From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’t decompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human biology ...

Human composting is and is emerging as an alternative to cremation and burial that is friendlier to the climate and the Earth ...

It serves as a very important barrier between the body and bacteria, chemicals, and temperature. Healthline reports that the top five largest organs in the human body are: The liver is the body ...

The human body has 206 bones, each one holds a lot of information about who we are. Heather Garvin, a board-certified forensic anthropologist for the state of Iowa, is also a professor at Des Moines ...

Find out about the different stages of a human life cycle and how we change ... Discover how the food gets into the body, through the digestive system. What happens to food in your mouth?

The human body comes in lots of different shapes and sizes but most are made up of the same parts which do the same job. We all have a skeleton. The bones in your skeleton help you stay standing ...

A new study finds that the average human body temperature is no longer 98.6°F, highlighting a steady decline over two ...

When does a body start to move out of the normative frame ... so I was able to make poetic conceptual connections between human and non-human,” he said. Because of their use in art, literature ...