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, ...

For over 670 days, refugees trapped in a UN camp have maintained a daily sit-in in the Sahara Desert to demand basic human ...

Scientists have discovered a fossil in China of a long-necked marine reptile from 245 million years ago that is so well ...

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

BERLIN (AP) — Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist who generated both fascination and revulsion around the globe with his ...

Kansas City holds a secret that most people outside the region don’t know about, and it involves lying on a foam mat while ...

Medical examiners reportedly said Graham's death resulted from a rare and life-threatening tear in his aorta, the largest artery in the human body. A cardiac surgeon reportedly told CNN that, in such ...

What if people who have lost the ability to feel their hands could get that sense back — not through a prosthetic glove, but through tiny pulses of electricity delivered directly to the brain? “This ...

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Many of the body's biggest flaws are the result of evolution building on old designs instead of starting over. Our spine, eyes, teeth, pelvis, and even certain nerves all reveal compromises that ...