The human body is a complex ecosystem bustling with microorganisms, many of which are vital for our health. Among them, gut ...

Take a look around your home and you'll find yourself surrounded by familiar comforts—photos of family and friends on the ...

According to the experts, humans will look a lot more uniform in the future. They predict the average person will have darker ...

Our brains are increasingly plastic. Minuscule shards and flakes of polymers are surprisingly abundant in brain tissue, a study of postmortem brains shows.

Consciousness is a private affair. We can only infer that others have conscious experiences like we do, for essentially three ...

Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. And his goal of achieving "symbiosis" with artificial intelligence starts with a ...

One recent analysis found that, over the course of three years, people taking semaglutide (the compound in Ozempic and the ...

A colorized computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain revealing blood vessels in the brain. A new study finds microplastics accumulate at higher levels in human brains than in the liver and kidneys.

Earlier studies done mostly on mice discovered that the brain had a system that flushed its tissues with cerebrospinal fluid, which carried away waste products in a process called glymphatic clearance ...