Over time, plastics break into smaller and smaller fragments called microplastics and — when they’re invisible to the naked eye — nanoplastics. The human body’s mechanisms ...

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Human anatomy is far from complete, with ongoing discoveries reshaping understanding of variation, structure, and disease.

The Human Organ Atlas gives an extremely detailed look at 56 human organs, scanned with the help of a particle accelerator.

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

HHS and EPA announce a joint effort to tackle microplastics and pharmaceuticals in the nation's water supply, citing a growing public health crisis.

Some people say that today there are almost no "blank spots" left on our planet - that is, places completely unexplored by humans. And therefore, supposedly, life today has become more boring than, ...

The human body is often described as a marvel of "perfect design": elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...

Even if you think you learned everything that you needed to know way back in biology class, everyone has knowledge gaps. And often you’re not even aware that they exist. There are tons of things we ...

If scientists could shrink themselves to microscopic size and take a journey through the human body—like the submarine crew ...