We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

However, the largest organ in the human body is actually external, it’s the skin. Covering your entire body, the skin serves as a crucial barrier between you and the outside world.

Staged at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting marks the most extensive UK museum solo dedicated to the artist, tracing her decades-long investigation of the ...

The artist has built a career treating anatomy as a canvas, as much as a subject.

These stories are about some of the body parts that you share with everyone else on the planet, but which rarely see the ...

We’re all unique in our own way, but some people have features that really stand out. Whether it’s a rare trait or something ...

One review looked at 700 body parts that were eponyms, or named after people. There were 432 people's names around the body (as some names are connected to multiple parts). Of these, 424 were men.

The British painter has dedicated her career to depicting human flesh, especially that of women, with deep empathy.

Scientists found that vitamin C doesn't just protect skin from damage - it actually turns on sleeping genes that help make ...

Sharpen your edge with four books that make you a standout in any room, covering science, history, psychology, and the future ...

The first big heat wave of the summer has sent millions in the US looking for a way to cool down, but one expert says taking a cold shower could be a fatal mistake.

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...