Olympic sport is built on the promise of faster, higher and stronger. But as records tighten, experts are asking whether the ...

Robert Croft, who has died aged 91, was a US Navy diving instructor whose record-breaking feats of deep diving in the 1960s transformed scientific understanding of how the human body responds to ...

Ever looked in the mirror and wondered what incredible, and sometimes unsettling, secrets your own body might be holding?

Science writer Mary Roach is fascinated by the human body, especially, she says, the "gooey bits and pieces of us that are performing miracles on a daily basis." Take the human heart, for instance. If ...

From the first successful kidney transplant in 1954, modern organ transplantation has often been linked to the horrors of Frankenstein. While people have grown to accept kidney and liver transplants ...