The human body has some brutal survival limits, and medicine has documented them in detail. Certain body parts can be removed through surgery and still leave somebody alive for decades. Others trigger ...

When faced with a predator, most animals run, hide, or fight back. Some, however, turn to a more dramatic survival strategy: sacrificing part of their own body. As a last-ditch effort to survive, ...

Many body parts can be transplanted or replaced with artificial equivalents, including corneas, livers, hearts, joints, and even entire faces. This technology will improve by leaps and bounds ...

We’ve all got organs that work tirelessly to keep us alive, and others that we can’t imagine living without. But did you know that some of the parts of our body, while important for various functions, ...