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Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy straightforward explanation. From the jut of the human chin to the curve of the outer ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Professional wrestling is a physically demanding sport for even the most exceptional athletes. There have been people with backgrounds in football, basketball, gymnastics, various martial arts ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. At this very moment, some parts of you may be ...

Dr. Jeffrey Laitman joins WIRED to break down how our organs and body parts age from head to toe. From hearing and hair loss to sagging skin and deteriorating joints, Dr. Laitman highlights the impact ...

Recently, scientists at Stanford University began to wonder why identical lab mice, bred with the same DNA and brought up in identical conditions, wound up so different in their old age. Some mice ...

Flexion or extension of a certain body part typically refers to joints. Flexing a joint usually means closing it, and decreasing the angle between the body parts, while extending a joint means opening ...

In his novel Dubliners, James Joyce wrote of Mr Duffy, “he lived a short distance from his body.” Like Mr. Duffy, many of us don’t fully inhabit our bodies. Why should we? There are lots of norms ...

If you share a house with teenagers, it’s a debate you’re likely having constantly (even desperately). Even if you don’t, you probably found yourself considering it, as recent temperatures soared and ...

Jason and Travis Kelce got into the weeds about what body part of theirs they would like to make detachable. “From Em, no dumb questions. If you could make one of your body parts detachable, which ...