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, ...

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Fakir Musafar started photographing his own piercings and body modifications in secret in his family home in 1944, when he was just 14 years old. Wearing jockstraps, head coverings, neck stretching ...

Human bones preserve evidence of injuries, violence, medical intervention, and intentional body modification. Cut marks, healed fractures, cranial shaping, and dental alteration allow osteologists to ...

North clapped back at haters "mad over" her piercings in December northwest/Instagram; kimandnorth/TikTok North West's piercing collection just keeps on growing. Months after garnering online buzz ...

Tressie McMillan Cottom, Jessica Grose and Meher Ahmad on why plastic surgery and fillers no longer feel like a secret — or a stigma. By Meher AhmadJessica Grose and Tressie McMillan Cottom Produced ...

The Australian "human Barbie doll" Tara Jayne McConachy, who was rejected on E!'s corrective cosmetic surgery show Botched, is strutting her stuff on Instagram after a six-month hiatus. The woman, who ...

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...