Is it possible to draw conclusions about an adult's physical condition on the basis of their age? The answer is: "It depends.

Scientists can now do research on live human organs without petri dishes or animal testing.

You know body standards are unrealistic. Why do they still affect you? The answer may have less to do with appearance and more to do with belonging.

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment.

Eighteenth-­century mental institutions employed a tactic called the bain de surprise, suddenly dunking their patients in cold water to jolt them out of their depression or psychosis. (Some doctors ...

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People may think of survival as an individual act—every animal (and person) for themselves. But a new study from UCLA ...

AI has all but overtaken the thinking universe. Training an early version of ChatGPT consumes about 1300 megawatt-hours of electricity, roughly the amount used by 130 American homes. It takes a human ...

Microplastics might clog up immune cells, preventing them from fighting infections and clearing away dead cells, as well as ...