A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

A simple light-based method is uncovering hidden fiber networks inside the brain and body, even in tissue slides over 100 years old.

For as long as she could remember, Dina Radenkovic was a meticulous planner, determined to leave as little as possible to ...

There are no documented survivors of Unit 731, the covert department of the imperial Japanese army that conducted lethal ...

An investigation into the case of a Michigan man who contracted rabies after an organ transplant has provided more details on how the organ donor became infected – and who else was exposed. A Centers ...

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In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...

We may have found a new organ, thanks to Cancer therapy! Join us as Hank Green explains these new human body discoveries, plus a new look at how anxiety and depression affect the brain, thanks to ...