Guinness World Records has issued an appeal to get people to attempt to beat long-standing world records relating to the human body - some record holders haven't been beaten in decades ...

Anastasia Synn, 48, from Tehachapi, California, holds the Guinness World Record for the woman with the most technological implants in her body.

A groundbreaking discovery in the realm of ancient medicine has emerged from a 2,200-year-old tomb in southern China.

A record-winning couple dubbed the “cherubs from hell” thanks to their extreme body transformations are a step closer to a new milestone. Victor Hugo and Gabriela Peralta met 24 years ago at a ...

A new scanning technique delivers exquisitely detailed images—and could revolutionize the study of human anatomy.

An Iranian man balanced 96 spoons on his body to break a Guinness World Record for the third time.

He expected to find the rate of world records correlated with human population. “In my lifetime, human population has more than tripled,” Denny said.

Together, heat and humidity put people at greatly increased risk, and the combination gets dangerous at lower levels than scientists previously believed.

It started off as an offshoot of Guinness beer to settle pub bets. Now it tracks 65,000 records — and some are oddly specific. Here's why.

The human body wasn't made to fly, but Sebastián Álvarez did it anyway. The Chilean pilot jumped from a plane into a jet stream to kick off a brave new era of wingsuit flying.

Ed Currie has spent the past 10 years working on a pepper three times hotter than the world's hottest chili pepper, the Carolina Reaper.