The human body has 78 organs, with the brain, heart, kidneys, liver, and lungs considered vital for survival. The article ...

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday criticised Iraq's amendment of the personal status law, saying it restricts women's rights and makes them "second class citizens". In January, the Iraqi parliament ...

It is a question that feels like it should have a straightforward answer: how many senses do humans have? Growing up, most of us learned that there are five main senses – sight, smell, hearing, taste, ...

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An academic with Trinity College Dublin (TCD), has expressed surprise that officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs and staff from the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) ...

Holidaymakers were left shocked after the discovery of a human foot that had washed up on a popular tourist beach in Ibiza last week, local reports say. The foot was found by a beachgoer who was ...

Except for one key aspect, the setup is a familiar one in medicine: An expert diagnostician presents a particularly challenging case to a roomful of colleagues, carefully walking them through the ...

A trio of scientists — two of them American and one Japanese — have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance, a mechanism by which the body helps ...

When you read about something or see it on TV, the (lack of) context might leave you guessing — or even worse, misinterpreting — the details. Luckily, r/HumanForScale solves that problem. Every ...

As a kid of the 1970s, Mary Roach sat in front of the TV watching “The Six Million Dollar Man” promise a techno-rebirth. “We can rebuild him,” the narrator intoned. “Better than he was before. Better.

The sea lamprey looks like it’s from another planet, but this ancient creature has a surprising amount in common with humans Olivia Ferrari Sea lampreys have large neurons and synapses, making them ...

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, ...