Over the past few years, studies have suggested that plastic particles from bottles, food packaging and waste have been ...

These fibers can be found in every tissue we have, underlying every organ’s function and dysfunction.

Size matters” sounds like a tabloid cliché, but for evolutionary biologists the size of the human penis is truly a puzzle. Compared to other great apes, such as chimpanzees and go ...

Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’ ...

In a proof-of-concept study funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC ...

Breathing in air pollution and smog like ozone and PM2.5 harms nearly every major system in the human body. But is enough ...

A multidisciplinary team has uncovered a key mechanism that allows the human bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae—responsible for atypical pneumonia and other respiratory infections—to obtain cholesterol ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...