The human body has always been crowded with microscopic passengers, from bacteria to viruses and fungi. Over the past two years, however, researchers have started to realize that this familiar cast ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

A new imaging breakthrough combines ultrasound and light-based techniques to generate vivid 3D images that show both tissue structure and blood vessel activity. Developed by researchers at Caltech and ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are now found everywhere on Earth, from ocean depths to agricultural soils and even inside the human body. Yet scientists still struggle to understand what these ...

Tourist spots don’t usually start at the knee and end in the brain, but this one does. The Corpus Museum in the Netherlands skips the glass cases and lets visitors physically walk through a giant body ...