This is the last of a three-part series examining the fascinating anatomy of human touch. In the first part, we touched on the story of...

Circulatory, digestive, endocrine, nervous, respiratory systems: they all happen on the inside, behind the curtain of the skin. The skin...

Let’s rewind, for a moment, all the way back to the first minutes of your life on Planet Earth. Maybe you were in a hospital. You were...

Before college, even before his professional career, David Benedict had an intuitive understanding of movement in the human body. His...

Dissection, for many high school students, is a common activity in high school science classes. The activity —making incisions, peeling...

If you are reading this, odds are that “screen time” takes up a lot of your daytime. You browse the internet, check your email, type up a...

Danielle Doherty-Koch never considered herself a guru when it came to human anatomy. Nor did she envision becoming a teacher. As a...

For Dr. Susan Murphy, the “Anatomy light bulb” first went off in the third grade, when she dissected an earthworm. The earthworm sparked...

A new exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles shows the centuries-long intersection of art and anatomy. “Flesh and Bones: The Art...

Its pace may quicken when under duress; it may slow in times of relaxation. It clocks in at 100,000 beats per day, and never stops. Well,...

The Beijing Olympics are officially underway, and it is our chance to view some of the best winter athletes in the world—skiers,...

About two years after its debut on the global stage, COVID-19 continues to find new ways to morph, mutate, and spread among its hosts....

There is a moment in the popular HBO series Game of Thrones when protagonist Jon Snow finds himself alone, in the midst of battle, in a...

Remember Galveston, Texas? The Gulf Coast Island is the site of the worst recorded natural disaster in US history. In 1900, a hurricane...

As we flip our calendars to ‘2022,’ some things will never change: the sun will rise in the east and set in the west; birds will keep...

Navigation. Engineering. Multiplication, division, and subdivision. Weighing risks against benefits. Complex tasks require complex...

As far as fish go, the pacific lingcod is pretty average. Regular enough for Karly Cohen, a doctoral candidate at the University of...

Most high school biology classes require animal dissection as part of their anatomy unit. The procedure is polarizing: some students...

Onions and garlic sauteed in the pan. Apple pie, fresh out of the oven. Fresh rain, freshly cut grass, campfires in the summertime. Rose,...

In a career spanning over twenty years, Patrick Matous has taught just about every science class—AP Biology, AP Chemistry, and AP...