With just the tip of her finger, Charlotte Coughlin sliced through the cadaver’s abdomen, revealing his liver, kidneys and stomach. From there, the senior at Lincoln Northwest High School had the ...

A new imaging breakthrough combines ultrasound and light-based techniques to generate vivid 3D images that show both tissue ...

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Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy straightforward explanation. From the jut of the human chin to the curve of the outer ...

Before starting her first dissection, Katie Hopkins took the time to observe every feature of the hand she was about to work on. Realizing that she would be the last person to see the donor’s ...

The big thinkers at Aperture explore how the human body adapts to life in space.