Perhaps the most shocking discovery of all, he found parts of Alex’s hand. It was clasped to the backside of the driver’s ...

Dr. Erica Brozovsky of Otherwords explained the Latin-Germanic origins of body part names and how they turned into the words ...

“The exact reason these became vestigial is difficult to tell, as our ancestors lost this ability about 25 million years ago, ...

A sci-fi adventure that combines TTRPG gameplay elements with intense, real world distress.

UChicago scientists are making major progress on a technology designed to give nuanced “feeling” to prosthetic hands, by ...

Astronauts experience changes in time perception when they undergo microgravity. A new study shows that lying in a head-down ...

This age-old connection, based on the notion that celestial forces affect our physical being, provides intriguing ...

profoundly impacting food intake and body weight. Can memory influence what and how much we eat? A groundbreaking Monell Chemical Senses Centerstudy, which links food memory to overeating ...

Why we have body parts we don't need is simple. According to the Harvard Health website, they were most likely necessary at one point but eventually became nonessential through evolution.

Our new study explored a different possibility – that laws about bodily damage are rooted in something universal about human nature: shared intuitions about the value of body parts. Do people across ...

Do people across cultures and throughout history agree on which body parts are more or less valuable? Until now, no one had systematically tested whether body parts are valued similarly across ...

It’s a common mistake. “Think about the last time you had a really bad cold, with a stuffy nose,” writes Jonas Olofsson in “The Forgotten Sense.” “Didn’t your morning coffee taste ...