may have "too much brain".
Ghostly Lightpainting Uses a Cross-Sectioned Video of an Executed Convict's Body as Light Source
Lightpainting requires a certain sort of skill to get the sort of marvellous results we've seen previously, but Croix…
Why the Human Body Temperature Is 98.6 Degrees
Scientists have found the reason why our body temperature is 98.6° Fahrenheit (37°C). Apparently it's the perfect…
Scientific proof that short people have one advantage over tall people
Scientists have discovered that shorter people burn more energy when they walk than tall people do. By measuring how…
Body Organs Can Send Status Updates To Your Cellphone
Currently, if a cardiac patient's heart rate gets too high the implanted defibrillator in their chest gives them a…
If 1950s Men Redesigned the Human Form, We'd Be Horrors
"While the human body has never been equaled [in] all-around master engineering, a number of glaring weaknesses do…