Fear begins deep in the brain. The amygdala, buried within the temporal lobe, acts as an alarm system, detecting threats and ...

Using an ultra-high-resolution imaging technology called 7 Tesla functional MRI (fMRI) on human participants, researchers ...

There are 118 elements on the period i c table, and you might think we are made up of many of them. But that's not the case; the complex systems that make up our bodies have a surprisingly simple ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, has uncovered a ...

An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...

The 17th century Evelyn Tables show real human nerves and veins, dried on wooden boards. Designers on the new Netflix film ...

Few places on Earth — or in our bodies — seem to be free of microplastics. Researchers in recent months have announced the discovery of microplastics traveling in the bloodstream of a handful of ...

As humanity prepares for longer missions beyond Earth, scientists are uncovering unsettling truths about how space reshapes the human body. Among the most affected systems is the immune system, which ...

When you feel pain shooting through a joint midway through a squat or feel a strain in your muscle that you’re afraid will ...