The investigators at Debunked bust six common myths about the human body you probably still believe. Army Reports Damage ...

The human body has just upped its official organ count. Researchers have recently proposed that the mesentery, a membrane in the digestive system, deserves to be considered an organ in its own right.

Lungs are among the heaviest organs in the human body. The right lung typically weighs about 1.4 pounds (0.6 kg), while the left lung is slightly smaller and weighs approximately 1.25 pounds (0.56 ...

An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 researchers profiling more than 100 million cells.

A “standard man” weighing 70 kilograms has roughly the same number of bacteria and human cells in his body, researchers report online January 6 at bioRxiv.org.

As is often the way in science, Regev’s dream for the Human Cell Atlas began with a simple surprise. When scientists study cells, they typically smoosh a large population of them together.

In science fiction, spaceships moving at or beyond lightspeed enable all manner of universal exploration. But in Earth-bound reality, traveling at the speed of light (299,792,458 meters per second ...

Thirty-five percent of Americans don’t know their own blood group, according to new research. While four in five might consider themselves knowledgeable about the human body, the survey of 2,000 ...

But, according to the new study, published Jan. 7 in the journal eLife, the ideal body temperature may no longer be 98.6 F. Rather, the average body temperature among Americans has dropped about 0 ...