“You’re glowing” is a well-known complimentary phrase meant to convey a perceived level of health, happiness, or other biological condition—pregnancies often inspire the platitude, for example. But in ...

Explore 15 strange facts about the human body that sound surreal. From glowing skin to acid-proof stomachs, our biology is stranger than fiction.

Artificially engineered biological processes, such as perception systems, remain an elusive target for organic electronics. A complete perception system built by designing other organic materials and ...

Researchers have developed a new "body clock" tool that calculates people’s biological age — and could even predict the risk of disability or death. The tool, which comes from the University of ...

In aging research, so-called hallmarks of aging have been established. They describe fundamental biological changes that gradually develop over a lifetime. Exercise is considered a factor that can ...