Connected health tech company Withings revealed its new Body Scan smart scale, touting features that can monitor segmented body composition, nerve activity and cardiovascular health. The company said ...

Watching someone experience pain on screen activates your own brain’s touch-processing system in a highly organized, body-specific way.

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WASHINGTON, April 19 (Reuters) - The relationship between the human mind and body has been a subject that has challenged great thinkers for millennia, including the philosophers Aristotle and ...

Field measurements of body water balance were made in the insular, herbivorous lizard Sauromalus hispidus during a comparatively dry year when succulent annual plants were not available. Lizards fed ...

Spot reduction, the idea of losing fat from a specific area by exercising it, is a popular fitness myth. Scientific evidence suggests fat loss is systemic, not localized. Effective fat loss involves ...

The classical view of how the human brain controls voluntary movement might not tell the whole story. That map of the primary motor cortex — the motor homunculus — shows how this brain region is ...

Adequate protein is important for health and normal bodily function. The recommended dietary allowance (RDA) of protein varies depending on factors such as age, sex, and overall health. Protein is a ...

A flair of energy in the brain in a dying patient who had “no blood pressure” or “heart rate” could be evidence of the “soul leaving the body” after death, according to an expert. Dr. Stuart Hameroff, ...

For some, the universal human desire for wholeness may only be fulfilled by an act of excision. New science is showing how specific parts of the brain may differ in those with the rare but fascinating ...