When humans sustain an injury like a cut our first instinct is to ensure it doesn't get infected. We make sure it's clean and as it heals, a scar takes its place. Scars are part of life, or at least ...

I visited a body farm and an anatomy lab to see what the process looks like at its best. Rebecca George doesn’t mind the vultures. They remind her of toddlers as they rustle their feathers in ...

Most of us never get to see the inner workings of our bodies. Sometimes we get tiny glimpses when our bodily fluids make an appearance in the outside world—like a runny nose, a bleeding paper cut. But ...