How is it that we find Christina Aguilera more interesting than the inside of our own bodies?
Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.
Good luck to Deanna Pucciarelli, the woman who seeks to introduce mainstream America to the culinary joys of pig balls. I am indeed working on a project on pork testicles, said Pucciarelli, director o...
Genetic differences in thermoregulation—efficient/inefficient, left side/right side, you name it—are surprisingly large and well worth paying attention to, given our seemingly permanent posture of fig...
Death doesn't have to be boring.
And in the case of fecal transplants, there’s no drug or medical device involved, and thus no pharmaceutical company or device maker with diverticula deep enough to fund the multiple rounds of control...
Changes in the teaching of anatomy have nothing to do with cadaver shortages or public opinion about dissection; they have everything to do with time. Despite the immeasurable advances made in medicin...
Your genes want you to get pregnant, and hormones are their magic wand.
You do not dress to please yourself; you dress to please others.
Why don’t suicide bombers smuggle bombs in their rectums?
We had no problems, no conflicts, Mars500 Commander Sergei Ryazansky is saying.
Time to try the palatant. I raise the cup to my nose. It has no smell. I roll some over my tongue. All five kinds of taste receptors stand idle. It tastes like water spiked with strange. Not bad, just...
They think of it as lubricating, and that’s it! She went back to her hotel room and called her boyfriend in tears.
They live like rice, too, pressed together: a moist, solid entity. If you lower your head to within a foot or two of an infested corpse (and this I truly don’t recommend), you can hear them feeding. A...
The two first met in June 1822, at a company store on Mackinac Island, part of a trading post owned by the American Fur Company. St. Martin was a French Canadian voyageur—an indentured trapper—hauling...
The only conclusion I feel sure of at this point, he mused, is that women are too complicated.
The Johnson Space Center potty cam, as it is more casually known, is an astronaut training aid. It provides a vivid, arresting perspective on something you’ve had intimate contact with all your life b...
Taste is a sort of chemical touch. Taste cells are specialized skin cells. If you have hands for picking up foods and putting them into your mouth, it makes sense for taste cells to be on your tongue....
Sugar contributes to tooth decay only indirectly. Like humans, bacteria are fond of it. Bacteria get all crazy—party, party—they metabolize the sugar, break it down, and they release their metabolites...
Squatting upon the floor of the room, without any perceptible effort he passed into the hollow of his hand the contents of the rectum . . . , wrote the anonymous writer’s physician in a letter printed...