The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not ...

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine say medical innovations helped them achieve two medical milestones last year: the largest ...

This condition may affect your lungs and other parts of your body, leading to difficulties breathing, coughing, and wheezing. You may also develop other health complications that range from weight ...

It creates surface tension that helps maintain the position of the lungs in the chest cavity. The pleurae also serve as a division between other organs in the body, preventing them from interfering ...

It is the floor of the thoracic cavity and the ceiling of the abdominal cavity. Many body organs are near the diaphragm. Your heart, lungs, and the upper part of your esophagus (food pipe) are in the ...

As an enthusiast of the “body shower” (a.k.a. washing everything but my hair) and someone who has especially dry skin, I’ve spent a great deal of time shopping for just the right body wash.

A mortuary worker has been sentenced to 15 years behind bars after she sold stolen human remains to a collector online. Candace Chapman Scott, 37, discovered a buyer for the body parts she was ...

The human hand is one of the most staggeringly sophisticated and physiologically intricate parts of the body. It has more than 30 muscles, 27 joints alongside a network of ligaments and tendons ...

The SE01 humanoid robot, which previously made headlines for achieving one of the most human-like gaits, has again captured global attention. Chinese robotics firm EngineAI has posted a new video ...

Polio is a debilitating disease that invades the body’s nervous system ... of thousands of people globally every year. The iron lung, conceptualized in the late 1920s, was most notably the ...