A new study by Prof. Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

Taste, tears, and tipsiness, oh my! These are the fascinating ways your body changes while at cruising altitude on flights.

The human body relies on an internal thermostat, primarily governed by the hypothalamus, to maintain a stable temperature around 37 degrees Celsius. But this balance is challenged in hot and humid ...

While traditionally linked to human studies, research focused on the self in animals ... Emerging evidence suggests a broader spectrum of self-related features across species, yet current theoretical ...

Police on March 19, 1986, said the body possibly floated down the river during weekend flooding and was carried to the pond by high floodwater. State police contacted 35 police departments ...

It works by blocking the production of a specific protein, which leads to reduced toxic disease byproducts in the human body. But when mosquitoes drink blood with nitisinone, they quickly die.

Still, cyanide is highly lethal and is toxic at certain doses. How does the human body regulate internal cyanide levels to prevent toxicity? An enzyme, rhodanese, plays a critical role in toxicity ...

What Does Microgravity Do To the Human Body? Microgravity, often referred to as "weightlessness," is a condition where the effects of gravity are significantly reduced. Although gravity is still ...

The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and it “functioned very well in the human body” for 10 days, the researchers said. The blood flow to the organ was good ...