The human sense of touch is a complex system that integrates diverse sensations such as pain, temperature, and pleasant ...

Jim Ottaviani and Dale DeForest have sold their new nonfiction middle-grade graphic novel, Limits Of The Human Body, to First ...

An official state of the union for 66 years, Alaska is known for its glaciers, permafrost and national parks. Home to North ...

The skin, the body's largest organ constantly regenerates, contains sensory receptors, and produces melanin for pigmentation.

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

Originally published in the Mercury's sister publication The Stranger, as part of its Love & Sex Issue.] On July 3, 1981, the ...

Millions would die from what doctors first called GRID, or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, a name that linked gayness with ...

On the other hand, your body provides a spa-like environment that is temperate and stable, optimal for viruses to replicate.

The other problem is that if your thyroid gland doesn’t work well, the intricacy of interaction with other organs and glands will falter as well. This is one reason why the GI (gastrointestinal) tract ...

When you’re trans and when you’re not trans, you’re still just a human being living your life. — Army Maj. Alivia Stehlik A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point as a man ...

To determine the pathways that regulate primary human sebocytes growth and differentiation, we developed a novel culture method by mimicking the microenvironment of the sebaceous glands in vitro.

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said that his AI startup is racing to secure the computing power needed to meet demand for its generative AI chatbot Claude. “The surge in demand ...