Tagged With Human Body

How much skin, blood, and saliva humans produce in a lifetime

David Anderson, Bob Hunt

What happens to an astronaut's body in space

Amber Bragdon

Why organ transplants are so expensive in the US

Jack Houston

What happens to the human body after 100 years inside a coffin

Gina Echevarria, Shira Polan

Why pollen makes you sneeze

David Anderson, Shira Polan

A biologist once made cheese with belly-button bacteria. Here's how that's possible.

Gene Kim, Benji Jones

Why men get beer bellies

Shira Polan, Gene Kim, Ben Nigh

Why stubbing your toe hurts so much

Uma Sharma, Shira Polan

The toilet isn't the dirtiest place in your home

Gina Echevarria, Shira Polan

Living in outer space can cause these 9 weird changes to your body

Dave Mosher, Skye Gould, Rebecca Harrington

The largest organ in the body may have just been discovered -- and it could reshape our understanding of human anatomy

Kevin Loria

A neuroscientist explains why reality may just be a hallucination

Jen Atalla, Jessica Orwig, Lamar Salter

How long it takes your body to regrow 19 types of cells and organs, from your skin to your skeleton

Hilary Brueck, Samantha Lee

What's actually happening when you pull, sprain, or rupture a muscle

Uma Sharma, Rob Ludacer

5 useless body parts humans have that are left over from evolution

Rob Ludacer, Jessica Orwig

Here's how long humans could survive in space without a spacesuit

Rob Ludacer, David Anderson

How going to space affects men and women differently

Skye Gould

What humans will look like in 1,000 years

Rob Ludacer, Jessica Orwig

French researchers will pay young men $21,000 to lie in bed and do nothing for 2 months

Lindsay Dodgson

Here's what's going on inside the human body during combat

Arielle Berger