A new imaging breakthrough combines ultrasound and light-based techniques to generate vivid 3D images that show both tissue ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Humans have been trying to replace ailing parts of our bodies for thousands of years, turning to prosthetic limbs, ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Microplastics are often named as a major polluter of both the planet and our bodies, but what does the actual science say?

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Queensland and Imperial College London, has proposed a new ...

Science is advancing our understanding of the human body (photo taken at the Wellcome Centre, London) —Image by © Tim Sandle Science is advancing our understanding ...

Microplastics have also been found in drinking water, salt, rice, honey and powdered supplements. They leach from teabags and ...

New research suggests that long-standing assumptions about sex and gender continue to shape how studies are designed, interpreted, and reported.

Some people say that today there are almost no "blank spots" left on our planet - that is, places completely unexplored by humans. And therefore, supposedly, life today has become more boring than, ...