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.

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

Anastasia Synn, 48, from Tehachapi, California, holds the Guinness World Record for the woman with the most technological implants in her body. She’s got a magnetic personality — literally.

News; World news; Tattoos; Couple with world record for most body modifications step closer to new milestone Victor Hugo and Gabriela Peralta have nearly 100 body modifications between them ...

May 21 (UPI) --An Iranian man balanced 96 spoons on his body to break a Guinness World Record for the third time.Abolfazl Saber Mokhtari, 54, originally set the record for most spoons balanced on ...

Human limits max out around 100 grams, distributed mostly around the neck, back, shoulders, heart, and kidneys. Anthropologists traced it predominantly to people who live in cold environments.

Extreme heat has been breaking records across Europe, Asia and North America, with millions of people sweltering in heat and humidity well above “normal” for days on end. Death Valley hit a ...

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

Pepper X, which has a rating of 2,693,000 Scoville Heat Units was named hottest chili pepper in the world by Guinness World Records on Oct. 9. The heat of the pepper lingered with Currie hours ...

What is the largest bone in the human body? Live Science has the answers. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ... (2 to 4.3 milligrams), according to Guinness World Records.

The tapeworm taenia solium enters the human body by ingesting the parasite’s larval cysts. These eggs can then develop into adult tapeworms in a human’s gut, usually around 5 to 12 weeks ...