When Gunther von Hagens’s exhibition came to town, security guards worried less about theft than nausea. Bridging art, science and spectacle, it was a blockbuster traveling show built around one of ...

Gunther von Hagens, who invented plastination, a method of preserving bodies by replacing their natural fluids with polymers, ...

A German scientist, he developed a process for turning corpses into posable figures. His shows drew millions of visitors, and ...

We delve into one of Britain's most sinister crimes. Based on the true story of the Nilson killings and US serial killer Dahmer, we're giving you the chance to experience the incredible work of the ...

During a "Body Worlds" show in London in 2002, the anatomist conducted Britain's first public autopsy in 170 years before a ...

The Madras High Court ordered a fresh autopsy and an SIT probe into the death of a 24-year-old newlywed woman in Sivagangai ...

The independent autopsy on Nolan Wells was carried out with a missing part of his body, the pathologist who carried it out ...

A map of the human brain - an organ containing some 86 billion neurons For more than a century, neuroscientists have studied the human brain much as early cartographers mapped unknown lands: piecing ...

For more than a century, neuroscientists have studied the human brain much as early cartographers mapped unknown lands: piecing together a vast landscape from scattered observations. Even today, ...

Summary: In 1856, while examining a brain mistakenly believed to belong to the legendary mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Göttingen anatomist Rudolf Wagner documented a bizarre structural quirk: a ...

Despite centuries of study, scientists are still finding new details and even overlooked structures within the human body. As researchers explore anatomical differences between individuals, it’s ...