Elves might have highly efficient mitochondria – the tiny powerhouses inside cells that convert food into energy – allowing ...

Deep in ancient rock, researchers have uncovered a creature so well preserved that its brain and internal organs are still ...

Building on the success of its original Hands-On Partners program, the Faculty Edition gives instructors, clinicians, and creators a simple way to share trusted anatomical models while earning a five ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...

It’s large and it’s complicated, but a horse’s digestive system, much like a person’s, works like a dream when it’s maintained in a healthy state. Horses are hind gut fermenters, which means their ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a half-billion-year-old fossil with its internal organs still intact.

Students at Augusta University completed a project that could help the community identify illnesses in wildlife.

Trinity College Dublin’s Dr. Kevin Mitchell reviews the evidence behind claims that gut microbes cause autism. He argues that most microbiome studies are too small, inconsistent and confounded by diet ...

One of the biggest mistakes you can make in life is believing that you know everything there is to know. Even if you’re ...

In the animal kingdom, penises can be spiked, split, corkscrewed—even detachable. They're one of the most diverse structures in biology. The human penis is so uniform, it's an anatomical outlier.

Polish experts at the World Hearing Center in Kajetany near Warsaw are warning that voice disorders are far more common than ...