A novel biochemical analysis of a Renaissance medical text has successfully recovered centuries-old proteins that might be ...

Human perception is multisensory, with dozens of interacting senses shaping how we experience taste, movement, balance, and the world around us. Neuroscientists increasingly treat perception as a ...

Over the past year, scientists have searched brain tissue, arteries and even joints for the presence of microplastics. The tiny particles, they have found, are ubiquitous in the human body - littering ...

Many natural compounds that act on the human body provide active ingredients for medicines or clues for developing them, and ...

A virus that infects nearly all children early in life has, in rare cases, been present within human DNA for thousands of ...

Some scientists are coming out against the studies that claimed to have found alarming amounts of microplastics in human ...

A partial skeleton weighing just 70 pounds is bridging a critical gap in the fossil record and redefining the timeline of ...

In the classic 1975 British comedy film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," King Arthur battles a mysterious Black Knight who ...

The quest for longevity and vitality has captivated humanity for millennia, but only in recent decades has science begun to unravel the biological mechanisms underlying ageing. Today’s anti-ageing ...

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

“There’s enough data out there to say that beige fat is good for human health,” says Bruce Spiegelman, a researcher at the ...

Science writer Mary Roach returns to Bullseye. She joins us to talk about her latest book: Replaceable You: Adventures in ...