The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

The Bible’s lex talionis – “Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot” (Exodus 21:24-27) – has captured the human imagination for millennia. This idea of fairness has been a model for ...

The human body is presented by some as a masterpiece of perfect design. But looking closer, we discover something quite ...

Why we have body parts we don't need is simple, despite how much death metal likes to make us think that they're all essential. That "Frantic Disembowelment" Cannibal Corpse wrote about may actually ...

The human body has some brutal survival limits, and medicine has documented them in detail. Certain body parts can be removed ...