ANCIENT Egyptians would have considered it bizarre to contemplate whether the brain might contain our mind: for them, the heart was the repository for our thoughts and wisdom. Likewise, not so long ...

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. — You’ve heard the phrase “you are what you eat.” But since we are all different, do our bodies need different foods? There’s a new nationwide study trying to get those answers. “For ...

In 1964, Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart famously attempted to define obscenity by saying, “I know it when I see it.” But images of the body have never been easy to categorize, even when social ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Discovery Center of Idaho has a new showcase that isn’t for the faint of heart but may be for the inner child. DC Idaho’s latest exhibit, Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the ...

Science is more aware than ever of the myriad complex links between our physical and the mental worlds; from the strange effects of placebos and nocebos, to the explosion of research into ...