This makes the third time in just two weeks that a major mainstream or scientific outlet published credible nonsense about acupuncture, but I had to cover it after dozens of people e-mailed me about ...

Some scientists argue that the largest organ in the human body is the interstitium, which is something of a controversial ...

It’s the subject of an incredible story in The New York Times Magazine by Avraham Z. Cooper, an associate professor of ...

Researchers studying tattoo ink accidentally stumbled upon evidence of a vast microscopic fluid network inside the human body ...

The study of human anatomy reaches back thousands of years, to the Romans and Greeks. Herophilus, the Greek anatomist, is considered the first to take a scalpel to skin to see how our bodies work.

Get ready, because your grade school science knowledge is about to get a major update. This time, unlike with poor Pluto, scientists aren't removing something. They're adding an entire organ. That's ...

The human body was thought to have 79 organs—until researchers stumbled on a strange phenomenon that could turn medicine and what we thought we knew about the body upside down. Senior Editor, Science ...

The discovery of the interstitium made waves, with many questioning whether scientists had discovered a new organ. “It's actually not an organ. It's a system,” said Neil Theise, a medical doctor and ...

For a seemingly simple fact, the number of organs in the human body is surprisingly controversial. Though the human body hasn’t changed much since modern humans emerged, our total number of organs — ...

News reports have suggested that this interstitium could represent a widespread organ in the body, whose connections with the lymphatic system might be involved in cancer metastasis. While researchers ...

Scientists said in a study published Tuesday that they may have stumbled on a previously unknown organ — one of the biggest in the human body and one that could significantly advance our understanding ...