Many of the body's biggest flaws are the result of evolution building on old designs instead of starting over. Our spine, ...

Alcohol affects far more than your liver. From your brain to your heart, every sip triggers changes that can influence both your short-term performance and long-term health.

Reproductive biology, human behavior, and economic incentives explain many of the disparities attributed to systemic ...

The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists have only begun to understand why. Two researchers set out to ...

These snakes can go for months without eating, grow and shrink the size of their hearts and jump start their metabolism on a ...

If you're a woman newly diagnosed with breast cancer, treatment can feel ... well, scary. Will chemotherapy work? Or will it ...

Understanding the complex communication between the brain and peripheral systems has become central to human neuroscience. Recent research highlights that ...

Widely recognized as the face of food poisoning, salmonella bacteria lurk in raw meat and poultry, on pets, and in ...

Autophagy is the process by which cells remove damaged proteins, recycle worn-out organelles (e.g., mitochondria), clear ...

Our bodies are always sending signals ... but are we listening? This hour, TED speakers explore new ways to track and ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...