As much as we would like to, we don't have all the answers.

New research suggests that long-standing assumptions about sex and gender continue to shape how studies are designed, interpreted, and reported.

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Queensland and Imperial College London, has proposed a new framework for scientists detecting and measuring microplastics in the human ...

Microplastics are often named as a major polluter of both the planet and our bodies, but what does the actual science say?

You don't have to be a genius: anemones have been using human genes to form their bodies for 600 million years.

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Humans have been trying to replace ailing parts of our bodies for thousands of years, turning to prosthetic limbs, ...