The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...

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

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, ...

It's wild to think that we've grown organs in labs, built robots that can perform surgery, and started producing mind-controlled prosthetics, but we still don't know exactly how anesthesia works, or ...

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

Over the past few years, studies have suggested that plastic particles from bottles, food packaging and waste have been ...

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, ...

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 ...

Tiny robots small enough to slip through blood vessels are moving from speculative fiction into the medical lab, promising treatments that work from the inside out. Instead of relying on scalpels and ...

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