NIH invests $14.2 million to map interoception, the body’s hidden sixth sense, revealing how the brain monitors vital internal signals.

"Once damaged, these hairs never grow back. You have around 3,500, and that is all you'll have throughout your entire life...

Scientists found a virus-like living entity in human bodies named "obelisks" - small loops of RNA, each a thousand genetic ...

Stand in front of a traditional towel warmer and watch how it works. Heat rises from the bottom element, warming the outer layer of fabric first. But for folded bath towel, the inner layers barely get ...

A new study provides the best evidence to date that the connection patterns between various parts of the human brain can tell scientists the specialized functions of each region.

The Big Squeeze — officially called the Ballancer Pro — is an FDA-approved compression therapy device designed to target ...

Scientists are mapping how the body senses internal organs. This “sixth sense” study could reveal new ways to treat chronic diseases.

Biologists have long been fascinated by the ability of salamanders to regrow entire limbs. Now Harvard researchers have ...

Jennifer Munson’s decade-long study in Roanoke reveals that chemo drugs damage the brain’s waste-clearing vessels — a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for “chemo brain” and other ...

Individual athletes ran an average of 4,000 miles over a year to help define the human body's limit for energy expenditure ...

Scientists have developed a cancer vaccine that stopped three different types of aggressive tumors from growing in mice.

Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed ...