Researchers have uncovered strange and unprecedented entities living within the human body, entities they have named “obelisks.” These mysterious forms, first identified through cutting-edge ...

A group of Dutch scientists believe they have discovered a brand new organ in the human body. It’s an impossibly small set of glands, dubbed “tubarial glands,” that sit in the skull where ...

A new study found that the sea anemone, a member of the Cnidarian phylum, uses bilaterian-like techniques to form its body.

If you added up the skin on a human adult, it would weigh between six and nine pounds and cover an average of 22 square feet. We have three layers of skin that serve different purposes. The Epidermis: ...

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 ...

Scientists say they’ve discovered a new organ — possibly the human body’s largest — and it was hiding in plain sight, according to a new study.

Description: Mysteries of the Human Body A human body book with a twist – discover the science behind the weird and unusual stuff our bodies can do from Dr Azmain Chowdhury, with illustrations ...

At 15 microns thick, the newly discovered layer of material is so small that even calling it a new body part feels inappropriate. That’s what it is, though. A new body part. Right there in your eye.

Using a new microscopic technique scientists have identified a previously unknown human anatomical feature. Dubbed the interstitium, the discovery reveals that what was previously thought to be ...

Scientists found that embryonic skin cells “whisper” through faint mechanical tugs, using the same force-sensing proteins ...

The body will expand the number of fat cells and the size of fat cells to accommodate excess energy from high-calorie foods. It will even go so far as to start depositing fat cells on our muscles, ...