However, recent studies have challenged this notion, revealing that the appendix is not as useless as once believed. For many years, the human appendix was considered a vestigial organ—an ...

Science news this week includes the hints of life on a distant planet and a "useless" female organ that is anything but. | Credit: Apperson, K.D. et al., 2017; A. Smith, N. Madhusudhan (University ...