Microplastics and nanoplastics are now found everywhere on Earth, from ocean depths to agricultural soils and even inside the human body. Yet scientists still struggle to understand what these ...

When you step outside on a winter morning or pop a mint into your mouth, a tiny molecular sensor in your body springs into ...

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 ...

That pimple on your chin isn't random. The dry patches on your cheeks aren't just weather. Your skin is screaming about problems happening deep inside your body. Your skin always tells stories your ...

So many women come to see me with the same complaint; they feel disconnected and disenchanted, cut off from something authentic and vital inside themselves. They describe being hyper-aware of what ...

Care to take a tour inside your own body? No, I don't suggest you do capsule endoscopy, you know, the one that takes pictures inside your digestive tract. Or an x-ray. Let's take the most ...

Interoception is how your brain senses and responds to what’s going on inside your body. “It’s how we know when we’re hungry, thirsty, anxious, or even need to take a deep breath,” says Wen G. Chen, ...

T he severe swelling of hereditary angioedema (HAE) can be uncomfortable and inconvenient at best, life-threatening at worst. What’s more, symptoms are unpredictable, vary in severity, and crop up out ...

Medical implants such as pacemakers and gastric stimulators have improved our lives, but the batteries in these devices eventually run out and require surgery to replace them. It raises a futuristic ...

Inside your body, an intricate communication network constantly monitors breathing, heart rate, digestion, and immune function — a hidden “sixth sense” called interoception. Now, Nobel laureate Ardem ...

You’ve probably seen those golden capsules lining pharmacy shelves, promising everything from sharper thinking to a healthier heart. Fish oil has become one of the most popular supplements worldwide, ...

When it comes to health and fitness, it's easy to get caught up in numbers, but physical well-being isn't always reflected in the outward metrics of scales. Your body may be performing at a much ...