As an alternative to burial or cremation one company is offering to freeze your body and then shatter it.
Scientists discover seahorses' bodies evolved to support a new way of catching food.
The remains of a huge gladiator from 1600 years ago have been discovered by workmen in York.
Pluto may have been demoted but it turns out it is the largest body in the outer solar system after all.
Spanish designer Dr Manel Torres has spent 10 years developing clothes that can be sprayed on to the body.
Scientists have used modern imaging techniques to peer inside a python as it digests a whole rat.
The remains of a female gladiator from the Roman occupation of Britain have been found in Herefordshire.
Dan Aziere has a rare genetic disorder due to which he has an estimated 50 extra bones in his body.
Gunther von Hagens has opened a shop selling plasticised limbs and body cuts in his own "cabinet of horrors."
Researchers are developing a standard T-shirt reinforced with boron to act as lightweight body armour.
Kenny Easterday was born with only half a body due to a rare medical condition and walks around on his hands.
Scientists have succeeded in creating a genetically modified trout with massive rippling body-builder muscles.
A painless new injection system has been developed in Japan that can deliver drugs to the body without breaking the skin.
The first convincing evidence for neanderthal "body paint" has been discovered dating back some 50,000 years.
Scientists have found that the body is in a constant fight to stay biologically male or female and that if one single ge...
A new study conducted on patients with a congenital insensitivity to pain has found that the human body is equiped with ...
Science has come a long way in the quest to help patients who are in need of replacement body parts but now research has...
An electrician who was connecting a high voltage switch was hit with 11,000 volts but survived because he was wearing a ...
Legend has it that when Genghis Khan died in 1227 his lieutenants went to great lengths to keep his death a secret inclu...
A new study has found that terminally ill patients experience a surge in brain activity moments before death, a find tha...