Due to its near-translucent appearance, the internal organs of the newly discovered creature shine through its body.

Your anatomy operates like a machine, it's success hinging on the work of over 70 organs, each with a unique function. From the heart's blood-pumping ability to the liver's filtering power, each ...

At the mouth of an underground river in southern China, a cave creature with "visible" internal organs moved "slowly" through ...

Ultrasound is a convenient, noninvasive tool for doctors to look inside the human body and check out a person’s liver, heart and other internal structures, as well as the developing fetus of a ...

The works in “Body Without Organs” are, overall, a far cry from the sentimental neo-Mannerist trends in painting today, and that is what makes this curatorial statement truly exciting. It’s like that ...

Most of us think little of why we feel pleasantly full after eating a big holiday meal, why we start to cough after accidentally inhaling campfire smoke, or why we are hit with sudden nausea after ...

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Forget emotional baggage — you’re hauling around spare parts. Turns out, you don’t need all 78 of your organs to get through life, which comes in handy when surgeons have to start making cuts.

WASHINGTON, April 19 (Reuters) - The relationship between the human mind and body has been a subject that has challenged great thinkers for millennia, including the philosophers Aristotle and ...