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We all know there's a heart in the body; we've been reading about it since childhood. As long as it beats, humans live. Let's ...

In “Replaceable You,” Mary Roach describes mind-boggling efforts to replace human body parts—and why it’s proven to be so ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

The British artist’s retrospective at the Modern in Fort Worth explores the human body with startling intimacy.

Talking about death with your parents is a conversation everyone dreads, but my mum Patsy wanted that chat with me – and ...