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Senator Maggie Hassan, while questioning President Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, disclosed that she is the mother of a 36-year-old man with cerebral palsy.

U.S. News Insider Tip: The "Giant Heart" exhibit alone is worth a visit. Kids can climb through the chambers of a life-like heart as they listen to the sounds of an actual human heartbeat.

If the human body were just a blob made up of a singular type of cell, then perhaps there would be at least some element of ...

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.

Our brains are increasingly plastic. Minuscule shards and flakes of polymers are surprisingly abundant in brain tissue, a study of postmortem brains shows.

Although the human brain is capable of sifting through a billion bits of information per second, scientists recently found that the top speed of human thought only comes in at roughly 10 bits per ...

Zika Uses Human Skin as 'Mosquito Magnet' to Spread Virus Further Jan. 30, 2025 — Zika virus hijacks the skin of its human host to send out chemical signals that lure more mosquitoes to infect ...

and it's reminded us that body ideals are culturally constructed and not based on science. There’s no “perfect” or “better” body shape, experts agree — yet you still might find ...