The human body has always been crowded with microscopic passengers, from bacteria to viruses and fungi. Over the past two years, however, researchers have started to realize that this familiar cast ...

Your guides to the weird side of the web present a digital tour that shows what is inside the human body.

Tiny surgical robots are learning to make decisions inside the human body, using AI to interpret complex biological environments in real time. Unlike traditional minimally invasive procedures, where ...

WASHINGTON — Plastic is nearly impossible to avoid. From food containers to grocery bags, it’s everywhere, and new research shows it’s not just around us. It’s inside us. The Plastic Inside Us: How ...

A hidden waste-removal pathway in the brain has finally been caught in action. Using cutting-edge MRI scans, researchers discovered that fluid flows along the middle meningeal artery in a slow, ...

Tourist spots don’t usually start at the knee and end in the brain, but this one does. The Corpus Museum in the Netherlands skips the glass cases and lets visitors physically walk through a giant body ...

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 ...