In order to learn more, NewsCenter 5 spoke to Dr. Paul Dellaripa, a rheumatologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, who talked about the impact of wildfire smoke on the human body.

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 ...

Researchers with the global Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium report significant progress in their quest for a better understanding of the cells of the human body in health and disease, with the ...

Relentless heat can take a toll on the human body. People who have chronic health conditions, those who work outdoors, and those who are pregnant, young, or very old, are at a particularly high ...

With two studies dropping just this week about the dangers of microplastics in the body, it's becoming ever more evident that if someone figures out how to remove them, they're going to make a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The human body is a wonderous thing, especially when you consider how intricate and efficient each bodily system is. For instance, an adult’s blood vessels could encircle the earth 2.5 times if ...

For decades, 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit has been the widely accepted “normal” average temperature for the human body. But new research adds to the growing body of evidence that humans actually ...

To count the number of cells in the human body, Ian Hatton at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany and his colleagues analysed over 1500 scientific papers ...