Some special bugs visited the Franklin Institute Wednesday, focusing on BODY WORLDS. This is a unique look at the body from ...

The Manchester Museum in England is inviting guests to share feedback on Asru, an ancient Egyptian woman whose body was ...

More than 100,000 curious visitors each year flock to the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, which dates back to 1849. It was ...

In English, use of the word “mummy” to mean a preserved human body dates back about 400 years, borrowed from the Latin version of an Arabic word.

Events A new exhibit featuring preserved human bodies is making its North American debut in Boston "Body Worlds: Anatomy of Happiness" is the latest traveling exhibit from Gunther von Hagens.

From 11 am on Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of faithful Catholics will be able to bid farewell to Pope Francis in St Peter's Basilica, where the pontiff's body will be on display until Friday.

Preserved brains tend to look like normal brains, but they're often one-fifth of the typical size. Alexandra Morton-Hayward If they’re lucky, archaeologists find human bones or teeth that have ...

Discovery of 12,000-year-old preserved human brains could change what we know about the organ Many of the oldest, best-preserved brains were found buried in mass graves ...

Hundreds of people have traveled to the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles Monastery, in rural Missouri to view a nun’s body which appears to show no signs of decay approximately four years ...

Each protein has a unique sequence of amino acids—there are 20 common types in the human body—that determines how it folds into its proper three-dimensional structure.

An undertaker-turned-scientist at Oxford University is trying to figure out why some human brains remain remarkably well-preserved after death, sometimes for thousands of years, even when all ...

A study of human brains that have been naturally preserved for hundreds or thousands of years has identified 1300 cases where the organs have survived even when all other soft tissues have decomposed.