The rate of Americans diagnosed with digestive disorders and gastrointestinal cancers is rising, especially in those ages 50 ...

In the 1966 sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage, a group of scientists ventures inside the body of an injured colleague to save him from a life-threatening blood clot. They get a front-row seat to the ...

Antibiotics can weaken your immune system's ability to fight off infection, and are widely overprescribed and often unnecessary. Here's why.

Considering that scientists have linked microplastics to a plethora of health issues, their ubiquitousness is a concern.

When a person is at rest, meditating or reading a book, the parasympathetic nervous system is at work. Also known as the "rest and digest" system, the parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for ...

Snakes don’t bite and chew like we do. They swallow their food whole, sometimes animals many times bigger than their heads and rely on a digestive system that’s radically different from ours. From ...

Humans regularly cooperate and share resources with other, unrelated humans in different social groups, often without any immediate, reciprocated benefits. The phenomenon has been considered unique to ...

Regina Barber and Rachel Carlson of Short Wave talk about humans' unique breathing patterns, how a hotter planet worsens droughts, and the diets of dinosaurs. It is time, once again, for our science ...