Nicholas Hoult co-stars as criminal mastermind Lex Luthor, who twists public opinion to turn the world against the superhero, ...

The world's population is currently over eight billion, so it's no surprise that human perspectives on life and death would ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs ...

The animal kingdom is full of fascinating adaptations, but perhaps none is more remarkable than the ability to regenerate lost body parts. While humans can heal wounds and regrow some tissues like ...

Scientists call some of these organs and body parts “leftovers” from evolution. You don't need some body parts to survive [YouTube] Anna Ajayi We’ve all got organs that work tirelessly to ...

The Mighty Pump That Keeps You AliveThe heart is one of the most important organs in the human body. It is responsible for blood pumping, which carries oxygen and nutrients to different parts of the ...

People from many different cultures across the globe and across millennia largely agree about which body parts are most valuable – and how much compensation they warrant when injured.

The body is perhaps a person’s most valuable asset, and in this study we analyzed how people value its different parts. We investigated links between intuitions about the value of body parts and laws ...

A Minnesota tattoo artist and human remains aficionado was sentenced to 15 months in prison for adding the stolen corpse of a stillborn baby boy to his collection, among other smuggled body parts ...

3,000-year-old clay tablets show that some associations between emotion and parts of the body have remained the same for millennia.

Warning: This article contains graphic images and video which some readers may find distressing. The human body goes through a lot, particularly the heart, and now that people have seen what it looks ...