In a video that has now gone viral, hospice nurse Julie outlined the physical changes that occur in the body after death.

This is also when the stage of decomposition called autolysis, or 'the self-digestion' stage, occurs and enzymes begin to breakdown oxygen-deprived tissue. Next, the body temperature drops.

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 ...

In the book “Cursed,” the Brooklyn-based photographer and director Charlie Engman intentionally leans into the strangeness of ...

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...

Genetically modified pig organs may be the answer to the shortage of human organs for those in dire need of a transplant.

Doubly unfortunate for those among us eager to visit galaxies far, far away–even moving at near lightspeed isn’t in the cards. “It’s neither possible nor survivable to travel near the speed of light ...

Instead, they were a machine’s best-guess at the world through human prompts ... The questions he found himself raising about the body and ability are reflected in the imagery.

New research shows that people do not age in a linear fashion, but rather the molecules that attribute to aging accelerate at ...

There are three main body types: ectomorph, mesomorph, and endomorph. In a process clinically known as somatotyping, healthcare providers determine your body type by assessing body fat levels ...

Such information on animal communication hasn't been accessible in the past. It’s not just that human data corpora are many orders of magnitude larger than the kind of data we have access to for ...

Aurimar Villegas’ family fought to bring her body home to Venezuela. Instead, it was sent to the University of North Texas ...