Fact checked by Nick Blackmer New research shows that people experience two major bursts of aging: one in their early 40s, ...

Researchers have uncovered strange and unprecedented entities living within the human body, entities they have named ...

Individual cells in your body are constantly being replaced as they ... These approaches allow scientists to study human organs during health and disease at a level of accuracy that was impossible ...

Scientists have finally quantified the brain’s speed limit in processing human thought, an advance that reveals why we are able to process only one thought at a time. The human body’s sensory systems, ...

We have trillions of body clocks — a central one in the brain and others in each cell of our body. Here's how they work with ...

Doubly unfortunate for those among us eager to visit galaxies far, far away–even moving at near lightspeed isn’t in the cards. “It’s neither possible nor survivable to travel near the speed of light ...

3,000-year-old clay tablets show that some associations between emotion and parts of the body have remained the same for millennia.

“Flexible thermoelectric devices can be worn comfortably on the skin where they effectively turn the temperature difference ...

Regular ScienceAlert readers will likely know how pervasive microplastics are – getting into human tissue, ancient rock, and ...

A QUT-led research team has developed an ultra-thin, flexible film that could power next-generation wearable devices using ...

A new report in the journal Anatomical Sciences Education outlines best practices and standards for human body donation programs across the United States, which accept whole body donations after death ...