Nearly 17% of the world's croplands are contaminated with "heavy metals," according to a new study in Science. These ...

The human body is an amazing thing, but there's no doubt that it's also capable of some pretty gross stuff. There's a reason ...

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

Several Montgomery County parents said in court filings that exposing their kids to the new books at school violated their ...

This valuable study combines real-time keypoint tracking with transdermal activation of sensory neurons to investigate sensory neuron recruitment in freely moving mice, and builds on the authors' ...

As soon as I found out I was pregnant, I knew I wanted an abortion. The immediate decision didn’t come from fear or confusion ...

One held a biocompatible plastic that, when printed, would form the interlocking structure of a scaffold—the skeleton, essentially—of a printed human organ or body part. The others could be ...

By stimulating thousands of individual cone cells, researchers made volunteers see a blue-green color of "unprecedented ...

A 52-year-old Florida woman was recently arrested after she knowingly bought and sold human bones online, police say. Kymberlee Anne Schopper of Deltona was charged with trading in human tissue ...

The newly described method and prototype machine is called the Oz Vision System, (a not-so-subtle nod to reaching somewhere ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

Police discovered one of Gene and Betsy's surviving dogs near her body at their Santa Fe residence ... from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Gene, who married Betsy in 1991 ...