Modern humans have existed for over 200,000 years, and each new generation has begun with a single cell-dividing, changing shape and function, organizing into tissues, organs, and limbs.

The shortlist of 25 photos captures our changing world in extraordinary depth, from rooftop picnics to undersea greenhouses.

As New Scientist notes, previous studies have similarly captured the disparate “glowing” effect in living cells (and even individual body parts ... of monitoring human health and determining ...

Trouble is, that’s not true – so what actually does happen? If the human body were just a blob made up of a singular type of cell, then perhaps there would be at least some element of truth to ...

The Palos Verdes Estates Police confirmed that two more human body parts were discovered in the same area where a leg was found on Wednesday. A leg was found by a beachgoer just before 1 p.m. and ...

Materials that are in contact with food contain chemical substances that can migrate into food products and subsequently into the human body. Several of these substances have been studied ...

“An Estimation of the Number of Cells in the Human Body.” The authors–a team of scientists from Italy, Greece, and Spain–admit that they’re hardly the first people to tackle this questio ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has created a “super body” to promote human rights protection in the Philippines. On paper, the Special Committee on Human Rights Coordination looks impressive ...

For 150 years, 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit was thought to be the average body temperature for a healthy human being. But that number is wrong. “Doctors are no different from anybody else,” says ...

It’s just bags all the way down. A version of this article with the title “The Human Body Is Made of Bags” was adapted for inclusion in the June 2024 issue of Scientific American.

The headless, armless torso was found on Breezy Point Beach in Queens on Friday Getty A dismembered human body without a head or arms was discovered along a New York City beach this week.

The cat got her tongue — and everything else. Thought Toco the human collie was intense? An Italian woman has received a whopping 20 body modifications so she can realize her dream of ...