Not all organs are needed for survival. From your gallbladder to your spleen, here are 12 organs you can lose and still ...

When Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Beijing in September 2025, he told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that repeated ...

In “Replaceable You,” Mary Roach describes mind-boggling efforts to replace human body parts—and why it’s proven to be so ...

Science writer Mary Roach is fascinated by the human body, especially, she says, the "gooey bits and pieces of us that are performing miracles on a daily basis." Take the human heart, for instance. If ...

The human body is an incredible structure of balance, precision, and evolution. While most parts grow and change, a few are built to last from day one. From the moment we’re born, organs, bones, ...

Biologists have long been fascinated by the ability of salamanders to regrow entire limbs. Now Harvard researchers have ...

You might celebrate one birthday each year, but inside your body, different organs are marching to their own biological drums. That number on your driver’s license? It’s just a rough average that ...

Death is not a singular moment, but rather a process that marks the body's transition from life to the unknown. While the image of death is often portrayed as sudden, especially in cases of cardiac ...

The answer came in 2023, thanks in part to the family of a patient who had a complete loss of brain function. After learning ...

As a kid of the 1970s, Mary Roach sat in front of the TV watching “The Six Million Dollar Man” promise a techno-rebirth. “We can rebuild him,” the narrator intoned. “Better than he was before. Better.

Recent research has indicated that microplastics could be affecting our gut microbes. Dr. Christian Pacher-Deutsch from the ...