Explore 15 strange facts about the human body that sound surreal. From glowing skin to acid-proof stomachs, our biology is stranger than fiction.

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 ...

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 ...

Despite existing in the food safety danger zone, the living human body does not go bad. Like in a tower defense game, our body is picking off invaders on multiple fronts at all times. The mitochondria ...

Many aspects of our world, from the body mass of creatures in the animal kingdom to the population of cities across the globe, follow an intriguing mathematical pattern. Known as Zipf's law, the rule ...

In a proof-of-concept study funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have shown that an ...

University of Manchester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The average body contains about 37 trillion cells – and we are in the midst of a revolutionary quest to understand what ...

What are the sling systems of the body? Slings refer to a connection between muscle groups; there are four main sling systems in the human body, creating a network of fascia and muscles that recruit ...