Your digestive system starts its job even before you eat your first bite. The digestive system consists of the parts of the body that work together to turn food and liquids into the building blocks ...

You might think good sleep happens in your brain, but restorative sleep actually begins much lower in the body: in the gut.

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

In the 1966 sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage, a group of scientists ventures inside the body of an injured colleague to save him from a life-threatening blood clot. They get a front-row seat to the ...

Do you find yourself often feeling heavy and lethargic, despite generally sleeping well? The secret to feeling light, energized, and healthy often starts in your gut. A smooth-running digestive system ...

A study of the unusual digestive system of an ancient group of insects has provided new insights into future biofuel production. A study of the unusual digestive system of an ancient group of insects ...

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Peering into the jungle of microbes that live within us, researchers have stumbled across what seem to be an entire new class of virus-like objects. "It's insane," says University of North Carolina ...

VANCOUVER — Some trilobites scurrying across the seafloor around 500 million years ago probably sported two-lane digestive tracks, new research shows. Michael Rutana of Ohio State University ...

A PhD research project at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science has provided essential knowledge about the mechanisms leading to feed-induced enteritis in salmon and also insight into the ...