"Skin wrinkles in water because the brain triggers the autonomic nervous system to constrict blood vessels under the skin, ...

As incredible and fascinating as the human body is for allowing us to move and experience the world, it can also be equally as strange and even frightening at times. The thought alone that our body ...

Traffic cones, Christmas ornaments, house plants, coins, cooking utensils — there's a plethora of weird items that can find themselves inside a human body. Eko Prasetyo / Getty Images But I want to ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers. Inside our cells and microbiomes, researchers are uncovering entities that ...