Vladimir Putin claims organ transplants could make us live to 150. But even healthy organs fail with time – ageing can’t be ...

An 18th-century wax model became both a medical teaching tool and a haunting symbol of beauty, science, and control ...

TAHLEQUAH – Water is life, and a human cannot survive without it. And due to a lack of facilities for hydration, many suffer from lack of something most take for granted: water for drinking and ...

Inside the search for the tiny particles that might be causing big problems for every human being on the planet.

Forget gears and motors. The next generation of robots may run on living muscle. Scientists are now fusing biological tissue with engineered ...

As Chhath Puja nears, devotion meets discipline, but is a 36-hour waterless fast a test of faith or a health risk? Experts ...

Democracy depends not just on officeholders, but on the quiet vigilance of institutional and civic actors—the novel “fourth ...

Across the world, more than 1.5 billion people suffer from chronic liver disease. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that it kills more than 52,000 people a year in the United ...

John D. Ratcliff was one of the most prolific magazine writers in the United States throughout the twentieth-century. He contributed more than 200 articles just to Reader’s Digest. Of those, his ...