With just the tip of her finger, Charlotte Coughlin sliced through the cadaver’s abdomen, revealing his liver, kidneys and stomach. From there, the senior at Lincoln Northwest High School had the ...

A new imaging breakthrough combines ultrasound and light-based techniques to generate vivid 3D images that show both tissue ...

Before starting her first dissection, Katie Hopkins took the time to observe every feature of the hand she was about to work on. Realizing that she would be the last person to see the donor’s ...

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Back in 2005, the Franklin Institute broke records — and possibly some taboos — with its first iteration of the “Body Worlds” exhibit. The exhibit, featuring real human specimens —including whole-body ...

Painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics and animation are part of engaging Carlos Museum exhibition through Dec. 14. Installation view of "Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the ...

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 big thinkers at Aperture explore how the human body adapts to life in space.