To understand fashion, we must move beyond the static object and consider its life in the world; its intimacy with the body, ...

Investigations suggest the sums involved can be startling. The body brokering industry involves acquiring dead bodies and selling them for scientific, medical and commercial research. While many ...

Your body is with you 24/7. But how often do you actually stop to think about what it’s doing? Probably not much, and honestly, that’s for the best. Because the more you dig into how it really works, ...

On March 2, 2016, at around 9 A.M. local time, in Kazakhstan, Scott Kelly plunged through the Earth’s atmosphere in a Soyuz spacecraft travelling at seventeen thousand miles an hour. As expected, ...

The team behind the feat plan to study uterine disorders and the early stages of pregnancy—and potentially grow a human fetus. “Think of this as a human body,” says Javier González. In front of me is ...

The human body is often described as a marvel of "perfect design": elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, when we look closer, a rather different picture emerges. Far from being a ...