The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

Are you looking for a hands-on way to teach your little ones about the human body? This fun Human Body Sensory Bin is a ...

Learn all about the human body's many systems and some of its individual organs, both vital and vestigial.

Your body has over 70 different organs. Here's what you should know about your body's internal makeup.

Physicians must not only study the human body, but live in it.

Which of the body's organs weigh the most? The answer may surprise you.

The human body is a disgusting, terrifying mass in practice. Sure, they look good painted and propped up just right for fashion shoots and underwear ads, but most of us with a mirror know that’s ...

Do we really lose the most body heat through our heads? How many senses do we really have? Let's explain a few myths about the human body.

What we know about the Smithsonian’s human remains Brains and other body parts, mostly from people of color, were taken without consent. As The Washington Post investigated, the museum took action.

For most of human history, the inner workings of the human body were a secret. Over the last few centuries, the invention of the microscope and other scientific techniques allowed scientists to ...

Over the past few decades, evidence has been mounting that the average human body temperature is not really 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Instead, most people’s baseline is a little bit cooler.