Magic mushrooms have become the latest in illegal substances, gaining popularity for their medicinal uses, but what actually ...

Microplastics are no longer a distant environmental issue—they are part of daily life. These microscopic plastic particles ...

Recently, scientists at Stanford University began to wonder why identical lab mice, bred with the same DNA and brought up in identical conditions, wound up so different in their old age. Some mice ...

Interoception is how your brain senses and responds to what’s going on inside your body. “It’s how we know when we’re hungry, thirsty, anxious, or even need to take a deep breath,” says Wen G. Chen, ...

Photoacoustic imaging systems provide a high-resolution glimpse into the body, but they’re bulky. Now, researchers have developed a miniaturized version that fits into a watch, with hardware contained ...

T he severe swelling of hereditary angioedema (HAE) can be uncomfortable and inconvenient at best, life-threatening at worst. What’s more, symptoms are unpredictable, vary in severity, and crop up out ...

We all know blood is red. But not all red blood is created equal. The exact shade of your blood can actually tell you a lot about what’s happening inside your body. And while you might not spend much ...

Business Insider's Mia De Graaf breaks down what happens inside your body when you're lonely. Loneliness can create a chain reaction of serious health issues if not adequately addressed. Business ...